And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.
VOA: special.2011.03.09
The resources required of the air-traffic control and airport system to fly a chief executive in his jet are the same required to fly a 767 full of passengers.
"Skype is a nightmare for law-enforcement agencies" because of its encryption, says David Vincenzetti, chief executive of Milan-based HackingTeam, which sells a program called Remote ControlSystem that works on computers, smartphones and Blackberries.
The introduction of Windows smartphones has been the big change under chief executive Stephen Elop, who phased out the Symbian operating system shortly after he took control of the company in 2010.