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Western tensions over the safety of corporate assets in the Middle East -- particularly in Saudi Arabia -- have ratcheted higher during the past month amid a stream of government security warnings and several deadly attacks and militant shootouts. Though the concerns and the level of violence within Saudi Arabia are hardly unprecedented, the credibility of alerts issued by the United States and other Western governments is on the rise. Consider the following examples: April 13: The United States issued a Warden Message cautioning Westerners about threats against diplomatic and other official facilities and neighborhoods in Riyadh. Two days later,...

HEAD NOTES: John Loftus made two references in his report tonight about Nick Berg in relation to the Enemies List situation as well as some derogatory comments about this website. Those quotes are highlighted below in red.   THE JOHN LOFTUS REPORT The John Batchelor Show WABC 770 AM News Talk Radio New York City Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:35pm, EST [transcriber's notes in brackets] JOHN BATCHELOR:   I'm John Batchelor, ABC radio. John Loftus is "The Secret War Against the Jews" at John Loftus, [pause] John hyphen Loftus dot org, joins me. We have several stories. We are...

HEAD NOTES:What follows is an exact transcription that I made of the most recent broadcast of The Loftus Report, by John Loftus, a self-proclaimed intelligence expert, which was hosted on The John Batchelor Show on WABC, 770AM out of New York City. There exists a controversy on FR as to whether Loftus represents a reliable source of wartime intelligence. I think he does not, but others disagree. My purpose in posting this thread is that never before has there been a hard documentary record of just exactly what claims he makes, on his nightly report. I was hoping that...

AUSTIN, Texas — Intel Corp. has cancelled its single-core processor development efforts, code-named Tejas and Jayhawk, and will move to dual-core designs across the mobile, desktop, and server markets in 2005, Intel said Friday (May 7). The Tejas design, now cancelled, was to have been follow-on to the Pentium 4 Prescott design, now shipping. Jayhawk was intended as a server processor based in part on the Tejas single-core design. Both were expected to come to market next year. Those designs will be replaced by dual-core designs, with the same engineering teams in Austin, Portland, Oregon, and Santa Clara working on...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) said on Friday it has scrapped the development of two new computer chips in order to rush to the marketplace a more efficient chip technology more than a year ahead of schedule. AP Photo Related Quotes AMDINTCDJIANASDAQ^SPC 14.9126.4710117.341917.961098.70 +0.54+0.49-123.92-19.78-15.29 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters   Analysts said the move showed how eager the world's largest chip maker was to cut back on the heat its chips generate. Intel's method of cranking up chip speed was beginning to require expensive and noisy cooling systems for computers. The chips being...

Californian chip maker AMD is to set up a design centre in India, the first of its kind outside the United States. The centre to initially employ 50 engineers will be located in the technology hub of Bangalore. AMD has said its plan is part of an expansion and would not involve laying off American engineers. A row is raging in the US over whether the outsourcing of work to the developing world where costs are lower is costing US citizens their jobs. "We are expanding engineering operations at all of our design locations," AMD's Randy Allen said. AMD says...

Intel's profit surged to $1.73 billion, or 26 cents a share in the first quarter, including a $162 million charge related to the settlement of a patent dispute. A year earlier, the profit was $915 million, or 14 cents a share. The company also said it expected second-quarter gross profit margin, a measure of the profitability of each sale, of 60 percent, plus or minus a few points.

LONDON [MENL] -- Iranian intelligence has been operating at least 18 covert centers in Iraq as well as targeting Shi'ites deemed as aligned with the United States in a nearly $1 billion effort to prevent the spread of democracy in that Arab country. A former Iranian official in Teheran's intelligence community publicly disclosed the first details on Iran's intelligence presence in Iraq. The defector said Iran has bolstered its intelligence presence throughout Iraq where Teheran has sought to exacerbate ethnic tensions and encourage a nationwide revolt against the United States. The centers have been located in Baghdad, Basra, Karbala, Najaf,...

