Intel CEO Paul Otellini will be in India for three days starting May 23, but first, top Intel executives will be in Austin, Texas, attending the World Congress on Information Technology. So will rival AMD’s executives. On the platter at WCIT: How to bring their brand of technology to developing countries through lower-cost devices, without killing the more expensive high-end products. Intel already has announced it will spend $1 billion to market inexpensive computers in emerging markets like China, India and Mexico. AMD has the lead here, with a $250 computer already out and in India, as well as a manufacturing tie-up. But later this month, Otellini will have his say too in India. All ears will be on whether he will still not want to cross the digital divide ‘‘using yesterday’s technology.’’

The Internet’s new clothes

Some conservative groups and pornography web sites have stumped plans of the Internet Council for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to start up a new ‘‘.xxx’’ top level domain. Website names will not end in a .xxx wherever appropriate, going by a 9-5 vote cast on last Thursday by the ICANN members, ending six-year war over how the porn industry should be ‘managed’ on the Internet. The adult entertainment business is worth $12 billion on the internet. Two of every five people who get online visit internet pornography site which will, for the moment, also continue to spam the ones who don’t and remain illegitimate in most countries.

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