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As Web 2.0 takes hold, Blake Ross, co-inventor of the Firefox browser, prepares his own second act.

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IEEE Spectrum ranks the world's most valuable patent portfolios.

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Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas.

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A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs--but how do you build one?

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IEEE Fellows take a hard-nosed look at what technologies will--and won't--impact our lives in the next 20 years.

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What role will advanced technology play in the fight against terrorism?

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It's hurricane season: Do you know where your storm is?

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Displays drain more power than any other component of a handheld device, a problem that will only grow as mobile devices incorporate higher-definition graphics.

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IEEE Spectrum refutes Ethernet inventor's theory of communications network growth.

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Communications networks increase in value as they add members--but by how much?

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Catching ID thieves is like spearfishing during a salmon run: skewering one big fish barely registers when the vast majority just keep on going.

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A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer electronics.

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In Africa, where utilities struggle to provide basic services, wireless telecommunications services stand out as the lone success story.

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Counterfeit parts are infesting cellphones, computers, cars, and airplanes, and costing manufacturers billions of dollars a year.

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Biology inspires engineers to design low-power circuits.

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IEEE Spectrum highlights ten current cars that use technology to the greatest, most ingenious effect.

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As circuit-switched phone systems move to the Internet, they face their biggest challenges ever.

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Jeffrey Jonas, a Sin City programmer who busted some of the biggest swindlers of all time, is now helping the Feds nail terrorists.

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Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think.

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For the past three years, a hardy team of researchers has camped out in Chile's Atacama Desert for months at a time to test new technologies and ideas for the next generation of planetary rovers.

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IEEE Spectrum searched the world to profile the engineers having the most fun at work.

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The $6 billion restoration of Iraq's electrical networks has foundered because of a combination of poor planning by coalition officials, poor administration by Iraqi officials, and insurgent attacks.

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In IEEE Spectrum's special January issue, the focus is on "winners and losers" from many technologies and several continents.

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China is now trying to set the rules for many developing technologies.

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Automakers top the list, drug companies trim back, and telecoms continue to gut their research budgets.

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The most important device of the 20th century was invented not just once, but twice.

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How can the common housefly execute exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster?

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Canadian and U.S. scientists are planning a multi-million dollar project that could turn hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of sea floor into an Internet-connected undersea observatory.

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Exoskeletons are strutting out of labs--and they are carrying their creators with them.

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The shutoff date for analog television will open the door to a host of new services.

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Around the world, people in less-developed countries reap the benefits of the Internet without owning computers or, in some cases, even knowing how to read.

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British software house Praxis High-Integrity Systems is using mathematical logic to track down bugs and ruthlessly exterminate them.

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The FBI's Virtual Case File was an auspicious start to what would become the most highly publicized software failure in history.

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Of the $1 trillion that will be spent worldwide on technology this year, many billions will be wasted on software mistakes that are entirely preventable.

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If integrated electronics could be big and flexible instead of small and rigid, they would be suitable for a dazzling array of items.

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NASA researchers quarrel over how to network outer space.

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A Soft Tribe's software can make a hard life better in Ghana.

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Sony's EverQuest franchise is a massive computing effort.

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It took two centuries to cram the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with more than 29 million books and periodicals, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts; today it takes 15 minutes to churn out the digital equivalent.

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Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers, is suddenly Big Business.

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A special report looks at how technology is driving China's emergence as an industrial powerhouse -- and what that means for the world.

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A new breed of rapid prototyping machine now in development can make everything from rockets to robots, batteries included.

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Because a computer network cannot ward off every last Internet worm, it must sound an alarm the minute one slithers inside.

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A tabletop apparatus that produces nuclear fusion inside tiny vapor bubbles may one day give us cheap, clean, and virtually limitless energy.

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The tech bubble was a boon to start-ups, but it was a bust when it came to truly original ideas.

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Engineers are generally trained to remove noise from electronics, but at Boston University and Afferent Corp., they are adding it to help the elderly stay on their feet.

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Next-generation displays render images you can almost reach out and touch.

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IEEE Spectrum picks the 10 current automobiles that use technology to the greatest, most ingenious effect.

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From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities -- and serious problems.

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IEEE Spectrum searched the world to profile the engineers having the most fun at work.