Chitika, an ad network, had a study of the revenues of the top 50,000 blogs for 2006 Chitika made the assumption that an estimate of total advertising revenues for a blog would be 3 times as much as the Chitika revenue for the blog. Using revenue trends and statistics from a representativesample for the 12000+ …
Businessweek discusses Obama’s plan to increase the marginal tax rate back to the level under Bill Clinton and before the Bush tax cuts Of the 149 million households filing federal income taxes for 2006, some 3% reported income between $200,000 and $500,000; fewer than 1% claimed income above half a million dollars. The Bush administration …
Hitachi Maxell Ltd (6810.T) gained 6.5 percent. A spokesman there confirmed a Nikkei evening edition report that it is aiming to commercialise a longer-lasting [perhaps 20 times longer], cheaper lithium-ion battery in the next three to four years that substitutes expensive cobalt with manganese. Hybrid Technologies has new superlattice li-ion batteries that can power an …
Inflatable electric cars could have 2500 mile range using a single hot-swap XPack Multi-CoreTM Battery/Fuel Cell power plant. You would use the battery/fuel cell and then it would be changed out when you needed to “refuel/recharge”. It will take until at least 2010 for the cars to be fully certified and placed into high volume …
IEEE Spectrum has a special report on the Singularity with contributions from several authors. Vernor Vinge first postulated the concept of a technological Singularity and he has an essay “Signs of the Singularity” and a video “How to Prepare for the Singularity” Richard Jones has an article “Rupturing The Nanotech Rapture”, but the essay criticizes …
[From a reader who is a close follower of Focus Fusion]Re: CMEF [Just reported funding of $600,000 part of $10 million], Eric [Founder and CEO of LPP] responded, “This is based on years-out-of-date info. The $600,000 never actually materialized, but LPP is again at the point where we think we will have money in hand …
Previous outdated and incorrect: Focus Fusion has received funding of $600,000 with phased additional payments up to $10 million. Correction: That funding situation did not happen and this is a link to the current funding situation Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. is raising capital from accredited investors (those with more than $200,000 in income or $1,000,000 …
Simple artificial cell created from scratch A team of Penn State researchers has developed a simple artificial cell with which to investigate the organization and function of two of the most basic cell components: the cell membrane and the cytoplasm–the gelatinous fluid that surrounds the structures in living cells. The work could lead to the …
Carnival of Space week 53 is up at spacecynic Nextbigfuture supplied its article about new lasers that are 100 times faster and able to improve the sensitivity of earthlike planet detection by one hundred times Colony Worlds talks about whether Mercury is better than Mars for colonization Centauri Dreams talks about life propogating through the …
The one year anniversary edition of the Carnival of space is up at Why Home School ? As this is the anniversary edition it is the largest ever with the most articles. I provided my article updating the progress of the vasimr plasma rocket and comparing the solar electric sail to a dandelion seed on …
Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has decided that extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography will not be production-worthy by 2011 when Intel plans to begin manufacturing 22 nm microprocessors, said Mark Bohr, director of process architecture and integration at Intel’s logic technology development group. Intel plans to do 22 nm in 2011. EUV will not be ready …