What Microsoft’s Brad Silverberg, Bill Gates, and Al Capone Have in Common
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Groklaw analyses the personal contributions of Brad Silverberg and Bill Gates to crimes against Novell
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Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
MacEvangelism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which [...] 1 Vote(s)
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Found Photos: Rarely seen Steve Jobs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Steve Jobs , Apple History As Dave Caolo told TUAW readers a few days ago , Fortune named Apple CEO Steve Jobs " CEO of the Decade " for his phenomenal leadership at Apple and how he has remade four industries (music, movies, mobile telephones, and computing) in the past ten years. Part of the Fortune article was a collection of rarely seen photographs of Steve Jobs . From the...
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A few more one-liners.............
Theo Spark (Free subscription) | yesterday
101. Why is it that most nudists are people you don’t want to see naked? 102. I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. 103. When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. 104. If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you’ll have trouble putting on your pants. 105. What’s the...
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Microsoft vision of future has us talking to TVs
TechRadar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Everyone knows Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a big mouth, but he spent a trip to Tokyo this week explaining why he wants to be heard even more than before. According to the notorious motormouth, Microsoft is working on a new wave of voice-recognition technology that will enable us to talk naturally to our gadgets and have them respond appropriately. Where's Bill Gates? Specifically, Ballmer says...
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Delphi: Home To Broad And Gates
The Frustrated Teacher (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Broad Foundation’s philanthropic interests extend well beyond art: health and education have been at the heart of what he calls his “venture philanthropy” model. He explains it to me: “We have three tests – one, if we don’t do it, will it happen anyway? Two, will it make a difference 20 or 30 years from now? And thirdly, the people we invest in, do they really...
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Hope Plus: Online Global Activism Portal To Launch In December
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor Set to launch in December at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the team behind PoliticsOnline are brewing up a new online web portal to connect activists around the world to create change. The site's goals are targeted at facilitating individual projects, like building schools, and getting web attention for NGOs online. The site will be called Hope Plus and...
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Places of Interest When You Visit 92Y
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
View Places of Interest Around 92Y in a larger map Above you can see a Google map we are working on that highlights restaurants, coffee shops, validated parking, and other places of interest in the area when you visit 92Y. Whether you’ve come to see a concert , lecture , dance , or more , we would like to make it easy for you to park, and enjoy a dinner or coffee, before or after your event....
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Buffett Would Have Sent LeBron James to Yankees: Scott Soshnick
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Buffett Would Have Sent LeBron James to Yankees: Scott Soshnick Commentary by Scott Soshnick Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- LeBron James is employed by the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. James, a wannabe billionaire, picked the wrong sport. And it’s going to cost him. Plenty. Having seen the Zapruder -like films of his days as a wide receiver, it seems the 6 feet, 8 inches,...
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Best of Application Security (Friday, Nov. 6)
Jeremiah Grossman (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Ten of Application Security industry's coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week -- in no particular order. Regularly released until year end. Then the Best of Application Security 2009 will be selected! Another fine method to exploit SQL Injection and bypass WAF Security and Facebook Platform When Is More Important Than Where in Web Application Security Apple...
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Hope Plus, A New Social Site For Change
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
PoliticsOnline is starting a social-activism Web site called Hope Plus, a virtual global community for those who want to take action and make change. BBC News reports : “Founder Phil Noble was interviewed by UK e-democracy newsletter E-Government Bulletin about the plans for the site. ‘The idea is to create a world online Peace Corps or a global eBay for caring,’ Mr Noble told the...
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Snow Leopard makes Vista ‘issues’ pale in comparison?
Windows Connected (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Please, correct me if I am wrong but I am hearing from people who have upgraded their Mac’s to Snow Leopard these below major issues/disappointments; 1. If you sign in as the ‘Guest’ user account, it deletes your primary profile - http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/12/snow_leopard_guest_account_bug_deletes_user_data.html (Yep, this is the release product. Even the .1 update...
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Gates lends name, money to helping fight hunger among the world’s poorest
Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The first thought that runs through your mind when you watch Bill Gates speaking at the World Food Prize’s Norman Borlaug Dialogue is “How strange is this'”
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Project canvas: an interview with Richard Halton
BBC Internet blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Editor's note: In a previous post: Sky can help project Canvas unlock public value , the Director of Canvas Richard Halton responded to Sky's submission to the BBC Trust . This week's Ariel , the BBC's staff paper, carried an interview with Richard about Canvas by Ariel's Clare Bolt. NB: This is the copy that Clare submitted rather than the version that appears in Ariel. (PM) Ariel: Tom Williams from...
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Winning NHS Contracts
The Creative Analyst (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Through his company Berkshire Hathaway , Warren Buffett has averaged a return of 20.3% per annum since 1965. This may not sound like much, but when compounded (if you are not sure what compounding is, read about it here) over the years he has been actively investing, this is HUGE, in fact this is a return of 336,000% - yes you read that correctly. This phenomenal growth in his company made him the...