IEEE Spectrum: Top 10 Articles

Top 10 Articles

Selected by IEEE Spectrum readers 1-15 January 2007

Updated 23 January 2007

By Jean Kumagai
Vanu's new cellular base station is all about the software.

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By William Sweet
Using coal to make ethanol shortchanges the biofuel's enviornmental promise.

By Harry Goldstein
Software eases programmers' pain and unleashes the power of multicore chips.

By Steven Cherry
How many communications protocols does it take to run a global network? One.

By Sandra Upson
This protean airplane may fly, but on land it's an accident waiting to happen.

By Samuel K. Moore
A Swiss firm's technology could quintuple the memory in microprocessors.

By John Voelcker
Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them.

By Philip E. Ross
If Microsoft can't beat Google at search, how can Paris and Bonn?

By Sandra Upson
A vibrating tongue device for the blind is not what the doctor ordered.

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