By MATT RICHTEL and BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country’s cradle of technology and innovation.
Job growth has slowed, start-up companies are hiring […]
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By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO — Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom and politicians’ rhetoric, European researchers say that the Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world’s best and getting better.
The Global Information Technology Report issued on Wednesday found that the United States now ranked fourth in the world behind just three European […]
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By ERIC A. TAUB
LOS ANGELES — In another sign of a shake-out in the competitive flat-panel television market, Royal Philips Electronics, the Dutch consumer electronics giant, said it would no longer manufacture televisions for sale in the United States or Canada.
Philips-branded TVs will still be sold, but the sets will now be made under license […]
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By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The New York Philharmonic will give a free concert on Governors Island on July 5, officials said Tuesday, a possible step toward the orchestra’s cherished hope of finding a permanent summer home in the New York area.
The concert will take place on the historic Parade Grounds, a green expanse on a spot […]
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The Food Chain : By DAVID STREITFELD
Out on the farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground.
Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn […]
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By PETER JARET : Monoclonal antibody drugs like Rituxan, shown in blue, provide targeted treatment by locking on to specific molecules on immune cells.
IN BRIEF
* The incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has doubled in recent decades; no one knows why
* New therapies are eliminating some of the most stubborn forms of the disease
* Among patients no […]
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