Smartphones are becoming a tool to accomplish what has previously required the use of cash, checks, or credit cards.

As their name implies, however, smartphones aren’t dumb like these legacy payments methods.

Unlike a piece of plastic with a magnetic strip, a payment system based on an intelligent, networked device has the advantage of providing real-time feedback on account and payment information.

Combine these advantages with the fact that most of us are carrying a mobile device anyway, and a virtual wallet could eventually make credit cards as uncommon for retail transactions as personal checks are today.

Despite the obvious advantages, mobile wallets have seen slow adoption in the United States compared with elsewhere. Other places that lack the banking system that the U.S. enjoys but that have cell phone coverage, have led the way in using mobile payment technology.

In locations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, money is often stored in a mobile account and transferred to another one during a purchase by bringing the buyer’s and seller’s cell phones into close proximity.  This is done by means of a short-range wireless connection called Near Field Communications (NFC).  Just as elsewhere, NFC will lead the mobile-transaction revolution in the U.S.

NFC is a set of radio communication standards that allow devices to communicate with each other over short distances.  It is also very fast at establishing a network connection, taking only a fraction of a second.  If you have ever used a contactless payment system before, you have used an early form of NFC.  These objects use radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that transmit a unique, secure identification code that performs the same function as a magnetic stripe on a credit card.  Unlike NFC on a mobile device, however, these systems allow only one-way communication.  As such, these aren’t much more than easier-to-use credit cards.

With major payment processing companies finally signing onto the mobile payments game, the U.S. is entering an inflection point for NFC technology. Much of the infrastructure has already been built.  In 2000, for example, Visa and Mastercard developed payWave and PayPass, respectively both contactless payment technologies.  More recently, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express have licensed these systems to Google for use in smartphones with its mobile payment system, Google Wallet.

Along with the software and systems side of the mobile payment equation, we are seeing increasing numbers of smartphone models equipped with NFC technology.  2011 was the biggest year on record for NFC adoption, with 35 million new smartphones equipped with the technology, according to IMS Research.

With this kind of growth and industry support, NFC technology is set to revolutionize the way we pay in a manner very similar to what the credit card industry accomplished in the second half of the 20th century.

Innovators pioneering the transformation with a strong market position should do very well for themselves and their investors.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence that as we get ready for smart wallets, the new way to pay, will bank big returns.

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential of smart wallets) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as smart wallets, the mobile market in China, imminent banking revolution, the power of Compound Interest, new internal-combustion engine designs, the shale gas revolution, surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes. 

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway as part of the new way to pay and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

Finally, I want to thank Ray Bianco of Technology Profits, published by Agora Financial, as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post.

Also, a great book to read would be Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Matter Where They Are by Cindy Krum. 

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts on my Internet Marketing blog at aspenIbiz BlackBox; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google at aspenIbiz My Go-To-Market Partners, my Affiliate website; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders at aspenIbiz The Conspiracy For Your Money Blog, and How to Live Longer at aspenIbiz My Life’s Advantage Today site.

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IBM, for example, sold off its PC unit to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo a few years ago.  HP’s recent move in this direction reinforces the trend.  Microsoft is also working on claiming a bigger stake in mobile computing, signing deals with Nokia and announcing that its next operating system, Windows 8, will support ARM’s mobile processors.

Although ARM designs the processors that power the mobile revolution, it does not manufacture a single piece of hardware.  ARM licenses its breakthrough designs to a large ecosystem of companies that implement its designs, from which it derives revenues from licensing and royalties.  ARM works closely with its licensees to tailor its designs for their individual needs.

One of the top-tier members of the ARM ecosystem is poised for growth and with the markets recent (circa Q4 2011) decline, it is a good time to invest in technology.

This top-tier company, back in 2006, purchased Intel’s XScale business which specialized in designing mobile procesors.  With this acquisition, this marvelous company holds an ARM architecture license so it can custom design its own chips based on ARM technology.  By combining ARM processor technology with other computer components on a chip, it creates what is known as system on a chip, or SoC for short.  This manufacturing technique helps lower overall core costs in large production runs.

