Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders. In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
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23.6.2007EU leaders clash with Google over the meaning of 'personal data'
With the EU crafting new laws governing how data collectors such as Google protect users' personal data, lawmakers there are clashing with US
business leaders over how far that protection can and should extend...
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23.01.2008Industry leaders join board of OpenID foundation
Several industry leaders in the tech industry, and in particular the online side of it, have officially joined the OpenID foundation as corporate
board members, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, and VeriSign. This large step forward for the OpenID foundation could lead to quicker adoption
of the technology which vows to eliminate the need for multiple accounts across different services, by essentially only making the user sign up once
to use an account across all supporting services.
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08.02.2008Burst Media's 'Thought Leaders" network: Grownups wanted
When the going gets weird, the weird... grow up? That's the bet Burst Media's making with its new Thought Leaders network...
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09.10.2008Microsoft's new leaders prepare for the post-Gates era
Microsoft had always taken an ad-hoc approach to charting the future of technology and its place in it, relying heavily on the insights of Bill Gates
and his legendary "think weeks."
With the twilight of Gates' career at the company approaching and new technical and strategic
leaders Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie preparing to fill his role, Microsoft executives decided to make this prognosticating more formal.
"This year we, for the first time, said 'Let's not make this ad hoc,' " Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told a small audience of
tech-industry tastemakers in April.
So company leaders recorded their best guesses about "the things that are going to change
technology over the next five to 10 years
what we can do to lead those trends," Ballmer said. It was an attempt, he said, to do what Gates has
done "in his head" and bring more people into the act.
winbeta.org - 27.08.2007
ICANN moves ahead with international domain names
Participants made good
progress discussing changes to
Internet governance during an
ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico
that closed on Friday, leaders
of the organization said.
One topic that leaders
worked on was the future
enablement of non-Latin
characters in domain names.
ICANN hopes to support
Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, and
other characters in the
future, but that's easier
said than done.
In
2003, ICANN made an attempt to
widen the acceptable
characters but found that its
rules were too permissive,
said Vint Cerf, ICANN's
chairman. "There could be
confusion between similar
registrations that might
mislead users," he said
during a conference call to
discuss the meeting. ..
winbeta.org - 30.06.2007
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott on IT Strategy in 2009
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has seen a lot in his years as an IT and business executive. His thoughts on 2009: IT leaders are uniquely prepared to deal
with the economic downturn.
Maybe its not that bad out there for CIOs.
With budgets under the CFOs
microscope, projects in jeopardy and the role of the CIO itself in question, IT leaders are certainly feeling some pain. But fear not, says Microsoft
CIO Tony Scott...
winbeta.org - 14.04.2009
With DRM fading away from MP3s, here come the ads
Today, Amazon.com announced an advertising partnership with Pepsi that coincides with the direction of the music industry as predicted by its leaders...
betanews.com - 14.01.2008
Major Nelson: How Would You Change Microsoft?
Got a beef with the way Microsoft runs things? Anything? Now's your chance to tell it to someone's face -- by proxy. Major Nelson
(aka Larry Hryb) is heading to a big, important meeting filled with big, important Microsoft people next week, and he wants to know what you would
have to say to them.
"If you had ten minutes with the CTO of Microsoft, what kind of advice would you offer? What questions
would you ask?" writes Hryb in the post. Head over and let him know in the comments, and he promises to share some with the appropriate people. In
reality, though, with 612 comments (and counting) already there, the odds of getting yours through may be pretty slim.
winbeta.org - 06.10.2007
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microsoft.com/windowsvista - 16.09.2005
Microsoft Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure
Microsoft Corp. has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure
for Back-End Application Integration Projects, the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects, the Magic
Quadrant for New Systematic Service-Oriented Business Application Projects and the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.
winbeta.org - 27.01.2009
TED Conference to Tackle Origins of Evil, Theories of Everything
A sold-out confab of celebrities, industry titans and alpha geeks will converge on Monterey, California, for a four-day, invitation-only celebration
of big ideas this week.
Now in its 24th year, TED begins on Wednesday and runs through Saturday. It is an elite event where
leaders in technology, entertainment and design gather to cross-pollinate ideas and gain inspiration from presentations on the latest developments in
sciences and the arts. Political leaders take the stage too: Former President Bill Clinton received the annual TED prize at last year's conference;
former Vice President Al Gore has also been a speaker.
winbeta.org - 26.02.2008
One more Yahoo reorganization, this time out of necessity
It is an obvious scramble by Yahoo's leaders to reassess a corporate structure that appears to have been shattered in recent weeks, and assemble a
template that makes it appear the shards fell into place intentionally...
betanews.com - 27.06.2008
Q&A: WiredSafetys International Stop Cyberbullying Conference
Microsoft joins Internet safety organizations, educators, government officials and industry leaders at new conference dedicated to helping keep kids
safe online...
microsoft.com/presspass - 02.06.2008
Microsoft Gets Gartner's Business Intelligence Top Ranking
Business Objects and Cognos have long been considered the leaders in business intelligence (BI) platforms. But in a surprising new report, Gartner
ranks Microsoft ahead of those companies in its ability to execute.
Gartner's "magic quadrants" are typically annual market
evaluations that place software vendors in one of four quadrants within a square: niche players, visionaries, challengers, and leaders. Specific
placement depends on a vendor's ability to execute, which moves them upward, and completeness of vision, which moves them to the right.
winbeta.org - 04.03.2008
Microsoft and Industry Leaders to Bridge Communications Systems
Industrywide support for
Microsoft unified
communications software brings
flexibility and cost savings
to customers...
microsoft.com/presspass - 29.05.2007
New opposition mounts to Google ads on Yahoo
The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter to the Justice Department on Sunday, citing antitrust concerns over the proposed partnership
between search leaders Yahoo and Google...
betanews.com - 09.09.2008
Senators urge FTC to turn up the heat on Google + DoubleClick
Citing the possibility that DoubleClick's and Google's massive databases of personal behavior tracking and identifying information could be merged
along with their businesses, two Senate leaders are asking the FTC to proceed cautiously...
betanews.com - 21.11.2007
School of the Future World Summit Fosters School Reform Through Communities of Continuous Learning
Microsoft Partners in Learning works with education leaders and policymakers around the globe, equipping them to assess and overcome challenges...
microsoft.com/presspass - 02.12.2008
Making Dreams a Reality: The Innoventions Dream Home
The latest attraction at Disneyland takes visitors through a home of the future featuring technologies of tomorrow inspired by some of todays
cutting-edge consumer offerings from Microsoft and other technology industry leaders...
microsoft.com/presspass - 16.06.2008
Is it time for technology to 'reboot' society?
Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. The quickening pace of innovation can make big changes to human activities that extend to socializing,
learning, earning a living, and catching law-breakers, said industry leaders at a Tuesday conference...
betanews.com - 25.06.2008
