The operation apparently compromised massive amounts of highly-confidential and classified information, including high-value trade and technology secrets.

FORBES: Connect

To build the infrastructure of tomorrow, we're investing in expanded broadband access and health information technology, clean energy facilities and the first high-speed rail network in America.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses Business Roundtable

Janier writes and speaks on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of new technology, the philosophy of consciousness and information and Internet politics.

FORBES: Lanier: Not Only Are You Not A Gadget, YouTube Won't Make You Rich

This helps to explain why Europe lags America in both the development of high-tech industries and the pace of investment in information technology.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

The opportunity to make a quicker, bigger buck in high-tech has traditionally skewed the Midas List toward information technology investors and away from the life sciences.

FORBES: New Enterprise Associates' Ryan Drant

The picture of an increasingly high-tech education was revealed in the 1999 Survey of Information and Communications Technology, which was published by the Government Statistical Service.

BBC: High-tech future for Scottish schools

The reforms will also move funding and patients toward primary care physicians instead of high-cost specialists and toward community care instead of expensive institutions, through technical supports, grants and financing for high-cost items such as health information technology.

FORBES: New York Medicaid Reforms Intended to Improve Health at Lower Cost

"Our take is that the marketplace ought to be setting the standard, " says Bob Cohen, a spokesman for the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group for computer, telecommunications and high-tech companies.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It contained plenty to make the middle classes happy, including cuts in the overly-high levels of duty levied on imported liquor and cars, as well as, more usefully, on information-technology products.

ECONOMIST: India