Unmanned aircraft producer AeroVironment (AVAV:NASDAQ) is now the only company with a nano-sized plane in development, at least as far as DARPA is concerned.

Need help with your home computer? Perhaps you call up The TechGuys, owned by PC World (LON:DSGI), or the Geek Squad, from Carphone Warehouse (LON:CPW).

Now there’s a new outfit in town, says Penny Sleuth UK editor Tom Bulford. It’s called Nerd Force. And Tom reckons it’s a good buy.

Nerd Force is owned by by Nexus Management (LON:NXS), a small UK company whose shares trade on AIM at a price of just 0.8p. It also have twenty years of IT experience. If NXS can handle the roll-out successfully, its shares can only rise.

If you are looking for a company with rocket-like potential, Smart Profits Report tech investing expert Paul Moore says small-cap Immersion (Nasdaq: IMMR) could fit the bill.

Immersion develops haptic technologies that allow people to use touch to operate digital devices. Think the type of fancy touch-screen technology used by the much-hyped iPhone.

Paul says Immersion remains loaded with potential but remains still somewhat on the launchpad. But with three major set to toss the firm new business, Paul is bullish…

Are we seeing a bottom to the bear market?

US stocks are heading for weekly gains. This despite big quarterly losses results from financials Citigroup (C) and Merrill Lynch (MER) and missed estimates from tech giants Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT).

Think of it this way, says Penny Sleuth editor Wayne Mulligan: “If you want to know whether or not we’ve reached a bottom, then all you need to do is think about the consumer.”

Tom Dyson says the biggest headache facing power companies is how to charge customers more for using power at peak times. This would force consumers to change the way they consume power. Peak demand would decline and base demand would rise. And power companies could avoid building expensive peak load power plants. Tom recommends three companies that are in the business solving this problem with ’smart meters’…

Thanks to soaring worldwide demand for PC chips, Intel Corp. (INTC) late yesterday (Tuesday) reported a 25% jump in second-quarter profits and provided a forecast for sales that exceeded analyst estimates.

Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis. Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined $280 billion from their pension funds.

Paul Moore is a new tech investing expert with The Smart Profits Report. He says the best way to beat the bear is to follow the money. In a bear market cash is king. It allows companies a number of options that support their share price…

Editor’s Note: Justice Litle says new and exciting tech start ups often face a heavy dose of reality in the year after their IPO. It’s stock price falls off the peak it has climbed. This, says Justice, makes clever short plays a lucrative strategy…

Editor’s Note: Money Morning’s Horacio Marquez says Cisco System’s beaten down share price is a great buying opportunity for investors. From a financial standpoint, Horacio says Cisco is virtually bulletproof. It has a $140 billion market cap and no debt. It has strong growth in emerging markets. And it’s shares are going at a bargain price…