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Nanotech and web services need cash boost
News The European Commission wants Europe to double its investment in technology research and development, targeting particular areas such as nanotechnology, web services and what it calls "the Future Internet". [16 Mar 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News They'll have a chance to match a nanotech expert from Russia with an AI expert from Silicon Valley and see what magic happens at the boundaries. Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially... [03 Feb 2009]
2008: The year in numbers
News The year futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts will see global warming solved by nanotech $1bn The value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone App store will achieve Five million The estimated number of iPhone 3Gs sold in the third... [02 Jan 2009]
'Nanotech to solve global warming by 2028'
News Speaking in an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Kurzweil said nanotech will enable global energy needs to be completely met by renewable sources such as solar as soon as 2028, doing away with the world's dependency... [20 Nov 2008]
Nokia and Cambridge Uni team up on nanotech
News Initially, 10 Nokia Research Centre staff will work at the facility, collaborating with Cambridge's Nanoscience Centre and the electrical division of the engineering department, working on nanotech research. [07 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is there nothing new in IT?
Comment Most significantly, ICT is contributing hugely to just about every corner of innovation in biotech, genetics, nanotech, photonics, nuclear and quantum physics, materials, earth sciences and more. A journalist just asked... [20 Nov 2006]
Seagate CEO: Storage at heart of personal tech growth
News As well as its main media manufacturing hub in Singapore, Seagate has well-known facilities in Northern Ireland, lauded at the end of last year as a nanotech 'centre of excellence'. But we wouldn't describe it that way,... [16 Oct 2006]
PCs beat solar and wind power as fave tech
News Forget about Terminator-style nightmare scenarios. Most Europeans think computers will have a more positive impact on everyday life over the next 20 years than solar energy or wind power. Nearly four out of five (79 per cent) of the... [20 Jun 2006]
Seagate bets millions on Northern Ireland plants
News Hard drive giant Seagate is making one of the largest ever technology investments in the UK, developing nanotechnology expertise and creating its main global manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland. [14 Dec 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons
Comment For sure you don’t invest in speculative things like nanotech, bio and new materials. How long will it be before nanotech, bio and smart materials do the same? Peter Cochrane, inspired by a recent visit... [31 Mar 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Looking back from 2020
Comment All of this indirectly led to the great advances in molecular computing, nanotech and a revolution in programmable materials that was a real 'stage left' tsunami. With this column, Peter Cochrane and silicon.com are... [16 Dec 2004]
Nanotech funding on the up - reaches $8.6bn
News Spending on nanotech research will more than double from the estimated $3bn level level of 2003, according to an annual state of the industry report from Lux Research, a consulting firm that studies the industry. [16 Aug 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries
Comment We have to look to our new material, bio and nanotech programmes, along with telecoms and IT, for potential solutions. So where will we get energy in the future? And could IT have a role in the solution? [29 Jul 2004]
VCs start thinking small with nanotechnology
News Packard, who gave a keynote speech at the Nanotech 2004 show on Tuesday, said in an interview that his company plans to plow about 25 per cent of its $625m venture capital fund into nanotechnology companies over time. [10 Mar 2004]
Small technology attracts big money
News Keynote speakers at the confab said nanotech holds the potential to improve a wide range of industries, such as computers, energy and health care, and to create entire industries itself. The US government plans to plow... [09 Mar 2004]
