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Tablets based on Intel’s first dedicated tablet processor may not be a monster hit among consumers like Apple’s iPad, but they could find adoption in enterprises, analysts said this week. Anatomy of failure: Mobile flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia Apple’s iPad is the poster child, but Intel’s Oak Trail processor could bring a new wave of tablets that are more closely aligned to security, software and hardware needs in enterprises, analysts said. By supporting the Windows 7 OS, Oak Trail tablets will blend more smoothly than the iPad into IT environments relying on Windows. Motion Computing’s CL900 tablet with...

Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of.Deep inside this 73-year-old lies a microprocessor - a tiny computer that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart. Microprocessors were invented by - Ted Hoff, along with a handful of visionary colleagues working at a young Silicon Valley start-up called Intel. This curious quirk of fate is not lost on Ted. "It's a nice feeling," he says. > Ted was recruited and became Intel employee number 12. In 1969, the company was approached by Busicom, a Japanese electronics maker, shopping around for new chips. It wanted something to power a new...