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Famous moments

The television series made use of seldom seen archive material and world famous film and audio material where celebrities did or said famous things. Sometimes the footage wasn’t that famous, but used as a typical example of what the public associates with the celebrity or to show them during a more casual moment, instead as an icon. Examples are:
A recording of Enrico Caruso's famous delivery of Vesti La Giubba, the first best selling record.
Harry Houdini escaping while being tied to a chair in the presence of a sleeping guard.
Isadora Duncan dancing in a forest.
Charlie Chaplin‘s first appearance as The Tramp in Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914).
Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921).
Buster Keaton in the "rock boulder" scene in Seven Chances (1925).
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert sharing the first "horizontal kiss" in Flesh and the Devil (1925).
Benito Mussolini giving one of his bombastic speeches.
Al Jolson speaking in the first movie with sound The Jazz Singer (1927).
Josephine Baker performing her famous banana skirt dance.
The Long Count Fight between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney (1927).
Charles Lindbergh landing in Paris and greeted by a massive crowd, after flying non-stop over the Atlantic Ocean (1927).
Alfred Hitchcock in one of his earliest film cameo's, in the film Blackmail
A recording of Louis Armstrong's West End Blues and What A Wonderful World.
Johnny Weissmuller swinging from a vine, shouting his Tarzan yell and delivering his famous speech as Tarzan to Jane.
A recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
A recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
Marlene Dietrich singing while sitting on a crate in Der Blaue Engel (1930).
James Cagney pushing a grapefruit in the face of his lover in The Public Enemy (1931).
Greta Garbo asking to be "left alone" in Grand Hotel (1932).
Mae West asking Cary Grant "to come up and see her some time" in She Done Him Wrong (1933).
George Bernard Shaw describing Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin in a film reel.
Adolf Hitler’ s final speech in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens (1934).
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together in Top Hat (1935).
Clark Gable removing his shirt and revealing himself to be bare chested in It Happened One Night (1934).
Laurel & Hardy using a box of snuff on side of a bridge in Bonnie Scotland (1935).
The Marx Brothers' parody on the MGM lion logo at the beginning of their film A Night at the Opera (1935).
Shirley Temple singing Animal Crackers in My Soup in Curly Top (1935).
Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
Orson Welles’ notorious radio play War of the Worlds (1938).
Neville Chamberlain declaring "peace in our time" and waving a peace agreement he signed with Hitler at Munich (1938)
James Stewart's final speech in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Judy Garland singing Over The Rainbow inThe Wizard of Oz (1939).
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh's final scene in Gone with the Wind where Gable says, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" (1939).
One of Franklin D. Roosevelt’ s fireside chats.
Glenn Miller performing In the Mood.
Charlie Chaplin imitating Hitler in The Great Dictator (1940).
Bette Davis shooting her partner while descending some stairs in The Letter (1940)
Winston Churchill declaring that " we will fight them on the beaches" (1940).
Orson Welles in his groundbreaking film Citizen Kane (1941).
Betty Grable as the Pin-Up Girl.
Humphrey Bogart in the "Play it, Sam"- scene in Casablanca (1942).
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the final scene of "Casablanca" (1942).
Ronald Reagan in his famous "Where's the rest of me?" scène in Kings Row (1942).
Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again.
Rita Hayworth singing "Put the Blame on Mame" in Gilda.
Benito Mussolini hung upside down in public after being murdered by partisans (1945).
