CNN rankings show another banner year for the leaders of the tech revival. BioMed and Pharmaceuticals also make a strong showing!

Fastest 100 Growing Companies

PC World editors rank the best PCs, HDTVs, components, sites, and services. Plus: the products PC World is looking forward to next year, and which technologies are rising and falling.

Google Apps Premier Edition
Intel Core 2 Duo
Nintendo Wii
Verizon FiOS
RIM Blackberry 8800
Parallels Desktop
Pioneer Elite 1080p PRO-FHD1
Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV
Apple Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Adobe Premiere Elements 3
Apple TV
Samsung SyncMaster 244T
BillP Studios WinPatrol
HP dv9000t
McAfee SiteAdvisor
Canonical Ubuntu 7.04
Pandora.com
Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite
Paint.net
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000

more in the top 2007 list

Everyone who's still using the cell phone they bought five years ago, please raise your hand. Any takers? The odds are good that not many hands are in the air right now. According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates report, the average replacement cycle for a mobile phone is just under 18 months.

Little Alltel does not look so little anymore after two buyout companies moved to purchase the mobile phone service provider for $27.5 billion on May 20th.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. launched on Monday a free mobile program that enables listeners to text-message radio stations from their cell phones to make song requests, get real-time traffic reports and access other information.

NotePage's audio recording software, RecordForAll received a 2007 SIA nomination for the Best Sound and Audio Program for 2007. We are honored that RecordForAll was recognized as an intuitive easy to use audio recording and editing application.

Police located a 10-year-old boy awaiting a heart transplant by asking his mother's cellular provider to locate her cellphone.

John Paul May of Harrisville had the successful surgery at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on Saturday night, but came dangerously close to being passed over for the donor heart until police tracked down the boy and his mother at a jazz festival.

The hospital called state police Saturday afternoon because officials couldn't reach the boy's parents to let them know a donor heart had been found.

Touting the future of the mobile phone market at the Software 2007 Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., earlier this week, Motorola CEO Ed Zander made no mention of his company's secret weapon: The smellophone.

Last month, Motorola received a patent for a Communication device having a scent release feature and method thereof.

The government is researching whether the best defense against a chemical, biological or radiological attack might one day be right in everyone's hands - or on their ears. Homeland Security officials are looking into outfitting cellphones with detectors that would alert emergency responders to radiological isotopes, toxic chemicals and biological agents such as anthrax.

Necessities or accessories? That is the question, some say and I quote:

Cellphones have become fashion accessories like nice ties....