Rather than dwell on the old performance metric of speed, Otellini, in his first Intel Developer Forum speech as CEO, focused on power consumption and heat dissipation of semiconductors.

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Masayoshi Son, the billionaire (and philanthropic) CEO of SoftBank, has given a two-hour speech to his shareholders about his technological predictions for the next 30 years, and about halfway through he describes a familiar idea: augmented reality glasses that can understand what a person is saying and provide subtitles as a visual overlay.

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Current Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke came out at the end to give the final speech of the day.

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The note was penned by Gustavo Entrala, CEO of 101, who wrote it after catching wind of a papal speech in which The Pope declared a need for the Vatican to improve its online presence.

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