Posts Tagged with ‘Bill-Gates’

Here’s something to chew on: Microsoft wants to spend the next three to five years growing its online advertising market share by more than 300%.
What can you really say to such seemingly irrational ambition? Good luck, I suppose.
But really, if we’re honest, would it be right to expect any less pompous a plan to spew forth from Redmond? Considering the company’s history of public statements and prognostications, this memo seems like the kind of the thing they reflexively [...]

Let me start by saying something I think many of us can agree on: as influential as Bill Gates has been throughout his entire tenure at Microsoft, things won?t change much when the man leaves his post officially next year.
Nevertheless, the now-mostly-symbolic head honcho (a.k.a., Chairman) at Microsoft (Ballmer is CEO) had his last meeting with shareholders yesterday, making for something of a reflective moment for all ? though reports say little sentimentality was displayed, if any ? and opening [...]

What should the prevalent geek community view as evil? I read a thought provoking Mashable article today by Pete Cashmore, and I knew I should share and comment on it.
The Viacom versus YouTube case is in the forefront of Web 2.0 news, and rightly so. A billion of anything is something to notice and the obvious legal implications of this case will affect all of us. "The Geeks Guide to Good and Evil" invites comment and some focused "geek" [...]

News of one of my favorite Web 2.0 programs, One Laptop Per Child, and its upcoming roll-out of 2500 computers for some of the world's poorest kids. The press release announced that the project is about to distribute the first installment of the neat little PC's to eight nations this month. This installment is an "experimental" model for the mass production of the little "Green and White Machines" set for July of this year.
The $150 laptops are a technological triumph [...]

Reuters (Switzerland) - January 27, 2007 - The Internet is set to revolutionize television within the next five years, according to Bill Gates - Chairman of Microsoft. The explosion of online video content and merging of TV and PC sets signals a new era for television.
 ”I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,” he told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum.
In the years to [...]

Dear Bill,
We heard about it, but now your beloved Microsoft has launched its answer to Myspace: Wallop.com. Sadly I am not invited yet so I cannot give the Profy.com readers an extensive test yet. But  I can give them a preview of the features you are boasting it to have… Let's see, what is so unique.
That One feature you told us about is ‘paid interactive graphics’ which you can use to polish up your profile page. In other words; We’ll [...]