One of this company’s recent SoC models integrates an ARM processor along with Chinese TD-SCDMA functionality.  The processor can run Google’s popular mobile phone operating system, Android.  It also can run China’s version of Android.  Using the SoC technology, phones that recently sold for $500 in China, will new sell for close to $100.

With a population of over 1.3 Billion, China represents the largest national mobile market in the world.  According to Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITI), 930 Million Chinese are mobile phone users.

At face value, this might sound like a relatively saturated market however nothing could be further from the truth.  Only 87 Million Chinese mobile users have fast 3G services so the great majority of China’s mobile users are still using old 2G mobile phones.  Essentially, when it come to smart phones with fast wireless connections, the Chinese mobile market is about where the U.S. was nearly a decade ago.

A key factor holding up China’s expansion into 3G has been the relatively high cost of smartphones.  Since the average income of the Chinese is still quite a bit lower than in other places, such as the U.S. or Europe, the rapidly falling handset prices will spark strong growth in the world’s fastest-growing 3G market.

This company is also positioned for growth beyond the Chinese 3G market.  It is a global mobile computing company. Recently, it announced the release of a first-in-class, single-chip, wireless world modem.  For mobile device manufacturers, this chip allows the use of a single modem solution that can be integrated into products sold anywhere in the world.  Having a single universal wireless modem simplifies manufacturing, as well as gives customers the option of a true “world phone.”

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence that China represents the largest national mobile market in the world and that this marvelous ARM license holder has a big first-mover advantage.

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential of the mobile marvel in China) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as the mobile market in China, the imminent banking revolution, the power of Compound Interest, new internal-combustion engine designs, the shale gas revolution, surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes.

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway as part of the mobile marvel in China and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

I want to thank Ray Bianco of Technology Profits, published by Agora Financial, as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post.

Also, a great book to read would be Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Matter Where They Are by Cindy Krum.

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts on my Internet Marketing blog at aspenIbiz BlackBox; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google at aspenIbiz My Go-To-Market Partners, my Affiliate website; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders at aspenIbiz The Conspiracy For Your Money blog, and How to Live Longer at aspenIbiz My Life’s Advantage Today site.

Since this is the first post on this blog for the year, I would like to provide Best Wishes for a Prosperous New Year!

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It is clear this past year was a year of recession, high unemployment, and low confidence.  We are at a turning point, most likely a breaking point, and the future is looking far more entrepreneurial than corporate.  Kiss goodbye any expectations of a fat corporate job coming your way.

So let’s use this post to provide a secret from Santa which is a lesson in economics and learn how we can use it for the Future of All Humanity.

Here is the lesson.

We either live or we die.  To live we must consume.  To consume we must produce.  When we produce a surplus, we can exchange the surplus.  We create a market to sell our surplus and buy what we need or desire.

One common enemy is scarcity.  Our mission is survival.  Our goal is abundance.

We want the best system of enterprise and minimal interference to produce the most wealth, distributed to the most people.

Since we are all in this together, we must all be in balance.

Our economic system consists of individuals (we the people), enterprise (which are businesses) and government.  The job of enterprise is to create wealth for the individuals of the enterprise. Government’s job is to create a climate for creating wealth but in doing so, it is a net consumer of wealth as the only way government obtains money is by taxing the wealth, the income, or both, of businesses and individuals.

Wealth is anything that has value that people are willing to work for and pay for.  Wealth is basic economics – creation, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

It is important to understand and control the balance between enterprise and government.

Over time, government may grow faster than enterprise through “creep”; it happens slowly but surely.  With higher wealth consumption, and lower wealth production, we are less rich because an expanding government becomes a net consumer of wealth with less enterprise to produce wealth.

As Santa says, when you learn the lessons of basic economics, you know a lot.  Combined with the concepts of freedom, you can do a lot.  Now, how can we use this lesson for the Future of All Humanity?

Well, entrepreneurs are the ones out there making an impact.  They are starting up businesses, building things, creating jobs, and raising the standard of living throughout the world.  In reality, they are the ones that have been creating all the jobs in the past 30 years.  So entrepreneurs are the future of the world.

In addition, have you noticed that the world is changing faster than our current education system can handle?  While there are many dedicated and amazing teachers and professors in our current system, they are just fighting a losing battle.  It is clear that large chunks of our education system are moving online and this change is being lead by information marketers.

