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RSS berkshire in newsBill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News King of the minted moguls is Warren Buffett, Gates' sometimes bridge partner and chairman of holdings company Berkshire Hathaway, who has a fortune estimated at $62bn, up $10bn from a year ago. Microsoft's unsolicited... [06 Mar 2008]
Command tech to save firefighters' lives
News Brigades in London and Berkshire are getting ready to use VectorCommand's Command Support System (CSS) to give its commanders access to the situation on the ground during catastrophic events such as large blazes, severe... [04 Jan 2008]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The Reading system is the UK's number-two supercomputer overall, second only to the £20m supercomputer at the nearby Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) near Aldermaston, Berkshire. The University of Reading now has the... [11 Jul 2007]
Scots tots buy school dinners with veins
News A secondary school in Berkshire is testing a system to keep tabs on truants using fingerprints. Children at a primary school in Scotland now have a new way to pay for their school dinners - vein recognition. [31 Oct 2006]
AIDs fight in Africa gets PC boost
News Computer Aid is working with the Berkshire-based CfBT Education trust, to donate 141 PCs, 32 laptops and 43 severs to schools and community organisations in the developing world. UK IT charity Computer Aid is working... [31 Oct 2006]
Fingerprint scans - latest weapon in truancy fight
News A secondary school in Berkshire is set to trial biometric fingerprint scanning technology to keep track of pupils entering and leaving its premises and cut truancy rates. Sixth form students at Edgbarrow school in the... [17 Jul 2006]
Update: Billionaire Buffett gives $30bn to Gates Foundation
News Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation. While Buffett will serve as a director on the Gates Foundation, he said he prefers spending his time as... [27 Jun 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Also on the list: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (3); Richard Branson, Virgin Group (5); John Browne, BP (6); Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor (7); Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric (9); Rupert Murdoch, News Corp (10); John... [15 Dec 2005]
Ambulances turn to GPRS for better organ tracking
News Ambulances used by the Royal Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset NHS Ambulance Trusts will be fitted with GPRS tracking units, which will enable ambulance controllers to pinpoint the location of the vehicles using an... [25 Apr 2005]
Gates joins Buffett at investment firm
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was elected on Tuesday to serve on the board of directors of prominent investment company Berkshire Hathaway. In doing so, Gates will serve as an advisor to longtime friend and... [15 Dec 2004]
Google sued over alleged code theft
News The company has filed for a public offering, expected to be one of the biggest this year but it is embroiled in other lawsuits, including one by Berkshire Hathaway's Geico insurance company (which is also suing Yahoo). [01 Jul 2004]
The secret email the Microsoft VP wrote Buffett
News Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a kind of umbrella company that owns the Geico insurance company and portions of other businesses, including 11.8 per cent of American Express, 18.1 per cent of The Washington... [18 Mar 2004]
Broadband village takes BT to task for wireless failures
News The telco admitted that the circuit ordered by FDM Broadband to connect a wireless network in the Berkshire village of Lambourn had suffered several faults, and that both this connection and a second at another... [12 Dec 2003]
Broadband restored after 'unacceptable' BT delays
News Wireless broadband has been restored in the Berkshire village of Lambourn after a fault on a BT cable meant that services were unavailable for nearly a week. FDM Broadband, which offers wireless broadband services to a... [10 Dec 2003]
Data loss risk from low-quality chips
News The warning comes after Berkshire-based distributor Rombyte was last week fined £16,000 plus costs and forced to destroy £195,000 worth of chips after being found guilty of selling counterfeit memory chips. [08 Aug 2003]
