Word: intel
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...sign of the times: In addition to his morning national-security briefing, President Barack Obama has, starting today, begun to receive a daily economic-intelligence document, put together by several U.S. intel agencies. Obama already gets a daily outline on the state of the U.S. economy; the new report concentrates mainly on intelligence about foreign economies. (See which country has the best bailout plan...
...household appliance of the last 20 years. Most households have one PC. Some have two or three depending on how many children are in the house. The cycle of upgrading PCs has been fairly steady. It has been driven by more powerful processors from companies like Intel (INTC), new operating systems from Microsoft (MSFT), and broadband which gives the PC owner access to a universe that did not exist a decade...
...other factor that is undermining PC sales is that they are too well built. A typical Intel processor that is two years old has more power than almost anyone needs. Laptops made two years ago were light and had impressive battery life. The screen resolution from most machines bought in 2006 is fine for watching online videos or DVDs. And, PCs used to come with Window XP, which is still preferred to the current Microsoft product, Vista...
...race is already on to see who will get the customers for the new age of wireless products and services. The dark horse is Sprint (S) which is in an alliance with Intel (INTC), Clearwire (CLWR) and several other technology companies to build an ultrafast WiMax network. The more successful operations like Verizon are putting their money on Long Term Evolution (LTE) products...
...making all his company's animation in 3-D from the outset. While Disney's Pixar and others have also produced 3-D animation over the years, the special effect is typically added during postproduction. DreamWorks built its own 3-D-authoring software and hardware and, along with Intel and Hewlett-Packard, built a server farm that fills a room, floor to ceiling, the size of a small banquet hall. Among other tools, moviemakers there jury-rigged a video camera that allows the director to peer through it while moving and navigate through a virtual scene in real time. That...