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26Percentage of wireless customers who use their cell phones to take picturesMore Vitals
| |   Going East for Tech Growth While Western markets are far larger, these days they're barely expanding. For that opportunity, U.S. giants are now aiming at countries where technology spending holds more promise China: Where It Pays to Stay Nimble Market conditions change rapidly in the Middle Kingdom, often leaving foreign companies at a disadvantage. Even so, the payoffs can be huge South Korea: Tech's Test Market Asia's most wired nation is a hotbed for anything new that's digital or online. And local companies are keeping the multinationals hopping India: Hungry for Info Tech As its software outsourcing industry explodes, it's looking to buy more and more hardware, software, and services from reputable global players Russia: Playing Catch-Up in Tech Striving hard to shuck the communist era, it's proving to be worth the still-considerable risks for growth-starved U.S. tech outfits Central Europe: Tech Hot Spots? The region's governments will have to spend big to get their economies -- and their citizens -- up to speed with the rest of the Continent | |
 ONLINE ASIA China Tops Asia's Year in Tech Of the region's top eight events in 2002, most had something to do with this country's emergence as a tech powerhouse (12/24/02) COVER STORY High Tech in China Is it a threat to Silicon Valley? (10/28/02) ASIAN BUSINESS India: The Land of 44 Million Cell Phones? Deregulation clears the way for a mobile boom in India (10/21/02) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS A Gleam of Hope for Russia Inc. Productivity is exploding, and foreign capital may follow (6/17/02) INT'L COVER STORY Cool Korea How it roared back from disaster and became a model for Asia (6/10/02) | |
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