The technology corridor of the West Coast has long resonated with stories of the single minded focus on the user.

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In New Hampshire, the most rapidly growing group of independents are highly-educated professionals (many of them refugees from Massachusetts and its taxes) who work in the technology corridor that includes Nashua and Route 128.

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It's a busy morning on Wednesday on the committee corridor, with the Science and Technology Committee (at 9.15am) holding a follow-up session on forensic science follow-up, with witnesses from the Crown Prosecution Service, the Criminal Bar Association and the Law Society.

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And, in spite of Dr. Mahathir's grand Muli-Media Corridor idea, the country is also lagging behind much of developed Asia in technology, Internet development, e-commerce etc.

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To some extent the national rise in home prices is due to both technology and preferences driving more people to want to live in high rent areas like the Northeast Corridor.

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