The Future of Technology

The Big Trends Ahead and Our Ranking of the Top 100 Info Tech Companies

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The Power Of Us

Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business

Online Extra: The Net's People-Power Pioneers Slide Show

Online Extra: Sharing: The Net's Next Disruption Slide Show

Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"

eBay's founder talks about the power of community and his efforts to apply lessons learned from the online giant to other spheres

Online Extra: Tour the Collectives of Cyberspace

New technologies have people communicating and collaborating on an unprecedented scale. Here's a look at some of the hottest spots

Online Extra: The Sharing Economy

Yale law professor Yochai Benkler points to Google and Skype as examples of a new, Info Age market structure, based on peer production

Wherever You Go, You're On The Job

The dramatic shift toward mobility is changing the way we work -- and shaking up the status quo among tech titans

Graphic: Changing The Nature Of Work

Graphic: The New Office: Everywhere

Small Biz, Big Bucks

Google, Yahoo!, and the Yellow Pages are hotly pursuing lucrative ads from locals

Graphic: The Web's Wizards

Let Your Fingers Do The Clicking

Online Extra: Video: Online 411

A Virtual Revolution

New software makes computing cheaper and more efficient -- and accelerates the power shift from sellers to buyers

Graphic: How Computing Will Change

The Titan From Tucheng

More Life For Moore's Law

Chipmakers can't keep using the same tricks to boost speed. New ones are coming

Graphic: Tiny Alternatives

Vonage: Spending As Fast As It Can

CEO Jeff Citron aims to keep the Internet telephony startup a step ahead of the giants now in hot pursuit

Graphic: Telecom's Titans

Stars That Fell From The List

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

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