Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (formerly Motorola Semiconductor) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for wireless, networking, automotive, consumer and industrial markets. The company provides original equipment manufacturers with chips to help them drive advanced cell phones, manage Internet traffic and to help make vehicles safer and more energy efficient. How many do you own? Chairman ...
Read More »What Does Fortune Magazine's 6th Most Powerful Woman Think About Technology?
Chair of the Board and CEO of Xerox, Anne Mulcahy, focused her remarks on making information the focus of Information technology. She sees a change from machines processing data to documents serving as "containers" in which information is presented for human processing. It’s about "smartening up" documents. She listed three steps…make dumb documents smart, allowing for better management of documents, ...
Read More »Michael Dell Calls for Government Support in Expanding Technology
According to Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, Inc., the expansion of technology into developing countries relies on governments that will create an environment favorable for foreign investment. In his speech at the WCIT, Dell says the cell phone likely will be the first technology of choice in many rural areas. Cell phone networks already reach 70 percent of the world’s ...
Read More »Moore's Law—Prediction to Reality
Paul Otellini became the President and CEO of Intel in May of 2005. One of his predecessors, Andy Grove, predicted ten years ago that one billion computers would be connected by this year, and he was only off by one year as that will happen in 2007. Otellini says that Intel helped make Moore’s observation about silicon integration a reality ...
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