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January 2007 Issue

Winners & Losers 2007

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

A Massachusetts company reinvents the cellular base station

Google has nothing to fear from Quaero, the Franco-German search engine

A fuzzy outlook for an unpalatable technology

Philips trumpets a power-sucking LED display as the next big thing in textiles

No happy landings for latest twist on sci-fi staple

Extravagant subsidies and low coal prices have made for some strange ethanol projects

Swiss firm crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one

Michael McCool has the prescription for programmers paralyzed by parallel processing

Brazilian fuel control system lets cars run on gasoline,ethanol, and natural gas

Britain switches its entire phone network to the Internet Protocol

How to replace a cubic mile of oil

Production glitches send Airbus into a tailspin

MIT team paves way for a spintronics microprocessor

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A book on the Golden Era of Radio takes us back to “those thrilling days of yesteryear”

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