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January 2006 Issue

You tell us whether these 7 emerging technologies will flourish or fizzle

Microsoft’s new Sender ID technology quarantines unwanted e-mail, but can it tell the healthy from the sick?

Proposed biometric ID cards won’t prevent fraud or terrorism

A Malaysian Internet service provider sidesteps its biggest competitor

Novel superconducting device provides essential voltage support

NTT’s shaky approach to data transfer targets a solved problem

Samsung’s solid-state disks will be puny, pricey, and impractical

The company’s taste in music will have to be exceptionally good if its new iRadio cellphone music service is to beat out the many music sites already out there

With a radical carbon-fiber composite wing, Boeing is pushing the envelope of aviation design in its new 787 jetliner

Cell’s nine processors make it a supercomputer on a chip

The low-contrast flat-panel readouts ubiquitous to today’s consumer electronics products may soon be obsolete, thanks to a tiny Dublin-based start-up

Innovators have a duty to be wary of misuses of their technology

The debate over moving toward a national database of digital health records continues to rumble in the political distance. To those who are sick, though, the issue is immediate.

GPS games get players off their couches and into the real world

Backup facility is designed to withstand extreme jolts

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