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RSS gatesAccounting, Financial Reporting, and Risk Management Issues Associated With Hedge Fund Restructuring
White Paper This situation was exacerbated, in many cases, by funds that impose gates, or limitations of the amount of capital that can be withdrawn from a fund at a given redemption date (often quarterly, but in some cases monthly). [13 Nov 2009]
Serving the Hedge Fund Industry: Seasoned Professionals for a Time of Change
White Paper Gates and lockups are more frequent. Hedge funds are facing a time of unprecedented challenge and opportunity. With market uncertainty and tight credit markets, funds are closing in record numbers. Fee structures are... [13 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment Bill Gates Compiled at my hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, US, on a rainy autumn day and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection Travelling as I do in the course of my professional activities, I meet a lot... [05 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Microsoft founder Bill Gates first championed the Tablet PC back in 2001 yet the form factor failed to make any significant dent in the universe. After all, if a true tech visionary like Gates couldn't... [01 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Apple may be reinvigorated with CEO Steve Jobs back at the helm and a new OS just out of the gates, but it looks like the business world is still closed to the Mac maker. According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release... [21 Sep 2009]
Palm drops Windows Mobile operating system
News Then Palm chief executive Ed Colligan took the stage with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in San Francisco to tout the new alliance. Palm is to stop making Windows Mobile devices. Chief executive Jon Rubinstein said on the... [18 Sep 2009]
Nokia Money: Financial services the target for world's biggest mobile maker
News Nokia's not the only one eyeing mobile financial services for the unbanked - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the former Microsoft CEO's charitable organisation, recently donated $12.5m to a scheme to help the... [26 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's Project Natal
Cheat Sheet Microsoft chairman Bill Gates certainly thinks so - in a recent interview, Gates said that the technology will eventually end up in Windows. In the average office, Gates believes Natal... [10 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News In January 2002, Bill Gates launched the Trustworthy Computing initiative and said security would be a top priority for the company. If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News This July marks one year since Bill Gates took his leave of Microsoft, so silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson ponders the question of how Microsoft has changed since the departure of its figurehead and former CEO - in this... [03 Aug 2009]
Microsoft: Gesture recognition office 'not that far away'
News In an interview earlier this month, Bill Gates told CNET News that Microsoft plans to use Natal far beyond the Xbox, including with Windows. While gesture recognition, such as that seen in Project Natal can help gaming,... [31 Jul 2009]
Marshal's Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine
White Paper In 2007, despite assurances from Bill Gates that spam would be eliminated by now, spam had its biggest year on record. This whitepaper explores the underlying anti-spam and anti-phishing defense technology in Marshal's... [31 Jul 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will present Oracle pen-testing methodology and give out "all the tools to break the 'unbreakable' Oracle as Metasploit auxiliary modules", according to a summary of their presentation on... [24 Jul 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo Other tasks included passing through several underwater gates without touching the frames and following a moving target. Meet Nessie, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University's autonomous underwater robot. Nessie recently won... [20 Jul 2009]
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. Still, Gates also said Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition... [17 Jul 2009]
