Fortune reports 42 U.S. States with Surplus Budgets during the 2006 fiscal year.  The total surplus for these states is expected to be 28.9 billion.  This is a huge improvement for all 50 states which in 2000 had a combined 265 billion in debt.

Good article confirming HitWise and Nielsen//NetRatings data that Google Tops The Search Market again! The article is from Sci-tech, and reports on Comscore’s research concluding that in March 2006 Google continued to widen its spread with rivals Yahoo and MSN and is now at 43.1 percent of all U.S. searches.
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Stanford University recently provided and interesting statistic for how many Hours a Week Gaming the average gamer participates in. The average gamer of Mass Multi Player games such as World of Warcraft or Half-Life spend an average of 20 hours a week playing. The average console gamer spends about 7 hours a week [...]

What do you do when your corporate blog goes bad? Blogging Gone Bad is one of the top fears of corporate bloggers. According to a recent article in Inc. Magazine (Nov 2005), Sixteen percent of the U.S. population reads blogs. They also cite Technorati as saying that the number of blogs double [...]

Interesting article in BusinessWeek on Multiplayer Games and Movies. There are many projects going on like “Project 880″ for example that is putting a game on the market to promote an upcoming film. The creator of the film project, James Cameron is known for directing Aliens, The Terminator, and Titanic.
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Very interesting article in BusinessWeek Feb 6, 2006 edition on a Silicon Shortage. The demand for Silicon is skyrocketing for solar photovoltaics and is expected to continue. The demand for silicon has also been high among semiconductors and has had steady growth. The solar industry has been growing at 30% per year [...]