Just to give a few examples from my own direct business knowledge: gold plating on computer chips and connectors used to be about 200 nanometres.

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The new money will open TeraGrid up to more researchers, in part by adding a Web-services dimension that will let institutions tap the computer without a direct connection to the eight major data centers, which are sprinkled from San Diego to Pittsburgh.

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The Crowns are buying it as a beachhead from which to launch their three-year plan to build Europe's first truly regional computer direct marketer.

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January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband.

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