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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has ranked South Korea as the most developed economy in information and communication technology. In its ‘Measuring the Information Society 2011’ report, the ITU compared Internet access, use, and skills in 152 countries. Following South Korea were Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and Finland. After that was Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The United States ranked 17th.

Technology and innovation are synonymous with Japan. This June saw NEC Corporation (NEC), in association with Tohoku University, announce the development of the first ever memory chip which can be addressed by its memory directly. The Content Addressable Memory (CAM) can process and store data on a circuit even when the power supply is off. Additionally, these chips are fast and as non-volatile as existing circuits.

The mobile technology in use today has come a long way from just making calls and receiving them. Apps, or applications, are driving mobile technology as sophisticated software helps us complete mind boggling tasks from the convenience of our mobiles. Cost-effective, safe and fast, apps are today unifying all the online technologies from ePayment, eBanking, eCommerce, eReading, watching movies or booking airline tickets.

In a recent news report in “Nature Materials,” Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologybased Korean researchers announced the creation of faster non-volatile Resistance RAM (ReRam) chips. With switching speeds of 10ns, and capabilities of close to a trillion read-write cycles, they are faster by a million times than the current flash chips. These will now pave the way to upgrade to flash memory cards.

The initiation of Thai businesses and entrepreneurs into the nuances of web-based business processes has begun with Google and its partners’ campaign – ‘Thai Business Go Online’. It has also introduced several self-help programs for businesses to learn the ropes of creating an online presence (web site creation) and monetization (advertising) with its Google GuRu and Blogger programs.

As Apple’s lead in tablets reaches its pinnacle in the global industry, with its phone business well-accelerated, and the company stronglyvalued globally, Steven Paul Jobs, an American entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc., passed away in October leaving behind his company to think if they will be able to continue the same blockbuster success rate under Tim Cook, who has replaced Jobs

A popular Internet meme makes fun of an Australian anti piracy ad by asking, in large edgy letters, “You wouldn’t download a car, would you?” The answer to that question is going to be mostly yes, from most people. If you could download a copy of a car and have it in your garage the next morning, or perhaps the next week, there isn’t anyone who wouldn’t do that. The car companies might go out of business, and the cops might even stop you and take your down loaded car away, but who cares? You could just download another copy tomorrow.

Spherical displays people see in malls and sporting events use an interconnected series of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to project various images, graphics and patterns. Although such scenes are amusing to see, the quality of images projected are not that comparable to what one can view on their TV screens. Now, imagine viewing high definition video images of the earth and all its geographical wonders and beauty, not on a flat TV screen – but on a display screen with the shape of the earth itself.

The tablet PC market is currently at 13 million in the worldwide market and this is expected to jump significantly to 30 million units next year. According to recent surveys conducted by Ovum and Telecom Asia, tablet devices was identified by respondents as driving 25 percent of the mobile broadband market, next only to smartphones which came in first at a high 50 percent. This is just a clear indication of how popular smartphones and tablets devices are in today’s modern society.