Now the big chains are getting kicked around, thanks to video-on-demand technology, online-delivery services like Netflix and "sell-through" pricing straight to consumers.
"We used to joke that Larry is brilliant but time-dyslexic, " says Mark Porter, who worked at Oracle in the 1990s on video-on-demand technology that never debuted.
Like Infosys, Satyam continues to benefit from the worldwide demand for technology and development skills.
Electrical engineering firms have suffered particularly badly in recent months as demand from technology firms has slumped.
The evidence continues to pile up: demand for technology goods is solid, and showing signs of strengthening.
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He sees a pent-up demand for technology news that's visual, fun and interactive.
During recoveries of past recessions, concerns were about market dynamics created by the usual suspects: inflation, global trade, supply and demand, technology disruptions, fear and greed, etc.
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Between demand for technology workers and the uptick in the economy, immigration specialists fear USCIS could announce that the annual quota of H-1Bs visas has been exhausted within the first week.
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Technology drives demand, and the demands drive more technology.
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But the security community knows that the boldest claims about new encryption technology demand the most scrutiny.
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BorgWarner expects demand for the technology to grow to 25% of the European passenger car market by 2015.
They grew even faster in the early 1990s, when a tightening oil market drove demand for new technology.
Thailand, for example, fueled by rising consumer demand for new technology, is in the midst of a small boom.
Corporate demand for information technology remains healthy across all sizes of organization.
As the number of video creators worldwide and the richness of their video increases, demand for our technology has grown across multiple platforms.
We demand the latest technology in our cars and our iPhones.
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Demand for its technology is not waning and it is expecting solid growth from its new, cloud-based products, as CEO Larry Ellison noted in the earnings release.
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Compaq chief executive Michael Capellas said profits received a boost from stronger than expected Christmas sales, but was quick to dampen expectations of an early surge in technology demand.
The growth in demand for solar technology from China could ease the oversupply situation in the industry as traditional markets in Europe look to cut down subsidies enjoyed by renewable sources.
The second blind spot among the neo-Luddites is their failure to consider the gains we will receive as consumers from technological advances even as they misunderstand the reduced demand for labor technology may create.
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Although demand for LED technology was growing globally, we found that market potential in Russia was next to zero because out-dated sanitary regulations and construction codes prohibited the installation of LED lighting in houses, offices and other places of residence.
Many expected the strong early demand for this new technology to keep handset market growing.
"VMware is an expensive stock, but there's also insatiable demand for server virtualization technology, and VMware dominates this market, " Egbert said.
This expansion marks continued momentum for Lytro, which has seen increasing demand for light field technology in the US and around the world.
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While many of those programming challenges may seem at the subterranean level for most entrepreneurs, many other technology decisions demand more tangible, active involvement.
In a survey of Tirupur two years ago Microsoft found strong demand among entrepreneurs for technology, but most were overwhelmed by its cost and complexity.
In the latest sign of weak semiconductor demand, Microchip Technology late Thursday warned that results for its fiscal third quarter ending December will fall shy of Street estimates.
Today, it is more widely appreciated that by moving an application to the cloud, less people are needed to rack and stack technology, demand for servers decrease, the need for cooling and power generation decreases as well, to take three prominent examples of costs savings.
At the same time, the demand for educated labour is being reconfigured by technology, in much the same way that the demand for agricultural labour was reconfigured in the 19th century and that for factory labour in the 20th.
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