ICANN's Boondoggle

The group that oversees Internet domain names is shaking things up for no good reason. For details, check out www.mass.confusion.

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Going Out of Print

The new generation of e-book reading gadgets will transform the troubled book, magazine, and newspaper industries. But it’s uncertain what that transformation will look like.

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The Art of the Possible

Can Eric Bonabeau’s Hunch Engine expand your mind?

Second Earth: Print Edition

The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive, 3-D visual environment that combines elements of social virtual worlds such as Second Life and mapping applications such as Google Earth. What happens when the virtual and real worlds collide?

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Second Earth

The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an environment combining elements of Second Life and Google Earth.

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Customized Cell-Phone Service

A startup is helping consumers build their own mobile networks.

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Broadcast Your Life Online, 24-7

Cheap, easy-to-use live video-streaming technology could stretch your 15 minutes of fame to 15 years.

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A Key Change for Mobile Phones

A new keypad doubles text-messaging volume among mobile subscribers.

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Unrest in Cyberspace

Residents of the virtual world Second Life rise up to protest technical troubles brought on by a burgeoning population.

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People-Powered Search

For the legions of Internet users contributing to new “human-assisted search” sites, no job is too small.

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