News tagged with gates
Curtain falling on 'Digital Decade'
Dec 27, 2009 |
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While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a dizzying period of innovation.
NICTA demonstrates new interference-cancellation modem for 3G femtocell networks
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with ...
Fortune crowns Steve Jobs 'CEO of Decade'
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Fortune Magazine crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.
Researchers create molecular diode
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...
Researchers create molecular diode
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...
Research ensures 50 million vaccinated against deadly brain infection
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Research at the University of Liverpool has supported the vaccination of more than 50 million people against a zoonotic brain infection that affects thousands of children across Asia every year.
Microsoft interns get perks, pay, play
Aug 28, 2009 |
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The same day Microsoft reported some of its worst financial results, a dozen buses left the Redmond campus. During rush hour, they headed toward Highway 520 as a phalanx of cops on motorcycles shut down the onramps ahead, ...
Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder ...
Google CEO: New operating system changes the game
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt can't wait for the Internet search leader's free operating system to debut next year.
Google, Microsoft chairmen share laugh together
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The escalating tension between Google and Microsoft didn't prevent the companies' chairmen from sharing a moment of levity Thursday at an exclusive media conference in the Idaho mountains.
Physicist takes a quantum leap
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Queensland physicist is seeking answers to a persistent problem throughout human history: how do I compute things? None, however, have had the same impact as what we today know as simply the ...
Gates approves creation of new cyber command
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the creation of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare.
Famed TED talks available in multiple languages
May 13, 2009 |
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The organizers of the famed annual TED conferences on Wednesday began making the thought-provoking lectures by giants of technology, science and the arts available in dozens of languages.
Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas
May 06, 2009 |
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Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...
