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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are launching a campaign to get other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.
Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said in a letter introducing the concept that he couldn't be happier with his decision in 2006 to give 99 percent of his roughly $46 billion fortune to charity.
Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Gates and Buffett have been campaigning for the past year to get...
Google is about to introduce a new index search technology called "Caffeine." This "new and improved" search engine is more than just and upgrade on Google: it's a totally different search engine that relies on a
completely new infrastructure (1). This new Google promises to be faster and more accurate than the old Google, to provide greater temporal relevancy (i.e., be focused on breaking news), and to provide a larger index size (i.e., display more results) (2).
The reason that Google has decided to launch Caffeine may be due to competition. Microsoft had...
For any company, a major release like Office 2010 would be considered its dominant news of the week. However, Microsoft's consumer rollout of the productivity suite June 15 seems somewhat eclipsed by the announcements coming from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, where the company is revealing its new Xbox-related products.
That may be due to the legendary fanaticism of the gaming community, and its online buzz. In addition, the details of Office 2010 have long been known, while projects such as the newly announced Kinect "controller-free gaming device" have...
Just a quick note for those of you who have yet to adopt Open Office (or have yet to give up on being productive altogether). Microsoft Office 2010 is available right now for Windows 7 / Vista / XP users. Right this instant. As you read this. It has entered "the realm of the real," as it were. Depending on your needs and your budget, you can pick up one of various flavors: Home and Student (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for $150), Office Home and Business (all of the above, plus Outlook for $280), or Office Professional (adds Access and Publisher for a cool $500).
At first we were doubtful that a edgy box appearing in a little Flash ad from Italy last night could be legit, but Microsoft just got real with the new Xbox 360. (That's all it's officially called -- just "the new Xbox 360.") It'll launch today priced for $299, while the old Elite will stick around for $249 and the Arcade will drop to $149. The new box is crazy sexy in glossy black with touch-sensitive buttons, and Microsoft says it's "whisper quiet," with one large fan instead of two -- the new 45nm chipset undoubtedly generates less heat to begin with. On the features front,...
Cisco is debuting a trio of new and enhanced products that it believes will help people better collaborate and share content with each other, as more companies go virtual and more employees work remotely.
Announced on Friday, the company's new Quad, Prosumer Video, and updated WebEx Connect IM products each serve a specific niche, allowing business users to find and connect with the right people and share information within their organizations, said Cisco.
Cisco Quad is an enterprise collaboration tool that offers voice, video, and social networking in one application. Through...
The leak has not been confirmed but it appears the Nokia N9 has been revealed in a video ad promoting the device as seen below. GSMArena says the phone seen in the video is a suitable successor to the N8 with a full QWERTY keyboard and full-touch UI.
There are also suspicions the device will be Nokia's first to run the MeeGo operating system as the uploaded video has been tagged with it. Once again though, nothing is confirmed outside the video.
The potential leak comes on the same day Nokia's anticipated N8 smartphone was shown at its annual Nokia Connection event in Singapore....
Microsoft said on Monday that Kinect (Project Natal) will be available on November 4 in the U.S.
Dubbed Kinect for Xbox 360, the controller-free game device is set to go on sale in November. The technology behind Natal is fairly simple, a TV-mounted camera/microphone bar to sense motion, sound and movement. What's new and ground breaking is the tracking of 3D movement as well as 2D movement. The system is also able to scan users faces and sign them into Xbox live, as well as react to vocal tone and pitch, and process this data in real-time.
Microsoft demonstrated their Kinect...
Sony is set to reveal two new PS3 SKUs this week (also known as Mental E3 Week) which will come bundled with the Move motion controller.
Sony plans to release 500GB and 250GB versions of its slimline powerhouse bundled with the new motion controller later this year, according to our industry source in Los Angeles.
We were also told that the new PS3s will come with new faster internal Wi-Fi cards (802.11n, for those of you who know what that means). Current PS3s come with the slower 802.11 b/g standard Wi-Fi. Basically, that means new PS3's connection to PSN and the internet...
