Future Trends

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The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Tim Beyers	WiMAX Gets a Big Win Roaming the first step to substituting for telephony.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Toby Shute	Seeking Profits in Water Purification Desertification, inadequate sanitation, and population growth are all water-purification-related issues that the world will increasingly face this century. Let's look at who the players may be in this emerging industry.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Did Microsoft Just Kill the Cloud? Microsoft's Danger subsidiary has apparently lost the server-stored data for T-Mobile's Sidekick phones. Cases of data loss like this could impact the cloud-computing revolution.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2009 Tim Beyers	The Biggest Market Opportunity: Cloud Computing? The cloud computing revolution is still in its infancy, and today's investors in Google, salesforce.com, Adobe, and other emerging cloud giants will be handsomely rewarded in the years to come.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Steve Hamm	A Radical Rethink of R&D It's a new world of collaboration across companies and nations. IBM is launching a major new experiment, while Microsoft keeps dreaming big. The question is whether anyone can come up with the breakthroughs to create millions of new jobs.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky	How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work.
Fast Company September 2009	5 Startups to Watch Here are five for-profit education startups that attracted attention at the first-ever Venture Capital in Education Summit.
Fast Company September 2009 Kate Rockwood	How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions Andrea White-Kjoss modeled her full-service cycling centers on a similar idea already popular in Japan and Europe. More than a dozen bike stations have opened in such places as Palo Alto and Berkeley, California; Seattle; and, most recently, Washington, D.C.
Fast Company September 2009 Kate Rockwood	Humana Takes Health to the Streets With B-cycle Bike Sharing Grant Harrison created B-cycle -- automated kiosks that let riders rent bikes at prices akin to mass transit. The national rollout will bring 50,000 bikes to a dozen U.S. cities in the next three years.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Next Big Thing Is Not Right in Front of You Perhaps the fastest evolving technology right now is found in DNA sequencing.
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