In addition to his public work, Admiral McGinn serves as Chairman and CEO of RemoteReality, a high technology optical and software research firm.
Essentially, a smart card could double as a high-technology version of the punch card used by so many coffee bars: buy 10 and get one free.
China's rise as a manufacturing giant has challenged Singapore's role as a high-technology manufacturing center, leaving more of its four million people out of work.
For example, Mr. Yang said China would be unlikely to take Draconian steps against Acer, which, as a high-technology company, provides expertise and thousands of skilled jobs.
Although 3M has tried mightily to position itself as a high-technology stock, it has generally traded in line with makers of specialty chemicals.
This fabled city of silk and canals 60 miles west of Shanghai has been reborn as a high-technology outpost in the global economy -- thanks, in part, to the mice in an industrial building on the town's west side.
Now, Mr. Suriadjaya (pronounced sir-ya-JAI-ah) has returned to the corporate stage as a high-technology entrepreneur planning to build a stable of dot-coms and turn Jakarta's old airport into Indonesia's Silicon Valley.
Underscoring Ireland's growing attractiveness as a high-technology center in Europe, Microsoft said it would establish an Internet data operation in Dublin to distribute software products and to handle sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
THE BellSouth Corporation is introducing a campaign tomorrow meant to recast the company as a high-technology leader in an effort to become more competitive against telecommunications and online rivals.
The area's emergence as a high-technology center seems all the more impressive because it is occurring in a state not widely known for its high-technology infrastructure or its educational system, said Craig Knutson, chief Oklahoma economist for Southwestern Bell.