The coronation of Elizabeth II (1952).
Gene Kelly singing Singin’ in the Rain in the movie of the same name (1952).
The I Love Lucy episode Lucy Goes to the Hospital in which Lucille Ball's character has to give birth and is brought to the hospital. It was the most watched television broadcast in the United States at that time. (1953).
Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate which makes her dress blown above her knees in The Seven Year Itch (1955).
James Dean in a television commercial for road safety.
Elvis Presley singing and swinging his hips during his highly watched and controversial first appearance in the Ed Sullivan Show (1956).
Pablo Picasso painting on the camera in Henri-Georges Clouzot's documentary The Mystery of Picasso (1956).
Nikita Krushchev debating with Richard Nixon during the Kitchen Debate (1959).
Nikita Krushchev during his shoe-banging incident at the United Nations convention (1960)
Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962.
Martin Luther King delivering his I Have a Dream speech (1963).
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in the famous Zapruder film (1963).
Jack Ruby assassinating Lee Harvey Oswald (1963).
The Beatles arriving in the United States at the airport in 1964 and performing on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther (1963).
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra (1963 film) (1963).
Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's westerns.
Mohammed Ali, declaring himself "the greatest" after winning the 1964 world championship boxing.
The Rolling Stones performing (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
The Beatles performing All You Need Is Love in an international live television broadcast (1967).
The Beatles visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1967–1968).
Elvis Presley performing during his Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special
Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon and saying: "It's one small step for men, one giant leap for mankind." (1969)
A 1970 commercial for Lanvin chocolate starring Salvador Dalí.
Frank Sinatra performing My Way.
Clint Eastwood delivering his "Magnum"-speech in Dirty Harry.
Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972).
Olga Korbut, Mark Spitz and Bobby Fischer at the Olympic Games of 1972.
Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973).
Richard Nixon's resignation speech after the Watergate scandal (1974).
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film) (1975)
Robert De Niro during his famous You talkin' to me? speech in Taxi Driver (1976).
Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976).
Gerald Ford caught on camera during several of his famous falls and other accidents.
The Sex Pistols performing God Save the Queen.
John McEnroe shouting and protesting against the referee during his tennis match against Björn Borg (1980).
A late 1970s commercial for Paul Masson champagne with Orson Welles.
Larry Hagman being shot in his role as J.R. Ewing in Dallas in 1980.
The wedding of Prince Charles and Diana in 1981.
Ronald Reagan being shot by John Hinckley, Jr. (1981).
Michael Jackson in his famous music video Thriller and singing Billie Jean at the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever special in 1983, where he performed his first moon walk dance.
Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "I'll be back" in The Terminator (1984).
The infamous cliffhanger ending of the Dynasty episode "Moldavian Massacre" (1985) in which a wedding of the main characters is interrupted by terrorists in a military coup, seemingly killing many cast members, including Joan Collins as Alexis.
Sylvester Stallone killing people as Rambo.
Bob Geldof at the Live Aid concert (1985).
Oliver North trying to defend himself in front of the United States Congress at the height of the Iran-Contra affair (1987).
Luciano Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma at the first Three Tenors concert in 1990.
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[edit]Early 20th century celebrities who were already famous in the late 19th century

