Kenya's Startup Boom
Local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using phones to improve health care and save lives.
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Can This Man Work Magic?
Nokia helped invent the cell-phone business, but those days of technology glory are long gone. Its new CTO has the job of creating the technologies and designs that will help the Finnish company regain its status as an innovation leader.
A Social-Media Decoder
New technology deciphers— and empowers—the millions who talk back to their televisions through the Web.
OurTube
"Open video" could beget the next great wave in Web innovation--if it gets off the ground.
Upwardly Mobile
An Indian startup thinks that the right software can make cheap phones a financial lifeline to hundreds of millions.
How Obama Really Did It
The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House.
Obama's Geek Economist
Austan Goolsbee is a new breed of economic advisor for a new kind of presidential candidate.
How Facebook Works
The social network's technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users.
Who Owns Your Friends?
Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users' personal information.
The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008
Technology Review presents its annual list of the 10 most exciting technologies.
