1.   Every sector of the technology group was hit hard today.

2.   Analysts say it is now also a leadership stock, one whose performance serves as a bellwether for the whole technology group, much the way IBM once did.

3.   AXLE is just one of many technology alumni groups in the area.

4.   Bellcore, Morristown, N.J., the technology group owned by the regional Bell telephone companies, named Rodney Everhart chief financial officer.

5.   Besides his brother, he has attracted marquee backers like Frank Quattrone, head of the technology group at Credit Suisse First Boston.

6.   Already competition from new technology groups such M.A.I.D. means that paging companies, which use dated technology, are facing slower growth.

7.   But many other stocks in the technology group also fell.

8.   But some of the well-known names in the technology group slumped.

9.   CKW Wireless, a unit of the American wireless technology group ArrayComm, is eligible to bid for a regional license.

10.   CS First Boston recently created a technology group to boost its presence in that field.