But those spots are becoming fewer as technology increasingly takes over from the handwork tradition.
As smartphones mature, there are fewer jumps in technology that will add something new to the mix, but opportunities are still out there.
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The hope is that it will allow record labels to focus on managing the editorial content and e-commerce elements of band sites with fewer people and technology requirements than are currently used--particularly as it seeks to build more of these sites.
For the past decade the American motor industry has been traversing a shift in manufacturing technology that requires fewer workers with more skills (see chart).
Competing based on labor costs is not an option, so they compete by having fewer employees and more advanced technology in order to be more productive than their global competitors.
If profits thin out as the only real success comes from extra-cheap devices like the Nexus 7, there's fewer opportunities to gamble on technology research that might not pan out.
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Less money in the fee kitty translates into fewer support staff, less advanced technology systems, and less money for research and development of new store formats or products.
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So far, he adds, the balloon technology appears to result in fewer post-op visits.
Mr. Miller says that although the digital age has made it easier for parents to take their own photos, the same technology results in parents having fewer photographs actually printed and available to display at home.
The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people.
Automakers have turned their attention to bigger cars and flashier cars to attract consumers since there are fewer government-backed incentives to pursue green technology, analysts say.
Despite hopes that improving technology would lead to better quality and fewer defections, there is no sign of that trend in the numbers.
Technology races on, and there are fewer and fewer grown-up voices, like my father's and the city leaders of Indianapolis, to warn us away.
Left unsaid is what might happen if many consumer-elec tronics firms reckon they can develop their own technology or buy it from somebody with fewer strings attached.
Reasonably enough, the Bank of France's managers argue that the restructuring, which the unions fear will cost hundreds of jobs, is in order because new technology and banks' changing practices mean fewer tills are needed than in the past.
And that will translate into fewer loans and venture capital dollars for hardware, software and technology services.
The iPhone 5's display uses a new technology, In-Cell Touch, that requires fewer layers than previous generations of touch displays.
And, most serious analysts conclude that the concentration of more income with fewer people is mostly a result of changes in the economy and technology.
Few of us have a clear picture of how technology should connect people, data and knowledge, and even fewer have demanded it.
But even as technology becomes an integral part of most people's lives, fewer computer-science courses are being offered in high schools.
Dead rats don't necessarily mean fewer rats in the long run, said Thomas Lamb, chief of innovation and technology for New York City Transit.
Recent studies have suggested that fewer than 10% of people on Wi-Fi-enabled flights actually utilize the technology.
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The GOP has fewer ties to the entertainment industry, so it has an opportunity to side with the technology industry, thereby cultivating a wealthy and educated constituency.
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One technology company, for example, identified its mission-critical positions and found that fewer than 30 percent were filled by top performers.
According to a recent study cited by the U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology, nearly 20% of all cyber attacks hit small businesses with 250 or fewer employees.
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We have big companies and although we have massively fewer lobbyists and political donations, we do have honesty, credibility, a history of being right about technology and its value, and a bipartisan consensus that fostering innovation must be a national strategy.
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