Future Trends

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The Motley Fool March 29, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Mobile Wars Move Onward Mobile strategies percolate at Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft. When the dust settles, it will be interesting to see whether Google might deliver too little too late this time around, and whether its rivals that tend to get a little less investor adulation might win the day.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google Follows Microsoft's Lead You're about to get smacked by a billboard in your next video game. With the rise of cheap digital delivery, in-game advertising, and a growing comfort with game-based micro-transactions, are we really that far away from the day when most new games will be given away?
Entrepreneur April 2007 Mark Henricks	The Third Wave Just getting used to Web 2.0? Hang on, because Web 3.0 is about to hit shore.
Entrepreneur April 2007 Nichole L. Torres	I See a Pattern Sewing-related businesses are growing and are kindling originality nationwide.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Applied Materials Serves Itself A solar power installation project will be its largest corporate facility to date. Investors, the sun could not only be powering its corporate offices -- it could also be powering its future growth and driving its stock price higher.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Commercializing Quantum Keys It's a strange business, turning the esoteric quantum properties of light into money. But there are a few brave companies that have been trying to do just that for the last five years, and they may have hit on the right way to do it.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Michael Ricci	'Flat' Earth to Give Rise to Semantic Web A handful of key technology areas will lead the way in the flattened world. Although they have been presented as separate areas, in reality they are interdependent and will evolve together. How will these technologies enable new ways of doing business in financial services?
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Jessica Pallay	Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes Are Breaking Their Decades-Old Hold on Wall Street Wall Street has relied on the dependability of mainframes for more than 40 years. But as the competitive environment demands more efficiency and agility -- and as alternatives mature -- firms are weighing the pros and cons of migrating off their mainframes.
Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2007 Greg MacSweeney	Energy-Efficient Data Centers on the Horizon Just as Wall Street often is the first to use the newest, fastest processors, it also will likely be the first to move toward more energy efficient data centers.
Fast Company March 1, 2007 Andrew Zolli	Business 3.0 A suite of new global forces is emerging that will remake the operating environment for global capitalism, obliterate the walls -- and the distinctions -- between the Friedmanesque Hatfields and the Naderesque McCoys, and inject a "greed is good" mentality into our approach to grand social problems.
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