By being an entrepreneur, by being an information marketer, or having a business helping entrepreneurs and information marketers start and grow their businesses, you are about the Future of All Humanity … you are creating jobs and providing education.

Inspired by this lesson from Santa, make a New Year’s resolution to spend your time in the upcoming year (circa 2012) to obtain education and learn to be an entrepreneur.  Work, mentor, teach, and inspire others to be entrepreneurs.  The time you spend gaining the knowledge and applying the principles of entrepreneurialism will be for gain, good, and success; not loss, evil, or failure.

Be ready to create, and execute in unexpected ways, and of course be ready to provide for the Future of All Humanity.

I trust this post, with a lesson from Santa, has provided some background about economics, our freedom to choose, entrepreneurialism, information marketing, and inspiration to impact the Future of All Humanity.

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts on my Internet Marketing blog at aspenIbiz BlackBox; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google at aspenIbiz My Go-To-Market Partners, my Affiliate website; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders at aspenIbiz The Conspiracy For Your Money blog, and How to Live Longer at aspenIbiz My Life’s Advantage Today site.

Finally, I would like to provide Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Prosperous New Year!

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Right now, there are a limited number of players in the lucrative payment network world.  Visa, MasterCard, and American Express would like to move to your phone.  They fear, however, that enabling electronic wallets in phones would allow aggressive young players onto their turf.  PayPal, Amazon, and Google, are, in fact financial networks, and they would love to do your banking.

So far, progress has been slow, but the emergence of Android is opening up new possibilities.  Work is being done by the Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup that would establish standards.  What we know for sure is that the established payment networks will do their best to keep out upstarts.  We also know they will fail.

Part of the reason for this is political; part is cultural.

The politics are that Wall Street and the major banks have never enjoyed lower public regard and support.  Consumers sense that the bailout profited rich bankers more than consumers.  The customer base is not going to support politicians who continue to put the interests of favored banking institutions above those of consumers.

Eventually, market forces always win. Currently, retailers are capable of dealing with only a few credit and debit card companies.  This limits competition and keeps prices higher than they would otherwise be.  A sophisticated mobile payments infrastructure, which is inevitable now that the Android has broken free, will arise.  In fact, it will arise before most people know it has happened.

The cultural factor I referred to is the difference between the old-school financial institutions and the new electronic services.  I have little confidence that Visa or MasterCard is going to do what is necessary to exploit the convergence.  They are too habituated and institutionalized.

PayPal, Amazon, and Google, however, are populated by people who want to transform the financial world.  They will find a way to force themselves into an industry that has lost serious credibility and clout due to its participation in the ongoing subprime mortgage fiasco.

Fortunes will be made by app developers that are knowledgeable about the financial world and are members of the emerging application ecosystem that is ushering in a paradigm shift in the way businesses are done.  This will include third-party developers, and new entrants, that design, develop, and provide their apps on different platforms like smartphones, tablet computing devices, Internet TV, social media sites, and other platforms connected to the web.

For example, one of the founders of PayPal was motivated by a goal to create a mechanism for financial transaction outside the reach of governments.  Taking it a step further, his objective was to create a new world currency, free from all government control and dilution – the end of monetary sovereignty as it were.

So far, he has not succeeded however we are moving rapidly toward developing an electronic infrastructure that would enable brand-new forms of banking.  Given our recent experience with the federally controlled financial system, the need is clear.

Expect to see completely transformed financial institutions arising from the current rubble.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence of the power of banking on your phone and the resulting new forms of banking that will surface in the global economy that is enabled by advances in technology.

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential of the banking revolution) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as the imminent banking revolution, the power of Compound Interest, new internal-combustion engine designs, the shale gas revolution, surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes. 

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway as part of banking on your phone and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

I want to thank Patrick Cox of Technology Profits, published by Agora Financial, as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post.

Also, a create book to read would be Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined by Friedrich Hayek. 

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts on my Internet Marketing blog at aspenIbiz BlackBox; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google at aspenIbiz My Go-To-Market Partners, my Affiliate website; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders at aspenIbiz The Conspiracy For Your Money blog, and How to Live Longer at aspenIbiz My Life’s Advantage Today site.

