According to linda Melinda in an interview with Vogue, the Gates' kids can play Xbox, run Windows 7, and massage photos on Microsoft Surface all they want, but they can't have iPods or iPhones:......

I’m getting more than just a little tired of rich people being blamed and castigated and treated in some quarters of our society almost as pariahs. Rich people are the ones we need to raise taxes on, of course, because they have the money and can most afford to take the hit. Rich people probab...

startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to create images depicting Bill Gates unleashing things other than mosquitoes on people. Oh Bill Gates, you so crazy! First Place — Derek Ball ......

I'll give Bill Gates credit for directing a huge amount of money, through his foundation, at education reform. And I very much appreciate his effort to try to determine what works instead of resorting to fads or politics. But when he writes,The private high school I attended, Lakeside in Seattle, ma...

Microsoft has had an interesting relationship with open source. With time, Microsoft’s open source strategy has been evolving from “strictly opposed� to “coexist� to “me too�. As the involvement of Bill Gates shrunk, I think Microsoft’s openness to open source is increasing. Until a ...

Okay, so he’s a billionaire genius who lives in a 50,000-square-foot $125 million mansion. But Bill Gates isn’t so unlike the rest of us. When he wants to unwind, he sometimes does so by trying to learn something new, through teach12.com, a 19-year-old, Virginia company that sells CDs and DVDs o...

    Had the good fortune of attending TED 2009 in a remote location suite that had a live feed. In the suite were a bevy of very sharp people. During lunch breaks, we’d head down to mingle with the big brains wandering the halls. TED is like the NFL for nerds. I definitely want to go again n...

I have found some new geek songs to post on my Musical Geek Friday. This week it’s a song called Hax That Fsck. It’s a hip-hop/rap song about a hacker getting owned by FBI and his adventures in hacking Gibson and CIA. The song is written by Finnish band called “Leech Axss“. T...

Beelzebub (n): Beelzebub, prince of devils, from Latin, from Greek Beelzeboub, from Hebrew Baʽal zÄ•bhÅ«bh, a Philistine god, literally, lord of flies If you needed more proof that Bill Gates is the Devil, then you now have it. As a Mac user, I can’t say that I’m surprised. On the other...