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...Holdings Public company based in Cambridge, England CEO: Robin Saxby What it does: Licenses its high-performance RISC microprocessors and system-on-chip designs for applications in consumer goods as well as encryption and industrial technology Why it is hot: The firm controls an estimated 80% of the global market for chips for mobile handsets www.arm.com | last year...
...government protects the bosses and does not enforce the law." The result, he says, is a rising swell of anger directed at the government and the Communist Party. Lai Nilang, 19, slaps the scarred stump of his right arm, crushed four days into his job in a computer-chip factory. "The government doesn't care about us, only money," he murmurs. "People hate them." Zhou looks at his young client, gauging his loathing. "If you neglect the people, then the balance of society is upset. It's a very dangerous situation...
...BUCK Giving happy people shiners? Guitarist for the American rock group R.E.M. is arrested for assaulting two British Airways crew members ANATOLI KARPOV Rooked with his own petard! Russian chess champ loses to a Greek dental student who studied the master's moves on the Internet JENNA BUSH A chip off the presidential block? George W.'s 19-year-old daughter is ticketed for booze possession in Austin, Texas. That's a crime...
Then they decided to build it, throwing the equivalent of $10 million (in funds and hardware) into the project, and emerging with a blueprint for a machine with an Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart...
...area, however, Let's Go is playing catch-up. Lonely Planet recently partnered with Palm Pilot to allow tourists to forgo a clunky map and travel book for a square inch chip of information. Soon, Let's Go hopes to do the same...