To compete more effectively with Cisco, other networking companies have had to scramble to create or acquire missing crucial technologies.

It is also a crucial technology being developed for high-definition television.

As always, we are dedicated to research in technologies crucial to A.T.&T.'s business.

So far, 52 of the system's 53 crucial technologies remain unproven, including any workable plan for making tanks light enough to airlift.

The weapon demonstrated how lethal and crucial technology can be in determining the outcome of a battle.

Future Combat is a network of 53 crucial technologies, he said, and 52 are unproven.

It also nearly doubles the company's size and puts it in control of a technology crucial to the next generation of chips.

The model from the personal computer industry centers on software, with a dominant operating system housing the crucial technology.

These are crucial technologies in the emerging markets for online media and Internet commerce, where Microsoft, not yet dominant, has many rivals.

In the past they often have resorted to selling or licensing rights to crucial technology, manufacturing and marketing in order to obtain vital capital.