They need to acquire a far wider range of competencies, such as computer skills, marketing, accounting and filling in tax returns.
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But this was not a solution available to expatriates such as computer professionals Rajeev Deshpande and his wife, who are from India.
The intangibles in question include items such as computer software and trademarks.
Japan still produces some exports, such as computer memory chips, that are commodities where price matters immensely and a weaker yen might help.
However, China's future export growth is likely to come not from existing industries but from higher-value products, such as computer chips and cars.
There are limits to the benefit, as some types of labor are in short supply (such as computer programmers and nurses in rural areas).
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He was conducting research on nanosensors, which are primarily used for medical treatments or to build other nanoproducts, such as computer chips, she said.
They now covered areas such as computer game testing, broadcasting, film and video, hospitality and catering, with new schemes coming along all the time.
San Fransisco-based Pyra Labs launched in 1999 with the financial backing of investors such as computer book publisher O'Reilly and Associates , and privately held magazine publisher Advance Publications .
Note: Chinese businesses such as computer brand Lenovo, e-commerce leader Alibaba, telecom hardware giant Huawei, and auto parts maker Wanxiang have looked in recent years to tap into the U.S. marketplace and resources.
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Our technology industry component covers 11 six-digit NAICS sectors covering information industries such as software publishing, Internet publishing, data processing, and tech-related business services such as computer systems design, custom programming, engineering services, and research and development.
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For conference calls and chats, Tiki's Intelligent Speech Mode uses voice isolation to bring your voice to the forefront while noise-canceling technology simultaneously reduces unwanted, competing background noise such as computer fans, keyboard typing and ambient sound.
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Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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But we just need to create more of those opportunities and more of those businesses, find more of those entrepreneurs and teach kids not just to play a game, but how to build it so that they grow up wanting to get into key fields such as computer science.
Even companies that are proud of handing off work, such as Dell Computer, withhold most of the details.
On the hardware side of the tech business, gurus were eager to lock in some profits on some big-name winners such as Dell Computer and Motorola.
The software will be unveiled later this year and will address many of the frustrations voiced by users of Microsoft Windows, such as slow computer start-up times.
Other warning networks, such as the Computer Emergency Response Team, do exist but they typically only find out about security problems after a lot of companies have been hit.
By 2007, the traditional retailers, as well nontraditional ones such as Dell Computer were collecting sales tax on-line and half of online purchases were subject to sales tax.
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Because the program is still in the early stages, much remains to be worked out, such as which computer control systems will be monitored and how the data will be collected.
Founded in 1937 as an auction house for used appliances, it first became well-known in the 1980s for selling the assets of an earlier generation of bankrupt Silicon Valley firms, such as Osborne Computer.
The industry has at last given its backing to online music stores, such as Apple Computer's iTunes and Roxio's Napster 2.0 (not to be confused with the company killed off by the music industry for aiding illegal downloads).
On the hardware side of the tech business, gurus were eager to lock in some profits on some big-name winners such as Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
It mostly consumes ever-expandable resources, such as ideas, computer power and effort.
With the addition of the 3D printers, the school's geological minds are now rubbing elbows with people from fields such as biology, computer science and even art.
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On Facebook, for example, two-factor authentication is triggered when users try to log in in an unexpected way, such as from a computer in a different country.
Future advances may one day eliminate the pad altogether and have the phone wirelessly charged via its proximity to a wireless charging transmitter in a wall or other device such as a laptop computer.
Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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What keeps national security experts who study this up at night, is the fact that an EMP blast has the capability to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure such as telecommunications, computer systems, and even the power grid.
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Following the path of other industries such as telecommunications or computer services, this modularization of higher education into scalable online courses will allow a reintegration of modules with the needs of users, not of course providers, in the forefront.
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