Intel's Amazon Ambitions

Rob Katz — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:31:32 -0500

January 21, 2008 - 09:00, Fast Company

Story Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/intels-amazon-ambitions.html

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By Richard Shaffer

It is, as Intel's press release put it, "one of the most remote inhabited places on earth." Parintins, Brazil, is on the outskirts of nowhere. The closest highway ends in óbidos, a day or two downriver. So in 2006, when Intel wirelessly connected the Amazon city to the rest of the online world, chairman Craig Barrett promised that the venture would "bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging, and the world's libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat."

By Richard Shaffer

It is, as Intel's press release put it, "one of the most remote inhabited places on earth." Parintins, Brazil, is on the outskirts of nowhere. The closest highway ends in óbidos, a day or two downriver. So in 2006, when Intel wirelessly connected the Amazon city to the rest of the online world, chairman Craig Barrett promised that the venture would "bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging, and the world's libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat."

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