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Title: The United States of Technology? - David Kirkpatrick, Fortune Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 16, 2007, 07:10:59 AM The United States of Technology? - David Kirkpatrick, Fortune As we celebrated the nation's birthday, I asked myself a patriotic question: Does the United States still lead in tech? As an American myself, my lens is inevitably distorted. Even so, the answer is hardly an unqualified yes. On the positive side, this is the country where some of the most important breakthrough products are still being created. The iPhone came out of Cupertino. As the packages say: "Designed by Apple in California." And here some of the most revolutionary new Internet businesses are still being incubated - including Facebook of Palo Alto, Second Life (created by San Francisco's Linden Lab), and Salesforce.com (Charts), also of San Francisco. Each is pointing the way to whole new ways of doing things online. Read More.. (http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/05/technology/fastforward_us.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007070605) |