But they provide employees with locked-down desktop computers, limit the use of employee-owned technology, and often ban the use of social media applications outright.
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According to the survey, 73 percent of C-level executives report that supporting the use of employee-owned technology is a top priority within their company, and 60 percent said that their companies are currently updating IT systems to make it easier for employees to use their personal devices at work.
Now new entrants, like the Ion Torrent sequencing technology owned by Life Technology and the new types of sequencers being developed by Oxford Nanopore are fomenting more competition and driving costs down even further.
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CreditTrade, which is owned by Mutant Technology, a British software firm, allows interested parties to post what they want to do on its site and negotiate anonymously by e-mail.
They're owned by Eleutian Technology, a company that is using the internet to bring jobs once outsourced to cheap labor in the East to back to unemployed Americans in the West.
The name iPhone was originally owned by Infogear Technology.
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That might be about to change, though, as South Korea's state-owned Korea Electronics Technology Institute has announced a new image sensor chip that promises to take "vibrant photos" in extreme low-light conditions -- all the way down to 1 lux, which is the equivalent light output of a candle shining one meter away.
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It has established what it calls an indigenous innovation policy, meaning it wants Chinese-origin technology that is owned by Chinese companies.
They said he expressed concern about a project he was working on for his employers, Institute of Microelectronics (IME) in Singapore, a unit under the state-owned Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
By forging relationships with leading Chinese state-owned and private energy and technology companies, U.S. companies -- at times working with the federal government -- can create a "ladder of cooperation" with the Chinese to lead the world forward on climate change.
Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives.
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Small operators, by contrast, were often owned and managed by individuals with technology backgrounds who followed the latest developments with interest and were active researchers.
Twelve NFL teams plan to use FanVision this fall, an interactive handheld wireless device, the technology of which is owned by Miami Dolphins chairman Stephen Ross.
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Harvard Bioscience (HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc.
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel last month created a Technology Industry Diversity Council, which he tasked with increasing the percentage of minority employees in technology firms, increasing the percentage of minority-owned and operated tech companies, and creating a pipeline through which students can transition into the technology economy.
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In addition, Steelhead Licensing - another firm which owns patents but does not produce products of its own - has filed a case against 14 handset makers and mobile networks, including Google's Motorola unit, claiming infringement of a wireless technology which used to be owned by BT.
By contrast, in the case of brokerage and investment firms, and to some extent technology firms, the brand is owned by key professionals.
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Israel is the world's largest exporter of drones and drone technology, and the state-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries has sold to countries as varied as Nigeria, Russia and Mexico.
This year's defending champion, Oracle Team USA, is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of technology giant Oracle Corp.
Its founder, Liu Chuanzhi, is a product of China's Institute of Computing Technology, and the company is still partly owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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The government has established state-owned enterprise zones such as the Chengdu Internet of Things Technology Institute in Sichuan province, which is developing a health care system in which rural villagers can step into a telephone booth-sized "health capsule" to get a diagnosis and prescription from a doctor in a distant hospital.
Later this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the Volkswagen AG-owned brand will join Toyota to show off the latest in automated driving technology.
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Since 1999, adhering to the principle of "driving product, service and management innovation via system and technology innovation", Wasu has developed into a large state-owned media group in China with rapid development driven by "new media, new network".
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He has been involved in and owned significant parts of one of the most successful product lines in the history of technology.
In Pune PhDs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and various Indian Institutes of Technology feed data into one of the world's most powerful privately owned supercomputers.
"When EDS put those partnerships together, they were clear about who owned what in terms of swim lanes, " says Lindy Hanson, a senior analyst with Technology Business Research.
For advertisers, the technology takes a lot of the legwork out of buying ad space, particularly across screens owned by multiple firms, said Mike Finnegan, director of product development at Xaxis, an online media-buying platform owned by WPP PLC.
The Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities, says that the industry is committed but that it can only move as fast as the technology allows.
And as to the specific thing that those technology company leaders were noting, that it can take up to a decade to get government owned spectrum reallocated and freed up for commercial usage.
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