Multiple Core Computer Chips
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Researchers from the University of California, backed by technology titans Intel and Microsoft, said Tuesday they are embarking on a project to bring the power of supercomputers to people’s laptops and mobile devices. New research labs at UC Berkeley and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will seek to push the boundaries of personal […]
Read More..>>Bill Gates Cure - “Creative Capitalism”
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under Money & Power | Leave a Comment
The success story of Bill Gates is nothing but spectacular. But by the very same markets that made him rich, he now wants to overhaul capitalism. The founder of Microsoft is calling for a new economics that could help change the world.
Speaking recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates praised technology and science for making […]
Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle
Posted on October 20, 2007 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of digital imagery in future space-agency missions. Full article
Read More..>>Gates Not Going Anywhere Soon
Posted on October 20, 2007 - Filed Under Money & Power | 1 Comment
Microsoft Corp. is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned.
But so far, Gates, Microsoft’s 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away. One year into a planned two-year transition, there […]
Gamers in a Fix Over Xbox Repair Process
Posted on October 20, 2007 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s announcement that it will spend $1 billion to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a step that would assuage disenchanted customers. Nearly a month later, however, some console owners are still less than pleased. Full article
Read More..>>Microsoft Conquers China
Posted on October 20, 2007 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment in China.
While most would count themselves lucky to talk with one of China’s top leaders, Gates will meet with four members […]
Making A Microserf Smile
Posted on October 20, 2007 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
Steven A. Ballmer had an epic morale problem on his hands. Microsoft Corp.’s stock had been drifting sideways for years, and Google envy was rampant on the Redmond (Wash.) campus. The chronically delayed Windows Vista was irking the Microserfs and blackening their outlook. So was the perception that their company was flabby, middle-aged, and unhip. […]
Air Force Pulls In Cyberwarriors From Microsoft, Cisco
Posted on October 19, 2007 - Filed Under Technology | Leave a Comment
If the U.S. Air Force is ever ordered into a real cyberwar with a foreign country or computer-savvy terrorist group, the 100-plus citizen cybersoldiers at the Air National Guard’s 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron will boast an advantage other countries can’t match: They personally built the very software and hardware they’re attacking. Full article
