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Cops learn English phrases for Olympics
Amid the citywide pre-Olympic English-language-learning craze, nearly every police officer, from new graduates to those close to retirement, is studying foreign languages and refined manners, hoping to polish the capital's image.
A handbook containing useful phrases in seven languages - including English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean and Arabic - has been given to all police and state-approved volunteers who will assist security service forces at next year's Games.
Ma Zhenchuan, the city's police chief, said the educational campaigns will help the force offer "cordial, civilized, professional and high-quality" security at the August sporting extravaganza.
Fluency in 13 languages significantly helped Liu Wenli, a policeman at Beihai Park, a major tourist destination close to the Forbidden City in downtown Beijing, to stand out as a runner for the Athens Olympics torch relay in 2004.
Web 2.0 whipping up a developer frenzy
Web developers are trousering a lot more cash thanks to the popularity of web 2.0 sites. Hot social networking properties such as Facebook and MySpace - along with the wider ecommerce boom - are whipping up demand for web skills, pushing developers' pay up 26 per cent in the past 12 months, according to research by SkillsMarket/ATSCo (Association of Technology Staffing Companies). The frenzy around third-party apps on Facebook, which recently opened itself up to developers, is one example of a zeitgeist web 2.0 property being mined by developers. But demand is not just being driven by web users - the rise of online business applications is also playing a part, said SkillsMarket. Alex Charles, founder and product director of SkillsMarket, said in a statement: "Over the last year we have also seen a dramatic transfer in B2B applications to the web.
Apple: Riding Gadgets' Growth and Surfing the Web's Wave
In 2007, Web growth and gadgets picked up the pace. Social networks became big money in little time, and VCs kept shoveling cash into the Web, despite whispers of "bubble" in the air. Apple played a key role in many of the Web's biggest stories for the year, from the iPhone's so-called real Internet browser to Hollywood's ongoing melodrama over the future of Internet entertainment distribution. Free Report from Keynote Systems 2007 Trends and Observations of the Mobile and Connected World examines how technologies, from the Web to the mobile phone, are specifically impacting key vertical industries, from financial services to new media. Download yours here. .
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