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  • Quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office ...
    Bill Gates Founds New "Think Tank" Company

    Homncruse sends in news of Bill Gates's new adventure, adding "I was working just one or two floors under this new office when it was all coming together. I even ...

    Slashdot - 1 month, 1 week ago
  • Currently in the process of setting up what appears to ...
    Bill Gates launches new company

    Bill Gates is currently in the process of setting up what appears to be a new company.

    PC Authority - 1 month, 1 week ago
  • Standing on a street corner, watching the clouds roll by. ...
    Famous tech myths that just won't die

    One day, Bill Gates was standing on a street corner, watching the clouds roll by. Absentmindedly, he dropped a $1,000 bill out of his pocket. A bystander noticed and said, ...

    Digg / Technology - 2 months ago
  • Recovered his spot at the top of the US money ...
    Bill Gates tops Forbes list

    MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates has recovered his spot at the top of the US money heap, displacing investor Warren Buffett.

    AustralianIT.com.au | IT News | Industry - 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  • Still on top of the pile that matters most
    Bill Gates pips Warren Buffett to head list of richest Americans

    Google and Apple might be snapping at the heels of software giant Microsoft, but founder Bill Gates is still on top of the pile that matters most.

    Smart Company - 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  • Back at the top of the US money heap, displacing ...
    Bill Gates king of US rich list again

    Bill Gates is back at the top of the US money heap, displacing investor Warren Buffett as America's richest person, Forbes magazine's latest list reveals.

    Sunshine Coast Daily : World News - 2 months, 2 weeks ago
8 hours, 33 minutes ago Teen hacker wants to be the next Bill Gates (NZPA)
A Whitianga teenager who hacked into a United States university computer says he would ultimately like to start his own company and become the next Bill Gates.
Yahoo!7 Business - 3:48 a.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
16 hours, 42 minutes ago (m)Apple featured on The Simpsons
So, apparently Apple, or should I say Mapple, was featured on The Simpsons last night on American television, and apparently we learnt something about the founder Steve Mobs – which ...
TECHGEEK.com.au - 7:39 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
An ace for visually-impaired students in computer science
Many computing luminaries, such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, have an early experience in common -- an engaging experience in middle school or high school that sparked an excitement ...
EurekAlert! - Breaking News - 3 p.m. Monday 1st December 2008
2 days, 20 hours ago Bill Gates: "The Tandy 2000 Delivered" (1985 Radio Shack Ad)
Truly extraordinary performance.
Digg / Technology - 4:10 p.m. Saturday 29th November 2008
1 week ago E-health: Saving lives, protecting privacy
Picture this. According to the “Quality in Australia Health Care” study, 25 patients die each day in our hospitals from “preventable adverse events”. That may explain public concerns about hospital ...
Microsoft Australia Government Affairs - 8:42 a.m. Tuesday 25th November 2008
1 week ago Australia's Largest Private Computer Collection In Pictures
Da Massive writes "UNIX PDP-7, a classic DEC PDP-8, the original IBM PC, Commodore's C64, Apple's Lisa, a MITS Altair 8800 made famous by Bill Gates, through to a working ...
Slashdot - 6:18 p.m. Monday 24th November 2008
1 week, 1 day ago 10,000 hours
Without wanting give to give any credence to the notion, "those who can do and those who can't teach", I was once a guitar teacher. It's a painful job, where ...
ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Sunday 23rd November 2008
2 weeks ago Why I hate Bill Gates
I didn't always hate Bill Gates. Quite the contrary. Decades ago, when he was living on junk food in a garage tinkering with something called 'DOS' (which we understood to ...
ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Monday 17th November 2008
2 weeks, 2 days ago Success Not Just a Matter of Talent
NinjaCoder writes "The Guardian has an interesting article based on a new book (Outliers: The Story Of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell) which examines some persons of interest to computer technology ...
Slashdot - 3:22 a.m. Sunday 16th November 2008
2 weeks, 6 days ago Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully
theodp writes "TechFlash reports that Microsoft bigwigs like Craig Mundie and Bill Gates (when he still worked there) have been secretly moonlighting at Intellectual Ventures (IV), the 'patent extortion fund' ...
Slashdot - 7:31 a.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
2 weeks, 6 days ago 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
A decade and a half ago today, Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft's first operating systems. Oh, it wasn't for sale yet—no, no, it's still only 1983 and we wouldn't see Windows ...
Digg / Technology - 10:50 p.m. Tuesday 11th November 2008
3 weeks, 5 days ago Gates urges rich countries not to cut health aid (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft founder Bill Gates Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back ...
Yahoo! News: World News - 8:52 p.m. Wednesday 5th November 2008
4 weeks, 1 day ago I'm a PC, she's a Mac. Are you a sucker?
Why should Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld, and Deepak Chopra have all the fun? Microsoft's I'm a PC site now lets any Tom, Dick, or Mary share the spotlight -- for ...
CIO Executive Computerworld Briefing - 11:48 a.m. Monday 3rd November 2008
1 month ago Ray Ozzie steers Microsoft into the cloud
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has officially filled the shoes previously worn by founder and Chairman Bill Gates, stepping in as leader of the company's vast developer network, which ...
CIO Executive Computerworld Briefing - 7:40 a.m. Wednesday 29th October 2008
1 month ago Microsoft's Gates steps up FCC "white space" lobbying (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bill Gates and other Microsoft Corp officials stepped up lobbying of top U.S. communications regulators on Monday, ahead of an important vote next week to open up ...
Yahoo!7 - Technology - 3:43 a.m. Tuesday 28th October 2008

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