Many CTO and CIO are going the route of providing a technology allowance to employees.

FORBES: Dell Won't (Can't) Grow - Sell DELL

Calmer heads are already working on the details of a better proposal: a new route, improved technology and perhaps cleaner oil.

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Google has taken a similar route and announced plans to test its implementation of the Open ID technology.

BBC: Typewriter,

Grand plans for European-style double-decker trains were rejected as impractical, as were schemes for a high-speed rail route (run, in the wildest of dreams, on magnetic-levitation technology) connecting London to the north.

ECONOMIST: Railway reform

Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.

FORBES: Above the fray

In New Hampshire, the most rapidly growing group of independents are highly-educated professionals (many of them refugees from Massachusetts and its taxes) who work in the technology corridor that includes Nashua and Route 128.

ECONOMIST: A declaration on independents