Finally, I would like to provide Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Prosperous New Year!

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There has been a political and social impact as well.  Populations, except in the most oppressed nations, know far more about the rest of the world than they did in the recent past.  Furthermore, there is a startling amount of communication between cultures today.  Increasingly, people whose governments prevent economic development know well what they are missing and they solicit the same opportunities from their leaders.

As a result, economies, including the whole global economy, have grown at exponential rates for centuries.  Just as exponential growth is barely noticeable in the early phases of an investment, global economic growth seemed trivial for more than a millennium.  For centuries, the global economy inched forward however this is no longer the case.

As an example, prior to 1500 A.D. standards of living and productivity rose barely 0.01% per year.  It took 300 years to increase productivity to 0.2% per year and it rose faster in northwestern Europe and North America.  In the beginning of the 1800s, productivity growth rose to about 0.5% per year.  The early 1900s saw a rise to 1.6% annual growth.  Growth per worker rose in America to 2.1% by the 1970s.

Today, the World Bank estimates that the total global GDP has dipped a small amount the past few years due to issues associated with the Global Financial Crisis.  There is anxiety, pessimism, and institutional gloom; consumer confidence numbers are down despite spectacular and recent improvements in the quality of life.

One reason that the public has underestimated the strength of the economy is that both economists and politicians are themselves confused.

Politicians portray themselves as being able to fix a broken economy however they have far less impact on the economy than they think they do as the forces behind economic growth are too diverse and powerful to be impacted over the long term by political posturing.

With respect to economists, traditional economic analysis is incapable of dealing with the technology enabled global transformation that we are experiencing.  Consumer price indexes and standard of living quotients are guesses at best and honest economists will admit to this fact.  Tools that worked to judge progress in the past now grossly underestimate real growth in a transformational age.

In simpler times, it was easy to compare the costs of food and housing over time.  Falling food costs due to agricultural technologies could be calculate as a component of economic progress.  Oranges for example, fell in real prices by an order of magnitude in the last half century.  This had significant benefits for consumers, even if it did not show up directly in GDP statistics.  Today, many new products and services have no historical comparison.  This has led to all kinds of illogical analyses.

We hear complaints, for example, that health care costs are increasing as a share of total expenditures.  If the results of medical care over time were stable, this would make some sense.  We are however being cured of diseases that were killers less than a generation ago.  We are living increasingly longer and healthier lives.  Comparing health care costs today to health care costs a century ago is like comparing the cost of amputation to antibiotics.

Traditional economics has no way to deal with current exponential rates of growth.  This growth however is not just American growth.  In fact, it is happening even faster in other countries.  Today, countries do not have to go through the difficult bootstrap process.  Nations can adapt the practices, policies, technologies, and institutions that have enabled economic success.  They can even bring in capital from slower-growing developed nations.  Many, in fact, are doing so.

The big story over the past decade has been China.  Even with an incredible growth rate, China has a long way to go before it’s per capital GDP and standard of living approaches that of America.  Still, history has never seen anything like this before.

Those who are blasé about this transformation are missing the boat.  More importantly, there are persuasive reasons to believe Chinese economic grow will persist, presenting enormous long-run opportunities.

It is useful to remember that “Made in Japan” was once used to label inferior products made with cheap labor.  A similar phrase was used for South Korea.  Both of these countries’ incomes, productivity and standards of living are now approaching America’s.  They in fact are outsourcing manufacturing to lower-cost regions.

In many ways, China is much better positioned than Japan was before it began its dramatic improvement.  Despite growth pains, China is already competing with Japan and Korea in key tech areas.  However the education system in Asia has historically stifled creativity and its success has relied heavily on its ability to mobilize cheap labor, cheap capital, and on copying and assembling the innovations of others.

When Japan, Korea, or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.  What happens is individuals in these countries do compete with each other for good jobs and those with the best skills will get the highest paying jobs.  Essentially, more and more people around the world are able to compete with Americans.  This means more and more Americans must continuously improve; they must adapt or die and this is the hallmark of what made Americans better off.

