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...fact is, Silicon Valley's top chipmaker would be hard-pressed to find a better-qualified candidate. Otellini has been with Intel since 1974 and once served as technical assistant to the legendary Andy Grove, Barrett's predecessor. Last year, as Intel faced cutthroat competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices in a declining PC market, Otellini sat down with his engineering team, which wanted to make a new microprocessor for laptops. His big idea: since laptop owners add wi-fi cards to their machines so that they can surf the Internet wirelessly at any hot spot, why not build wireless...
Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
...tale lie the two key mandates of the new century: prevent physical attacks and make computers safe from intruders. As the nation girds against mortal threats, many experts fear we will overlook the danger to our information, wealth and identities, all now reduced to 0s and 1s spinning through silicon. The more we rely on computers, the more vulnerable we are to attack or failure...
...grumble about free wi-fi services the way parents complain about their teenagers, calling them unreliable, irresponsible, spotty and insecure. They may have a point. "A company providing only free access would defy the laws of economics," warns Mike Short, senior vice president of engineering at the Silicon Valley wi-fi firm Gric. He and others believe that somewhere along the line, somebody is going to have to pay for the connection...
Let’s put it this way—the Lampoon’s vicious feud with The Crimson prepared us for Modern Humorist’s ongoing battle with Google, a semi-secret Silicon Valley social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called “search engine.” (Last week, we stole Google’s chair...