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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Question & Answers: Microsoft’s EU court battle

Microsoft was fined millions of euros by the European Commission two years ago and today Microsoft has started it’s fight back in the European Court to get that money back and argue that it’s been treated badly, but this time it’s not just money that is at stake but the reputacion of both Microsoft and the  European Commission, here’s part of a Question & Answers article from the BBC about the

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Microsoft seeks open antitrust hearing, EU says no.

Microsoft has now asked the European Commission to open up to the public a hearing that could lead to a large fine for Microsoft, but the European Commission has said that procedural regulations require it be closed, which in my opinion isn’t good at all! BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT – news) asked the European Commission to open to the

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What’s Next for Bill Gates?

This is part 2 of an interview between Time magazine and Bill Gates, in which the Microsoft chief talks about the battle against Google, Origami and other new products from the Microsoft machine. TIME:What other innovations are coming from your research group? Gates: Videoconferencing is another good example. There’s more of it going on today than in the past. But it’s

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Q&A: Bill Gates Spills About What’s Next for Microsoft

This is part 1 of an interview between Time magazine and Bill Gates: TIME: How do you think about innovation? What are your cues? Is there a way you look at the world and derive a vision of the future? People wonder how Bill Gates comes up with the next big idea. Gates:There are tons of great people here at Microsoft

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Inventor of Hotmail turns his attention to weblogs

Intersting Artticle about Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with his colleague invented Hotmail and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft. Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with a colleague invented the iconic Hotmail e-mail service and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft, is returning to fix what he describes as

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Seth Godin Speaks at Google

Just found a Blog post titled “Google’s Secrets Exposed” posted by Rick Segal on his Blog, and I must say thank you Rick for telling me about that Google Video with Seth Godin in it speaking to Google about its success. Here’s a very good use of 48 minutes. Seth Godin spoke to Google and, in 48 minutes, pretty much

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Macworld Boston 1997 – The Microsoft Deal with Apple

This was when Apple Computer was nearly bankrupt, and was about to crumble into ruins. Then Apple announced a partnership with Microsoft. You can hear the loud booing sounds coming from crowd throughout the keynote. Bill Gates is in the keynote via satellite. This was probably the toughest pill for Steve Jobs to swallow in his life. Via: Digg |

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London City to be Wi-Fi-enabled

London City is soon to be totally Wi-Fi-enabled now in my opinion I think call great news for a great City because I believe that Wi-Fi is definitely the way to go at the moment especially as it gives so many people more access to the internet when out and about, the internet is now part of a daily lives

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Another Chance to Sign up for the Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta Program

Look’s like Yahoo is giving me once again another chance to sign up for the Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta Program, but I’m afraid I’m still in the same situation as I was before, I don’t live in the United States and even though I have an overture account I can’t use it because I need a United States Social Security

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Search site retires iconic Jeeves

Jeeves the valet who for a decade has overseen searches on the Ask website is about to be sacked. By the end of February the iconic valet will disappear from the site he has graced since it debuted in 1996. The decision to axe Jeeves was taken in September 2005 but he stayed in place while the company investigated how