1. Virginia
2. Utah
3. Washington
4. North Carolina
5. Georgia
6. Colorado
7. Idaho
8. Florida
9. Texas
10. Nebraska
http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/30/virginia-georgia-utah-biz-cz_kb_0731beststates.html
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Fastest-Growing Metros in USA
Why It's Booming: The self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World" is booming, thanks in large part to Austin's high-tech industry (key employers include Dell, IBM and Apple) and the University of Texas, which provides the area with a steady stream of engineering talent. Its' population is expected to grow nearly 15% by 2012.
Why It's Booming: According to the most recent U.S. Census information, Cape Coral was the fourth fastest growing U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. By 2012, average personal income of its residents is expected to grow by 6.9% annually.
Why It's Booming: The Atlanta metro area is a job magnet that epitomizes the economic boom of the Southeast. Companies with headquarters there include Coca-Cola, CNN and UPS. It's also got the country's busiest airport for passenger traffic. Atlanta's population has doubled in the last 20 years; by 2012, it's expected to grow another 11%.
Why It's Booming: Two words: Boeing and Microsoft. With employers like these in the metro area, it's difficult not to grow. The area also has the fifth largest concentration of biotech companies in the U.S.
Why It's Booming: San Francisco's growth factors are obvious: It's the financial capital of the West, it's a major U.S. tourist destination, it has a thriving downtown area and its proximity to major universities ensures that it has a steady stream of sharp young minds.
http://money.aol.com/forbes/realestate/fastest-growing-metros
Friday, February 15, 2008
Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities
Where will the next Silicon Valley spring up? Philip Auerswald, professor of public policy at George Mason University, knows where to look. He surveyed regional innovation trends across the U.S. and cobbled a list of up-and-coming tech centers. Auerswald concentrated on specific pockets of science--including advanced materials, nano-crystals and quantum dots, polymers and plastics, micro-systems and cell microbiology--that most experts consider today's most promising frontiers of innovation.
He then looked for important relationships among patents within each one. The most important patents are generally referenced by other inventors in the field when they file for their own patents; lesser patents garner fewer citations. The greater the increase in the number of important patents in a given city, the higher it ranked on Auerswald's list. The results may surprise you.
No. 1 - Columbus, Ohio
In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio's largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U.S. Department of Energy with an annual budget of $1 billion. A decade later, Battelle oversees seven major laboratories for different federal agencies; budget: $4 billion in research funds annually. The institute has become a force in almost every area of emerging technology, especially life sciences and energy research. One of its children, Velocys, is working on a way to cut the cost of capturing the 3 trillion cubic feet of the world's stranded natural gas by converting it into easily transportable liquid.
No. 2 - Santa Fe, N.M.
Santa Fe has plenty of dirt roads. It also has major federal laboratoriesmore within a 100 mile radius than any other city on this list, including Los Alamos Laboratory, the birthplace of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb, and Sandia National Laboratories, a leading solar-energy research center. A growing number of wind and solar energy start-ups have popped up in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N.M. Blue Energy USA, for example, has created a 6-foot-tall wind turbine in the shape of a spiral helix. The turbines use solar energy cells that allow them to convert both solar and wind energy simultaneously and can be used for residential use.
No. 3 - Palm Beach County, Fla.
The playground of the rich is also becoming a haven for cutting edge biotech and life-science research. Both the Scripps Research Institute (the world's largest private biomedical research center, headquartered in Southern California) and the Max Planck Institute (Germany's leading life sciences center) are building facilities there. In 2006, BioCatalyst International, a major investor in biotechnology start-ups led by Genzyme co-founder Sheridan Snyder, opened a new office in West Palm Beach to get the first shot at the hottest new prospects.
No. 4 - Houston, Texas
If you want a 10-gallon disruptive technology, smash different discoveries together. To wit: Houston's itRobotics, founded in 2002, has developed new cost-cutting robots that inspect a variety of boilers and energy pipelines for structural flaws. Other Houston start-ups are commercializing technologies originally developed at local research institutions. Nanospectra Biosciences, a local drug delivery company, is working on a nano-scale particle (pioneered at Rice University) that destroys cancerous tumors. The particles are injected in the bloodstream and accumulate inside cancerous tumors. When the tumor is exposed to a laser, the particles absorb the near-infrared light and convert it into thermal energy, destroying the tumor.
No. 5 - Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wis.
Globalization and poor training may have gutted America's manufacturing base, but stalwart metal-bender Milwaukee is not backing down. Rather than just crank out widgets, local companies are attacking bottlenecks in the manufacturing process itself. For example, Rockwell Automation makes snazzy sensors and controls that boost assembly-line productivity. Johnson Controls, inventor of the thermostat in 1885, has produced energy-efficient heating, air-conditioning and lighting systems running throughout 1 billion square feet of commercial real estate. Chief Executive Stephen Roell plans to expand Johnson's workforce 35%, to 190,000 employees, in the next three to four years.
