New technologies arm communities with valuable tools, such as the SwimGuide app, which gives the public direct access to water quality information, and OPFLEX, an open-celled foam technology that absorbs contaminants and repels water for use in both testing and clean up.
"It was a technology arms race".
The technology arms race between pitcher and pitchee continues.
While Ms. Bartz and the Yahoo board were cutting deals, Yahoo flailed in the technology arms race with Google.
Here too Mr Carter may have helped: he won the backing of the gathered Latin leaders to a two-year moratorium on high-technology arms purchases.
But regulators and other investors are concerned that the systems increase volatility and instability, shut out small retail investors, force brokerage houses into a costly technology arms race and create several potential avenues of abuse and manipulation.
"This technology arms our dedicated correctional staff with additional tools they need to crack down on cell phones in our facilities, protect integrity, and insure the safety and security of our correctional system," O'Malley said.
Mr. Reich's firm has also lobbied recently on behalf of Lockheed, which seeks to sell F-16 fighter aircraft to Chile, a move that would end a two-decade ban on the sale of high-technology arms to Latin America.
Britain's new spy chief warned last month that the country was now in a "technology arms race" with enemies "often unconstrained by consideration of ethics and law … terrorists, malicious actors in cyberspace and criminals".
While tech giants such as Uber, Google, and Apple spend billions competing in a mapping technology arms race, their proprietary technologies may ultimately be eclipsed by the map world's equivalent of Wikipedia: a growing ecosystem of organisations, businesses and DIY cartographers collaborating on a new generation of free, open-source mapping tools.
