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- Bill Gates founds a new tech company
- Bill Gates founds a new tech companyI often wonder about the EU law suitBill all but let go of his baby and now he has a new one.RE: Bill Gates founds a new tech companyRFID? VERICHIP?RE: Bill Gates founds a new tech companyI think the company making the implantible microchips...
- Tags: tech company, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Bill Gates founds a new tech company
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has founded a new company some time in between sleeping and working countless hours for the Gates Foundation and a day a week for Microsoft. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Think Tank, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley Fences
- Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley FencesRidiculous assertion that it was caused by Bill Gates!What a ridiculous assertion that Microsoft's 'anti trust' activities were caused by Bill Gates.Ask anyone in Silicon Valley if they agree with this ignorant statement and I don't think you would hear anything but...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- [Updated video] Bill Gates leaving might help mend Silicon Valley fences
- Here is a short clip from CNET of a tearful Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, telling employees to personally thank Bill Gates for the opportunity to work at Microsoft and thank him for instilling the culture of Microsoft, its "passion, intensity, and tenacity." ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Antitrust, Bill Gates, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Microsoft pulls the plug on Gates-Seinfeld ads; Campaign's next phase set to begin
- Microsoft is pulling the plug on the team of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates as the TV spokesmen trying to reinvent the image of Windows. The official word from Redmond is that the company had always planned to pull the plug on the two when the $300 million ad campaign...
- Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., NYT, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Powerset studies student use of Wikipedia... and faculty resistance
- Earlier this month, Microsoft-owned Semantic Web startup Powerset released figures from a small survey of student use of Wikipedia. As I explore here, the results certainly do suggest that Wikipedia is popular with the cohort surveyed in this study. The trick for Powerset, presumably, is to convert...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Microsoft's rough start to a new beginning
- Microsoft's rough start to a new beginningRough start? Maybe, but ...... what makes the Apple commercials so attractive is that they are endearing to the viewer. Not necessarily accurate but certainly clever.Bill Gates has never been 'endearing'. Instead, Gates has always come across as kind of "goofy"....
- Tags: Goofy, His-Name, Bill Gates, rough start, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Gates & Seinfeld's next commercial: Better. With funny parts.
- updated: The commercial is on YouTube now. It's embedded below. The second Microsoft commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is out being broadcast tonight during Big Brother on CBS and at least this time, there were some funny scenes. And there was clearly a message this...
- Tags: Commercial, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Microsoft's rough start to a new beginning
- ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz shares his views on Microsoft's recent commercial starring Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The new 90-second ad was a letdown mainly because it had nothing to do with computers, says Diaz.
- Tags: Senior Editor, Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Sam Diaz Memo, Microsoft, Apple, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates
- Videos 2008-09-11
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...
- Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's commercials critic, Barbara Lippert: The Future. Delicious" is the sign-off, but I am...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Ass, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Branding, Web Browsers, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld becomes McCain
- You can see the first Seinfeld ad for Microsoft here. It aired last night. This is going to sound political, but it looked to me a lot like John McCain's speech from later in the same evening. That is, it was selling a myth. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!
- What can I say about Microsoft's new Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial that hasn't already been said. Well, the ad does have one thing going for it ... it's highly riffable! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands
- X-Box and Cell Phone Nation: Election Rests In Digital HandsGood for MSI read about this last Thursday on cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10021981-52.html And I'll share the same opionion. I think it would be awesome if they could do electronic voting on xbox live.Considering the text message fiascoThe use of high-tech tools remains...
- Tags: Game players, Operational accounting, cell phone, phone, X-Box, X-Box Voting, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?
- Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?scape-goats?Scape-goats -- personifying all of the sins of the executives of the industry -- would be closer to the mark.There for a while Carly Fiorina and Billy Gates seemed to be competing for the title.
- Tags: Strategy, Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, Intel Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?
- At the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett launched the $400,000 Inspire-Empower Challenge for solving world problems with technology. Barrett is increasingly taking a leading role as a key ambassador of the IT industry to the United Nations and the rest of the world. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Information Technology, Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, Intel Corp., Leadership, Research & Development, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
- Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challengeUbiquity means......we can fade into the noise. At least that's my remaining hope for privacy. Sigh. :(BTW...that's what I wish Bill would do. You're not in charge of anything anymore...be quiet.Software innovation accelerates decline in privacyIsn't it great to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Software Innovation, privacy challenge, Bill Gates, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- The lighter side of Bill Gates (The lighter side of Bill Gates)
- The lighter side of Bill Gates The lighter side of Bill GatesNot impressed with photosBill Gates will change the world again but even better now that he has left Microsoft. Not many people are willing not only to give away their mass fortune but to be personally involved that it...
- Tags: lighter side, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XP
- News to know: Oracle's Q4; Bill Gates' last day; Sticking with XPIn retrospect......no one will ever be able to deny the legacy that Bill Gates will leave behind.All criticisms and vitriol aside from opponents and corporate rivals, Gates is easily one of the great pioneers of Information Technology.We lesser mortals...
- Tags: Servers, Oracle Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Daily Debrief 2nd Edition: Say goodbye to Windows XP
- As of July 1, Microsoft will stop broad distribution of Windows XP. On the second edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Ina Fried break down the rationale behind the decision and suggest tips for consumers who are reluctant to switch over to Vista.
- Tags: Edition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, News, microsoft, windows XP, bill gates, steve ballmer, vista
- Videos 2008-07-01
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