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...stakes in this launch are even higher for computer and chip manufacturers and makers of peripherals that were reeling from a decline in PC sales even before Sept. 11 and that have seen buyers virtually disappear since then. A huge chunk of the battered tech sector is counting on XP for a new breath of life...
...those who want expensive technology to come to the rescue, companies such as the life-sciences firm Bruker Daltonics have developed portable machines to detect biological agents. Such devices, however, can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and are targeted for government agencies, not the private sector...
...major impediment to a WTO round is agriculture, the sector that most nations guard almost as vigilantly as their own sovereignty. Negotiators must tackle how far and how fast the U.S. might be willing to lower production and export subsidies--an Administration goal designed to help persuade other countries to do the same. But the White House will need to persuade farm belt members of Congress first. Even trickier is Europe's insistence that developing countries bring their investment and environmental rules in line with Western standards; developing countries have long sought access to big agriculture markets...
...from the biggest Internet project at INRIA, a publicly funded computer science research lab - makes the hardware and software add-ons that network operators need to better handle multimedia applications for big corporate customers. Communications infrastructure firms like Acti-Via are one of the strengths of France?s tech sector. Another French strength: optics and microelectromechanical systems (mems), machines too small to see with the human eye, used for industrial purposes like wireless network equipment. These kinds of French tech companies have global potential, says Sven Lingjaerde, head of the European Tech Tour Association, but only if they can build...
...that the near-term recovery they?ve been expecting all year has had a stubborn way of being constantly rescheduled for next quarter, next year, 2003. And Greenspan was careful to point out that the kind of security and terrorism-response-readiness spending on which the government and private sector alike are currently fixated is definitely not the kind of productivity-enhancing investments by which new booms are born...