"If people bring things into China to get them manufactured here, I think keeping that technology secret, as it were, will be very, very difficult, " says Graham Hughes, a South African factory manager based near Beijing.
The ex-CEO of Comverse Technology arranged a secret slush fund of stock options by directing grants to "phantom" employees in a special account set up for the purpose, according to federal prosecutors.
The ability to discern your intended search goal and present you with relevant information immediately, as opposed to just a page of links, is the next step in search technology and the secret sauce powering the somewhat creepy Google Now in Jelly Bean.
Both sides are keeping secret the technology they say will help them do that.
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It was a secret - top secret military technology that kind of allowed soldiers to have translations of languages in places like Afghanistan.
In Egypt, secret services employed technology from a British company to eavesdrop on dissidents using Skype.
Now the guy responsible for that secret sauce, chief technology officer Paul Berry, is taking a step back from his day-to-day duties.
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Google is still trying to crack the secret of monetizing mobile technology, which so far hasn't proven as lucrative as its desktop search business.
As Urenco owns top secret uranium enrichment centrifuge technology, which the authorities are eager to protect from falling into the wrong hands, all three countries would need to approve any sale of a stake.
But now the world knows about that technology as well (which is why secret formulas, such as the ones for Coca-Cola and the filling in Oreo cookies, have never been patented).
One of the tricky parts about rolling out a new wireless technology is that it can be hard to keep secret.
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And in the ancient technology of the qvevri, they feel they have a secret weapon.
Nor the fact that credit-card rates are fixed in secret, and have risen dramatically despite advances in technology and economies of scale.
But this wasn't a big secret: Good Guides' press release explained the technology used and that it only detected the presence of a chemical.
"It is a public secret that Habibie is a big spender when it comes to technology, " says a prominent banker in Jakarta.
And it really is, in this day and age of the kind of technology we have and how hard it is to keep something like that secret, it is really a remarkable testament to the fact that those individuals who did know in the administration -- I mean, in the White House, in the Defense Department, in the CIA, other agencies, understood how vital operational security was.
We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.
The BBC is reporting on a "top-secret phone" developed by a 40-person strong ejector-seat technology company -- IA Technology -- from Hereford England.
The secret to Pebble's weeklong battery life and daylight readability is a technology similar to what's penetrated the lives of bookworms young and old: an e-paper display.
These presidents were enraptured by the new technology of tape-recording, and touchingly confident that their tapes could be kept secret, so they recorded their conversations as no president has done since.
Better to put cheap software-defined radios in the hands of penetration testers who can demonstrate the insecurity of those communications than to reserve the technology only for better-funded attackers who would exploit the same wireless communications in secret.
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If Google is talking to tens of thousands of the smartest people in technology about jobs every year, it'll know first if its not-so-secret projects really are good ideas.
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