Few industries are as mired in outdated practices and slow to adopt technology as construction.
Whereas traditional practices have been slow to adopt technology, these organizations are using technology as a point of differentiation.
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The deal underpins the importance that slow-growing technology giants place on faster-growing, web-based software makers, whose products are less vulnerable to the economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, dedicated hardware or installation.
The technology was slow to take off, as some cities found it difficult to integrate preemption with antiquated traffic-light controllers.
And yet even he believes that the majors cut research too much and the industry has been slow to adopt new technology.
Schools and school districts are famously slow to adopt new technology.
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Unfortunately, our educational theory, practice, and technology seems slow to adapt.
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That is partly due to there being few phones equipped with the necessary technology, slow adoption by merchants and the fact that swiping a physical card is easy, analysts say.
Plus, the encryption technology can slow down performance.
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Many employees are no longer relying on IT to provision, manage, and run their technology because they feel IT is too slow and puts unnecessary restrictions on their use of technology.
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Bill Gates once said that technology progress looks slow in the short term but revolutionary in the long term.
The industry has been slow to pick up GPU technology despite its advantages.
But for all of the ways that designers thrive on change, their embrace of the truly transformative implications of digital technology has been slow.
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That technology has been slow to develop and is very expensive.
The technology has been slow to catch on, however, partly because many consumers remain unaware of it, and they still need to pull out their card to use it.
And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.
"The law is a slow-moving elephant, and technology is a graceful gazelle, " she said.
Will this slow down the race to greener technology?
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Umpire Ian Gould adjudged that Johnson had edged the ball to West Indies wicketkeeper Dinesh Ramdin, however, third umpire Mark Benson did not find enough evidence to overturn Gould's decision after watching slow-motion replay, hotspot technology and on-field microphones.
Global information technology spending is expected to slow over the next few years, but will still grow at a low- to mid-single-digit rate.
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For years, many have been predicting the death of Bluetooth, the underachieving technology that served as the slow and ungainly Stephen Baldwin to brother WiFi's Alec.
Another signature of advanced technology would be an attempt to slow this process down.
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And in a slow economy big businesses are not buying as much technology as they do in a growing economy.
Computer giant hp lost its top position in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, thanks to its slow entry into the netbook segment, according to technology research firm Gartner.
Armey acknowledged that changing the deadline might "not be the popular thing to do, " but argued Congress should slow the process and allow new, more effective technology to be developed before insisting the machines be put in place.
Technology experts say implementing the secure protocol can slow page loading and put additional strains on corporate servers.
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Ironically as well, the shale gas revolution led by Chesapeake and others is helping to improve a technology which had traditionally been somewhat limited and slow to improve.
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Wall Street analysts have forecast about that level of growth for the current year (thanks to renewed business spending on technology), but they had expected earnings growth to slow to less than 9% in fiscal 2011.
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