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NEWS ANALYSIS
Alltel: A Boon for Verizon Wireless The merger would let Verizon Wireless overtake AT&T as the No. 1 cellular provider. But what would its 80 million customers gain?
E-COMMERCE
Attention, Online Shoppers: Taxes Ahead New York has e-tailers like Amazon collecting sales tax. Other revenue-strapped states may follow
MICROSOFT MOVES ON YAHOO
Why Yahoo's Yang Is Holding Out Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft
TECHNOLOGY
Time Warner's Net-Metering Precedent The cable company's plan to charge customers based on bandwidth consumption is drawing widespread criticism—except from competitors
NEWS & FEATURES
Take-Two's (Predictable) Profit Surge The publisher of megahit Grand Theft Auto IV swings to a Q2 profit of $98.2 million, amid a hostile takeover bid from rival Electronic Arts
IN FOCUS
One Laptop Meets Big Business The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child
HEALTH CARE
Are There Too Many Women Doctors? As an MD shortage looms, female physicians and their flexible hours are taking some of the blame
SPECIAL REPORT
Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech As the economy slumps, many entrepreneurs are looking past consumer Web sites to focus on products and services for companies
SPECIAL REPORT
The Power of Play Check out our special report on the current gaming industry, including an analysis of trends for 2008, profiles of radical innovators—and introducing the BusinessWeek Arcade, a celebration of some of the Web's best free games
SUSTAINABLE TECH
Special Report: Sustainable Tech Scientists are experimenting with viruses, salmon sperm DNA, potatoes, and more in making biomaterials for consumer electronics
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 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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