I4U weekly Top 10: ATI 4800, akoya mini, Bill Gates

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ATI launched this week the 4800 series cards to battle the NVIDIA GTX 200 series cards introduced last week.
Bill Gates has his last day today at Microsoft. See him and his founding employees in 1978 and today in these photos.
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Posted on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates Tribute Video: Looking Back, Moving ahead

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Bill Gates had his last day at Microsoft yesterday. Microsoft published a very nice biographical video titled "Looking Back, Moving ahead" that takes you through the life of Bill Gates.

Interviews and old photos show how it all started and where it ended up today. Did you know Bill played Poker at Harvard? Watch the video below and say good bye to the "Microsoft Bill Gates" and say hello to the full-time "Philanthropy Bill Gates". Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:26:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates bids a teary Farewell to Microsoft

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By Daisuke Wakabayashi

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp , the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:30:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates explains Live Search cashback

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Microsoft announced Live Search cashback on Wednesday. We just published a video that features Bill Gates explaining why Live Search cashback is exciting followed by a demo of the cashback search service.

I already tested Live Search cashback and it really seems to give you great deals. Live Search cashback will put a lot of pressure on other price comparison services. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Microsoft Touch Wall demoed by Bill Gates

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At the CEO Summit 2008 Bill Gates demonstrated the Touch Wall, a new hardware technology from Microsoft that creates a touch-based white board interface that lets users interact more naturally with data and applications on their computer.

Microsoft already brought a multi-touch interface to tables with Surface, now the company tackles touch walls. Read more

Posted on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Windows 7 to come in 2009 says Bill Gates

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates killed my last motivation to update to Vista anytime soon. Now that Windows XP anyway stays around until 2010, this is maybe for the best.

Bill Gates said this week at the Inter-American Development Bank, that Windows 7 would be ready sometime in the next year according to CNET. Read more

Posted on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:40:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates Last Day Spoof Video

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Bill's Last Day Video was shown during Bill Gates Last CES keynote. If you have not seen this fun, star studded video, the production company behind the skit published the video in full length online.

Tri-Film Productions has made this last Bill Gates spoof video. The video is already a big hit on Youtube with hundreds of thousands views. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:01:12 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates buys Stake in Mexican Beer Brewery

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates invested $392 million into purchasing a stake in Mexican brewery Femsa.

Femsa, also known as Fomento Economico Mexicano, is based in the northern city of Monterrey and has a history going back to 1890.
Femsa's Mexican beer brands include, Sol (I like that one a lot), Tecate, Superior, and Kaiser. Read more

Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:45:11 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Zune Demo Video and Bill Gates tells it all

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As reported earlier today Microsoft launched the 2nd generation of their Zune music players. Get all the details and photos of the new 80GB HDD Zune and 4GB/8GB flash Zune players in this report.

To see the new user interface and the new Zune pad in action watch this video.

The beginning of the video shows how some people getting social with the new Zunes and demonstrate the User interface. Read more

Posted on Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:56:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates hands out Halo 3

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Last night across the nation Halo 3 launch events took place. Over 10,000 retailers stayed open late.

More than 1.5 million copies of Halo 3 have already sold before launch. Bill Gates handed out the first Halo 3 copy in Seattle.
Halo 3 is important enough for Microsoft to be featured today on their homepage. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Video: Bill Gates demos Microsoft Surface

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As reported Microsoft intrduced the Surface touch-screen computer table. We have just published a video featuring Bill Gates demoing the Microsoft Surface.

Watch the Video here.
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Posted on Wed, 30 May 2007 13:30:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates in Space Soon?

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According to Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin who is with Charles Simonyi on the ISS, Bill Gates is considering to become a Space Tourist as well.

Apparently Mr. Simonyi spilled the beans about Bill Gates plans. After all, Bill Gates is the richest man on the planet; he can afford to go in space. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Vista Ships and Bill Gates was not Funny on The Daily Show

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I just watched The Daily Show that had Bill Gates as guest. Mr. Gates must have been already exhausted from the Windows Vista launch celebrations at Time Square as his answers mostly where shallow and not interesting. He could have done better. At least he could have answered more technical. He seemed to try to keep it simple and mainstream. I think the Daily Show audience is more knowledgeable and he could have been more specific and technical. Maybe Ballmer would have been a better choice with a higher entertainment factor.

The only funny thing was that Mr. Gates left too early at the end of the interview. Hey, is he not watching the show? Also The Daily Show did not bring out John Hodgman (PC guy in the Apple ads) but displayed a big Microsoft Vista logo the whole time during the interview. At least Jon Stewart did get a free copy of Vista Ultimate and he can call Bill Gates when he has questions on how to use it.

