David Pogue has weathered one mini-scandal after another in his years as the star technology columnist for The New York Times.
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Frank Quattrone, a former star technology banker at CSFB, was convicted of obstructing justice and other offences in relation to another bout of file-shredding.
Frank Quattrone, who until recently worked at CSFB, where he was a star technology-industry banker, was charged last week with the criminal offence of obstructing a grand-jury investigation.
But actually making money off this kind of Star Trek technology may be the rarest feat of all.
He added that additional cost savings can be made by swapping out Microsoft Office for Sun's newly acquired Star Office technology.
Like most other firms, it now provides free access to its games, collecting revenue from the 10% or so of players who are prepared to pay for in-game extras such as weapons, medicine and shields, says Benjamin Joffe, chief executive of Plus Eight Star, a technology consultancy in Beijing.
ThermoLase is an oddity: by adapting star-wars laser technology for use in depilatories, it has taken Thermo into the consumer-services business for the first time.
Henry was a rising star in the information technology world.
His company was recently named a "Rising Star" on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a list of North America's fastest-growing technology companies.
We're asking you, the reader, to go through the gallery above and think about the technology in the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" universes.
High flyers like Singapore's Creative Technology and Hong Kong infrastructure star Hopewell lost ground to the stock bears.
The ICC must first strike a deal with broadcasters ESPN Star Sports to work out whether sufficient technology is available to use at a global event.
It's a five-star private hospital housing state of the art technology.
The company went public as Star Scientific in 1998 in a reverse merger with Eye Technology, a moneylosing optical-lens manufacturer that was sold off in 1999.
This follows the discovery last year by Maciej Konacki, of the California Institute of Technology, of a gaseous giant orbiting a star that is itself orbited by a binary-star system.
He knew he would lose in cards to Ma, a star of the famous blackjack team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With the progress in robotic technology, the humanoid automaton R2D2 featured in the Star Wars films could soon become a regular household feature.
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm, a leader in entertainment, innovation and technology, including its massively popular and "evergreen" Star Wars franchise and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production.
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Look at the pool of talent at Disney, look at the Pixar writing and productions, look at the Marvel films, and imagine all of that talent being provided additional benefits of access to the newest Lucasfilms technology and ideas, and then imagine what kind of new Star Wars movie trilogies will be spawned from all of that.
The Star Trek universal translator is pretty much here in our labs with our speech technology.
Also in 2003, he was awarded SportsTV Production Magazine's All-Star Award as recognition for his leadership and excellence in sports television production and technology.
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It's a spin-off of NASA's space technology, the space-age name the Geordi after Geordi LaForge of Star Trek.
Without Mr Jobs to sprinkle his star dust on the event, it felt like just another product launch from just another technology firm.
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How fast that translates to printing organs and Star Trek-style replicators, however, depends on how many people start playing with the technology now, he said.
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"It's not easy for a young compliance officer to take on a star broker or banker, " says Robert Iati, a research director at TowerGroup, a technology research firm.
Even though the technology sector has been out of favor for the past few months, it has been the star performer since the 2009 lows as it is up over 149% followed by the small cap Russell 2000 IWM.
While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.
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This has helped earn Mr. Fyfe the position as inaugural chairman of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, not to mention requests from other airlines for the technology behind the "sky couch, " which offers flat-bed seating in economy.
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The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.
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