Category: Technology
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Mobile Wallet Technology: The New Barbarians are at the Gate / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
As I discussed in Part One, the sky is the limit when it comes to mobile wallet technology.
The big brand credit card issuers: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, and Discover Card, along with every other card issuer and wannabe credit extension intermediary are all already into the mobile wallet space.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
U.S. Corporations Go From Innovation to Rent Seeking Intellectual Property Monopolies / Politics / Technology
By: Douglas_French
It's often thought that the technology sector is the least regulated and therefore has been the most productive during the past couple of decades. Famously, Bill Gates had no interest in politics. "In the beginning, Microsoft tried to ignore the powerful political forces arrayed against it, hunkering down in Redmond, Washington, to focus on its core businesses," William F. Shugart wrote in the Freeman. Of course, the Department of Justice snapped Mr. Gates to attention.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Crushing National Debts and Deficits, Economic Revolutions, and Extraordinary Popular Delusions / Economics / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
Professor Andrew Odlyzko leads off this week's Outside the Box with a familiar litany:
"A superpower with crippling debt, exorbitant taxes, glaring inequality, wages far exceeding those of competitors, high and persistent unemployment, lack of basic workplace skills, malnutrition, a rapidly growing rival across the ocean to the West, heated debates about the role of government in the economy, and widespread pessimism about the future."
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
How Desktop 3D Printing Factories Will Create the Next $1 Trillion Industry / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
Don't worry if you've never heard of 3D printing. It's so new it's not on many radar screens yet.
But soon everyone will know about it.
Still in its very early stages, 3D printing is destined to have a huge impact on the entire world economy.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Kodak's Former Moment, A Lesson for You, Me and America / Companies / Technology
By: Gary_North
Kodak declared bankruptcy last week. For years, this company was visibly a dinosaur. It had no visionary leadership. The senior managers had the wrong vision. The company had lots and lots of debt, which indicates how blind its creditors were. This brief report was published by the New York Times in 2003.
Monday, January 23, 2012
A Hundred Billion Reasons to Invest in Robotics Technology / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
Here's a 100 billion reasons why space technology should be on your radar screen -especially if you're interested in robotics.
According to the journal Nature, the Milky Way Galaxy alone contains at least 100 billion planets.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
The Four Hottest Trends from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV wraps up today (Friday) after setting the stage for this year's hottest tech trends.
The 3,100 companies in attendance have launched about 20,000 new products since the tradeshow opened on Jan. 10. They range from everyday items like new smartphones to crowd-wowing flying cameras.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Catastrophic Success, Bio-Tec Breakthrough Technology Alert / Companies / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
New readers to my musings often find it interesting, when they meet me in person, to find me quite an optimistic person, given the nature of my current predictions about the economy. And regarding the short term, defined as less than five years, my writing is admittedly less than sanguine. We do have some problems that are not easily dealt with. And even longer-term, those of a bearish natural disposition can find reasons a-plenty to tone it down.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Higgs Boson God Particle Mass for the Inflationary Universe Explained, Economic Implications / Politics / Technology
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Higgs Boson so called "God" particle has been purported to have been discovered just prior to the Christmas holidays by scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It might seem rather odd that scientists have introduced 'god' into the equation, however given by the media coverage that was never apparent during the discovery of the other elementary particles, the "God" particle has proved a useful media marketing tool to promote the discovery to the mainstream media and the ordinary masses.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Electric Cars: Why Did They Fail ? / Politics / Technology
By: Andrew_McKillop
Anybody who says "They havent yet failed - because they havent yet started" only has to check out the short and born-to-fail history of Hydrogen Cars, circa 1998-2005. During that opportunity window for a
wonderful new car which would save oil and could save the planet, only badly intentioned and cynical
members of the human race could say out loud that Hydrogen Cars were born to fail. Other people,
being politically correct or only stupid, said H2 Cars were born to win. But from about 2003 or a bit
later the news was out: it was OK and alright to say Hydrogen Cars won't work. Not only high priced,
energy inefficient and overweight, but also downright and extremely dangerous - literal bombs-onwheels
made for the Bearded One in a Cave who now reposes at the bottom of the Iranian Gulf, off
Oman, by decision of Mr. Obama - who of course loves EVs.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Extraordinary Technology, Robotics - Where Are We Today? / Companies / Technology
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology writes: In the field of robotics, we have no Newton. No one who, assisted by a falling fruit, cried out, “Eureka, I have it, and it is called a… I know… a robot.”
No, the concept of a robot first occurred to some unknown person in some far distant time, as he or she, engaged in a grinding, repetitive task, dreamed of a mechanical contrivance that could do some of the dirty work. We know that moment was more than five hundred years ago, because we have sketchbooks from the incomparable Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1495, that contain detailed plans for one.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Buyers Warning on O2 HTC HD7, HD3 Windows 7 Smartphone's / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK smartphone users have been eagerly awaiting to switch to the updated Windows Smartphone platform following the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 mobile O/S on 21st October, which had been accompanied by the announcement of HTC updating the the HD2 handset to HD3, which as the below spec's illustrates implied a quantum leap from the HD2 to the HD3.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Notebooks overtake Desktops / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Pravda
There is a new trend in computer Sales. Whereas in 2004, Sales of notebooks (laptops) represented around ten per cent of the sales of desktops, in 2011, they are expected to sell ten times more. The reason? Consumer trends and changes in behaviour, alongside more attractive prices.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Asia’s Digital Dragon, $80 Billion and 1.1 Billion Users by 2015 / Economics / Technology
By: Dian_L_Chu
With just over 1.3 billion people (as of mid-2008), China accounts for about 20 percent of the world population and needless to say, is the world's largest and most populous country. Although the country’s population growth has been somewhat slowed by the one child policy (in effect since 1979), its internet population has been growing leaps and bounds over the last ten years. (Figure 1)
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Will Barnes & Noble Lose the E-Book War? / Companies / Technology
By: Investment_U
Alexander Moschina writes: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) – the largest bookstore chain in the United States – is in trouble. So much trouble that it’s decided to put itself up for sale.
The bookseller, whose stock recently dropped to a 10-year low, is hoping for a takeover bid as it tries to gain a foothold in the growing e-reader market.
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