Profits fell 1% globally and 3% in the U.S. market as the company struggled with product interruptions related to Japan and slow consumer spending.

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Micro-optics is an important field of technology, and is crucial to the company's telecommunications-related product lines.

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Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.

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