In addition, Asia’s surging economic growth is the result of the free-market economies of the West with the USA being the world’s most vigorous champion of free trade and investment.  As an example, the transistor, communications satellites, the personal computer, the cell phone, and the Internet, not to mention the PalmPilot, the iPad, the iPhone, and the Kindle were all invented in the USA and then brought to market by American-based companies.  This gives more and more people around the world the toolkit to compete and remove barriers erected by their own governments.

No doubt there will be disruptions over the next few years in these booming international markets.  They will experience ups and downs just as the Western economies have.  In China, for example, there is still a lack of freedom, there is rampant corruption, and it has horrible pollution.  Even with these issues, not only will economic growth in these emerging markets continue upward, it will continue to accelerate.  Globalization will indeed act to equalize worldwide market economies upward.

The impact of exponential growth is not an easy concept to get across.  When you look at the charts of compound growth, they start off slow and flat.  Over time, they tilt dramatically upward and then they are nearly vertical.

If more people understood this concept, they would invest much earlier in their lives.

It is even more difficult to get people to understand that the same exponential growth that builds portfolios also works on the macroeconomic scale.  The international economy demonstrates the exact same sort of growth.

Financial analysts that assume that projecting current growth rates into the future is a safe or conservative strategy are mistaken.

If investment models or portfolios do not take into account the increasing economic and technological growth of the future, your account will not benefit from Compound Interest and will not generate maximum returns.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence of the power of Compound Interest especially in terms of economic development in the global economy that is enabled by advances in technology.  

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment returns that can be generated by Compound Interest) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as the power of Compound Interest, new internal-combustion engine designs, the shale gas revolution, surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes. 

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway in emerging international markets and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

Finally, I want to thank Patrick Cox of The Emerging Capital Report, published by Agora Financial, as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post. 

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts at my Internet Marketing blog; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders, and How to Live Longer.

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The automobile provides something that no other form of transportation can: the freedom to independently travel anywhere, anytime – right from your front door.

As with so many other things, Moore’s Law has made the technology far better.

These low prices stimulate demand and there is a lot of demand coming.

Recently GE said it would make a big bet on natural gas as fuel for power generation.  GE will invest heavily in natural gas turbines and related equipment.  The head of GE’s energy division said that due to significant changes in the shale gas industry, the opportunity for natural gas to generate power makes it extremely competitive against other forms of power.

Simply put, shale gas is natural gas that lay trapped in rocks and was, for a long time, inaccessible.

It is hard to overstate just how revolutionary the whole thing is. Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the International Energy Agency summed it up well.  “A few years ago, the United States was ready to import gas,” she said.  “In 2009, it had become the world’s biggest gas producer.  This is a phenomenal and unbelievable.”

It is, almost unbelievable.  America has a huge amount of this energy resource.  More and more, we will turn to shale gas for energy.  It is already eating into coal’s market share and more recently, it is taking a bit out of alternative energy.

For example, the construction of new wind farms in the U.S. will decline next year because of competition from cheap natural gas.  So says the CEO of the largest developer of wind projects in the U.S.: “Shale gas makes the production of electricity from other sources not attractive enough.”

As previously indicated, the effects of shale gas have been revolutionary.  A renowned physicist and author, Freeman Dyson, writes that “the most important improvements of the human condition caused by new technologies are often unexpected before they happen and quickly forgotten afterward.”

He relates the story of his grandmother, born around 1850 in Yorkshire, England.  To her, the most important technology to impact working-class homes when she was growing up was the introduction of wax candles, which replaced tallow candles.

“With wax candles, you could read comfortably at night.  With tallow candles, you could not,” Dyson writes.  “According to my grandmother, wax candles did more than government schools to produce a literate working class.
 
“Shale gas is like wax candles.”  In short, it is revolutionary.

Of course, shale gas has accumulated some enemies.  Matt Ridley, the respected science writer, put out a report that states, “Shale gas faces a formidable host of enemies in the coal, nuclear, renewable, and environmental industries – all keen to strangle it at birth.”

Many say that extracting shale gas pollutes drinking water and damages to the economy.  According to Ridley, “All technologies have environmental risks.  Press coverage that talks about ‘toxic’, ‘carcinogenic’, and ‘radioactive chemicals’ is meaningless.  Vitamin A is toxic.  A single cup of coffee contains more known carcinogens than the average American ingests from pesticide residues in a whole year.  Bananas are radioactive.  The question that needs to be posed is always – how toxic, how carcinogenic, how radioactive?

