Even though Japanese consumers often flock to snap up high-tech products, DoCoMo's decision is risky.
At the same time, high-tech products and industries are more multidisciplinary than they used to be.
But the allure of China is also great, especially for firms looking to get hi-tech products manufactured.
The impact of social media on how tech products are bought and sold is nascent, but growing.
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The lowest percentage of women investors was in the non-high tech products and services sector at eight percent.
Rare earths are 17 chemically similar elements crucial to making many hi-tech products, such as phones and PCs.
There are also a slew of companies making tech products just for seniors.
It's complaining that it's the U.S. that's restricting high-tech products exporting to China.
We live now in the early years of a new era of cheap tech products, affordable around the world.
In contrast, American high-tech products rose only from 34.5 percent to 35.9 percent of our total exports to China.
China currently produces 97% of the world's rare earths, vital in the manufacture of mobile phones and other high-tech products.
We could see big changes in the way tech products are priced in 2003, as vendors bow to the CFO.
The increasing cost of developing high-tech products is only one of the reasons why technological choice is on the wane.
Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of CNET Reviews, stays abreast of new consumer tech products in order to provide advice to users.
This is more appropriate for Boomers with younger grandchildren, but could provide a supporting message for tech products for teenaged grandchildren.
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In a world where perhaps 93% of new products eventually fail, some high tech products disappear without finding a problem to solve.
High cost, high tech products is where the U.S. wants to be.
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Cases like eBay's fuel fears that development of new high-tech products may be seriously hampered by the litigious intent of some patent-holders.
Also, it remains to be seen how much prices will come down as the product matures--a common thread in almost all tech products.
The currently preferred method for developing tech products for startup companies is to invite the developers into the process as early as possible.
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Two designers with a history of making successful tech products unveiled a new project this week: an NCAA tournament bracket customized for the iPhone.
That will allow China to move up the value chain and redeploy its labor force away from assembling high tech products and sewing fabric together.
Clever though it is, this novel material is unlikely, in and of itself, to take on a starring role in high-tech products, admits Dr Claus.
Some asked for introductions to his colleague, Asheem Chandna, who specializes in investing in start-ups that sell geeky enterprise-tech products around security and the data center.
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The idea, says NetShelter CEO Peyman Nilforoush, is that at least with tech products, the opinions of experts holds more sway than the opinions of friends.
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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.
CeBIT, the giant IT trade show taking place this week in Hanover, Germany, is a serious place, dominated by serious companies that make serious tech products for serious customers.
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Consumers are still shopping smarter and looking for bargains, but last year high-tech products were the actual gifts-of-choice, so anticipated sales on those kinds of gifts are down a bit.
This case involves something called rare earth materials, which are used by American manufacturers to make high-tech products like advanced batteries that power everything from hybrid cars to cell phones.
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However a few enterprising folks have found homes in technology companies, not as shills for tech products, but as a way to return quality to areas that the firm is focused on.
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