It was an instant message that Ms. Khan sent to Mr. Rajaratnam in 2006, indicating that they were swapping secret information about a technology company, that first tipped off investigators that Mr. Rajaratnam was part of an insider trading conspiracy.
Although people are often forced to make decisions without, or before they have, any knowledge about a technology, most research investigates people's reaction to information about a technology rather than tests behaviours without knowledge.
In addition, access to information about a technology impacts uptake.
Information about a technology allows the uncertainty about its adoption to be reduced.
Chris De Bleser, the chief executive of yet2.com, said the site's approach was influenced by the practices of patent lawyers, who typically pride themselves on being able to disclose enough information about a new technology to get a patent, but not so much that a competitor can build a workable prototype by simply reading the patent.
The students and the housewives considered the information about the technology an important factor during the product evaluation, however, the employed ladies who worked at the administrative side of a food research institution asked for more explanation about the technology in order to show the benefits it could provide to consumers.
But news media coverage of the charges against Mr. Drake, 54, an introspective computer specialist, has highlighted his motivation for sharing information about N.S.A. technology with a reporter for The Baltimore Sun in 2006 and 2007: the agency was rejecting a $3 million in-house program called ThinThread in favor of a $1-billion-plus 1-billion-plus 1-billion-plus Trailblazer.
You know when you're looking for information about a new gadget or technology trend, but you just can't concentrate without a pair of breasts to leer at while you do your research?
Governments are more willing to help companies pool information about a new industry or technology and (especially in Korea and China) assist with the early-stagecommercialization of products, including the construction of plants.
The judge in a criminal case that could reveal information about a mysterious cellphone tracking technology put the government on notice last week, telling them they better be prepared to discuss in detail sensitive questions during a March 28 hearing.
PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn't receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software companies receive.
