Category: Technology

Video game industry is expected to shoot from $41.9 bln in global sales 2007 to $68.3 bln in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of 10.3%, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported. Online and wireless games will grow the fastest at 16.9% and 19%, respectively. Online will jump from $6.6 bln 2007 to $14.4 bln in 2012, while wireless […]

New studies suggest that long carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos.

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A new shape for nanoparticles helps deliver imaging agents.

VeriSign found that “.cn” overtook “.net” sometime in Q1 2008. ‘.cn’ registrations grew 23% from Q4 2007 and were triple those in Q1 2007. The organization that runs Germany’s “.de” domain pegged “.cn” registrations at 11.8 mln and “.net” at 11.6 mln as of May 2008. The number of Internet users in China has soared […]

A new method melts away tiny defects in nanostructures.

Core Search Entity
March 08
April 08
Growth, MTM
Total Core Search
10,771
10,582
-2%
Google Sites
6,438
6,514
1%
Yahoo! Sites
2,296
2,159
-6%
Microsoft Sites
1,012
961
-5%
AOL LLC
521
491
-6%
Ask Network
503
458
-9%
Source: comScore

A startup is planning human trials for a nanostructured material that quickly stops bleeding.

Copper nanowires could be used in ultra-thin field-emission displays that are brighter and sharper than flat-panel displays.

The Internet will overtake TV as the biggest advertising medium in UK in 2008, with over 19% of total ad spend, according to Enders Analysis. Online advertising expenditure will grow 26.4% in nominal terms to 3.56 bln pounds ($7 bln), overtaking TV ad spend, which will fall 2.5% to 3.39 bln pounds. Google would remain […]

A new electronic device could lead to denser, faster kinds of memory, and processing chips that act more like the brain.