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Microsoft founder Bill Gates moves on - 27 Jun 08

2008-07-01T12:44:47Z

Microsoft's billionaire founder Bill Gates will relinquish control of day-to-day operations at the software giant on Friday.

He'll stay on as Microsoft Chairman, but will concentrate most of his energies on his charitable trust.

Its work includes trying to find new vaccines, and financing projects in the developing world.

John Terrett reports.

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BLIMPTV: MICROSOFT VISTA SUCKS

2008-08-30T08:26:37Z

From www.blimptv.net The most tortuous computing experience ever devised

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Yahoo stock plunges

2008-06-16T18:29:15Z

May 5 - Investors punished Yahoo's stock after Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion bid for the Internet company.

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La guerre des consoles a commencé

2008-06-12T09:37:44Z

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The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal -- Pursuing Privacy Online

2008-07-02T16:19:03Z

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/02/yahoo_microsoft.html

Why is privacy relevant to Internet company mergers? And what kinds of privacy solutions should merging companies consider? Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Peter Swire explains that Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! deserves some strong scrutiny from Federal regulators, to ensure that the companies don't overstep their bounds with consumers.

www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org

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If It's Thursday......

2008-01-24T08:12:37Z

there must be another debate tonight.

Iraqi Police Chief Killed In Ambush

Bill Gates Calls For "Kind Capitalism"

Washington Post: Democrats Attack Iraq Security Proposal
The leading Democratic presidential candidates and their allies on Capitol Hill have launched fierce attacks in recent days on a White House plan to forge a new, long-term security agreement with the Iraqi government, complaining that the administration is trying to lock in a lasting U.S. military presence in Iraq before the next president takes office.

NY Times: Voters Showing a Darker Mood Than in 2000 Race
Candidates are confronting an electorate deeply unsettled about the United States' ability to control its own destiny.

Washington Times: Huckabee Alienates GOP In Arkansas
For the 10 years he was governor of Arkansas, Mr. Huckabee was at war with much of his party. Now that Mr. Huckabee is seeking the presidential nomination, many Arkansas Republicans warn that he could wage a bruising battle with the national party, too.

WSJ: Romney's Wallet Keeps Him in the Race
Mitt Romney lost three of the first five big Republican contests and lags behind in most major state and national polls. Yet he is still widely seen as a credible contender for the nomination thanks mainly to one trait: his wallet.

Lou Dobbs: "A Candidate Of Last Resort"

Liberal group plans yearlong, $8.5 million anti-Bush campaign

Ken Hutcherson speaking to Microsoft

2008-06-09T15:31:06Z

Vowing to replace stockholders with gay-unfriendly ones

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Ken Hutcherson speaking to Microsoft

2008-06-09T15:31:05Z

Protesting gay rights

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2007/11/video-ken-fruit.html

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Daniel Lyons - Being Fake Steve Jobs

2008-06-10T21:31:57Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, discusses the origins of his satirical alter ego.

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Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, talks about his book Options and blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" written by his alter ego.

The New York Times recently outed Forbes reporter Dan Lyons as Fake Steve Jobs. Who is Fake Steve Jobs, you ask? He's the guy who started the blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs", which has been the subject of water cooler talk from Silicon Valley to Washington DC for the past year. But Lyons is also a fiction writer who has gotten the papal blessing (i.e., a best young novelist nod) from Granta, and in his new book OPTION$ he uses the persons and voice that he created on the blog to bring us into a world where an iPod-loving, T'ai Chi-practicing, Reed College dropout who just happens to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company gets a little, you know, creative when it comes to "dating".

Fake Steve is, in his off-hours, a senior editor at Forbes and the author of a novel, Dog Days and a collection of stories, The Last Good Man. The recipient of both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the somewhat notorious Playboy College Fiction Prize, he was names one of the "Fabulous 52" in the 1996 Best Young American Novelists competition sponsored by Granta. Among the readers of Dan's blog, fakesteve.blogspot.com, is Real Steve Jobs, who has called it "pretty funny." - Cody's Books

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What Next For Master Chief?

2008-06-27T12:42:16Z

A New Employment Opportunity Has Opened up For the Star of Halo 1, 2 and 3. Directed by John T. Kramer Written by John T. Kramer, Sam Locke, and Aaron Sjoholm. Starring Same Locke and Peggy Miller Kramer.

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Does the Stephen Colbert Character Know The Word Mocks Him?

2008-06-05T21:29:53Z

The November 28 episode of The Colbert Report provided a clip with which I could finally answer a subscriber question. I also pose a couple interesting questions at the end for Colbert fans and non-Colbert fans alike

You can see the full November 28 edition of "The Word" from which I took the clip I use in my video on the Comedy Central website at: www.comedycentral.com

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Frost Over The World - Chinese blogger & Piracy - 15 Jun 07

2008-06-07T03:30:59Z

Sir David Frost talks to Michael Anti, a Chinese journalist who had his blog removed by Microsoft, about just how he managed to offend the Chinese government and to Pottengal Mukundan, the director of the International Maritime Bureau, about modern-day pirates.

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John Wood - "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World"

2008-08-27T00:36:05Z

Complete program at: fora.tv

Former Microsoft executive John Wood discusses hand-delivering a load of donated books to a rural village in Nepal, an experience that inspired him to quit his job and start the international non-profit organization "Room to Read."

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John Wood discusses "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children"

In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft when he took a vacation that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey, and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time. So upon returning from holiday, John did what most of us can only dream of doing: he walked away from millions to do "more". Over the next five years he would make the unlikely marriage between Microsoft business practices and the world of non-profits to create Room to Read, an organization that has created a network of over 2,000 schools and libraries (with over one million books) throughout communities in Southeast Asia and India.

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