Graphene: Next To Provide 1THz

Imagine that in 6 years or so, chips inside our mobiles (or the devices at that time) will have clock cycles of 1THz (1,000 GHz = 1,000,0000 MHz etc), in other words, enough power to serve half of the request made to Facebook just into our hands, could you??

Few years ago, there have been investigations about the use of graphene as a material for the creation of chips, processors and all kinds of electronic circuits. Until now it was known that this particular material, consisting of a monatomic mesh of carbon atoms, is able to withstand amazing transfer speeds, making it the ideal replacement for silicon.

Android: Growing Stronger

Nielsen published a report about the sales US wide, this is a reported speech of it:

The battle for the hearts and minds of consumer smartphone owners continues to be a heated one according to data just released by The Nielsen Company. When it comes to consumer marketshare by operating system, Android (29%) appears to be pulling ahead of RIM Blackberry (27%) and Apple iOS (27%). But an analysis by manufacturer shows RIM and Apple to be the winners compared to other device makers since they are the only ones creating and selling smartphones with their respective operating systems. HTC follows with 12 percent of consumer smartphone owners having an HTC Android device and 7 percent owning an HTC device running a Microsoft OS. Ten percent of consumer smartphone owners had a Motorola Android device and one percent owned a Motorola device running a Microsoft OS.

Media Universe

Nielsen is an expert consultancy firm for market research, positioning and impact studies in the consumer sector and business. This company occasionally takes very interesting studies in market trends about technology. Few days ago they released a study in graphic form, related to U.S. consumption for various technological media. In particular, addresses the media universe of TV and mobile phones. It is really interesting to analyze this data, which you can see more detail clicking on the image.

Mobile App Store data of 2010

As the end of the 2010, Distimo delivered to us a new report about the news and noteworthy of theirs findings about all mayor mobile app stores on the market.

If you are interested on looking for more information, here is the direct link of the pdf report. Ok let's continue with the contents of the document:

August 2010 App Stores Report

Thanks to the company Distimo we have a report of how the most important application Stores for mobile phones are behaving. This document is available to anyone who wants to know a little more about, here and reports only the results in the United States. The summary of what's shows this document will be related to Apple App Store and Android Market.

It is interesting to read that the Android Market is the store with more free applications hosted in their servers, with the 60%, when we have and iPhone App store with the 29% of share and a 26% for the iPad App Store. This means that we could find more free apps in a Android Device than a iOS one, although most of those are not even worth downloading.