Clive James included them because these celebrities were internationally famous at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th century.
William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Alva Edison, Queen Victoria, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan and Buffalo Bill.
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[edit]1900-1918

Enrico Caruso, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright, Louis Blériot, Marie Curie, Theodore Roosevelt, Florence Lawrence, Francis X. Bushman, William S. Hart, Theda Bara, Harry Houdini, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Henry James, Jack Johnson, Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, George V, Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, The Red Baron, T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Mata Hari, Lenin, Henry Ford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer
[edit]1918-1932

Ramon Novarro, Suzanne Lenglen, Anna Pavlova, Nellie Melba, Amy Johnson, Malcolm Campbell, Henry Seagrave, Jack Hobbs, Donald Bradman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Coco Chanel, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers, T. S. Eliot, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Jean Harlow, Mae West, Cary Grant, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Bruno Hauptmann
[edit]1932-1939

Benito Mussolini, George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, Rudolph Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun, Johnny Weissmuller, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Arturo Toscanini, Walt Disney, Gary Cooper, Howard Hughes, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Ernest Hemingway, Francisco Franco, Orson Welles, Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, George VI, Salvador Dali, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Max Schmelling, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Stalin, Judy Garland, J. Edgar Hoover, Billie Holiday
[edit]1939-1945

Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Pétain, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Hirohito, Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erwin Rommel, Bernard Law Montgomery, Lord Louis Mountbatten, George Formby, Jr., Gracie Fields, Vera Lynn, Laurence Olivier, Douglas MacArthur, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Cocteau, Chester W. Nimitz, Harry S. Truman, Ava Gardner, Audie Murphy, Guy Gibson, Douglas Bader, Mao, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Parker, Margot Fonteyn
[edit]1945-1960

Liberace, Lucille Ball, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Roger Bannister, Elizabeth II, Richard Nixon, William Holden, Joseph McCarthy, Edward Murrow, Paul Robeson, Richard Burton, Gene Kelly, Sophia Loren, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio, Arthur Miller, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Dors, Guy Gibson, Richard Todd, Kenneth More, Alec Guinness, Grace Kelly, Rainier III, Hugh Hefner, Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Miles Davis, Farouk I, Aga Khan III, Prince Aly Khan, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Charlton Heston, Aristotle Onassis, Maria Callas, Evita Peron, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Colonel Parker, Pele, Nikita Khruschev, Fidel Castro
[edit]1960-1969

John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Christine Keeler, John Profumo, Sammy Davis Jr., D.H. Lawrence, Peter Sellers, Steve McQueen, Rudolph Nureyev, Yuri Gagarin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Lyndon B. Johnson, Diana Ross, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Brian Epstein, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Billy Graham, Che Guevara, William Calley, Muhammed Ali, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Leonid Brezhnev, William Shatner, Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong, Charles Manson, Andy Warhol, Prince Charles
[edit]1969-1981

Henry Kissinger, Jane Fonda, Mother Teresa, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, Cher, Elton John, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Raymond Burr (as Ironside), William Conrad (as Cannon), Peter Falk (as Columbo), James Garner (as Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files), Telly Savalas (as Kojak), The Osmonds, Gerald Ford, Mark Spitz, Bobby Fischer, Olga Korbut, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jodie Foster, Roger Moore, Björn Borg, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Abba, Bruce Lee, David Bowie, Baader-Meinhof, Patty Hearst, Idi Amin, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Farrah Fawcett, George Lucas, The Sex Pistols, Jimmy Carter, Pope John Paul II, Meryl Streep, Larry Hagman (as J.R. Ewing in Dallas), Ruhollah Khomeini
[edit]1981-1992

Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher, Mark David Chapman, John Hinckley Jr. Sylvester Stallone, Lady Diana, Michael Jackson, Joan Collins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna, Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Bob Geldof, Oliver North, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Donald Trump, Martina Navratilova, Colonel Gadaffi, George Bush Sr., Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Salman Rushdie, Václav Havel, Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis, Mike Tyson, Saddam Hussein, Norman Schwarzkopf, Luciano Pavarotti
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NEWS  THIS WEEK'S TOP STORY FINDING A JOB For Part-Time MBAs, a Full-Size ROI The return on investment for part-time MBA programs may be difficult to pin down, but graduates say the benefits are real   MORE TOP STORIES FINDING A JOB Visa Rules May Spell Trouble for U.K. MBAs Britain's new visa restrictions will give MBAs less time to find work before they're shown the door. U.K. B-schools are worried applicants may go elsewhere CHAT TRANSCRIPT Live Chat: Stanford MBA Admissions Stanford's Derrick Bolton fields questions from applicants on the admissions process at one of the world's most selective business schools MBA JOURNAL: SUPER SENIOR MBA Journal: The Real World Is Looming "For those like me who are interested in the entertainment industry, it's time to start applying for jobs" Are College Business Majors Slackers? Over the weekend, The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education published a joint project that gave the undergraduate business major a serious thrashing. 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I think that its amazing that you can take advantage of the two networks, cut down on your class time ( and money spent) and really come out of the gate with guns blazing when you are done.YES, YES I would certainly get excited and accept! From: mag1343 To: AskJudith_IvyMBA Thanks for the response. I am fairly certain I will accept at this point and get my career started already. Getting into Business Schools — Military Transition From: NavyGuy To: All Naval Officer with eight years in the SEAL teams. I have consistently heard that the SEAL brand name will help and makes a huge difference when stacked next to other applicants. That makes sense, but... How much does it really help? 3.2 GPA, and multiple deployments with both combat and non-combat Counter Insurgency operations. What is the GMAT/GRE score that I need to admit at a top tier school given this background? Any thoughts? 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From what I've seen over the years, more than any other applicant (military or otherwise), the special ops folks tend to have the most success getting into HBS, Stanford and Wharton. Alex Chu Getting into Business Schools — Duke for IB From: jackjeggernaut To: All Hey guys, Long-time first time... I'm an international who got into Duke Fuqua .Im interested in IB, and I was wondering how well Fuqua does for IB placements. I understand Duke is not typically regarded a "finance" school, like Chicago and Wharton are, but how is the support structure for students interested in this field. Also more partial to jobs in europe as Visa requirements seem to be more international-friendly compared to America. Would love to hear responses from current/past Fuqua finance students Thank you... From: jackeggernaut To: All Anyone? From: illFlava To: jackjeggernaut You can get a job in IB from there, but its not a sure thing and it's a roll of the dice. North Carolina is a long way from Wall street so its not like Wharton/Columbia/Harvard/NYU where its a subway/train ride away. Duke is more known for its Marketing than its Finance program. Check out the statistics on their website, people go into finance, but like Michigan, its not the most common choice and if your really banking on going into IB---its probably not worth the money to go to Duke, not saying it can't be done, and if its the best school you get into, I guess its still a good choice From: jackjeggernaut To: illFlava Thanks! I had tne exact same thoughts....sounds like it maybe possible, but lotsa legwork involved....any others? Esp current/previous dukies From: mEEchigan04 To: illFlava Getting into banking isn't a sure thing at any school! The fact is if you are smart, work your tail off, are an engaging personality, etc. you will find the job you want. I don't think going to Duke would put you at a disadvantage. I'm looking to get into banking and only applied to general management schools, like Duke, because I wanted to learn marketing, strategy, and finance to balance myself. As an engineer, I wasn't interested in the finance schools because I felt I'd already loaded up on quant classes and wanted some breadth. If Duke is the right school for you and you want and IB job, you can make it happen. From: Taken To: jackjeggernaut current Fuqua student here I think the first thing you need to be clear is that Fuqua doesn't equal to Duke. Duke undergraduates are pretty strong in financial sector. Regarding Fuqua, as you mentioned, it's not a comparable to Wharton, Booth, and CBS, in terms of IBD. The reasons are complex, partly because we don't have a very strong finance concentration, partly because not many of us want to join IBD. Don't get me wrong here. Almost all bulge bracket come to school to recruit (I didn't focus on IB so that I express this in a safer way). Regarding results, we got people in GS, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Barclay, JP Morgan, Citigroup, to name a few. Some got IBD, some got Equity Research, some got PE, and some even got hedge fund. Many of them are internationals. Please don't get me wrong again. As other friends saying, it's more difficult. You need to take flight instead of subway. Regarding buy-side, I'd say the chance is little. As I remember, no on-campus recruiting for buy-side jobs. In a nutshell, it largely depends on where you are (your background), your commitment (how hard you want it), your personality (fit or not), and luck. Good luck From: mEEchigan04 To: Taken I think you are selling Fuqua short. One of the main reasons the schools you mentioned are so strong in Finance/I-Banking is that more students from those schools want to go into banking. It doesn't mean the Finance concentration at Fuqua isn't strong. I was really impressed by the Duke finance professors. 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Oracle's Catz Takes on CFO Duties After Epstein Steps Down

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NEWS  THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES Oracle's Catz Takes on CFO Duties After Epstein Steps Down Oracle Corp., the world's second- largest software maker, said co-President Safra Catz will assume the duties of chief financial officer following the resignation of Jeff Epstein

