In the meantime, we should find ways to mix traditional education with the new tech advances.
Google is clearly miffed that Facebook has become the new tech darling and a magnet for young engineers.
In a way, it brought together avatars of the new tech scene with icons of established fashion power.
Cutbacks have made journalists eager consumers of interesting PR, and the new tech firms have kept the publicity coming.
In addition to the missed call log, the new tech-savvy device allows students to screen (translation: ignore) as many as 100 stored phone numbers.
Honeywell said it will hire 40 Indian researchers to staff the new tech center, with the total staff expected to grow to 170 in the next five years.
The offering is proof that while hard partying 20-somethings at start-ups such as Yelp may grab headlines, the new tech boom is creating real money for companies that may be less sexy but more useful.
The extraordinarily good performance of the US economy in recent years has owed much to new technology, as Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan never tires of repeating - and to public confidence in that technology - hence the astonishing multiples at which many of the new tech companies still trade.
Aside from a dapper exterior, the big draw here is the new Multidrive tech that graces the control panel and inner workings of the device.
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Foursquare, the New York based location app, had its first public showing 4 years ago this week at the New York Tech meetup.
There was no news on what the manufacturer will call the new display tech, further specifications, or even whether this was just a proof of concept -- the device was chilling in the corner of the electronics giant's innovation gallery.
On the exploitation side Samsung recently agreed to open a lab at the new Skolkovo tech hub outside Moscow.
The geo-local check-in service launched at the New York Tech Meetup and then took SouthBy by storm.
Well, actually, we (the New York Tech Meetup community) are most worthy of a visit from Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
The tensions bubbled up into view in early October when Huffington was named No. 1 on the Silicon Alley 100, a listing of the most influential people in the New York tech scene.
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For weeks other startup CEOs and investors in the tech world have been telling me to take a look at Hashable, calling it the next Zynga, Facebook or Twitter. (Such predictions seem to be a favorite pasttime in the New York tech world these days).
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Leaders of the New York Tech Meetup, a 30, 000-member group that draws professionals from start-ups and established tech companies in the city, are expected to approve a slate of policy proposals on Tuesday that will be reviewed by its rank-and-file before being presented to candidates running for citywide office, including those looking to succeed tech-friendly Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
While Silicon Valley has been the bastion of the tech vertical, New York could yet be the bastion of the tech horizontal.
We woke up this morning to find somebody other than Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple and Palm reigning supreme as the new darling of the tech industry.
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This year for instance players will need to buy a new Portal starter pack for Swap Force as the mix and match characters require some new tech under the hood of the peripheral.
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Now that social media has been around for a while, just what is the next new thing on the tech horizon?
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The problem is that just as price changes have to be severe to manifest any impacts on gas consumption, price changes on their own also tend not to do much to inspire the development of radical new tech solutions, unless prices are through the roof.
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Did anyone at the commission notice the sprouting array of new-tech rivals to the old phone companies?
What can marketers learn from Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow titans in the new wave of tech start-ups?
People will bash Windows for being out in front on the new trends of tech but celebrate Apple for calling other peoples tech theirs.
Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow said the company sold because it "just felt right" and that uncertain demand from the public for new tech-stock offerings wasn't a factor.
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