Richard Dormer, the Suffolk police commissioner, said that while new technology had produced better antitheft devices, high-tech items were being taken more frequently from inside cars.
If the Japanese have really been hurting, the most obvious place this would show would be in slow adoption of expensive new high-tech items.
Stephen J. Ubl, executive vice president of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, which represents more than 1,000 companies, said: "Hospitals tend to underreport the costs of high-tech items, and the government compounds the problem by reducing charges for all items by a standard percentage.
A34 Activist Deemed a Traitor A human rights advocate freed from a Chinese prison after the United States government interceded on her behalf pleaded guilty to illegally selling American high-tech items with potential military uses to China.
Those opposed to a large army also believe that the country could do without expensive high-tech items like its Leopard 2 tanks and its FA-18 fighter jets.
But when customs agents visit American businesses, they will describe certain signs of suspicious activity, including these: *A customer wants to pay cash for high-tech items or military goods.
While fraudulent sales involve everything from handmade Apache knives to vintage motorcycles, the greatest concentration of dollar losses is in sales of high-tech items like laptop computers, video game consoles and games, cameras and camcorders.
They include banning specific, high-tech items used in the nuclear program, like epoxy paste for centrifuges; limiting or outlawing some banking transactions; and a far more stringent inspection of ships bound to and from North Korea.
The key to making hay with moms in any marketing medium, especially when it comes to high-tech items like cameras and computers, is clearly communicating the benefit of the device.
He invented the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has powered high-tech items such as cellphones, laptop computers and hybrid cars.
