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The article focuses on the Smarter Planet Initiative set by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) known as the Internet of Things (IoT) which involved more Internet addressing systems along with Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) accommodating the universe of cloud-ready devices. Bernie Meyerson of IBM believes that the initiative has created a flood of data that only state-of-the-art information technology can filter. The perceived reliability of IoT is at focus at Texas Instruments Inc.

The article focuses on the flow battery for electric cars developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology in Germany. It reports on the invention of the electrochemical cell by physicist Alessandro Volta wherein the chemical reaction restricts the voltage per cell. A brief historical overview of the term battery coined by Benjamin Franklin in 1748 is offered.

The article discusses adoptions and innovations in touchscreen technology by several companies including Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. since its incorporation into smartphones by Apple Inc. Also mentioned is the rise of a mature worldwide supply chain due to the success of the touchscreen technology and the dominance of projected capacitive touchscreens in high-end mobiles which faces competition from upcoming alternatives including an optical touch technology using light emitting diodes.

The article reports on the implementation of electronic design automation (EDA) techniques to automate the design and operation of microfluidic laboratories-on-chip initiated by researchers. According to Professor Tamal Mukherjee, they have automated place-and-route algorithms for microfluidic chips that affords a tenfold reduction in design time over hand-tuned place and route. However, the lack of standardization is the major obstacle in creating microfluids algorithms.

The article reports on the development of mesh network topology in the U.S. It relates that the network allows to form survivable connections that will work even after multiple simultaneous failures. It states that mesh for optical fiber networks employs all the same tricks for wireless networks to ensure connectivity including the ability to add new nodes arbitrarily distributing itself to make optimal use of new routing possibilities.

The article reports on the plan of India's largest outsourcing company Wipro Ltd. to open two additional software development centers in the U.S. The company's chairman Azim Hashim Premji states that they want to give customers a choice of geography with a distributed network of low-cost development centers. The company has 8,000 engineers stationed in the U.S., who rotate in and out of the country's sites to work closely with customers as well as large financial firms.

The article reports on the final phase of the competition dubbed "Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility" and participated by different universities in the U.S. The said competition intends to increase the efficiency of hybrid-energy-powered cars and to eliminate emissions. At the midterm competition, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University was awarded the first place for its invention of the split parallel hybrid design.

The article focuses on the marketing of fuel cells which promises gas savings but electric car users spends thousands on replacement lithium battery packs. It reports on the intention of Cambridge Crude to solve the maintenance problem by pumping electron-bearing fuels. It offers information on SiGNa Chemistry Inc.'s PowerPucks hydrogen-bearing cartidges that allows fuel cells to recharge.

The article discusses computer memory device, Memristor discovered by Hewlett-Packard Co. and provides a comparative analysis based on experimental justification of the product with dynamic random access memories (DRAM) and flash memories. The article also states the agreement between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. to create commercial memories based on memristive technology.

The article offers information on the findings of a study conducted by engineers of Argonne's Photosynthesis Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. It concluded that algae can produce hydrogen fuel from water and sunlight under conditions of artificially controlled photosynthesis.

The article reports that the researchers from the University of Michigan introduced the first all-in-one, millimeter-sized processor which can be used for the implantation in the eyes of glaucoma patients.

The article focuses on the development of memristor from pure silicon by researchers at Rice University, in collaboration with PrivaTran Inc. It says that the memristors enable the development of cheaper and simpler random access memories (RAMs), as compared to the titanium-based memristors from Hewlett Packard Co. Furthermore, the prototype features crossbar electrodes of polysilicon and can switch in less than 100 nanoseconds and withstand 10,000 read and write cycles similar to flash memory.

The article discusses the flexibility of silicon wires as studied by the researchers at California Institute of Technology. It mentions that silicon wires consist of 98 percent plastic construction that can lower the cost of photovoltaics since solar cells absorb 96 percent of incident light. According to director of Caltech's Resnick Institute Harry Atwater, research has been done in order to increase the operating voltage and size of solar cells so it can be commercially manufactured.

The article provides information on the Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) memory technology from Everspin Technologies Inc.

