Even though Japanese consumers often flock to snap up high-tech products, DoCoMo's decision is risky.
At the same time, high-tech products and industries are more multidisciplinary than they used to be.
It's complaining that it's the U.S. that's restricting high-tech products exporting to China.
In contrast, American high-tech products rose only from 34.5 percent to 35.9 percent of our total exports to China.
China currently produces 97% of the world's rare earths, vital in the manufacture of mobile phones and other high-tech products.
The increasing cost of developing high-tech products is only one of the reasons why technological choice is on the wane.
Cases like eBay's fuel fears that development of new high-tech products may be seriously hampered by the litigious intent of some patent-holders.
Clever though it is, this novel material is unlikely, in and of itself, to take on a starring role in high-tech products, admits Dr Claus.
The Starbucks experience underscores the fact that America can successfully compete even in utterly un-high-tech products and services as long as we have an environment that encourages Starbucks-like innovation.
Consumers are still shopping smarter and looking for bargains, but last year high-tech products were the actual gifts-of-choice, so anticipated sales on those kinds of gifts are down a bit.
This case involves something called rare earth materials, which are used by American manufacturers to make high-tech products like advanced batteries that power everything from hybrid cars to cell phones.
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It is telling that the market value of Apple, the company most closely associated with simple, elegant high-tech products, recently overtook that of Microsoft, the company with the most notorious case of new-featuritis.
In northern Mexico, along the border, industrial cities have benefited from economic openness, and companies in places such as Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez are producing a variety of increasingly high-tech products for export.
Commercial relations between the nations are already tense because of recent Indian regulations that would impose a sweeping "Buy India" mandate, requiring that large portions of high-tech products purchased by the government be manufactured locally.
Mr Kleisterlee would like a more focused Philips, dominated by high-tech products and displaying the same pioneering spirit in the Internet age that made it an early leader in the electrical age a century ago.
Whether they involve high-tech products such as semiconductors, or unfamiliar services such as healthcare IT, industries often need years to win over their first customers, prove their worth, and build the capabilities required to penetrate the broader market.
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That is especially true of those engaged in developing and producing military technology, since U.S. combat systems are high-tech products that contribute positively to the balance of trade (America is the largest exporter of weapons in the world).
Another problem: a lawsuit claiming it stole the design for the hot-selling Two-Ball Putter. (Callaway says it bought the design fair and square from another party.) And even the luster of celebrity endorsers, including top golfer Annika Sorenstam , are little help against new rival Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ), whose high-tech products and spokeschampion Tiger Woods are luring customers.
Russian Technologies State Corporation was set up to assist in the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products.
The transition to developing high-tech Chinese products is occurring in the automobile industry, and a key approach is to use joint ventures.
Current high-tech braille products only work if users already know braille.
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The CEC recently gave itself permission to pursue new regulations for a wide range of high-tech consumer products and IT equipment, including computers, displays, game consoles, imaging equipment, servers and set-top boxes.
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"Energy can learn from the history of the tobacco industry, mining from the high-tech realm, and high-tech firms from the consumer products companies of two or three decades ago, " says Baerman.
The lowest percentage of women investors was in the non-high tech products and services sector at eight percent.
There is clearly a demonstrated global market for Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar construction and agricultural machinery, as well as a host of high-tech and fashion-related products now being churned out in factories scattered across the country.
The drugmaker has invested heavily in high-tech RFID tags that trace its products from supplier to manufacturer.
Encourage its companies to make high-tech and high value-added products.
Should ASML wind up selling these companies' high tech products to China -- as the Dutch (and many others) have done -- moreover, such technology could well wind up being used against American personnel and interests.
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While they remain a relatively small chunk of the new-car buying market, automakers are scrambling to attract a younger set of buyers with new and radically redesigned car lines and are infusing existing products with high-tech connectivity features in large part to help grow future business.
As products become more high-tech, production is more complicated, and the quality, rather than the cost of labor, becomes a priority.
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