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Still, whoever gets the job will find the mood inside Apple considerably improved. Last month Jobs announced the company's first back-to-back profitable quarters since 1995, and employees are buzzing about the new ad campaign tweaking Intel's Pentium chips. Executives are talking hopefully of wooing back the software developers who gave up on the Mac market, and everybody hopes that the consumers who shied away from buying Macs because of concerns about the company's health will now give them another look. "Apple is back," insists senior vice president Mitchell Mandich. "Morale's up, and people...
...recent dinner in Beijing, Jim Jarrett, Intel's president for China, sat next to an eightysomething woman whose 80-plus husband is a senior Chinese official. "She told me the first thing her husband does every morning is start up his computer and sign onto the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times," he says. "That's his window on the world...
...list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash out. "The Chinese get the Net, O.K.?" says Sean Maloney, who ran Intel's Asia-Pacific...
Maloney is taking his cues from China's bureaucratic stratosphere, where top officials can't spend enough time chatting up Microsoft, Intel, ibm, Cisco and other members of the Net's royal family. "We can barely keep up with the demand for information," he says. In January the Chinese government approved a new series of laws designed to control how citizens connect to the Internet. But although the laws featured the usual restrictive rhetoric, they were clearly designed not to keep the Chinese off the Net but to get them online in an orderly...
Funded primarily by the Barker Foundation, along with a grant by the Intel Corporation, the Technology Showcase provides access to cutting edge multimedia equipment free of charge. This gives students who otherwise would not be able to purchase or use such expensive machinery the opportunity to work on involved, long-term audio and video multimedia projects--or to simply create a web page, said the Director of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS), Franklin M. Steen...