The technology centers now dominate industrial districts in New Delhi and Mumbai that were crowded 10 years ago with ramshackle garment factories.
"We need to think about where the technology centers of the world will be in ten years and make sure we're there now, " says Haque.
"Community Technology Centers will bring countless new opportunities to working families, helping children and adults to help themselves, " Gore said in a statement announcing the 40 grants.
The recent announcement by Toshiba of two new technology centers in association with TDK and SDK gives the company the means to remain technologically competitive in the fast moving HDD industry.
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And there's the special early-childhood "Kidsmart" technology centers--40, 000 of them worldwide--for very young children, and Web-based assistance for teachers and parents, which have proved to be very effective in helping young children start their education.
These announcements complimented a large-scale expansion of the "Power Up" program, which creates and staffs technology centers that poor children can use to improve their understanding and use of computers, the Internet and educational software.
They have dreams to start technology businesses and education centers to help their societies and women to advance.
And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.
Legal battles between research centers that develop technology and companies that license it occur with some regularity in biotech.
Today Dana operates 96 major facilities in 27 countries and develops technology in 15 regional engineering centers around the world.
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His call centers provide services for Samsung and the cable television provider Multi Choice, but he also provides technology for businesses opening their own call centers in other parts of Africa.
But Elmore doesn't expect that it will cause centers to abandon the technology.
Some, like Austin, are high-tech centers that offer abundant technology jobs.
The centers also offer customized technology workshops and one-on-one consultations covering topics such as budgeting and marketing to help Latino entrepreneurs establish and grow their businesses.
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"I think it lowers the barriers to entry for satellite launch, and for the exploration and exploitation of space technology, for smaller companies, university centers, " he said.
Businesses like office buildings and convention centers are likely to adopt the technology first, analysts say.
Others like Google have built their own servers and data centers but have not made such technology open.
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Mr. McKeown along with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker founded Nicira to commercialize the technology with a focus on large commercial data centers like Rackspace.
Technology and financial companies that rely on data centers for information storage and communication (companies such as Microsoft or Goldman Sachs) need to be especially careful about minimizing the cooling expenses associated with these operations.
Many other academic centers and companies are working on competing technology they say is more advanced than Second Sight's.
Such technology could be useful in power-sucking data centers and handheld devices with limited batter life, such as smartphone sand tablets, obviously.
Paul and Oklahoma City are doing better than others. (But if the federal or state budgets are reduced, this could change.) Centers for education, health care and technology are also doing well.
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To complicate matters, only 77% of 911 call centers are in compliance with the wireless locating technology, according to the National Emergency Number Association, a public safety industry group.
That is decreasing demand for space in the REITs' centers and is further troubling because the big technology companies potentially could compete with REITs by leasing out space to smaller businesses.
Package delivery giant Federal Express this summer hosted one-day technology camps for middle school students at four of its data centers.
But the potential of UPS' technology and its tremendous resources, including two big data nerve centers in New Jersey and Atlanta, extends beyond the movement and monitoring of boxes.
Connecting together the company's existing capacitive touch technology with motion sensors and eye movement cameras, the system centers on the multimodal commander -- that mysterious-looking orb located below the gear stick.
These people are the technology camels, hauling the riches of the cutting-edge research centers across the vast expanse of the empire and making them available to the regular Dilberts, shoppers and keyboard jockeys.
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