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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
Comcast's Movie Blast With Project Infinity, the cable company is quadrupling its on-demand movie offerings. Can it beat Internet delivery methods, like Apple's?
MARKETING
Xerox Gets a Brand Makeover Once dominant in the copier market, the tech giant has had to wake up to a new world. Its latest brand identity attempts to reflect its newfound nimbleness
TOP NEWS
Bill Gates Bids CES Farewell The Microsoft chairman promotes interactivity and even tries rapping in a music video for his final Consumer Electronics Show keynote
PRODUCT REVIEW
Vonage's Functional V-Portal The Internet phone company's new adapter has some nice features, but overall offers only basic capabilities. The screen menus need work, too
VIEWPOINT
Apple: More Than a Pretty Face Consumer electronics companies need to do more than pare product lines and make cool stuff. What Apple offers is a complete ecosystem
TECHNOLOGY
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM The last major label will throw in the towel on digital rights management and prepare to fight Apple for valuable download revenues
INDUSTRY IN FOCUS
• From S&P
Stars Align for Renewable Energy Around the world, investment in renewable energy projects is skyrocketing. S&P has buy ratings on three stocks poised to benefit from the boom
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's a Widget Worth? Software developers say their impact is being underrepresented; comScore hopes a new measurement tool will paint a clearer picture
DESIGN
The Spare Design of Wikia Search Google's latest rival in the search-engine category looks eerily like…well, Google. But look beyond the home page and you'll find many influences
EASTERN EUROPE
• From Transitions Online
Estonia: Cyber Superpower This Baltic country is getting a reputation for being security savvy. Just ask the hackers
TECH HOMELAND SECURITY
Homeland Insecurity The Homeland Security Dept.'s overreliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable
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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