No. 6 - Pittsburgh, Pa.
Resuscitated after decades of economic malaise, the old steel town has become an innovative force in such areas as health care, biomedical technology, nuclear energy and robotics. A big help: Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is making great strides in robot development. The school's Collaborative Innovation Center, funded by Pittsburgh and the state government, has also helped entice stalwarts like Intel and Apple to build labs in the area.
No. 7 - Boise City, Idaho
Since the 1970s, chip maker Micron Technology and computer giant Hewlett-Packard, along with the Idaho National Laboratory, had buoyed Boise's technology sector. But now there are new faces. In 2006, Idaho ranked seventh nationally in the percentage increase in venture capital investments and 11th in concentration of high-tech workers. One home-grown start-up, Quantum Point Technologies, provides a suite of information-technology management services to agencies at the U.S. Department of the Interior and regional businesses like Washington Trust Bank.
No. 8 - Iowa City, Iowa
There's more than corn in Iowa. Like Asoyia. Founded in 2004 by group of 25 farmers, this biotechnology company commercialized a new strain of soybean developed at Iowa State University. Asoyia's soybean is genetically designed to produce trans-fat-free oils. Iowa City is also a hotbed of new technologies in health care and renewable energy. BFC Gas & Electric can generate enough electricity from solid waste in nearby Cedar Rapids to light up 4,000 homes. Fueling the effort: new venture capital and private equity firms that target renewable energy start-ups. Likewise, the government-backed Grow Iowa Values Fund puts up $2 million a year to support the University of Iowa's Centers for Enterprise.
No. 9 - Lake Charles, La.
Soaring oil profits in recent years have pumped life into Lake Charles' economy. The city's port is the 12th largest in the U.S. and a leading center for offshore drilling and extraction technologies used on platforms around the world. CITGO, ConocoPhillips and other players in the energy industry have expanded operations in Lake Charles, rapidly making the port city a key choke point in America's energy distribution network. The region already boasts one liquefied natural gas facility, and three more are under construction. When those come online in a few years, as much as a quarter of all natural gas used in the U.S. will flow through Lake Charles, estimates the Southwestern Louisiana Chamber of Commerce.
No. 10 - Yuma, Ariz.
This small desert town in southern Arizona has more prisons than patent lawyers. The local chamber of commerce fishes for new business by hyping the tourist flow from Mexico and heavy highway traffic. So what's Yuma got? The U.S. armed forces. The Department of Defense runs a testing facility, U.S. Yuma Proving Ground, near the city of Yuma that spans over 1,300 square miles of desert terrain. As the primary U.S. site for desert warfare research, Yuma is now the third-fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country, according to its Web site.And where the military goes, so does tomorrow's top technology.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/10/columbus-milwaukee-houston-ent-tech-cx_wp_0310smallbizoutlooktechcity_slide.html?thisSpeed=20000
He then looked for important relationships among patents within each one. The most important patents are generally referenced by other inventors in the field when they file for their own patents; lesser patents garner fewer citations. The greater the increase in the number of important patents in a given city, the higher it ranked on Auerswald's list. The results may surprise you.
No. 1 - Columbus, Ohio
In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio's largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U.S. Department of Energy with an annual budget of $1 billion. A decade later, Battelle oversees seven major laboratories for different federal agencies; budget: $4 billion in research funds annually. The institute has become a force in almost every area of emerging technology, especially life sciences and energy research. One of its children, Velocys, is working on a way to cut the cost of capturing the 3 trillion cubic feet of the world's stranded natural gas by converting it into easily transportable liquid.No. 2 - Santa Fe, N.M.
Santa Fe has plenty of dirt roads. It also has major federal laboratoriesmore within a 100 mile radius than any other city on this list, including Los Alamos Laboratory, the birthplace of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb, and Sandia National Laboratories, a leading solar-energy research center. A growing number of wind and solar energy start-ups have popped up in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N.M. Blue Energy USA, for example, has created a 6-foot-tall wind turbine in the shape of a spiral helix. The turbines use solar energy cells that allow them to convert both solar and wind energy simultaneously and can be used for residential use.No. 3 - Palm Beach County, Fla.
The playground of the rich is also becoming a haven for cutting edge biotech and life-science research. Both the Scripps Research Institute (the world's largest private biomedical research center, headquartered in Southern California) and the Max Planck Institute (Germany's leading life sciences center) are building facilities there. In 2006, BioCatalyst International, a major investor in biotechnology start-ups led by Genzyme co-founder Sheridan Snyder, opened a new office in West Palm Beach to get the first shot at the hottest new prospects.No. 4 - Houston, Texas
If you want a 10-gallon disruptive technology, smash different discoveries together. To wit: Houston's itRobotics, founded in 2002, has developed new cost-cutting robots that inspect a variety of boilers and energy pipelines for structural flaws. Other Houston start-ups are commercializing technologies originally developed at local research institutions. Nanospectra Biosciences, a local drug delivery company, is working on a nano-scale particle (pioneered at Rice University) that destroys cancerous tumors. The particles are injected in the bloodstream and accumulate inside cancerous tumors. When the tumor is exposed to a laser, the particles absorb the near-infrared light and convert it into thermal energy, destroying the tumor.No. 5 - Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wis.
