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Canada's Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) has announced the launch of a new diploma program in nanotechnology systems.

"At the nanometer scale, all sorts of novel and useful characteristics emerge that have enormous potential to improve products and processes in so many industries," says NAIT's Mark Archibald. "Our goal is to prepare technicians and technologists for entry into exciting and rapidly evolving careers in nanotechnology."

"The diploma could complement the research centre, the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), located just across the river at the University of Alberta," writes Edmonton Journal's Elise Stolte. "NAIT staff say the new diploma will teach students to operate systems and equipment associated with the growing nanotechnology industry."

More here from AZoNano.com ... and more here from iNews 880.

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A new report from industry research firm RNCOS, entitled Nanotechnology Market Forecast to 2013, anticipates that the market for nanotechnology incorporated into manufactured goods will reach $1.6 trillion by 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate of more than 49 percent during the period from 2009 to 2013.

That growth, the report predicts, will be mainly driven by massive government and corporate investment in nanotech R&D worldwide.

At the regional level, the RNCOS report finds that the Asia-Pacific region will experience the fastest growth in the market for nanotechnology-enabled goods, with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 52 percent from 2009 to 2013.

The report provides a detailed country-level analysis of the major countries in the Asia-Pacific region, drilling down to determine which countries will lead the future growth of the nanotech market.

More information on the RNCOS report is available here.

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If your company needs the functionality of a call center for connecting with customers but doesn't have the technology to maintain your own computer dialing system, your business may wish to consider a hosted dialer solution.



A hosted dialer gives you the option of an outsourced predictive dialer system that automatically calls large "batches" of numbers passing them on to a waiting team of agents.

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See Wikipedia's section on hosted predictive dialers for more.

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At the ICONN-2010 conference, Baldev Raj stated that thermal imaging can be enormously helpful in studying the implications of diabetes with regard to the healing of wounds and blood flow to outer limbs and vital organs.

"The conference is organised by SRM University, in association with Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)," according to the Times of India. "Raj, who is IGCAR director, said the research has shown encouraging results and if it passes ethical and legal tests, the technology could be brought to the public domain."

"Raj said that the future should see universities pursuing nanotechnology research in relation to diabetes, to build on current research already conducted by institutes and diabetes foundations," according to Diabetes.co.uk. "It is hoped that future breakthroughs in this field could lead to more simple and widely available methods of diagnosing diabetes."