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In his own words: Bill Gates' best quotes
News It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, 'I don't know how to spell that', I said, 'Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay'. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. [26 Jun 2008]
Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… Video: CIO Agenda 2008 Naked CIO: The true cost of IT Why IT must escape the belt-tightening Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams... [08 May 2008]
Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News s brazen ways have caused something else to take a tumble - the drop in Microsoft shares has knocked Bill Gates off his perch atop Forbes' rich-list, ending his unbroken 13-year run as the world's richest human. [06 Mar 2008]
Bill Gates still richer than Croesus
News Bill Gates has for the 13th year running topped the Forbes rich list with an estimated fortune of $56bn. Google's Sergei Brin and Larry Page share 26th spot on the list with $16.6bn, four places ahead of Michael Dell who makes do with $15.8bn. [09 Mar 2007]
Word up! Explore the lexicon of tech
News Flamebait - A message posted online or sent to a mailing list that aims to antagonise its readers e.g. Dictionary attack - A type of hack attack used to crack a password or pass-phrase by testing a series of likely possibilities, such as a list... [24 Nov 2006]
Boom time coming for SaaS vendors
News Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, ranked number 30 on silicon.com's 2006 Agenda Setters list. The market for software as a service is set to boom over the next five years - which is great news for companies such as Salesforce.com and others but... [02 Oct 2006]
Video nasty, adware nastier say experts of Guardian.co.uk ad
News CA's Cox said any security company's first responsibility is to its customers who sign up for protection from a clearly defined list of threats and applications. Over the past week readers of the Guardian website have been able to view a rich media... [14 Aug 2006]
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
News He added that for ISPs, the IWF list - which stands separate to legal pornography sites - has proved useful. Hamish MacLeod, from the IWF's mobile broadband group, confirmed all the UK operators are using its list. [09 Mar 2006]
Microsoft issues flaw fixes for Outlook and Windows
News On Monday, two new Windows image problems were reported on a popular email list. The issue is specific to the processing of mail that uses the Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format protocol, used in sending messages in Rich Text Format. [11 Jan 2006]
Online fraud still on the rise
News An interesting finding from VeriSign is that Nigeria, which has become synonymous with online fraud and identity theft in recent years, has dropped out of the list of worst offenders, possibly because those perpetrating the crimes in the past have... [02 Mar 2005]
EDGE, WiMax, HSDPA, IMS: Can you pick the winners from the losers?
News Another acronym featuring big on the ex-BT property's hit-list is IP - internet protocol. The company will be rolling out IMS-based services later this year, which are intended to "rich it up", Williams said - adding presence information, chat and... [27 Jan 2005]
Harry Potter scam shut as wizard fever storms web
News Previous Harry Potter book The Order of the Phoenix made ecommerce history when it dominated Amazon.co.uk's top 10 bestseller list for most of 2003. Within two hours of its release being announced on 15 January 2003 the book raced to the top of the... [12 Jan 2005]
Microsoft strengthens Indian ties
News The partnerships highlight the growing impact the Indian IT companies are having on the global IT market, largely through the offshoring phenomenon and both TCS CEO S Ramadorai and Wipro chairman Premji appeared in the top 50 of silicon.com's... [19 Nov 2004]
Gates tops rich list for 11th year running
News Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune, to bring it to $48bn and stay on top of the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans. And, while being a dollar billionaire isn't what it used to be... [24 Sep 2004]
Bush gives seal of approval to 'flawed' US spam laws
News The Federal Trade Commission receives new enforcement authority and could choose to set up a "do not email" list akin to the commission's wildly popular National Do Not Call registry. While backers say it will be a major step in the war against... [17 Dec 2003]
