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The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up This week Bill Gates revealed more details of Project Natal, the gesture recognition system that Microsoft is working on. Back to Bill Gates again - and your chance to find out what he thinks about... [17 Jul 2009]
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment Vista", he told me, nodding proudly like a new father, in a way that would no doubt make Bill Gates leap for joy. I was talking to a friend of mine in the pub after work the other day. And after... [15 Jan 2008]
Sun buys up server firm Kealia
News Rehiring Bechtolsheim balances out the departure in 2003 of another Sun founder, Bill Joy, who brought deep Unix experience to the company. Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that... [11 Feb 2004]
Joyless Sun loses its founder
News Sun Microsystems has announced that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Scott McNealy, Sun's CEO, said in a statement: "Bill will continue to be an... [09 Sep 2003]
Microsoft gives away e-books
News A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Fear Itself by Walter Mosley are among the titles offered. In a move aimed at bolstering the use of its Microsoft... [03 Jul 2003]
Sun: P2P is alive and well
News Originally introduced by Sun chief scientist Bill Joy, Jxta is the communications software that underlies a peer-to-peer network, in which devices communicate directly without the use of a central server... [05 Mar 2003]
What was your first computer?
News Our first brush with Bill Gates, and we didn't even know it.http://www.silicon.com/a50999 The Joy of Specs - in memory of our long lost rubber-keyed friend.http://www.silicon.com/a50364 One of our most... [14 Jan 2003]
Kat Slater and the man from Microsoft
Comment Take Reading, for example, home of the Oracle Centre (no relation to Larry Ellison) and Microsoft UK (very much part of Bill Gates' family). Christmas is a time for giving, and while the Microsoft Giving Tree Appeal aims... [29 Nov 2002]
Mrs Gates delivers Bill a new bundle of joy
News Bill Gates is celebrating the arrival of his third child, which was born at the weekend. The birth of Phoebe Gates (Phoebe Cates should consult her lawyers) comes at a bad time for father Bill. Gates'... [18 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Cybernetic totalism, ASP comeback and Google's glory
Comment Bill Joy, in an issue of Wired magazine, declared us "on the cusp of further perfection of extreme evil". His article, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us stirred comment worldwide with a letter to the Times... [20 Aug 2001]
Sun leaps into peer-to-peer arena - industry winces
News Sun CTO, Bill Joy's plans have also drawn fire from arch-rival Intel. The Sun Microsystems website will host a webcast next Wednesday when Bill Joy will further expand... [19 Apr 2001]
High-tech big-wigs set agenda at World Economic Forum
News Among them are Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, and Sun co-founder Bill Joy. The heads of Deutsche Telecom, SAP and Yahoo! are also among those attending or speaking this weekend. Top of... [25 Jan 2001]
'No country's an island' opens OECD Forum
News Speakers include Bill Joy, CEO at Sun Microsystems, and Bernard Vegnes, chairman of Microsoft EMEA. In the opening speech of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) conference,... [26 Jun 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: BT, WAP and why IT is threatening the human race
Comment Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun, has always been an influential thinker. Bill Joy is the exception. While decrying the Unabomber's campaign of violence,... [19 Mar 2000]
McNealy tells Microsoft: it's 'Game Over'
News McNealy also commented on proclamations made by the company's chief technology officer, Bill Joy, at a conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Joy said the future of software development... [15 Oct 1999]
