Page 5
Robert Fox
Page 9
Pages 11-15
The vote's in: the Web's potential in the political process is still lacking.
Hal Berghel
Pages 17-22
Nepal must mend the wide digital divide it has with most countries. But more importantly, can it close this divide among its own people?
Seymour Goodman, Timothy Kelly, Michael Minges, Larry Press
Pages 23-27
What happens when a single usability goal extends across several companies?
Jason W. Fouts
Pages 28-29
Engaging the fundamental structure of the Internet with an eye toward making it a real democracy network.
Steven Clift
Pages 31-32
Innovative, inexpensive, efficient, and increasingly compact storage technologies promise practically unlimited capacity and instant access to data anytime, anywhere.
Lambertus Hesselink
Pages 33-36
In our increasingly Internet-dependent business and computing environment, network storage is the computer.
Garth A. Gibson, Rodney Van Meter
Pages 37-45
Storing data inside the volume of the recording medium, rather than on its surface, as in conventional optical and magnetic approaches, these systems deliver much higher data-transfer rates and access based on partial information …
Sergei S. Orlov
Pages 46-54
Combining optical techniques and magnetic storage media, MO technology will likely be used in magnetic drives to improve data density. The result: the continued fall of the cost of storing bits.
Terry McDaniel
Pages 56-63
Burning data onto and off of the storage medium is such a reliable read/write method, the CD is now the world's most popular means of distributing and exchanging prerecorded digital content.
Henk van Houten, Wouter Leibbrandt
Pages 64-71
Abandoning the rotating disk paradigm, simple miniature microelectromechanical systems position probe tips over the storage media, potentially creating a new generation of nonvolatile rewritable mass storage devices, as well …
L. Richard Carley, Gregory R. Ganger, David F. Nagle
Pages 72-80
Combining new technology with established financial market mechanisms.
Ming Fan, Jan Stallaert, Andrew B. Whinston
Pages 82-88
As technology changes, so do delivery and payment arrangements.
Philip Ginzboorg
Pages 89-92
Rethinking the role of paper in the digital age.
Ziming Liu, David G. Stork
Pages 94-97
Why some consumers are online shoppers while others are not.
Amit Bhatnagar, Sanjog Misra, H. Raghav Rao
Pages 98-105
Allowing network-supported groups to make incremental process improvements can result in quantum-leap competitive advantages over the long run.
Ned Kock
Pages 107-112
Recognizing how issues common to larger companies present particular problems and opportunities in small ones.
Robert P. Ward, Mauri Laitinen, Mohamed E. Fayad
Pages 113-116
Rebecca Mercuri
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