Globalization and poor training may have gutted America's manufacturing base, but stalwart metal-bender Milwaukee is not backing down. Rather than just crank out widgets, local companies are attacking bottlenecks in the manufacturing process itself. For example, Rockwell Automation makes snazzy sensors and controls that boost assembly-line productivity. Johnson Controls, inventor of the thermostat in 1885, has produced energy-efficient heating, air-conditioning and lighting systems running throughout 1 billion square feet of commercial real estate. Chief Executive Stephen Roell plans to expand Johnson's workforce 35%, to 190,000 employees, in the next three to four years.No. 6 - Pittsburgh, Pa.
Resuscitated after decades of economic malaise, the old steel town has become an innovative force in such areas as health care, biomedical technology, nuclear energy and robotics. A big help: Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is making great strides in robot development. The school's Collaborative Innovation Center, funded by Pittsburgh and the state government, has also helped entice stalwarts like Intel and Apple to build labs in the area.No. 7 - Boise City, Idaho
Since the 1970s, chip maker Micron Technology and computer giant Hewlett-Packard, along with the Idaho National Laboratory, had buoyed Boise's technology sector. But now there are new faces. In 2006, Idaho ranked seventh nationally in the percentage increase in venture capital investments and 11th in concentration of high-tech workers. One home-grown start-up, Quantum Point Technologies, provides a suite of information-technology management services to agencies at the U.S. Department of the Interior and regional businesses like Washington Trust Bank.No. 8 - Iowa City, Iowa
There's more than corn in Iowa. Like Asoyia. Founded in 2004 by group of 25 farmers, this biotechnology company commercialized a new strain of soybean developed at Iowa State University. Asoyia's soybean is genetically designed to produce trans-fat-free oils. Iowa City is also a hotbed of new technologies in health care and renewable energy. BFC Gas & Electric can generate enough electricity from solid waste in nearby Cedar Rapids to light up 4,000 homes. Fueling the effort: new venture capital and private equity firms that target renewable energy start-ups. Likewise, the government-backed Grow Iowa Values Fund puts up $2 million a year to support the University of Iowa's Centers for Enterprise.No. 9 - Lake Charles, La.
Soaring oil profits in recent years have pumped life into Lake Charles' economy. The city's port is the 12th largest in the U.S. and a leading center for offshore drilling and extraction technologies used on platforms around the world. CITGO, ConocoPhillips and other players in the energy industry have expanded operations in Lake Charles, rapidly making the port city a key choke point in America's energy distribution network. The region already boasts one liquefied natural gas facility, and three more are under construction. When those come online in a few years, as much as a quarter of all natural gas used in the U.S. will flow through Lake Charles, estimates the Southwestern Louisiana Chamber of Commerce.No. 10 - Yuma, Ariz.
This small desert town in southern Arizona has more prisons than patent lawyers. The local chamber of commerce fishes for new business by hyping the tourist flow from Mexico and heavy highway traffic. So what's Yuma got? The U.S. armed forces. The Department of Defense runs a testing facility, U.S. Yuma Proving Ground, near the city of Yuma that spans over 1,300 square miles of desert terrain. As the primary U.S. site for desert warfare research, Yuma is now the third-fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country, according to its Web site.And where the military goes, so does tomorrow's top technology.http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/10/columbus-milwaukee-houston-ent-tech-cx_wp_0310smallbizoutlooktechcity_slide.html?thisSpeed=20000
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Gadgets Technology to Watch in 2008
iPhone Redux :: Apple's Next iPhone
As it first needs to approval from the Federal Communications Commission, it will have to be disclosed publicly a few months earlier. Expect Apple CEO Steve Jobs to announce iPhone 2.0 no later than March, in time for a July release.
The next iteration is likely to include access to faster 3G wireless networks, speedier Wi-Fi connections, and GPS reception. Also rumored, but not confirmed by Apple: an iPhone mini.
iPhone Rival :: BlackBerry 9000
A major iPhone rival is Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry. The devices may appear to be aimed at vastly different audiences, but they overlap in an increasing number of ways. BlackBerry phones now play music and video, while iPhones handle text messaging and e-mail, and are increasingly in demand among business users.
The BlackBerry 9000 series, as yet only the subject of rumor, is said to look an awful lot like an iPhone, even sporting touch-screen technology.
