And, in February, Medvedev, in typically top-down Russian governmental fashion, announced plans to build a high-tech zone inspired by Silicon Valley.

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In the city's high-tech zone, cleared as a site for hoped-for semiconductor factories and pharmaceutical plants, cows graze amid empty buildings.

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On the one hand, the country recognizes the Internet's importance towards developing a modern knowledge economy, and has set up a high-tech zone called the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) to drive the country's online initiatives.

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Edifier's factory is located in a special high tech economic zone with emphasis on environmental sustainability including state of the art recycling, solar power generation and treated water reuse.

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Holing up in a tech dead-zone sounds like nonsense to many an Internet addict.

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Rabbi Beth Singer has been waging a tough battle to turn her sanctuary into a tech-free zone.

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While the Cupertino tech giant fine-tunes a single phone, Samsung floods the zone with a variety of models, ranging from low-end handsets to its more upscale Galaxy line.

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Yet Virginia Tech, like many schools and universities, is a gun-free zone.

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The wearable motherboard, as it is called, was originally developed at Georgia Tech's School of Textile and Fiber Engineering for use in a war zone.

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