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When Martin Cooper talks, tech people listen. After all, in 1973, Cooper invented the first cell phone small enough to use outside a car, forever changing the way the world lives and works. But today, some think this wry, lively elder statesman, now 75, is working to undermine the very mobile behemoths he helped create. That's because he's the founder and chairman of ArrayComm, a San Jose, California, company that has radically redesigned the antennae that send cellular signals to handsets - it may be a better product, but it's also a threat to some hundreds of billions...
...Cooper is one of the World Economic Forum's 2005 Technology Pioneers who are helping the next generation of broadband and portable communications conquer the world. Along with other upstarts like Britain's Frontier Silicon, Israel's Wisair and Cornice from the U.S., ArrayComm is working to improve technologies already in use - like wi-fi and 3G - in order to give people wire-free access to e-mail and the Internet, and to provide them with cheap phone calls in the U.S., Europe, China and Korea, among other places. Between the four of them, they're pretty much covering...
...understand that it is easy to be distracted by both the nature and the pace of change. I am confident, however, that you will remain deeply committed to our mission. The American people and the President on their behalf, expect nothing less." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...concession or two--to take a new direction. Opportunities for peace have been squandered time and again by refusals to take risks. If anything good is to come from Arafat's death, it will require everyone involved to cut through that knot. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Matthew Cooper/ Washington; J.F.O. McAllister with Blair; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Matt Rees, Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein/ Jerusalem
...comes to the fate of the court's 1973 abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade, which conservatives have said they would like to overturn. If Bush tries to replace any of those Justices with younger, fire-breathing conservatives, said the official, "then it's a fight." --Reported by Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington and Cathy Booth Thomas/Houston