11.   A survey of all technology research firms, conducted last year by Information Week magazine, placed Giga well into the middle of the pack in all categories.

12.   According to Forrester Research, a technology research firm in Cambridge, this online holiday season may turn out to be the slowest on record.

13.   About one-quarter of the money will go toward medical technology firms.

14.   After seven years as the Massachusetts company with the greatest market value, Gillette relinquished the title to EMC, the Hopkinton, Mass. technology firm.

15.   After Wertheim Schroder broke up two years ago, Coelho started two companies of his own, an educational technology firm and one dealing with backroom mortgage loan processing.

16.   All three are Bay Area information technology firms with strong Asian connections.

17.   But a Moscow-based toilet technology firm is trying to change all that with a musical porta-john.

18.   But David Smith, an analyst with the Gartner Group, a technology consulting firm based in Stamford, Conn., disagreed.

19.   But all of these firms are benefiting from a combination of factors that have made the Boston area especially attractive to Israeli technology firms.

20.   But along the way, Macromedia, unlike many other technology firms in the Gulch, has survived by reinventing itself.