Technology Review: July 2005
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Intel’s Breakthrough
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Its silicon laser could mean a solution to one of the great challenges facing the semiconductor industry: how to move data fast enough to keep up with tomorrow’s ultrafast computers.
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Demo
- Art by Numbers
- John Maeda leads techno-artists who are pushing the boundaries between computer programming and design.
Datamine
- Digital Media Make Their Mark
- ore than 50 percent of all U.S. households now have a DVD player, wireless phone, and Internet access. But only 25 percent have broadband.
Megascope
- Plain Technology
- With their creative uses for hydraulic-powered machines, 12-volt conversion technology, fiberglass, and even herbicides, the Amish have a lot to teach the rest of America. By Ed Tenner
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Briefcase
- The Willing Partner
- Research in Motion’s stock has climbed 800 percent in three years, thanks to a strategy of licensing its hugely successful BlackBerry email software to Nokia and Motorola.
- One Decision
- By creating its own customized Internet retailing system, coffee distributor Pura Vida has increased sales from $100,000 in 1999 to a projected $4 million in 2005.
- Carbon Dioxide for Sale
- Dakota Gasification Company was once a defunct coal mine. Now it’s a thriving CO2 recycling plant.
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