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Microsoft this week is unveiling a set of video games that don't require people to navigate their way around a complex controller with more buttons than the cockpit of a Boeing 747.
Following on the massive success of Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft is introducing a technology, code-named Project Natal, that ditches the controller altogether. Instead, the games will rely on a device the size of a stapler that perches on top of a living room TV to recognize faces, obey voice commands and track body movements. No more mashing 14 different buttons in endless labyrinthine sequences.
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Microsoft to unveil controller-free games for Xbox 360 by Sari N. Kent
Microsoft plans to reveal their latest project, code-named Project Natal, which would eliminate the use of bothersome, button-heavy controllers altogether when playing Xbox 360 games.
According to an article on the New York Times web site, “Following on the massive success of Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft is introducing a technology, code-named Project Natal, that ditches the controller altogether. Instead, the games will rely on a device the size of a stapler that perches on top of a living room TV to recognize...
FOXNews reports the FBI is investigating the data breach at AT&T, which exposed more than 114,000 iPad owners' e-mail addresses. Some of the exposed e-mail addresses included government officials. The FBI stated it is assessing any “potential cyber threat” from the breach.
As previously reported on Neowin, the breach only affected iPad users who signed up for an AT&T iPad data plan. It appears an AT&T web site could be compromised that would in turn reveal an iPad owner’s e-mail address when supplied with a code associated with a particular iPad.
A hacker group...
Financial Times reports that US antitrust regulators have decided to investigate whether or not Apple is restricting rivals from their new iAd system in an unfair way.
Apple has begun implmenting its own ad network, dubbed "iAd", that will display and interact with a user without having them leave the application they are using. Before iAd was created, touching an advertisement would close the application and then display its contents in the Safari browser. During the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple claimed it had sold over $60 million worth of advertisements that will begin...
Adobe Systems may not have as chief executive with Steve Jobs' high profile, but it does have money, and on Thursday it began spending some of it on an effort to rebut the Apple CEO's crticisims of Adobe's Flash technology.
The campaign includes a Web site promoting choice, an accompanying "truth about Flash" page rebutting some Apple criticisms, and a letter from Adobe co-founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock that brings a personal answer to Jobs. They don't mention Jobs or or Apple by name, but there's no mistaking the target.
"The genius of the Internet...
Microsoft's latest update to its emulator for the still-in-development Windows Phone 7 platform shows some ongoing refinements, and a hint that Microsoft may be nearing a "release candidate" version of the OS, after which major changes are unlikely.
And hackers unlocking the latest Windows Phone 7 emulator are trying to delve into the underlying kernel and understand a range of technical issues such as memory management.
"Microsoft knows that the emulators are typically unlocked by users," says a PR agency spokeswoman assigned to the Windows Phone group...
At an event this morning in New York, Microsoft is formally launching Office 2010, its accompanying Office Web Apps, and the SharePoint 2010 collaborative platform. The hoopla today is aimed at business customers–consumers won’t be able to buy Office in retail stores or get it preinstalled on PCs until June 15th, and while Microsoft hasn’t guaranteed a timetable for the consumer versions of the Web Apps, it says it expects them to arrive at the same time as the desktop suite.
I was a fan of Office 2007 and its radically new Ribbon interface. And I mostly like Office 2010, which hasn’t...
An out-of-control satellite is drifting into the orbit of another satellite that transmits cable programming to the United States, the Associated Press is reporting.
According to the news service, a satellite known as Galaxy 15 broke contact with its owner, Intelsat on April 5. Although the exact cause is unknown, the satellite's owners believe it could have been "knocked out by a solar storm."
Normally, losing contact with a satellite wouldn't be cause for much concern, since in most cases, satellites stop transmitting signals. But Intelsat has confirmed that Galaxy...
Dubbed "the future of productivity," Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010 were launched today at NBC Studios in New York City. The event was streamed live, and translated in real-time, to over 60 countries around the world. Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, unveiled the products and stressed how the new software will enhance business productivity and save money.
Much of the keynote focused on the new Outlook and its social integration. In addition, a lot of emphasis was put on the collaboration capabilities of the new Office suite when used with...
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