Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and currently the world’s richest man, has officially joined Twitter! You can follow him here @billgates . His account is verified already, and he’s even received a warm welcome from the king of Twitter himself Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk). And about an hour ago, Bill Gates then retweeted back to […]
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Howard Schmidt’s Impressive Resume
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama appointed Howard Schmidt to the position of cyber-security coordinator. Mr. Schmidt will oversee the vast task of protecting the nation’s computer systems in the public and private sectors. Howard Schmidt’s resume is quite an impressive read, so I decided to provide a link here for you to check it out […]
It’s been a number one priority ever since investors started pouring money into Twitter, but now it’s finally a reality! Bloomberg is reporting that Twitter is now a profitable company thanks to the recent search deals struck by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Twitter will make $25 million just from the Google and Microsoft deals in […]
I’m finding it very hard to believe that Microsoft’s legal team didn’t research this before hand, but there’s actually another company out there called “Bing! Information Design, LLC.” Bing! Information Design LLC v. Microsoft Corporation was filed on December 16, 2009 in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis and alleges “trademark infringement, […]
There’s a video that making it’s way across the web of someone who claims to be an “ex” employee of Microsoft who was fired for not enthusiastically yelling “Bing” at a meetings. The person in the video claims that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, was on a rampage yelling about Google, and trying to get employees […]
It wasn’t much more than 3 days ago when Microsoft introduced the Bing iPhone App. The Bing iPhone App was promoted as being a “decision engine” for people on the go, and focused heavily on providing information and reviews about local businesses. Well much to my surprise (NOT), Microsoft is already faced with major issues […]
The popular video game Modern Warfare 2 has an update coming this morning. According to Robert Bowling, via his Twitter profile: “his just in: The Title Update that addresses the#MW2 javelin exploit will go live early Friday morning (PT.)” From Examiner.com: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is incoming to fix not only the Javelin […]