All three are having very strong positive product cycles.

Growth figures are often heavily influenced by where a company is in its product cycle.

Now about halfway through its product cycle, the Element has been updated for 2007.

User requirements are considered right from the beginning and included into the whole product cycle.

"Microsoft is in the biggest product cycle of its life now," he said.

"We want to have conviction that the company can sustain its position through various economic and product cycles," he said.

Technology companies typically experience their greatest growth at the beginnings of product cycles.

I believe we have entered a tremendous new product cycle.

It debuted in Japan for 2002 and had reached the end of its planned product cycle.

In addition to product cycles, economic, political and demographic shifts are driving growth for technology companies.