HTC's original name was High Tech Computer, which is as anonymous as it gets.
John Gurda, a local historian, said it's about time Milwaukee gave up chasing the same high tech medicine and computer software companies sought by every other city.
But it isn't just high-tech firms in the computer capitol of the world that are taking advantage.
REI's high-tech gadgets, using one computer to track your whereabouts and another to keep tabs on the weather.
In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.
And then there's high-tech, which we consider to be computer-related, sort of somebody hacking into a computer.
"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.
The government was startled a few months ago when high-tech companies asked for permission to hire 2, 000 computer programmers from India.
He gained notoriety from breaking into the computer systems of a half-dozen high-tech companies in the mid-1990s, evading law-enforcement officers for years, and writing three books since his release from prison in 2000.
Provo, the home of Brigham Young University, is a high-tech hub, the home of Novell and hundreds of other computer and graphic-design companies.
Today, two trends -- dramatic, sculptural forms and a Super High Tech that exploits unprecedented advances in technology, both made possible by the computer -- vie for drop-dead honors.
In 1982 Jabil went into high-tech with a contract to make add-on boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton, Fla.
As India's high-tech sector boomed in the build-up to the Y2K scare (the computer glitch that later fizzled), Manglik began to imagine returning to India once his daughters finished college.
With an MBA and background in computer science, she was one of few women working in the high-tech space.
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Matloff teaches computer science, and says there's deep public anger over foreign high-tech workers' impact on Americans.
The SEC seems to have understood the diversity of interests here: brick-and-mortar companies as well as high-tech pioneers, investors who live in the digital media and investors who may not even own a computer.
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