The trade association for e-cigarettes, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, says they make no medicinal claims for their product.
Last week, McWilliams published his latest State of Technology report on the electronic manufacturing services industry and singled out Flextronics as the stock he considers a "strategic investment" in the space.
The deals are yet another sign of the stiff competition in the credit-card industry at a time when consumers are more cautious about spending, says John Grund, a partner at First Annapolis Consulting, an advisory firm focusing on the electronic-payments industry.
"In the past few years, we've been getting calls from people interested in opening their own stores, " says Carrie Dieterich, vice president of marketing and industry relations at the Electronic Merchants Association, the trade association for the home entertainment industry.
In equity derivatives, for example, there are the options exchanges and the blossoming industry of electronic-traded funds.
The mortgage lending industry is electronic, everything is available to you in writing instantly.
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In late November, Electronic Arts, the industry leader, which makes games for PS2, Xbox and Nintendo, was trading at 90 times earnings for the year ended March 2002.
The head of the National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) has welcomed the political support given to industry concerns over electronic sheep tagging.
Morean who built Jabil Circuit into one of the primary providers of electronic circuitry to the computer industry titans like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and other.
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This is why most improvements in bizjets during the last 40 years have come from outside the industry--electronic engine controls, global-positioning satellites, moving-map displays, downloadable real-time weather, etc.
Second, the industry has defined electronic commerce too narrowly.
John Wallis, 50 years old, blames imports for the 2001 death of his 12-employee business that made small electronic prototypes for the telecommunications industry and the subsequent loss of his Chicago-area home.
They have told investigators that the shift to agency pricing enhanced competition in the industry by allowing more electronic booksellers to thrive.
Trip Hawkins, the former Apple strategy executive who went on to make a name for himself as a gaming industry pioneer by founding Electronic Arts and 3DO, has seen the future and believes a big part of it will center on 3-D gesturing.
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ElationEMR could also end up as just another electronic health record in a fiercely competitive industry that will consolidate, as meaningful use dollars dry up.
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The production of semiconductors, the tiny chip that makes all sorts of electronic devices work, remains a major industry for the U.S. and a leading export.
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This means processing electronic waste properly is often more a service industry rather than profit-from-product industry.
As the industry moves from paper records to electronic health records (EHR), protected health information (PHI) is now more susceptible to exposure than ever.
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As development budgets for games have risen, says Aubrey Hesselgren, a games-industry programmer, big publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision have become risk-averse.
In an industry with well-known gaming players such as Electronic Arts, you may wonder why Glu is in the spotlight.
The rash of e-cycling legislation in recent years has reinforced natural market forces driven by high prices and limited supplies of core electronic components like platinum and rare earth to promote the nascent industry.
Energy efficiency is the most significant challenge standing in the way of continued miniaturization of electronic systems, and miniaturization is the principal driver of the semiconductor industry.
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Many key electronic component factories and design centers serving the memory and digital storage industry are located near high risk area for earthquakes and other natural disasters.
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Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.
Cost-effective electronic identification and traceability of sheep must be developed and delivered to the industry as a matter of urgency.
The winner of the prestigious Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship, Securico is an industry leader in providing custom guard services and cutting-edge electronic security solutions.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will study the use of portable electronic devices on airplanes, and it is fair to say the airline industry is wary.
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With the growth in concern about cyber attacks, these relationships began to extend into the electronic arena, and the only U.S. agency equipped to manage electronic assessments of critical-infrastructure vulnerabilities is the NSA, government and industry officials said.
The typical electronic legal invoice format captures information such as legal process, practice area, industry, law firm timekeeper (associate vs. partner), law firm size and location.
The semiconductor industry is extremely cyclical, enjoying unusual growth in boom times when electronic equipment and computers are flying off the shelves, and significant softness in economic slowdowns.
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