When people think of technology in health care, usually what comes to mind are rapidly advancing treatments that could one day cure diseases like diabetes and AIDS.

Tempe and some of its high-tech employers are holding a job fair Thursday, Feb. 16 but don't fret about rushing the interview suit to the cleaners by then.

From data communications, customer support, networking, Internet technology, engineering manufacturing, and more, workers for jobs in the high-tech arenas are in high demand.

Afew sparkles of luster are returning to the East Valley’s high-technology sector. After a decline in employment in the early 2000s caused by the dot-com bust and recession, most of the East Valley’s major high-tech employers at least maintained their local head counts during 2005.

Extra thick concrete walls, carpet-covered hallways and other soundreducing equipment will make the new Mercy Gilbert Medical Center one of the most quiet hospitals in the East Valley.

Extra thick concrete walls, carpet-covered hallways and other soundreducing equipment will make the new Mercy Gilbert Medical Center one of the most quiet hospitals in the East Valley.

Scottsdale is preparing to launch an analysis of local high-tech and airpark businesses to attract new commercial investment and foster synergy among firms in those industries.

A new report says the Valley’s high-tech industry has continued to add jobs and flourish despite all the gloom and doom surrounding the overall economy.

I am told that one of the advantages of AMD chips is they give off less heat. That is unless you work for Intel. AMD has made enough of a dent in Intel’s market share in computer chips that it has affected Intel’s bottom line.

In a reversal of the usual trend, ON Semiconductor Co. has started moving a chip production line from overseas back to the Valley.

As the Arizona sunshine cast it rays on the participants of the SEMI High Tech U Teacher Academy on this particular Saturday in February, teachers from across the Valley used small photovoltaic panels to light LED and incandescent light bulbs.

MONROEVILLE, Pa. - There are no belching smokestacks here. No monstrous mills churning out tons of steel. But in the labs on a sprawling, tree-lined, college-like site in this Pittsburgh suburb, steel work is most definitely being done.

You can apply for a job these days by simply pushing a few buttons. On a computer keyboard, that is. Those cumbersome job applications on paper are being replaced at several chain stores in the East Valley, including all 18 Albertsons stores, by an electronic system offered by the Portland, Ore.-based Unicru.

According to local labor market information, careers in the High Tech industry are among the highest paid professions in Maricopa County.

From the Las Vegas strip to Safeway stores across the Valley, Young Electric Sign Co. is in the business of getting attention.

MYSORE, INDIA - At the heart of the sprawling corporate campus, in a hilltop building overlooking the immaculately shorn lawns, the sports fields and the hypermodern theater complex, young engineers crowd into a classroom.

When your golf company already is the leader in high-tech, tour-level club fitting, it’s a challenge to take it to the next level. But the people who own and operate Scottsdale-based Hot Stix Golf apparently have done just that.

Intel had the land, the water and an educated work force in Chandler to build a new computer-chip manufacturing plant, but the global giant wanted something more.

Intel had the land, the water and an educated work force in Chandler to build a new computer-chip manufacturing plant, but the global giant wanted something more.

Dentists and golf go together, said David Barton, who has 3,500 of the tooth docs as clients for his financial consulting business.

Seven-year-old John Vargas was playing on a dusty street near a brick factory in Medellin, Columbia when he suddenly shouted:

When it comes to the demand of science and technology jobs, Arizona is one of the top states in the country, the Arizona's Technology Workforce Report states.

A Gilbert electronic security company that was started in 1991 by a Mesa High School graduate has grown into the 37th largest security system installer in the United States, and the company plans to quadruple the size of its headquarters.