Mark's Universe

Wireless revenue from US businesses will grow to $52 bln in 2010 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- The business market is poised to play an increasingly important role in the US wireless industry as total subscriber growth slows. With the consumer wireless market approaching saturation, service providers will focus on the business market and its attractively high voice average revenue per user (ARPU) and still early-stage adoption of data as primary growth [...]

The Physics of Friendship from PhysOrg.com
By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community structure, clustering and evolution of general acquaintances and even sexual contacts. [...]