Students in the EMT program at Harford Community College will soon learn to treat patients while in an ambulance, but the big, boxy vehicles won’t be anywhere in sight.

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Mention the phrase “valley of death” to the typical small business owner, and you will undoubtedly receive a variety of responses — from quizzical looks to gasps. But for small technology business owners, it is an all-too-familiar term that looms ...

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LAS VEGAS — Developing countries like China and India will drive global sales of consumer electronics above $1 trillion this year for the first time, even as cash-strapped shoppers in the U.S. and Western Europe ease off spending for high-tech ...

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While the economic malaise lingers, another recession threatens and trillions in federal budget cuts loom, Ken Ulman finds hope in a warehouse in Elkridge. There sit spools of fiber-optic cable destined to link public institutions and build the backbone of ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley installed a nine-member board Wednesday to oversee the state’s planned venture capital fund that, if all goes as planned, will pump at least $70 million into young, high-tech companies. “For a modern economy to create jobs we ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Jonathan Kaplan made it easy for consumers to shoot cheesy home movies when he founded the company behind the Flip Video camcorder. Now, he’s hoping to popularize something cheesier — and gooier — by starting a chain ...

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NEW YORK — High-tech surveillance. Metal detectors. Zero tolerance for, well, just about any bad behavior, real or overblown. Welcome to “Lockdown High,” the title of a sweeping new book by journalist Annette Fuentes, describing how the schoolhouse has become ...

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PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama called on Friday for a “renaissance in American manufacturing” that would replace shuttered steel mills with plants producing robotics, nanotechnology and other high-tech advances. The president said this resurgence is how the country will create ...

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NEW YORK — Forget the bellhop. Meet the luggage robot. It’s the first of several high-tech, sleek amenities guests encounter at the Yotel, a new hotel that aims to provide a trendy stay at an affordable price. Purple lighting, throbbing ...

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WASHINGTON — Tired of paying bogus claims, then chasing the scammers, Medicare announced Friday it is deploying screening technology similar to what’s widely used by credit card companies to head off fraud. Up to now, the $500 billion-a-year government health ...

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