Inside: This Week in Technology Welcome to the Tech Insider! This week, writer Brian Womack examines the move by Oracle Corp.'s co-President Safra Catz to permanently assume the duties of chief financial officer at the company. The move likely shifts operational responsibilities of co-President Mark Hurd, who is former chief exective officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. We also have stories on Apple, Google and IBM. Enjoy! — Olga Kharif GET RSS  |  NEWSLETTERS

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It could have serious industrial uses INNOVATION Homeland Security Makes a Wish List Its Secure program aims to fast-track new anti-terror products and save money by telling companies what is needed and letting them spring for the R&D   TECH CAREERS COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES Techdom's Talent Poaching Epidemic As social networking and mobile computing grow, companies compete for top executives   TECH SPECIAL REPORTS CEO Guide to the Tech-Job Outlook Hiring at small, venture-funded tech firms is on the rise, raising hopes for an industrywide turnaround by 2010 CEO Guide to Smart Grid Technology Smart-grid technology will bring huge savings to companies as varied as Cisco, PG&E, and Cargill, and to consumers, too. But who will foot the bill? CEO Guide to Broadband Stimulus Companies hope to score part of the $7.2 billion Uncle Sam plans to spend on bringing broadband to rural areas CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Best and Worst Places for Data Centers Demand for off-site computing power delivered over the Web is rising, but finding the best place for those machines isn't easy CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Cloud Computing: Small Companies Take Flight Small businesses are flocking to the new services, which provide secure IT infrastructure with little up-front investment and no heavy lifting VIEWPOINT Enter the Cloud with Caution Here are nine questions to ask before trusting your company's data or computing tasks to an outside provider CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Podcast: The Risks and Benefits of Corporate Cloud Computing Corporations are starting to look at the potential benefits of cloud computing—computing power obtained through the Internet. But large companies have particular security and reliability needs CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Public-Private Alliances to the Rescue Many companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophes CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes GeoCommons, OpenStreetMap, and Mapufacture are three online hubs where people can collaboratively map areas, which could help in emergencies CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY The Do-Good Imperative Some of the most innovative ideas today are coming from efforts to address the needs of those most in need SPECIAL REPORT Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech As the economy slumps, many entrepreneurs are looking past consumer Web sites to focus on products and services for companies SPECIAL REPORT The Power of Play Check out our special report on the current gaming industry, including an analysis of trends for 2008, profiles of radical innovators—and introducing the BusinessWeek Arcade, a celebration of some of the Web's best free games SUSTAINABLE TECH Special Report: Sustainable Tech Scientists are experimenting with viruses, salmon sperm DNA, potatoes, and more in making biomaterials for consumer electronics TECH HOMELAND SECURITY Homeland Insecurity The Homeland Security Dept.'s overreliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable TECH PIONEERS Meet This Year's Tech Pioneers The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow BEST OF THE WEB Scaling the Social Web Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT Selling Computers to India With growth slowing in China, computer makers hope Asia's other big market will pick up the slack SPECIAL REPORT The Power of Gaming A recent report estimates that the video game market will increase to $48.9 billion in 2011. Our special report looks at some of the innovations sparking this growth SPECIAL REPORT The Future of Social Networking A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data VIRTUAL LIFE The Coming Virtual Web In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world SPECIAL REPORT Wireless World Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm NEXT-GEN GAME CONSOLES Game Definitely Not Over On the eve of the launch of PS3 and Wii, stakes in the console tussle amid Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have never been higher CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Taming the World Wide Web A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LIBRARY Powered By IT white papers, webcasts and reports for tech leaders and decision-makers SEARCH LIBRARY Most Popular White Papers Help | Advanced Search Find new documents on these hot topics now: Business Intelligence | Network Security | Storage Management | Wireless LANs | VoIP This newsletter is a FREE service provided by BusinessWeek.com. 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