Among the companies to report significant revenue hits due to currency fluctuations were tech heavyweights IBM, which reported a 3% headwind, and Oracle, which took a 5% hit.
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When the VivoTab Smart was first announced, there were some tech bloggers who suggested it came with a Surface-style keyboard.
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When the VivoTab Smart was first announced, there were some tech bloggers ( even some Engadget editors) who suggested it came with a Surface-style keyboard.
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All of those who were buying tech in 1999 and 2000.
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While Internet safety advocates and tech professionals were meeting at the FOSI and Qitcom events in one part of the city, eight heads of state from the Arab region, government ministers and Arab tech industry leaders were participating in the Connect Arab Summit to talk about expanding technology opportunities in the region.
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Even companies that few would consider high-tech were eager to plant a flag in wearable computing.
Ten years ago, PCs were king of tech and the PC sector was dominated by desktop models.
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There were numerous interesting tech quotes this week, most related to earnings season.
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These were the characters who, glued to trading terminals two years ago, persuaded themselves that the money they were making on tech stocks was due to investment genius.
There wasn't anything terribly innovative or new in the massage field, but the booths demoing massage tech were always packed with stressed-out or weary attendees who needed a little back rub after wandering the show floor all day.
Shanghai police were tipped off by tech retailers in one Shanghai retail district, and investigators later discovered that the products were being made by a brother and sister duo in their homes.
Chinese info-tech researchers were also likely to collaborate with scientists outside their own country.
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And the amazing thing is that these tech guys were mostly Microsoft people.
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We speculated the two high-tech entrepreneurs were on their way to The Forbes 400.
Now what happened looks obvious: Google was the search engine that the tech guys were using.
It used to be such simultaneously strange-looking and high-tech gadgets were the province of British spies or Batman villains.
First there was day trading in the 1990s when tech stocks were hot and online accounts still a novelty.
According to a Duke University study, 25 percent of tech startups were led by foreign-born senior executives.
If a handful of tech writers were unimpressed with the specs, that didn't translate into lack of consumer interest.
The world of cyber-security underwent a game-change last summer, when not one but two top tech writers were spectacularly hacked.
However, the tech cycles were much deeper than the general economic cycles, and as a result, the company was really measuring relative volatility, not performance.
Meanwhile, some outside of the tech industry were less than impressed.
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In the wake of the 2007 killings, Virginia Tech administrators were criticized for taking too long to warn students that shootings had occurred on campus.
When I analyzed company founder data from the Kauffman Foundation, I was shocked to learn that only 3% of the tech firms were founded by women.
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In an outbreak of moral high-horsing that has (thankfully) now been purged out of me, I decided that tech stocks were overpriced and needed to fall further.
The hi-tech garments were designed in Japan to be odour-free.
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.
Just as Prime Computers made private-equity firms think that tech deals were impossibly hard, Seagate has transformed their view of investing in technology, says Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School.
The tech blogs were covering every high-level executive defection.
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