Stories From The Issue Of » October 17, 2005
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  • The Future Of The Web
    Speeding up Route 101 on a sunny October afternoon from Mountain View, Calif., to San Francisco, InformationWeek reporters Aaron Ricadela and Thomas Claburn hurried back to the office after hearing Google talk up a new partnership with Sun Microsystems. With Ricadela at the wheel, Claburn banged out a news story on his laptop. The reason for their rush: The next few days were booked with press conferences and back-to-back meetings. Fifteen conference-issued meals and 30 cups of coffee later, they provide the following account. It describes a technology industry scrambling to understand--and influence--the fundamental changes playing out on the World Wide Web.

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