Adept Technology, up 6 11/16 yesterday, ended the quarter at 46 3/4, up from 12 on March 31.
By 1952, the sense of a freakishly adept technology enthusiast had appeared in science fiction maestro Robert Heinlein's short story "The Year of the Jackpot" ("the poor geek!" being the phrase) – and by the 1980s it had become a common label for socially awkward children obsessed with new technological devices.
Diana Gitiba, the co-founder of Adept Technologies in Kenya, put it this way: "Which software do we use?
At Adept Technologies, one of Samasource's partners in Kenya, the average monthly earning for a Samasource worker is about $170, according to Diana Gitiba, Adept's co-founder.
Her character isn't sexualised, she is strong, independent and adept at technology and flying ships.
I also want my children to be adept at technology so they're comfortable with using it at school and, someday, in the workplace.
During the protests against election fraud in Iran in 2009, Access Now, a human-rights group that is adept with technology, received videos that showed many thousands on the streets, whereas CNN, wary of "unofficial" sources, used government-approved footage that made the protests seem far smaller.
Some informants have become so adept with technology that they send text-messages, audio files and photos to Seoul by cell phone, said Kim Heung-gwang, a former North Korean computer scientist who heads North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a group of defectors that runs a news Web site.
My research finds that Black/Latina/o LGBT youth who are homeless - in other words, the very people who should be on the "other side" of so-called the "digital divide," are in fact, quite adept at technology and most have smart phones.
At Mount Sinai and at least two other New York hospitals, medical students receive videotapes of their encounters with these carefully trained imposters, as part of a $1 million program initiated last year in response to concerns that today's doctors are more adept with technology and jargon than with compassion.
