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BEST OF THE MAGAZINE
Monsanto: Winning the Ground War How the company turned the tide in the battle over genetically modified crops
VALLEY GIRL
Big Shoes to Fill at Adobe Chizen will be a tough act to follow. Can Narayen, with an ambitious plan to remake how we gain access to the Web, fit the bill?
NEWS ANALYSIS
Hey, iTunes, Move Over Apple may have a lock on digital music, but competitors ranging from online retailer Amazon.com to social network imeem are trying to worm their way in
TECHNOLOGY
Asia's U.S. Wireless Foray Asia's wireless operators are looking to the U.S. market. Their experience in mobile data services could pay off stateside
EUROPE
Philips' Lightbulb Moment Europe's largest electronics company is redefining itself as a global lighting king by hawking energy-efficient LED bulbs
GETTING STARTED
Building a Facebook for Wine Wine enthusiasts are creating social-networking sites for fellow oenophiles, and they're doing more than just selling bottles
SERVICE INNOVATION
Billion Dollar Innovation A Finnish study profiled twelve U.S. companies to give insight on how successfully applied service innovation can bring in the big bucks
HOME THEATER
Home Theaters: Less Is More The minimalist look popularized by the Apple iPod is finding its way into your living room
NEWS ANALYSIS
Girls Dominate the Siemens Competition For the first time in the prestigious national math and science contest's nine-year history, girls were awarded both grand prizes
TECH PIONEERS
Meet This Year's Tech Pioneers The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow
BEST OF THE WEB
Scaling the Social Web Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users
TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT
Selling Computers to India With growth slowing in China, computer makers hope Asia's other big market will pick up the slack
SPECIAL REPORT
The Power of Gaming A recent report estimates that the video game market will increase to $48.9 billion in 2011. Our special report looks at some of the innovations sparking this growth
SPECIAL REPORT
The Future of Social Networking A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data CEO Guide to Green Computing As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing's fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy
VIRTUAL LIFE
The Coming Virtual Web In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world
CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Taming the World Wide Web A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data
SPECIAL REPORT
Wireless World Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm
NEXT-GEN GAME CONSOLES
Game Definitely Not Over On the eve of the launch of PS3 and Wii, stakes in the console tussle amid Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have never been higher
CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
CEO Guide to Social Networks Networking technology gives companies a new set of tools for recruiting and customer service
PREDICTION MARKETS
CEO Guide to Technology -- Prediction Markets More corporations are setting up their own markets for economic forecasts, hoping to tap into the wisdom of employees
WEB SERVICES
The On-Demand Software Scrum Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP are battling each other—and smaller players—to gain a bigger slice of a fast-growing pie
SPECIAL REPORT
Computer Security Computer-based fraudsters are finding new ways to trick people—not technology—to get the information they seek
SPECIAL REPORT
Young Entrepreneurs of Tech We surveyed dozens of the country's biggest venture capitalists to come up with a short list of the 11 young people that are shaking up tech
HEART HEALTH
Heart, Heal Thyself? So far, stem cells have not delivered the results scientists hoped for. But excitement is still rising
SPECIAL REPORT
Open Source's New Frontiers How free software startups are challenging industry giants
SPECIAL REPORT
Eight Tech Trends for 2006 Tech Special Report on living-room wars, social search, wireless' new world, Web moviemakers—and lots more
SPECIAL REPORT
Computing's Next Generation For the first time in years, hardware startups are trying to break into the market. Their gambit: Inexpensive special-purpose machines
SPECIAL REPORT
TV Goes Broadband Name any gizmo. Chances are it's gotten more sophisticated since you last looked
SPECIAL REPORT: YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF TECH
Tech's Young Turks Are Back As Internet companies and the economy in general rebound, so has the college-age entrepreneur—but it's a tougher road today IT white papers, webcasts and reports for tech leaders and decision-makers
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