Like many other companies that operate in China, Huawei receives tax incentives provided by the Chinese government to high-tech enterprises and support for some of our research and development initiatives.

FORBES: Huawei's Open Letter To U.S. Investigators

As long as Ren is around, there will be at least one Dhobi at work since he isn't likely to have enough money to retire unless his children get one of those high-tech jobs and support him in his old age.

NPR: Mumbai's Dhobi Toil With Laundry

"It will support high-tech areas where the UK's research base and industry can gain a competitive advantage, " said Science Minister David Willetts.

BBC: Autumn Statement: Science gets ?600m injection

Countries whose mines are not mechanized, such as India, Poland and especially China--which mines about a billion tons of coal a year--need infrastructure to support high-tech machines.

FORBES: The big dig

For the past three years I have complained to tech support and high level spokesmen at Verizon about their policy of denying the use of data services, especially onboard cruise ships, but also in other locations that have both CDMA and GSM carriers.

FORBES: Verizon Smartphones And Cruise Ships Don't Mix

By concentrating on innovating through game play, and ignoring its competitors' most high-tech features--super-powered processors, support for high-definition televisions and DVD formats--Nintendo has not only been able to keep its costs down, but it's hit upon the single thing that sets apart an entertainment device most: It's fun.

FORBES: Nintendo's Wii Is A Revolution

Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so-called patent trolls.

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