Connected Navigation :: Dash Express
Navigation devices, with their ability to get users from place to place using Global Positioning System technology, were all the rage in 2007. In the coming year, expect them to become Internet aware.
In February, startup Dash Navigation will debut its $600 Dash Express, a car navigation device that uses wireless phone networks to get live traffic updates and load addresses and routes from a PC or Mac. The navigation industry will be watching closely for signs of the product's success. If it is successful, Dash may find itself in the crosshairs of a suitor.
Mobile Matchmaker :: GE Cell Fusion
GE's Cell Fusion products let you link your cell phone using wireless Bluetooth technology. The point is to mesh the sound quality and other benefits of a landline phone with the convenience and cost savings of a cell phone. Consumers could, for example, take calls to a cell phone on a home phone when the wireless device is charging, or make long-distance calls on a home phone while using a cell-phone plan.
Digital Readers :: Amazon Kindle
Reviewers called it ugly and overpriced. But consumers couldn't get enough of Amazon.com's (AMZN) Kindle e-book device. Despite the pans, the item was sold out in a matter of days and Amazon is rushing to replenish the supply.
While e-book readers are still a curiosity for many in the mainstream, the concept simply won't die. Sony (SNE) is on the second generation of its digital reader, and eyes will be on Amazon for evidence of strong sales.
Smartpens :: Nokia, Livescribe, Epos
Digital pens, a footnote from the last tech bubble, are poised for a second run at commercial success in 2008 thanks to products from no fewer than three vendors.
In February, Livescribe will introduce its smartpen, which not only records your written words so they can be read on a computer, but also records surrounding sounds—an obvious boon to college students taking lecture notes. Others pens from Epos and Nokia (NOK) stick to storing what you write on a computer.
Wi-Fi Video Phones :: CREATIVE Technology
Wi-Fi calling, a category that includes Apple's Touch and iPhone as well as devices made by Cisco Systems (CSCO), is set to expand in 2008.
A notable addition, judging from FCC filings, is the InPerson from Creative Technology (CREAF). It looks a little like a laptop computer, but is aimed at making Internet videoconferencing calls without a PC.
Open Cell Phone :: Google's Android
The first phones bearing Google's (GOOG) Android operating system are expected to hit the market in the second half of 2008—just in time, it would seem, to compete with the second-generation iPhone and whatever new BlackBerry device Research In Motion cooks up.
The cost of the OS (it's free) can't help but upend the competitive landscape for smartphones, but only if Android lives up to the hype.
Built PC Tough :: Solid-state PC hard drives
Hard drives are delicate. Notebook PCs tend to be dropped. It's a recipe for data disaster. One answer is solid-state hard drives, which store data using flash memory chips, rather than the spinning glass platter of a traditional hard drive.
Already appearing in some high-end notebooks from Dell (DELL), solid-state hard drives are likely to make a bigger splash across the mainstream PC market in 2008. The benefits for users are faster boot-up times and notebooks that are less sensitive to drops. The downside? Higher cost per gigabyte, though the prices on flash are dropping fast.
Make-or-Break Year :: Palm
The company whose name was once synonymous with handheld computing is in the doldrums. Palm's been there before and recovered. The question is whether it can bounce back again. Palm's Treo line of smartphones is looking hopelessly outdated compared with the BlackBerry and iPhone; its Foleo clamshell device, announced with much fanfare, attracted shrugs, and was ultimately killed.
Palm's latest device, the Treo 755p, was late getting out the door in time for the holidays. This could be Palm's make-or-break year. Devices running a badly needed update to the Palm operating system won't appear before 2009, raising the impolite question: Will anyone care by then?
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Best and Worst in Tech :: 101 Best Web Freebies
1. Load Up Your PC - Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org, Pandora Recovery, Libra
2. Safeguard Your System - AVG Anti-Virus Free, SpyBot
3. Home on the Web - divShare, T35 Hosting, WordPress
4. Phone Home - Skype, Gizmo Project, The Pudding
5. Manage Your Money - Mint (Personal accounting software), Freerealtime.com
6. File Your Taxes - TaxACT This Web-based tax software is part of the Internal Revenue Service's Free File program. But unlike other IRS partners who limit free filing services to those with incomes of $54,000 or less, TaxACT is open to all.
7. Credit Check - AnnualCreditReport.com The Fair & Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 gave all consumers the right to access their credit reports once every 12 months. The Act also created AnnualCreditReport.com to simplify the process of applying to credit reporting agencies.
8. Play the Housing Market - Zillow.com, Trulia
9. Land a Job - Emurse, Indeed
10. Raise Salary - Salary.com Have a hunch you're underpaid? Who doesn't? Before you go to the boss, get some hard evidence at Salary.com. The site will show you what others with similar job titles and geographic locations are earning, based on survey data.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071121_708667.htm
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