Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
eBay's founder talks about the power of community and his efforts to apply lessons learned from the online giant to other spheres
New technologies have people communicating and collaborating on an unprecedented scale. Here's a look at some of the hottest spots
Yale law professor Yochai Benkler points to Google and Skype as examples of a new, Info Age market structure, based on peer production
MOBILE COMPUTING
The dramatic shift toward mobility is changing the way we work -- and shaking up the status quo among tech titans
THE NET
Google, Yahoo!, and the Yellow Pages are hotly pursuing lucrative ads from locals
HARDWARE
New software makes computing cheaper and more efficient -- and accelerates the power shift from sellers to buyers
SEMICONDUCTORS
Chipmakers can't keep using the same tricks to boost speed. New ones are coming
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CEO Jeff Citron aims to keep the Internet telephony startup a step ahead of the giants now in hot pursuit
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Some recent highfliers are absent from this year's InfoTech 100. Here's what went wrong -- and how they're making it right
(From left) Photos by Michele Asselin/Corbis Outline;
Susan Goldman/Bloomberg News; Sven Doering/Visum/The Image Works
THE INFO TECH 100 RANKINGS
