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• Live chat: your new online salesperson
  A year or two ago, it looked like instant messaging and other forms of online chat had reached their full potential as a business tool. Millions of people were using IM to interact with corporate colleagues. Live chat had also become a fixture on websites, giving customers a way to inquire about products and receive answers in real time.
• The hijack-proof truck
  You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster.
• Server farm goes solar
  Massive data centers are vital to the economy. They are also notorious power hogs. If their numbers keep growing at the expected rate, the United States alone will need nearly a dozen new power plants by 2011 just to keep the data flowing, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Privacy for free online calls
  What's more creepily brilliant than ads that follow you around the Web? How about a Skype-like online phone service that listens in on your conversations and serves up ads based on what you say?
• A hard-knock laptop
  Computer makers are thrilled when, in today's PC market, they can get more than $1,500 for a high-end laptop. That's why Panasonic's Toughbook line is a standout.
• Say goodbye to the used-car salesman
  In late 2005, Stanford student Luke Thomas tried to buy a Land Rover online. After a few frustrating days of trawling Craigslist and driving around the Bay Area, only to find cars that looked better in their photos than in real life, Thomas decided there must be a better way.
• The kopy kat kids
  The Samwer brothers never been shy about borrowing ideas. The first company the Cologne-born trio founded was a German-language version of eBay. Later, as venture capitalists, they invested in European startups that were direct knockoffs of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
• Nana technology
  Where can you find upside in the mature high-tech gadget business? Selling gadgets designed for seniors.
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• The car of no return
  My final leson for you all? Never, ever, drive a nice car. There's no upside to it. Luxury rides are evil: insidious, stealthy things, burrowing into the human subconscious with terrifying ease, whereupon they trip a dopamine depth charge that explodes both your brain and your budget.
• 100 fastest-growing tech companies
  Our annual rankings show another banner year for the businesses leading the tech revival. Here's who is out in front and how they got there.
• The Next Net 25
  It's getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but we highlight the newcomers most likely to strike gold in 2007.
• 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
  See the video, test your Dumbest knowledge, and let us know what you think was the year's most boneheaded moves.
• New rules of real estate
  
• Live rich, retire richer
  It just may be possible to have it all. Our investment guide shows you how to live large now and bankroll your future.
• 20 smart companies to start now
  Asking venture capitalists for great startup ideas is a little like asking Curt Schilling what pitch he's going to throw next. When we posed the question to dozens of VCs and investors around the country, more than a few indignantly shot back, "Are you out of your mind?"
• The Next Disruptors
  Watch out, Microsoft, GE, United, AT&T, and, yes, even Google. Here come 10 game-changing startups with plans to upend existing industries and spawn new opportunities for the rest of us.
• Have you driven a Fjord lately?
  Three pinstriped London investors stand outside an electric car factory in the green fields of the Norwegian countryside, waiting their turns to test-drive a stylish two-seater called the Think City.
• 50 Who Matter Now
  Our second annual look at the people, products, trends and ideas that are transforming the world of business.
• The man who owns the Internet
  Kevin Ham leans forward, sits up tall, closes his eyes, and begins to type -- into the air. He's seated along the rear wall of a packed ballroom in Las Vegas's Venetian Hotel. Up front, an auctioneer is running through a list of Internet domain names, building excitement the same way he might if vintage cars were on the block.

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