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- adjective informal Proficient in the use of technology, especially computers.
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Modern, high-tech, international, cutting edge: they're all virtues befitting a young, little-known future leader who is described as a tech-savvy military genius by his loyalists.
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Modern, high-tech, international, cutting edge: they're all virtues befitting a young, little-known future leader who is described as a tech-savvy military genius by his loyalists.
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Modern, high-tech, international, cutting edge: they're all virtues befitting a young, little-known future leader who is described as a tech-savvy military genius by his loyalists.
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Modern, high-tech, international, cutting edge: they're all virtues befitting a young, little-known future leader who is described as a tech-savvy military genius by his loyalists.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Then some tech-savvy student sits in a bedroom somewhere, dreams up some file-sharing concept, and we get killed.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Microsoft continues to make it all too easy for even tech-savvy PC users to dump Firefox or Opera and make Internet Explorer 8 their default browser, complains Hakon Wium Lie, CTO of rival browser maker, Opera, which is popular in Europe.
Microsoft criticized for aggressive Internet Explorer updates 2009
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Also given the fact that lawmakers tend to not be particularly tech-savvy (understatement of the millenium?), a law mandating packet-agnostic networks would be extremely hard — if not impossible — to correct.
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The Starbucks base is also a tech-savvy crew: a third of customers own smartphones.
New Starbucks Pay System Makes Cash, Credit Cards Unnecessary The Huffington Post 2011
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Knowing that its current audience consists of tech-savvy tinkerers interested in experimenting with new computing platforms, Marvell designed the Sheevaplug to run on the Linux operating system, whose source code is freely available for anyone to use.
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The “tech-savvy” upside is the government dont track my movements with a cell phone I dont have, and cant view any emails, security is then perhaps only for those who “get it”, not those who think they do.
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