Once trapped in the network, that lawyer might enroll in a seminar on intellectual property or subscribe to the Web-based Tech Law Center.
Among consumer web startups and high-tech firms, the talent wars have taken on a new ferocity, yet unemployment remains stuck around 9% and shows few signs of improving.
Derive (iPhone, Android) : A travel-inspired, tech-driven scavenger hunt, this global web-based mobile app instructs tourists to head out in a general direction, then uses a set of cryptic hints to prompt them to discover hidden gems.
In the fast-moving world of Web tech, being nimble is almost a prerequisite for survival.
Link up to Web journals like iMedicalApps where tech-centric physician-editors track mobile medical tech and healthcare apps.
Ray Valdes, vice-president of web services for tech consultancy Gartner, said that because the new wave of gTLDs went "against the grain of current consumer trends", his company expected most of them to fall short of their goals.
Though not famous like Sally Ride, young Burnham was plenty well-known inside the tech finance cathedrals as the top-gun Web analyst for CS First Boston.
The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.
Lots of makers are not necessarily web developers, although many are tech-savvy, far above the average to be sure.
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Wal-Mart, meanwhile, "is being assailed by high-tech competitors, including Web ventures that help local farmers deliver fresh produce to your door, "he says.
Mr Vahed said Firefox was generally popular with more "tech-savvy" web users and they turned to it because using it meant more webpages appeared as their designers intended.
And tech companies may be especially prone to those backlashes: Not only are tech customers particularly Web savvy, but the tech industry itself frequently sails into uncharted and--from a PR perspective--dangerous waters, says Waggener Edstrom's Neptune.
In Ghana, one such center is Accra-based Mobile Web Ghana, a vibrant tech space with more than 300 members.
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If you think about your financial data and how secure it needs to be, and how perhaps it is not always secure, then the work that banks and their tech teams do in developing web-based and mobile applications is hugely important.
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Investors like Detroit Venture Partners have sought to rebuild the city through entrepreneurship, financing successful tech-focused efforts, including web, iOS, and Android applications from a company called Detroit Labs.
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Both companies see it as a potential centerpiece in their own efforts to sell so-called Web services, a rapidly advancing trend in the tech landscape.
But with the help of some high-tech tracking devices, a fan-friendly Web site and a little star power, conservation officials are hoping a contest among 11 leatherback tortoises will raise awareness, and some money, for the critically endangered species.
This subtle war between native apps and web-based mobile search that has significant implications for revenue models of the large tech firms and indicates another area in which Apple could be disruptive, particularly as more people access the internet via a mobile device.
We're told that HTML5 BlackBerry 10 applications can run on the tech after some tweaks for screen resolution -- much like the web-based key fob that you'll see here.
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Other groups are certainly involved in the relief effort, and are mobilising through social media and the web - among them Rockaway Relief, which describes its members as "local New Yorkers working in tech, design, fashion, restaurant, entertainment and hospitality".
"The second you start looking to be 'cool, ' you're dead, " says trendsetter Kevin Rose, the tech whiz behind a host of "cool" products, including social-bookmarking Web site Digg and online video network Revision3.
In 1999, CNN news anchor Lou Dobbs joined the ranks of hungry tech entrepreneurs by launching Space.com--an advertising-supported, newsy Web outfit aimed at space fanatics with a taste for Pathfinder spacecrafts and photos of Mars.
Does the event need the rush and volume of creative hackers, free thinkers, and open web advocates that drove Interactive from a little sideshow of Film and Music to becoming the tent-pole tech event of year?
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It was reported last year that U.S. venture capital firm Union Square Ventures and a handful of American tech companies were to only accept links to jobseekers' "web presence" -- from blogs to Twitter accounts -- instead of traditional resumes.
That 18-month journey underscores the frenzied state of the tech investing game, where even the smallest Web companies can develop global followings in a matter of weeks.
However, unlike Apple's AirPlay -- which delivers a similar UX by streaming video from a mobile device to an Apple TV -- Google's tech simply has your Google TV device stream the video directly from the web.
You may feel the urge to cut the cord and go full-time Netflix, supplementing all of your other shows and movies from a service like iTunes or Vudu, but there are a few more improvements to Web TV that need to happen before it's ready for the masses and not just those tech-savvy enough to connect their laptops to their flat-screens.
These specialists can also prescribe an exciting array of high-tech optical devices such as software and screen-reading programs that enlarge e-mail and Web site copy, as well as handheld devices that enlarge printed material of any size.
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