Technology
Jul 2nd, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
Nanotechnologies are not some future development. The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies estimates that nearly 1,000 products that rely on nanotech are on the market now.
Currently, most applications simply integrate superior nanotech materials into existing products. Carbon allotropes are used to produce gecko tape. Antibacterial nano-silver is used in clothing, food ...
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Tags: nanotechnology, venture capital
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Jun 26th, 2009 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Technology
The biggest risk to the American middle class isn’t the rising cost of oil or the increasing scarcity of credit. As real as those potential problems may be, they’ve got one saving grace in common: Everyone knows about them. We can see them coming on CNN or in the pages ...
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Tags: fiber optics, Penny stocks, Technology
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Jun 25th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Technology
Newspapers and nightly television news programs are as good as dead. A study performed by Drs. Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa found that Generation Y (born between1981-1992) gets 34% of its news from the Internet, compared with only 11% from newspapers.
Web sites like Digg and The Drudge Report are sending ...
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Tags: Penny stocks, Technology
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Jun 19th, 2009 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Featured, Technology
Stock trading has gone mobile. Today you can research stocks, keep tabs on your portfolio, and execute trades from pretty much anywhere. That’s thanks in large part to the popularity of mobile devices like the iPhone and Blackberry in the business world.
But with so many applications out there – more ...
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Tags: iPhone, mobile, top investing apps
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Jun 4th, 2009 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Featured, Technology
On May 15, 2009, the Internet changed forever. Did you miss it?
The widespread acceptance of the Internet has lead to a monumental shift in the way we do almost everything. Communication now happens instantly across thousands of miles, e-commerce has generated billions of dollars for companies like Amazon.com and eBay, ...
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Tags: Wolfram Research
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Jun 2nd, 2009 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Technology
BusinessWeek calls it the “Apple Economy” – the flurry of new products, services, and companies that have sprung up over the last few years to cater to Apple customers. In recent years the Apple economy has become a multi-billion dollar business for scores of smaller companies who want a piece ...
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Tags: Apple
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Jun 1st, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
The electronics and computing industries are getting primed for a massive transformation in the years ahead. Quantum technologies that were only theories in scientific journals just a few years ago are being prototyped in labs now. These new components will change the way we live forever. They will also create ...
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Tags: Quantum Computing
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May 12th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
As you know, I've written regularly about memristors. This fabled "fourth circuit variable" was hypothesized in 1971. Until now, though, three circuit variables have long been the basis for all electronic circuits. They are resistance, capacitance and inductance.
Last year, HP made news by demonstrating a practical application of memristance. At ...
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Tags: memristors
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May 5th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
A more recent addition to my transformational technologies portfolio, Medarex, has scored a huge win. The company, along with Massachusetts Biologic Laboratory, will get $60 million upfront from Merck for license rights to a monoclonal antibody that apparently cures C. difficile infection. They are eligible for another $165 million in ...
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Tags: swine flu, vaccines
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Apr 8th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Featured, Technology
Finally, Apple has allowed Skype to offer an iPhone app. This means that iPhone users can make free phone calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot.
The iPhone is by no means the first phone to utilize Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). More sophisticated phones have had the capability for years. When ...
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Tags: iPhone, Kindle, Skype, VoIP
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