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...Qaeda leaders huddled in their caves in the Shah-i-Kot mountains last week, enduring allied bombs, howling snowstorms and temperatures that fell to 15[degrees]F, their counterparts were prosecuting the war from sunny Tampa, Fla. High-tech warfare allows General Tommy Franks and his Central Command officers to run the battle from MacDill Air Force Base, 7,700 miles from Kabul. The command center at MacDill monitors all the intelligence from the region and beams Franks' orders to his field generals. Last week he directed the largest fight of the war so far. A few days before Operation...
...spot Seismic created for Robert Altman's Oscar-nominated Gosford Park begins with a vintage Rolls-Royce zooming across the screen--in the actual movie the car rolls along rather leisurely--and showcases the youngest members of the cast (Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe and Emily Watson) in whooshing high-tech cuts. "The movie is no longer sacred, because filmmakers have loosened the reins," says Schneiderman. "They know in order to make their next film, they've got to sell this...
Recently planners have focused on two more ambitious visions for the property. One would create a high-tech science campus that they say could rival the Silicon Valley in innovation but with a focus on biomedical and biotech research. The other would move as many as several of Harvard’s professional schools across the river in their entirety...
...exporters will benefit when Americans start buying more cell phones, stereos and fridges, particularly Samsung Electronics whose nifty DVD players are already a must-have item for U.S. consumers. As the world's biggest semiconductor maker, the company would also get a boost from a pickup in the U.S. high-tech sector. Other beneficiaries: the myriad suppliers to Korea's shipbuilders, carmakers and other chaebol exporters. Korea's dependence on the U.S. market has lessened, but it is still a big part of the picture...
...Korea boasts a bevy of start-ups like Freechal that turn a profit by selling digital content on the Internet and mobile data networks. The nascent sector is one of the reasons Korea's economy is becoming more diverse and self-sufficient. Top-notch infrastructure is underpinning job growth: high-tech start-ups have generated more than 100,000 jobs in the past few years...