MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) – The once-cuddly relationship between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. is morphing into a prickly power struggle as the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide. The growing use of high-powered phones for Web surfing has become a flash point in the brewing battle because both Google and Apple view [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: October 23,2009
Tags: exports, high tech, Josh James, Michael Larson, TechAmerica, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
The high-tech industry annually brings Colorado billions of dollars in revenue and represents one of its top export products. The sector — including computers, semiconductors, electro-medical equipment and industrial electronics — generated $2.9 billion for Colorado during 2008. That, however, was an 8 percent decrease from 2007 and far off the 2006 high of $4.3 billion. So, [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: October 23,2009
Tags: exports, high tech, semiconductor
High-tech industry exports totaled $223 billion nationally during 2008, an increase of 1 percent compared to 2007. While long-term analysis shows an increase of 38 percent since 2002, high-tech exports have decreased in four subsectors: computers and peripheral equipment, consumer electronics, semiconductors and industrial electronics. Those decreases, however, have been partially mitigated by increases in communications equipment, [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: October 20,2009
Tags: Cyberstates, high tech
Colorado’s high tech industry saw an 8 percent drop in exports to foreign countries last year – a big blow to the state’s economy. The $2.9 billion high tech industry accounts for 37 percent of the state’s total exports. About 37 percent of overall exports comes from the state’s semiconductor market – and they have dropped since [...] [...]
It seems everyone in the IT world has at least heard of Microsoft’s new .NET platform, but does anyone really know what this nice little catch phrase means? Well, even Bill Gates has admitted that he feels that Microsoft has not done a very good job of communicating what this whole .NET thing is [...] [...]
Since 1962, we have diversified greatly from our objective to land on the moon. Today, space is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. As General Lance Lord, Commander of Air Force Space Command has commented, “If you’re not in space, you’re not in the race.” Clearly, space programs and technologies and [...] [...]
We all have hopes and expectations that the promise of technology is bigger than quick riches and dazzling gadgets. One technological innovation that is helping people is the tool used to develop and deliver personal medical research reports (PMRR), providing life-changing information to people around the world. The PMRR is an information service product for patients [...] [...]
It used to be that turning on your computer was not a cause for concern that your identity would be robbed, your bank accounts pilfered or your sensitive files stolen. Unfortunately, those happy days are far behind us. Computer crime, in particular identity theft, is one of the most popular and growing forms of consumer [...] [...]
by admin Published: November 15,2002
Tags: high tech, transportation
The economy is not putting a damper on the U.S. Space Foundation’s plans for the 2003 National Space Symposium, its 19th. The Colorado Springs-based space foundation said while the economy is sluggish, space industry revenues were expected to blast past the $145 billion mark this year, and NASA is outlining a bold new vision for future [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: November 1,2002
Tags: high tech
Kathy Anderson has always thought of herself as lucky. When the CEO and president of Starlight Manufacturing and Assembly, Inc. bought out her partner in 1997, she realized that she would have to take on several new jobs. The expert operations supervisor would have to handle day-to-day record-keeping, taxes, payroll and marketing, in addition to [...] [...]
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