Even as the big global manufacturers have been building new factories in emerging markets, governments in slow-growing rich-world markets have been bribing them to keep capacity open there.Because the industry employs so many people and is a repository of high technology, governments are easily lured into the belief that car firms must be supported when times are tough.
FROM the outside a cluster of buildings along Route 1 here looks more like a 1950's high school than a repository of high-technology research and development of the sort that takes place inside the Sarnoff Corporation, which pioneered such innovations as color TV and high-definition television as well as the infrared camera.
Mr. Fritz uses the onetime maid's room as an office, and because he is something of a pack rat, the space has become a repository of virtually every technology he has ever used.
Since it was launched, Crunchbase has always been a freely editable repository of information about technology companies.
Most of the contents of the Franklin Institute's attic, however, are a reflection of the museum's bifurcated mission -- to be a repository of the history of technology while devoting most of its public space to leading-edge, preferably interactive, displays, like walk-through brains and virtual-reality games.
The Germans were forced to write to GM on October 17th assuring it that the aid was available to any investor with a viable plan for restoring Opel to health.GM had never wanted to sell Opel, which is the repository of much of its technology for small cars.
In other words, our digital information ecology is a remix of different forms of technology, devices, data repositories, information retrieval, information sharing, networks and communication.
"The concern of corporate users and general users of BlackBerry is that if this is allowed, the government will become the single biggest repository of information," said Pavan Duggal, a technology lawyer who practices before India's Supreme Court.
The types of technology capabilities include: enterprise service bus (ESB), service registry and repository (SRR), business process management (BPM), business activity monitoring (BAM), and Web services management (WSM).
BOSTON is both a technology hub and a repository of American history.
