So is the success of clean energy a flash in the pan, or does green-tech have a long-term future?
Many countries developed their high-tech industries long before they had a second board.
Other long-delayed tech projects include the Syre, a Bluetooth wristband adapter for the now long-discontinued sixth-generation iPod nanos originally due to ship last November.
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Hi-tech criminals have long known that they can exploit IE's memory management to inject their own malicious code into the stream of instructions a computer processes as a browser is being used.
The Starbucks experience underscores the fact that America can successfully compete even in utterly un-high-tech products and services as long as we have an environment that encourages Starbucks-like innovation.
The company has been a beneficiary, like the larger giants of tech, of a long-awaited loosening in IT budgets.
But the animus and 24-hour high-tech visibility of this long campaign are distinctive.
Those cleared as safe were given an electronic card allowing them to proceed through high-tech kiosks, bypassing long security lines.
Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.
The impact of this growth is particularly marked in such long-time tech hot beds as Huntsville, Ala.
While Hong Kong has continues its drawn-out debate over how it can carve a niche for its itself in the high-tech arena, Singapore has long been a major player in the electronics industry.
Silicon Valley may continue to reap riches from the periodic technology gold rush , but in the longer term, tech growth will continue its long-term dispersion to ever more parts of the country.
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But some investors and tech companies see lucrative and long-term opportunities in technologies for taking salt out of sea water, treating wastewater for re-use and other applications because water precise because water so indispensable for human health and economic growth.
But as 3D printers continue to drop in price, much like color printer prices have fallen, it will not be long before the average tech-savvy household can afford a 3D printer.
Ryan Jacob, CEO of Jacob Asset Management, is the portfolio manager of the Jacob Internet Fund (JAMFX), which invests only in Internet and tech companies that Jacob thinks offer long-term opportunities.
By introducing a little high-tech, stores can simulate the control and self-empowerment men crave after a long day of PowerPointlessness.
Although Republicans hope to attract more young voters and minorities, and to come closer to matching the Democrats' vote-tech edge, the GOP has a long way to go and relatively little time.
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Digital wireless technology will likely do the same for this decade and, with luck, fuel a long-awaited rebound in high tech.
It's one of the best long-term opportunities available to tech investors.
But things are about to get a lot more certain, and that makes the big tech sector quite fertile ground for cheap, long-term investments in dividend-paying shares.
Duma, along with researchers at both Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, is conducting a long-term study of how hits to the head affect 119 young football players.
At Upside, I had a dream of publishing long, Playboy-style interviews with tech titans and venture capitalists.
Whereas a decade earlier, 1990 was a long way from kick-off for tech.
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But a confluence of factors is contributing to the development of New York as an important long term player in start-up tech.
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Fact: The economic powerhouse that is the Mississippi high-tech economy is just now emerging from an usually long slump and needs protection now more than ever.
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Blue-chip buyers returned to the markets by the close of trade Thursday, lifting the Dow out of the day-long doldrums, even as the lagging tech sector kept the Nasdaq from joining the festivities.
Democrats, however, don't seem to mind so long as the state maintains its high-tech hegemony.
But it had long since lost its cachet with younger or tech-industry users, and by some accounts has been surpassed by Google's Gmail.
If this comes to pass, the high-tech firms that remain may wonder why they fought so long to keep trade barriers when innovation worked even better.
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