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iPhone Hype Intersects with Reality - 2007-06-28
With the long awaited debut of Apple's iPhone tomorrow, Steve Jobs won’t be the only one hoping to earn a buck or two after six months of hype. In fact, a virtual cottage industry has sprung up surrounding the release.

The Telco's New Star - 2007-06-26
Like most Americans, Rich and Marjorie Bayer of Massapequa, NY, love their television. But their television is radically different from the one that’s probably on all the time in your house. Unlike your set, the Bayer’s is wired to the Internet, and it is nothing short of a glimpse into the future.

Opinion Wanted: Contribute to Quantum Investor - 2007-06-22
As you well know, we think that the wave of Web 2.0 is continuing to build and will transform not just how information is made available, but also where it comes from. A large part of that, of course, is the massive growth in user-generated content.

Gates Squirms, Jobs Chuckles - 2007-06-15
When it comes to taste in all thing digital, Steve Jobs is a man with an uncanny knack for the pulse of consumers everywhere. It’s a simple fact that’s not lost on his biggest rival, Bill Gates.

Disruption, Web 2.0 Style - 2007-06-12
As Web 2.0 wave continues to evolve, a falling housing market has become the least of every realtor’s nightly worries. Buried beneath the surface is something potentially more disruptive than any quiet open house could ever be.

America's Growing Cyber-Defenses - 2007-06-05
As the series of cyber-attacks in Estonia demonstrated this spring, the battles of ones and zeros fought out between hackers and security experts all over the World Wide Web are by and large bloodless affairs.

The Bloodless Battles of Cyber-Space - 2007-05-30
Like a stealthy member of the Special Forces, the first digital intruder slipped in completely unnoticed. A collection of ones and zeroes disguised like all of the rest, it sneaked deep within the system, riding in along with an endless stream of data.

Robotic Surgeons Answer the Call - 2007-05-23
For 54 years, Dennis Murray had definitely beaten the odds. Unlike most people his age, he had never been hospitalized, not even once. Sadly, though, his streak wouldn’t last. It ended instead with the news that all of us dread. He had cancer.

Israel: Money in the Middle - 2007-05-21
In Gaza to the southwest and Lebanon to the north, rockets and bullets are flying. In the middle of it all, Israeli scientists are launching the companies of tomorrow.

Top Docs Prep for Surgery on Mars - 2007-05-17
In the deep blue waters off the coast of Key Largo, NASA’s “aquanauts” are hard at work. Sixty feet below the waves, they are busy practicing the same types of tasks that they may one day be required to perform in trips to the great beyond.

The Bulls Continue to Roam - 2007-05-15
Dow futures ran red this morning and for a moment it looked like the bears might actually have something to growl about. National giants Home Depot and Wal-Mart both managed to disappoint the Street, sending futures lower.

Cisco Needs More Love - 2007-05-11
Networking giant Cisco Systems released earnings on Tuesday, and as usual, they jacked another one right out of the park. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were still looking for the ball. That's how good they were.

The Bulls, the Bears, and the Tea Leaves - 2007-05-08
In a move that has become entirely all too common these days, the bulls managed to do it again. The Dow closed higher yesterday for the fifth straight session reaching another all-time record, sending the bears even deeper into the woods.

Not Watch?...Fugetaboutit! - 2007-05-03
If you weren't watching, then you probably missed it. Last week was National TV Turnoff Week, an event sponsored by TV-Free America.

Contrarian Island is a Lonely Place - 2007-05-01
Being a bear on the Street these days is some kind of hard business. While the bears continue to insist that the glass is half full and could shatter into a million pieces at any moment, the markets only race higher. Their dire warnings have turned up as empty as their honey pots.

Sunshine on the DMZ - 2007-04-25
Reunification has long been the watchword in Korean diplomacy. Even through the North's recalcitrance, nuclear proliferation, missile-lobbing, and Viagra counterfeiting, the South has kept a sanguine smile. Make that a cyber-smile, as the Koreas connect in a new way this year.

Meet the Reaper - 2007-04-24
Meet the Reaper. Fully loaded it can carry 3,000 pounds of weapons, including Hellfire missiles and GBU-12 laser-guided bombs. It's the destructive equivalent of an F-15, and it can stay aloft for more than 14 hours when armed to the teeth.

Marketwatch: Feeling Stronger Every Day - 2007-04-19
The broader market averages turned red this morning as the “Shanghai Surprise” Part II roiled the international markets overnight.

Lithium-Ion Batteries Lead the Charge - 2007-04-17
In automotive boardrooms from Tokyo to Detroit the race is not only on, it’s as heated as ever. This time, though, it has less to do with sexy styling and more with something considerably deeper--the very future of the industry.

Future Watch: Reasons for Optimism - 2007-04-10
The future is going to be a very scary place. It'll be dark, grim and even foreboding. At least that’s the story in a piece published in The Guardian yesterday. There will be information chips implanted in our brains, the middle class will finally revolt, and neutron bombs will make the ultimate comeback.

Brits Continue March to Orwell's Vision - 2007-04-05
The dark world envisioned by George Orwell took another small step forward yesterday in his merry old English home. And while it's not quite as terrifying as a trip to Room 101 in the Ministry of Love, it is nonetheless quite gut wrenching in its own right.

Digital Music Unchained and Unleashed - 2007-04-03
A trickle of freedom came down from above to the world of the iPod and its brethren yesterday as Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his cohorts at the EMI Group announced that they would soon begin offering their titles free of the copying restrictions formerly imposed by the label.

Just One Word--Nanotech - 2007-03-27
In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” it may have been the shapely legs of Mrs. Robinson that caught the eye of young Ben Braddock, but it was Mr. McGuire’s sage advice that captured the ears of the investment world.

Apple's Next Evolution - 2007-03-22
By the time the Bruce Springsteen figured out that there was on, the world of television had radically changed. Those old rabbit-eared three-channel sets had long since gone the way of the dinosaurs. An evolved and fifty-seven-headed behemoth now ruled the airwaves.

Microsoft vs. Linux and Dell, Round 2 - 2007-03-13
When it comes to overnight success stories, Michael Dell’s is certainly one for the books. After all, how many 19-year-old college kids manage to rack up nearly $6 million in first-year sales by storming the walls of an industry giant like IBM?

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