41.   A former telecoms high-flyer, Marconi has paid dearly for its debt-driven expansion at the height of the technology boom.

42.   Analysts said many of the fledgling companies whose prices soared at the height of the technology boom may never recover.

43.   Analysts said many of the Internet retailers and other fledgling companies that racked up steep stock prices at the height of the technology boom may never recover.

44.   Among other onslaughts, the emerging Asian markets have been hit squarely by the end of the U.S. information technology business boom.

45.   Even the Pacific Northwest, where states have been riding high on the technology boom, is beginning to feel the pinch.

46.   It changed its name to the Hong Kong iMail two years ago during the information technology boom.

47.   The growing mobility of skilled workers being driven by the information technology boom is creating labour shortages in industrialised countries, according to an OECD report released Wednesday.