In the well-considered opinion of Ridley, endorsed by Dyson, the answer is that shale gas poses no new or special risks.  Contamination from agricultural run-off or oil spills from the transportation industry is more frequent.

Of course, those debates often boil down to politics, not economics.  If it were otherwise, the U.S. would not be turning so much of its corn supply into ethanol.  But that is another matter.

Still, natural gas enjoys heavy political support of its own as President Obama has endorsed incentives for natural gas-powered vehicles.  As Ridley points out, “gas powered vehicles produce almost not particulates, 60% less volatile organics, 50% less nitrogen oxides, and 90% less carbon monoxide, which means less smog, ozone, and brown haze.

Natural gas is the place to be.  Power companies are replacing coal-fired plants with gas-burning ones.  Big Oil is buying up natural gas acreage.  These all will be good investments for now and in the years ahead.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence that a revolution is underway in the shale gas industry and this means big profits.  These activities will provide alternative wealth creating opportunities and our economy will become significantly stronger.

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential in the shale gas industry) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as the shale gas revolution, surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes. 

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway in the shale gas industry and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

Finally, I want to thank Chris Mayer, editor of Capital & Crisis, published by Agora Financial, as he was the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post. 

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The personal computing boom, however, is not over.  Piggybacking on the exponential improvements in semiconductor technology, first foretold by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, computing is transitioning to a different platform … one that is more portable.

The power of the Internet is moving out of the home and office and into our pockets and purses.  Speedy yet energy-efficient processors and circuits are placing the equivalent of a PC in our hands.

The most notable example of this PC-in-your-pocket phenomenon is the Atrix; this is the new Android phone from Motorola’s Mobility group.  It weighs a mere 135 grams, sports a dual one-gigahertz ARM-based processor and a full gigabyte of fast DDR2 memory.

These specifications were enviable in a desktop computer weighing between 5 and 10 pounds only a few years ago.  Now a device, with these specifications, fits in your pocket.  The Atrix is so powerful, in fact, that it can even replace a traditional computer.  It is available with a screen and a keyboard docking accessory that turns it into a small notebook. 

As impressive as these specifications are, the Arix would not be of much use if it could not communicate wirelessly.  The real computer is the Internet.  Without RF (radio frequency) circuits, your mobile device would be little more than an expensive lump of plastic and silicon in your pocket.

In order to do its job and connect to wireless networks, advanced smartphones like the Atrix need several RF circuits.  These circuits are the glue that attaches your phone to the outside world and are what makes all the other technology in the phone worth anything.  The shift in how we compute represents an explosive growth and an investment opportunity for leaders in the RF space. 

In a moment, this post will present an investment opportunity that makes the RF circuits for the world’s most powerful smartphone.  You probably carry its product around every day and do not know it.  Not only that, its technology has found its way into the most advanced aviation and defense applications; and it is even on the surface of Mars.

Overall, 1.4 billion mobile phones were shipped worldwide in 2010 and growth will continue to be strong in the years ahead.  Certain segments in the mobile device market however are growing more strongly than others.
In 2011, smartphones are projected to have a 41% growth rate, which is far higher than the overall mobile phone rate which is projected to grow at 13%.  The real profit opportunity is taking place in smartphones.  Since smartphones have to handle more wireless data bands, the RF content is 5 to 6 time what is needed in ordinary voice only cell phones.  This multiplier presents a huge growth opportunity for RF suppliers.

We can not forget the big story in tablet computers, which is a brand-new product class.  In 2010 sales of iPads and other tablets totaled 17 million units.  However sales of 50 million are expected this year (circa 2011)  and the total market size is forecast to approach 200 million units in 2014.  Roughly half of those tablets will feature 3G/4G wireless connectivity in addition to WiFi.  While the RF content is several times higher in 3G/4G enabled tablets, all tablets will need RF components.   

Beyond smartphones and tablets, there will also be explosive growth in what is called machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.  It is also called the “Internet of Things,”  We are going to see more and more wirelessly connected machines, ranging form security cameras to electrical meters to things we can not yet even imagine.

