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Steel-and-glass office buildings and sprawling corporate campuses are taking shape to handle the flood of new businesses and employees. Major players like IBM, Oracle and Intel are here, as are promising start-ups. At Sony World and Bose, techies are landing lucrative service gigs. It may sound like yesterday's Silicon Valley, but it's very much the present--in the high-tech mecca of Bangalore...
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Eric Dishman is wound up about incontinence. That's not a typical concern around Intel's Portland, Ore., campus, where most of the 14,500 employees are preoccupied with building smaller and faster computer chips. But Dishman, 35, a vibrant sociologist with tight tufts of light brown hair, heads Intel's Proactive Health Lab. His mission is to use technology to assist people with the "activities of daily living"--getting dressed, making meals and so forth--so that we can all age with dignity and stay home with loved ones as long as possible...
...that brings us back to Dishman at Intel, who doesn't necessarily favor a fully automated health-care system devoid of the doctor-patient bond. He's not a technocrat by training or by nature. He's a sociologist who studies people--their needs and desires. "People didn't really embrace hearing aids until they became small enough not to be embarrassing," he says. That's even more the case with something as sensitive as incontinence--a problem, like so many, that technology can help solve, but only once we're willing to accept the cure...
...countries that compete directly with China, such as its Asian neighbors and Mexico. Along the way, China became a vital link in the global supply chain. Some Dell notebook computers from China, for example, are made by a Taiwan-owned company called Compal using Taiwanese circuitry, a U.S.-made Intel chip and a screen from Korea. All those imported parts explain why, despite a trade surplus of $123 billion with the U.S. last year, China's worldwide surplus was a slim $25.6 billion. As America's imports from China have risen, its imports from Taiwan, Singapore and Japan have declined...