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Cover Story
52The State of Surveillance
STATE OF
Not even George Orwell
SURVEILLANCE
could have imagined a
Since the London
world filled with camera
bombings,
phones, nanny cams, and
projects to
improve security satellite photos. And new
technology have tools on the way will
a new urgency identify and track just
about anyone, anywhere.
Forget fingerprints—iris
scans, DNA probes, and
systems that recognize
gaits and odors are in the
works
57In Dataspace, NoWord Goes Unheard
Echelon eavesdrops on cell calls, e-mail,
and Web uploads, looking for clues
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36Delphi and GM:High-Stakes Poker
How far will the parts maker go to force
gm’s hand?
38Head of Steam on the Factory Floor GOLDEN OLDIES
Profits are up, capacity’s tight, and Warner Music’s
companies are building new plants all-star crew has
39Sony: Bothered and Bewildered racked up some
Bewitchedand others haven’t done the
160 years of
trick this summer. Can Stealth?
hitmaking
40In Business This Week
International
Business
42China: Blogs Under Its Thumb Information Columnists
They’re wildly popular, but sensitive Technology
21Wildstrom: Technology & You
subjects still face state scrutiny
44Commentary:The Yuan Grows Up 68How Motorola Got Its Groove Back Student 2006: Microsoft’s education
software comes up short
Inside the creation of a new rival to the
Now untethered from the dollar, it could ubiquitous BlackBerry 22Fine: Media Centric
develop into a major world currency
Visible World’s micro-targeted ads aim
45Greece: Shipping’s Young Tycoons Management to do an end run around TiVo. Too late
They’re bringing transparency to an 23The Barker Portfolio
industry long shrouded in secrecy 71B-School:Sidestepping the GMAT Molson Coors is suffering the summer
46Russia:The Young and the Patriotic Many Executive mbaprograms waive blahs, but don’t expect them to last
A large percentage of the country’s the test. Will that water down the degree? 25Cooper & Madigan: Business Outlook
under-30s are Putin-loving nationalists
U.S.: Don’t underestimate the consumer
Social Issues
Britain: As growth slows, a rate cut
The Corporation
72Radical Surgery for Medicaid? ahead?
48A Bind Over Stents 5BUSINFTIEFHSTESY WE0EK South Carolina Governor Sanford has a 85Marcial: Inside Wall Street
A rare glitch with drug- plan to slash costs—but a battle looms
coated stents could hurt Ideas
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Johnson & Johnson TheBestPerformers Simpson:DAM! Water, Power,
74Laptops for the College-Bound Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy
Finance The best of today’s notebooks and Yosemite National Park
77All-in-One Printers 89Viewpoint
60The Exchanges Duke It Out
These models can copy, scan, and Hubbard: Happy 70th, Social Security—
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sometimes even fax but you need to grow up a little
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78The Desktop Option BACK TO 90Outside Shot
62Wall Street’s New Alchemist
It can pay to give up SCHOOL Rattner: How the rich have gotten
How buyout specialist Glenn Hutchins portability TECH (much) richer
is shaking up the securities industry
80LCD Monitors, Cheap
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Stein find stars to make Warner sing? The latest ultracompacts’ nifty features 16Readers Report
84Compact Snapshot Printers 17Corrections & Clarifications
Sports Biz They’re lunchbox-size and easy to use 86Index of Companies
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THE RESILIENT
INFRASTRUCTURE:
A GUIDE FOR
THE FEARLESS.
For today’s enterprise, the only constant is change. And keeping up with change is the ultimate
challenge for a business faced with an endless series of paradoxes: making information both
secure and available; being reactive and proactive simultaneously; responding quickly to both
new threats and new ideas. The solution? A resilient infrastructure that lets you respond as rapidly to
opportunity and innovation as you do to threats and disruptions; and where the elements that help keep your
company up, running and growing — security, storage and recovery — are firmly in place. This is the ideal that
has brought together Symantec and VERITAS to form a single company with a single goal: to help you build a
fearless enterprise. For more information visit www.symantec.com/RI.BE FEARLESS.
Symantec, the Symantec logo, VERITAS, and the VERITAS logo are
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