For example, wirelessly connected smart refrigerators will be able to automatically reorder your favorite food items from an online grocer.  Medical monitoring devices such as continuous glucose meters will be able to wirelessly interface with your smartphone and alert medical personnel if you are in trouble.

Based stations are the hubs of wireless networks and they are where your mobile device gets its signal.  RF power amplifiers are needed to boost the wireless signal to reach out from a base station on a phone tower and communicate with your hand-set.  In addition to the base station, the network is a collection of items that includes optical and cable networks as well as point-to-point radio systems … basically anything that moves data through the network.

This growth is tablets and smartphones is creating a huge growth in data traffic … and this is necessitating an entire upgrade of the network to accommodate it.  In metropolitan areas, wireless carriers are upgrading the capacity of their fiber optic links.  In more rural areas, they are putting in point-to-point microwave and radio links.  On towers, 3G base stations are being upgraded to 4G.

The company introduced earlier in this blog is making these RF circuits.  This company differentiates itself by being the only major player in the space that addresses both the power amplification and the filtering components, of an RF circuit, in an integrated solution.  This company sells the total RF circuit and is a solution provider rather than a being merely a discrete components supplier.

This capability gives this company a truly competitive advantage because it makes it easier for its customers to procure a total RF solution for their products.  They do not have to design one from scratch.  Additionally, by integrating amplification and filtering, this company offers greater electrical efficiency, superior miniaturization, and lower costs.

In all the examples for this company’s solution, described previously, new network devices have to contain many RF components and this creates demand for this company’s solutions.  As a leading and diversified RF technology company, it represents an excellent long-term investment.

I trust this post has provided some background and evidence that interconnecting the mobile revolution means big profits.  These activities will provide alternative wealth creating opportunities and our economy will become significantly stronger.

I favor a quote from Steve Forbes.  Forbes says that pursuing additional financial education and the resulting increase in our financial literacy (including the investment potential of breakthrough technology) will open our eyes to alternative wealth creating strategies and this will be the key to resolving our global financial crisis.

To gain the necessary financial education, it is best to obtain association with, access to, and membership in a wealth creation community.  As a result, you will learn and have the knowledge to use alternative wealth creating strategies such as Bank on Yourself, debt reduction, and asset protection.  You will be exposed to wealth acceleration investments in areas (discussed in this and previous blog posts) such as surfing the mobile wave, the space gun technology boom, the wireless data boom, the smart power grid, nanotech being applied to biotech, biotech and nanotech converging with the semiconductor industry, electric cars, new access to space, 3D virtual technology, atomically precise manufacturing, nuclear power generation, commercial space ventures, Carrier Ethernet technologies, nanotech lithography, robotics, nano-based next-generation battery technology, precious metals, water rights, oil, natural gas, potash mines, food commodities, and gold mines.  You will have the knowledge to consider investments in assets that are inherently useful like oil rigs, hydropower, or methanol plants; things that are hard to build, difficult to replace, and costly to substitute; definitely not financial stocks, definitely not retail stocks, definitely not commercial property.

Another benefit of membership in a wealth creation community is exposure to entrepreneurial leadership and business opportunities.  Many of these leaders suggest that if you don’t focus on being a digital entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually it will be an uphill battle.  As a result, the innovative wealth creation communities provide education and training on B2B, and B2C, eCommerce enabling a new breed of professionals that are creating six figure second incomes. 

It is wise to monitor breakthrough technology as there are truly exciting developments underway with surfing the mobile wave and related business activities.  I will continue to monitor developments and provide updates in future articles and at my blog.

Finally, I want to thank Ray Blanco and Patrick Cox of Agora Financial as they were the source of some of the materials about the technology advancements mentioned in this post. 

In closing, be sure to Read More of my Posts at aspenIbiz BlackBox, my Internet Marketing blog; Obtain Some Tips About Being No 1 on Google at aspenIbiz My Go-To-Market Partners, my Affiliate website; Learn How to be Savvy with Your Money Like the Insiders at aspenIbiz The Conspiracy For Your Money Blog, and How to Live Longer at aspenIbiz My Life’s Advantage Today site.