Word: grove
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Intel CEO Andy Grove is already providing computer chips for 80% of the world's personal computers. This year he's aiming for the remaining...
...multimedia extension) technology, Intel's new multimedia-enhanced microprocessor line that's designed to make music sound more resonant, video images flow more smoothly and graphics colors look richer. Since its release earlier this year, the new microprocessor has found its way into both laptop and desktop computers, and Grove hopes it will lure more people than ever to computers when they need to communicate, do business or just entertain themselves...
...Grove also plans to focus more attention on the international market, an area in which California-based Intel is less experienced than at home but one that is increasingly critical as the use of computers and the Internet spreads. More than half of Intel's $21 billion in annual revenues now comes from abroad. To boost sales further, the company is making microprocessors available even to small computer manufacturers overseas...
...boom in wireless communications has led to a corresponding boom in wireless snooping. The community of listeners--as people who use scanning equipment to eavesdrop on various wireless devices call themselves--is startlingly large. Bob Grove, publisher of the scanner journal Monitoring Times, puts their number at 10 million to 20 million...
...rate, the burden of protecting privacy, Grove and his peers contend, lies with cell phoners. "Is everyone entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy?" asks Grove. "Absolutely." But that right, he says, doesn't extend to those who haven't bothered to get scrambling equipment or one of the new (and much more secure) digital phones. "If you take your clothes off, close your eyes and walk down an airport concourse shouting, 'Don't look at me!,' you might have an expectation of privacy," he says. "But is it reasonable...