Small Times Media Launches Nanotechnology Resource

Posted on April 20, 2001

Small Times Media has launched Smalltimes.com, a website covering developments in microsystems and nanotechnology. Featuring daily news on the emerging world of MEMS, microsystems and nanotechnologies, the site is the first news product of Small Times Media, led by President Jon Pepper. Microsystems, often referred to in the U.S. as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), are super-miniaturized machines, so small that their operation cannot be seen by the naked eye. Already in use in several areas, they have hundreds of potential commercial applications, including wireless and super high-speed communications, medical testing and treatment, and industrial components.

``Our goal is to facilitate a dialogue between the scientists who are creating small technologies and the end users who will ultimately incorporate microsystems into their products,'' Pepper said. ``In order for this commercialization to happen, a lot of learning needs to occur. That is where our site comes in. Our talented editorial team will uncover success stories, report on the latest technologies and help to identify the industry's key players.''

Highlights of smalltimes.com include a daily stock ticker of small tech companies, a career area and a listing of microsystems events. The editorial team has devoted major areas of the site to some of the most talked-about issues facing the industry as it grows: money, packaging, fabricating, research and education. The site's navigation includes areas dedicated to the industry's key vertical markets: life sciences, consumer goods, environment, defense, telecommunications and transportation.

Smalltimes.com's editorial team includes Steve Crosby, former editor of the Lansing State Journal; Candace Stuart, former Detroit News assistant business editor and Tom Henderson, former reporter and editor for Corporate Detroit magazine. Freelance journalists and news wire services, including Screaming Media and C/net Investor, will also provide content.

The next product from Small Times Media will be a bi-monthly magazine devoted to Small Tech. It will launch with a September-October issue and be distributed to a controlled circulation of 22,000 executives, senior design engineers, governmental officials, industry investors and research and development experts.