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...boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio rose 23% in its first day of trading. Investment bankers predict a new wave of consolidation; Goldman Sachs estimates telecom firms will have...
...Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, whose innovations are making the world a healthier place by tackling malnutrition, combating diseases like AIDS and cancer and preventing the leading mechanized cause of death, car crashes. Some of these pioneering firms--like Optobionics, a company based in Naperville, Ill., that is perfecting a microchip to help the blind see--have a decidedly cyborg bent. Others use advanced computer technology to stimulate humans into action, like the dashboard equipment from Seeing Machines that detects when drivers become drowsy and then jolts them awake. And companies like Gilead and Procognia are helping to find new drugs...
...initially had its own Big Brother rap to beat. Bar codes identify a category of products. All Gillette Mach 3 razor blades, for instance, have the same code. With RFID tags, each packet of Mach 3 blades would have its own unique Electronic Product Code (EPC) embedded in a microchip no bigger than a piece of glitter. Projections vary wildly, but analysts say today's $1 billion worth of RFID sales could hit $4 billion by 2008 and $10 billion in a decade...
Integrated Circuits In 1958 Jack Kilby fashioned the first microchip out of a single slice of silicon (it had one transistor); in 1959 Robert Noyce figured out how to get all the electronics on a chip talking. The invention spawned Intel, along with a thriving computer industry...
...Apple started things rolling in 1999 with its Wi-Fi system, known as AirPort, and in January unveiled a speedier upgrade called AirPort Extreme. Last month, in a bid to boost demand for laptops (and Intel processor chips), Intel released Centrino, a mobile technology that features a new microchip and a built-in Wi-Fi receiver...