The article discusses the microfluidic lab-on-chip prototype of IBM Research which was predicted to detect flu for 15 seconds. It states that blood sample is deposited on the chip and placed in a fluorescence reader after about 15 seconds for the result. It explores the parts of the device and its functions including the loading pad, flow resistor, and reaction chamber. It However, the device cannot be used to test air or water since it can only test for the existence of a substance in the body.

The article discusses the study which finds that graphone, which is made from hydrogenation on the material's surface, can create a new breed of carbon spintronic devices. Purusottam Jena, professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, discovered that graphene contained pure crystalline carbon sheets with impurities to adjust its semiconducting and magnetic properties. He added that graphene saturated with hydrogen result into a wide-bandgap semiconductor and ferromagnetism.

The article reports on the unveiling of a new Power 575 water-cooled Hydro-Cluster supercomputer by International Business Machines I(BM) Corp. It is based on IBM's latest Power6 microprocessor and five times faster and three times more energy efficient than previous model. It uses 448 Power6 core in a single rack with 3.5 terabytes of memory, divided among 14 nodes each operating at 600 gigaflops.

The article cites a study on the terahertz (THz) wire that carries 1,000 gigahertz (GHz) signals and 20 times faster than the speed of the world's faster microprocessor. It states that electrical engineering professor Ajay Nahata and his colleague demonstrated their waveguide and signal splitter using steel as the conductor and air as the dielectric. Moreover, they used a semicircular score in the foil to focus broadband 0.3-Thz radiation into just one of the leftmost wires.

The article reports on the move of QuantumSphere Inc. in manufacturing a highly reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings that could increase the efficiency of electrolysis, the technique that generates hydrogen from water. According to the report, the coatings can be used to retrofit existing electrolysers to increase their efficiency to 85 percent.

The article reports on the launch of SpriteSat magnetic-RAM (MRAM) technology by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The report added that the microelectro-mechanical-system (MEMS)-based magnetometer of Angstrom Aerospace Corp. will be using MRAM in place of both static RAM and flash memory on the Japanese research satellite.

The article reports on the clothing fabrics that generate electricity from the motion of wearing them which was described by the inventor and Georgia Technology professor Zhong Lin Wang. It is stated that the nanogenerating fibers capture energy from wind, sound vibration and other mechanical energy. Wang described the nanogenerators as arrays of nanowires that produce as much as four watts per cubic centimeters.

The article reports the Motorola Labs has succeeded in validating metal-insulator electronics as an alternative to semiconductors for wireless personal area network (WPAN) device. The validation was made possible after Motorola's joint-development deal with Phiar Corp. With the deal between International Business Machines and MediaTek for the supply of chips to the WPAN standard, Motorola has claimed to be developing a GHz radio sans semiconductor.

The article reports on the introduction of Freescale Semiconductor Inc.'s digital signal processing (DSP) in a Pod guitar-effect processing tool from Line 6 Inc. to swap preset tones instantly. Intricately, the unique collaboration between Line 6 and Freescale is not just using DSPs to convey guitar music but is actually at the heart of the calculations in creating tonal landscapes.

The article provides information on the negative stiffness mechanism employed by Minus K Technology Inc. It reports that the Minus-K vibration isolation platforms are used to test microelectro-mechanical systems, nanoscale metrology and semiconductor fabrication tools. The mechanism when employed cancels out vibrations.

The article reports on the research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, purifying the essential protein performing a fuel-cell membrane's electronic function. The research is making a way to commercialize the biofuel cells sans bacteria. Thomas Squier, senior author and laboratory fellow, suggested that biofuel cells would use a cheap porous hematite electrode in which the bacteria's purified protein could be bound.

The article reports on the fabrication of arrays of carbon nanotube field emitters by scientists David Hsu and Jonathan Shaw at the Naval Research Laboratory in Arlington, Virginia. This nanotube field emitter has a record-low gate voltage of 60 volts for emissions of up to 1.2 amperes per square emitters were created. It is created with the use of chemical vapor deposition on silicon substrates. Unlike high-voltage field emitters, the carbon nanotube avoids gas ionization.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. The country's high technology industry exerted rising political clout in 2007. Air Force Secretary, Michael Wynne, called for an increase in small satellite clusters and Internet Protocol routing in space as one means of improving U.S. satellite capabilities. Infineon Technologies appears to have won the coveted prize of base band supplier for the upcoming 3G-enabled iPhone.