1. North Dakota set an oil production record for the each of the first eight out of nine months of the year in 2010. North Dakota Oil Production 341384 Barrels per day in September 2010. North Dakota is close to double the production from two years ago. 2. There is another new shale oil play …
A bullish analyst (Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair) is predicting that Apple will double 2010 iPhone sales in 2011 His checks with the supply chain suggest Apple intends to produce 45-48 million iPads next year, which would be up from his forecast of 13.5 million in 2010. Among the drivers he anticipates is the arrival …
Here is the John Gedmark interview by Sander Olson. Mr. Gedmark is the Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which is dedicated to promoting commercial spaceflight. Recent events indicate that the commercial spaceflight industry may soon reach critical mass and become a self-sustaining industry. Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two recently completed its second glide flight, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is devoted to what it calls “ideas worth spreading” In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Using optically dense, ultra-cold clouds of rubidium atoms, researchers have made advances in three key elements needed for quantum information systems — including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be transmitted long distances on optical fiber telecom networks. The developments …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software July, 2010 saw the discovery of a worm known as Stuxnet, which sought out a particular version of the Siemens’ SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems that control power grids and industrial plants. Stuxnet was capable of taking over SCADA controls in order to deliver …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software SGI announced in June its Altix UV system that supports up to 256 Intel Nehalem-EX processors and up to 16 terabytes of main memory all housed in four cabinets. It uses 32 four-port node controller ASICs designed by SGI. By December 2010, SGI will ship versions …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Sub-100 nm Channel Length Graphene Transistors Here we report high-performance sub-100 nm channel length graphene transistors fabricated using a self-aligned approach. The graphene transistors are fabricated using a highly doped GaN nanowire as the local gate with the source and drain electrodes defined through …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software There was previous coverage on a research paper for making a six degree of freedom atomic scale manipulation using carbon nanotube bundles The designs can support the 9 tooltips designed by Freitas and Merkle. There is now an updated copy of the paper in the Journal …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Left: in a physiological environment, nanoparticles are exposed to different proteins and small molecules. Right: the competitive adsorption of small molecules (upper) and the amino-acid residues of proteins (lower) on a nanoparticle. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Indications of room-temperature superconductivity at a metal-PZT interface 5 pages (H/T superconductors.org) From the University of Bengal, India – We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The …