The winners are, in alphabetical order, California, Maryland and its I-270 tech corridor, New Jersey, Singapore and Wisconsin.
After a few years in graduate school and a stint overseas teaching ESL in Cheju Island, South Korea, I returned to the east coast (Boston) and immersed myself in high-tech trends working for Pinestream Communications, where I edited two high-tech insider investment newsletters, Mobile Internet Times and Telecom Trends.
Mr. BARRY SMITH (owner, Louisiana Music Factory record store in New Orleans): I'm very low-tech myself, and I know as far as our customers, we still do quite well with the records upstairs.
Samsung collaborates with companies like i-Free, a Russian mobile tech company on the development of 3-D viewing apps for smart TVs and also has a nascent retail strategy under development in Russia.
When I'm traveling, my publishers book me in high-design, high-tech hotels, which I normally enjoy to the hilt.
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One Simmons-ism that I find particularly applicable to tech is his notion of something being, not over-hyped, not under-hyped, but properly-hyped.
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Heidelberg, Germany--I've just had a nineteenth century high tech experience--and a glimpse of the world to come.
The I-79 highway south of town is designated a high-tech corridor.
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After I did 9 years in the military, I worked as an X-ray tech at a trauma center.
Last year, I helped a fellow tech start-up founder with his copy and branding strategy without even thinking about it.
On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry.
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And by the end of that two-year time period they can do precision machining and the other types of high-tech work that I think we want to have in this country.
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Translated: Next time, I swear to God, I'll dump every last tech stock I own the very second I overhear water-cooler speculation about when Nasdaq will overtake the Dow.
The P-TECH educational model that I mentioned earlier is also becoming widespread because of public-private partnerships.
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Aside from that, in my travels visiting tech start-ups I am continually surprised at the frequency I find Cornellians.
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The first time I realized automakers like to make parts out of unconventional materials, I was down in Brazil watching low-tech workers with machetes hack up coconut shells.
Why do these founders seemingly have no interest in joining outside boards while other well-known tech executives who I mentioned in my post like Meg Whitman of HP (HPQ), Henrique De Castro of Yahoo (YHOO), and even Tim Cook of Apple (AAPL) see it as important to do?
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And it's exciting to see the leaders of some of the most innovative, cutting-edge, tech-savvy companies in the world gathered in the city where I had to fight tooth and nail just to get a BlackBerry. (Laughter.) There may be a little bit of a cultural clash here, but that's exactly why we want you here.
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It also was a surprise to Doug and other tech-savvy China hands I know.
Last week I wrote that startups entrepreneurs should avoid non-tech angel investors.
Foolishly, he bought four high-tech stocks, even though I warned him to diversify, the way the experts say you should.
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I've also discovered plenty of high-tech gadgetry in bathrooms.
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And what I've instructed our team to do is any good idea that will make the systems and processes of the private sector interacting with government smoother, quicker, crisper, more tech-savvy -- I'm for.
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Before embarking on this mission, I had the great fortune of working in high-tech for twenty two years.
In the Atlantic piece, I also discuss the increasing concern that modern high-tech medicine has overpromised and underdelivered.
After playing games like Grand Theft Auto III and the Tegra 3-enhanced Shadowgun, I'm convinced we tech enthusiasts live in an exciting time.
Any talented Yahoo must have asked themselves more than once: Am I working at Yahoo or living the real-life tech version of the Book of Job?
So Rich and I are flying in his shiny, new high-tech airplane, which comes complete with not only XM satellite radio, but (wow, does this company know its market, or what?) a remote control to operate it.
As an entrepreneur in the tech industry, I have experienced the launch-date letdown both firsthand and through partners and clients.
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Its common to wax poetic about the infinite benefits of using social media, and I get the real, society-changing potential of P2P tech.
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