Amazon.com already shipped out Windows Vista. Ours is on the way for a certain exciting purpose.
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Posted on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Perfect SLR for Bill Gates

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If Bill Gates was in the market for the best darn SLR camera in all the land what would he buy to satisfy his need for the best? WWBD (What Would Bill DO)? I think Bill would jump on the monstrous Hasselblad H3D-31 SLR.

This massive camera takes a whopping 31 megapixels in each photo and has an ISO rating of 800. The capture rate for pictures is a swift 1.2 seconds so you should never miss a shot. Heck that shutter speed might be fast enough to actually catch my two-year-old daughter in a shot for a change as she zips around like Superman. Read more

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Bill Gates Receiving Another Humanitarian Award

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When you head the largest philanthropic foundation in the world, it's no surprise when you get an award for humanitarian efforts. Bill Gates has been honored by several countries for his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and now he's receiving a relatively new award titled the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award.

The award is presented by The Tech Museum. "From Microsoft's early days, to the founding of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has consistently made philanthropy a priority, and demonstrated that technology can be applied not just to business problems, but for the benefit of humankind," said The Tech Museum's president, Peter Friess. "We are delighted to honor Bill Gates with this award, and to celebrate his humanitarian contributions with the next generation of innovators who can take great inspiration from his example." Read more

Posted on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Gadget Flyer: Bill Gates : MacBook SSD : Samsung Blu-ray

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The new !

Last week in review:
Apple could offer !
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Posted on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Say Goodbye To Bill Gates, Hi To Ray Ozzie

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It's the big news story that's turning heads all over the world ever since the story broke last night. Arguably the most important name in technology, 50-year-old Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced yesterday that effective July 2008, he will only be working "part-time" at Microsoft. Said Gates in a news conference on Thursday, "The change we're seeing today is not a retirement, it's a reordering of my priorities."

Gates says he will move to a more full-time position with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (link), but will continue to stay as a chairman and advisor to Microsoft. Gates's position at Microsoft will be filled by current exec Ray Ozzie (link). It'll be tough to see Microsoft headed by someone else, though considering he's got over $50 billion, I can hardly blame Mr. Gates's decision. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bored at Work? Bill Gates Keynote starts at 9am Pacific

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Bill Gates is scheduled to hold a keynote speech at the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas today in 15 min. The keynote is streamed via microsoft.com.

Update:
9:25am: Windows Mobile 5.0 (aka Magneto) demo is shown now in the keynote.
9:30am Windows Media Player Mobile on Samsung i300 mobile phone with 3GB.
9:54: Boring Developer Mambo Jambo


It is expected that Gates will introduce Magneto the next operating system for smartphone and PDAs.
More details on Brighthand.

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Posted on Tue, 10 May 2005 10:45:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates Talks about Xbox 360 aka Xenon in Engadget Interview

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Gadget Blog Gizmodo.com scored a Bill Gates interview a while back, now the guys at Engadget.com sat down with the Microsoft Founder and got straight to the biggest topic: Next Generation Xbox.

Mr. Gates likes to call the next generation Xbox by its project name Xenon for now.
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Gates: "Hardcore gamers are going to love Xenon because of the applications that are on Xenon. And it’s not just the technical specs. It’s the partnership we have with the game creators and we’re going to have this next generation machine out so that it’s going to be timed with high definition becoming very mainstream."
Read the full interview on Engadget. Update: Part 2 of the Engadget Bill Gates interview.

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Posted on Mon, 2 May 2005 12:30:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bill Gates CES KeyNote (Video and Transcript)

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If you missed the Bill Gates CES Keynote webcast last night on microsoft.com, there is no concern to panic, the video and full transcript is now available here.

Online blogger pub Engadget, uploaded a realtime text/photo report from the Hilton Hotel keynote. Check out the excerpt below:

7:45 - On Portable Media Center—partnership with MTV, who is working with the “Windows ecosystem”, and expected to work with MS on PlaysForSure biz. Oh, and TiVoToGo (which we already told you quite enough about), but also the ability move of content to PMC-enabled devices.

7:50 - Expect Oregon Scientific alarm clocks and other such smallish devices that will connect and pull data from the SPOT network! Hype!

7:52 - On gaming: game development is going to be made simpler in ports between Xbox and the PC. Xbox hugely successful in 2004, outsold PS2 (hey, it made our comeback of the year noms list!). Xbox live and Halo 2 stuff; you guys are in the know. Gates believes that gaming is becoming a hugely social activity, especially enabled by high speed connections. Some nerd is demoing a racing game ala 2000 replete with mods and customs.

7:55 - Whoa, a Blue Screen of Death on the Xbox! Damn, this is a Microsoft address!

Photo: Bill and NBC's "Late Night," host Conan O'Brien hanging out in Las Vegas before the show.

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Posted on Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:00:00 CST |