This isn't tolerable in an age inwhich a high-tech product generation is often less than two years.
However, as Boeing and the regulators continue to search for the offending malfunction, another specter haunts the public imagination: Can we trust any high-risk, truly high tech product that relies on parts made by who-knows-who doing who-knows-what, who-knows-where.
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The photo, which Stardust had downloaded from the Internet, was the product of high-tech electronic forgery.
Faced with harsh competition and constantly evolving product lines, high-tech companies like to stick close to their key suppliers.
The vast ocean of patents covering high-tech components, software and business processes means that each new product, generally comprising thousands of pieces of technology, usually infringes on several patents.
Home to two of the most innovative labs and research in the high-tech industry, Intel and McAfee will also jointly explore future product concepts to further strengthen security in the cloud network and myriad of computers and devices people use in their everyday lives.
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's Glass headgear, Mr. Cook said high-tech eyeglasses would be "difficult" to pull off as a mainstream product.
If the first product on the market had been a nutritionally enhanced rice rather than a high-tech tomato, consumer response might now be very different.
In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
Another reason the Waterlase and Biolase's other product, a tooth-whitening laser, appeal to customers is that they sound so high tech.
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