1.   And after the market closed, Motorola, another big technology firm, reported earnings that were squarely in line with forecasts.

2.   And entertainment companies are hiring technology firms to track people who are illegally trading copyrighted music and movies over the Internet.

3.   And last month, LookSmart bought WiseNut, a Korean-backed search technology firm.

4.   And it persuaded Akamai, a year-old technology firm, to contribute its expertise in easing Internet logjams.

5.   And the burnout is continuing, according to Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass., technology analysis firm.

6.   Another analyst, Al Hilwa of the Gartner Group in Stamford, Conn., an information technology research firm, said Informix has to overcome an image problem.

7.   As the holiday shopping season approaches, businesses like Swapdrive Inc., a technology firm, are depending on the US Postal Service as a source of advertising.

8.   At one time young technology firms hoped to grow into mighty oaks.

9.   A bipartisan bill to relax U.S. government restrictions on software encryption was reintroduced in Congress yesterday, reviving a battle technology firms have waged for more than six years.

10.   A robust economy, driven in large part by dot-coms and other technology firms, has been a boon to university fund-raisers.