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...Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and U.K. research group Analysys predicts that by 2009 there will be over 38 million wi-fi subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. Most observers believe that its next big step will be the introduction of WiMAX, a technology developed by Intel that, as soon as next year, should blanket not just coffee shops but entire cities...
Last spring Intel commissioned a surfboard shaper in North Devon, England, to design a board with an embedded tablet PC. Why? So Intel could tout its Centrino processor at beach festivals around the globe. Equipped with wi-fi, the Wireless Technology Surfboard enables the surfer to send e-mail, shoot videos (using the built-in webcam) and, yes, surf...
...INVENTOR Intel...
...second attempt, now comatose, was the National Intelligence Reform Act-the brisk congressional response to last summer's findings of the 9/11 commission. The bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving-in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence...
...fear among some intelligence professionals that with the CIA in tatters, power may shift, subtly, toward the Secretary of Defense. "The militarization of intelligence is a real worry," an intelligence expert told me-and Donald Rumsfeld's intense and, according to several sources, continuing covert opposition to the 9/11 intel recommendations only reinforces those fears...