Chinese government policies that favor Chinese companies over foreign firms are driving some U.S. tech companies from the booming market. This month, chipmakers Intel and Broadcom said they'll stop selling wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, chips in China. A new law requires that the chips include a security technology licensed by Chinese companies. The technology can hurt chips' performance and compatibility with other devices, says Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. And implementing it requires U.S. chipmakers to share valuable intellectual property with Chinese companies, says Semiconductor Industry Association President George Scalise. The Wi-Fi dispute is one of several being waged between the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Taking a page from automobile marketers, Intel Corp. will now assign model numbers to its chips and eliminate measurements of raw speed from its product names, the world's largest chip maker said on Friday. The move marks a break from decades of chip marketing strategy, and comes at a time when Intel is trying to pack into its chips more features, such as security and multi-tasking, that fall outside what has long been the primary measurement of raw speed -- the number of megahertz or gigahertz. The shift, one analyst said, will better position Intel's...

U.S. Spurns China's Tax on Chips By Michael Singer U.S. Trade officials filed a case at the World Trade Organization Thursday asking that China drop its 17 percent value-added tax (VAT) on imported semiconductors and integrated circuits. While not a legal lawsuit, the complaint suggests that the preferential tax treatment to chips produced in China is harming the U.S. and other imports. In a statement, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Zoellick said the U.S. believes that the discriminatory tax policy is inconsistent with the national treatment obligations that China assumed when it joined the WTO in December 2001. The USTR...

Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) said it may stop selling certain chips in China by June because of a Chinese government rule regarding wireless technology, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported. The new rule sets a June 1 deadline for wireless-data products to use a unique security standard developed by Beijing. Intel said it doesn't expect to comply by that date because of concerns over how computers with its chips would perform using the standard, among other factors. As a result, the world's largest maker of microprocessors expects to stop selling -- at least temporarily -- communication chips for laptops in...

Intel Corp. said it could be forced to stop selling some computer chips in China this summer because it can't meet a deadline for compliance with a new Chinese government rule. Intel's announcement was the first concrete indication that trade in key products could be hurt by the Chinese rule, which requires that personal computers, mobile phones and other wireless-data products sold in China must use a unique security standard developed by Beijing, starting June 1. It raised the temperature further in the simmering trade dispute between China and high-tech manufacturers from the U.S. and elsewhere over the controversial rule....

In the vernacular of espionage, he was a "spook," a World War II shadow soldier whose field of operations knew neither front lines nor rear. Art Jibilian was attending Navy radio operators school in 1943, when he was first approached by a recruiter for the Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA. The man told Jibilian of his likely assignments, "Sometimes we will drop you by parachute. Sometimes you will go by submarine. You will have a 50-50 chance of making it back." "He didn't pull any punches," Jibilian recalls today. "He told me the OSS needed radio operators...

Large computer makers and Asia are growing in importance to Intel's business, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Intel also disclosed that the Internal Revenue Service is examining its 2001 and 2002 tax returns. The chipmaker is audited this way every two years, according to an Intel representative. It is already in dispute with the IRS over tax credits taken for 1999 and 2000 that could cost it $600 million. In the annual 10K filing, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company reported that approximately 42 percent of its total revenue of $30.1 billion last year came from...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The old geek's joke about the microchip so warm it can iron your pants or fry an egg could soon be an understatement, according to Intel, the world's largest chip maker. If unchecked, the increasing power requirements of computer chips could boost heat generation to absurdly high levels, said Patrick Gelsinger, Intel Corp. chief technology officer and the chip maker's research visionary. By mid-decade, that Pentium PC may need the power of a nuclear reactor. By the end of the decade, you might as well be feeling a rocket nozzle than touching a chip. And...

Intel Developer Forum We’d like to welcome Doctor Transformation By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 17 February 2004, 18:13 CRAIG BARRETT kicked off the Intel Development Forum by saying the economy had started to pick up. But once he'd got that stuff out of the way, he confirmed that Nocona, its next generation of Xeons, will have 64-bit address extensions which he described as the worst kept secret in San Francisco. Right. Steve Ballmer said in a video that Microsoft was very excited by the introduction of 64 bit extensions. People would continue to run their existing applications in 32-bit. This adds...

WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq (news - web sites), the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration.

GOP Blames Clinton for Iraq Intel Lapse 1 hour, 9 minutes ago WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq, the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration. Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., said he heard a 1998 speech in which then-President Clinton warned that something must be done about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. "Unfortunately, he did not complete that task before his term expired," Goss said at a Capitol Hill press conference. Goss said the...