Technology
Dec 20th, 2011 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Recently, Agora’s media relations department asked me to respond to a question from a journalist about big technological changes coming for business. It is really important to understand an aspect of the convergence that most people haven’t considered...
We see clearly the ongoing convergence in the arena of mobile computing. Tablet ...
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Tags: Investing, nanotechnology
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Dec 13th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Back in 1959, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman delivered a now-famous talk titled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which he envisioned the potential applications of tiny machines. Today, one of the most important innovations leading to the current generation of smartphones and tablets is known as MEMS...
Shorthand for ...
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Dec 6th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
One of the inescapable aspects of the aging process is a loss of muscle strength and mass accompanied by an increase in body fat. As our understanding of cellular biology improves, new treatments targeting tissues like muscles and body fat — to restore them to a more-youthful state — will ...
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Tags: Biotechnology, Investing
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Nov 29th, 2011 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
We need to upgrade the power grid to the latest technology. Not only will this harden the infrastructure to deal better with natural disasters ranging from earthquakes to snowstorms, it will yield energy savings. Using less energy to deliver more power will, incidentally, reduce CO2 emissions as well as costs. ...
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Tags: Smart Grid, Technology
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Nov 22nd, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology is hitting the sharp upward bend in the adoption curve. Production of the breakthrough display and lighting technology will rapidly ramp up from here... OLED is a far superior technology to the current commercial LCD (liquid crystal display) standard. It is the next generation display ...
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Tags: mobile, Technology
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Nov 18th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Earlier this week, Geron announced that it would discontinue its stem cell clinical trials. It intends to focus its research efforts on its oncology programs.
While disappointing for those of us hoping to see Geron continue to advance its stem cell programs, this sort of action isn’t unusual for small biotech ...
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Tags: Biotechnology, Technology
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Nov 15th, 2011 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
I warned early and often not to invest in the solar energy sector. Specifically, I said that solar energy is not currently a transformational technology. It is, of course, sparklingly high-tech, but that’s not enough.
To qualify for transformational status, a technology must save money and resources. The bankrupt Solyndra, poster ...
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Tags: Energy, Technology
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Nov 11th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
[Editor’s Note: Forget about trendy social media stocks. Space Exploration Technologies, more commonly known as SpaceX — with its revolutionary civilian space capsule and reusable rocket technology — is readying its initial public offering for 2012.
Today, Ray Blanco joins us to talk about the astounding technology that SpaceX is working ...
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Tags: Space, Technology
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Nov 8th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Other than the venerable hard drive, flash memory is the most popular type of rewritable permanent computer memory available today. We see this form of solid-state memory commonly used in so-called “thumb drives,” as well as a hard drive replacement in newer laptops and high-speed server storage solutions.
Flash memory, however, ...
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Tags: Computing Technology, Technology
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Nov 4th, 2011 |
By Ray Blanco |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
We live in a time when you can pick up a tiny computer, ask it a question out loud and have a satisfactory answer provided in a matter of seconds...
It’s amazing if you stop to think about it.
Voice-recognizing digital personal assistants have become commonplace. One such assistant is among the ...
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Tags: Cloud Computing, Technology
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