The Future According To Microsoft – Video
| October 29, 2011
Category: News
Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated
| October 29, 2011
You know, only a billionaire could say something like being a billionaire is “overrated.” Thanks for the advice Bill, but I think I’d like to give it a try anyway.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger.
Apple Releases Steve Jobs Tribute Video
| October 29, 2011
For those of us that weren’t invited to the event, Apple has put up a tribute page that features an 80 minute long video of the celebration of Steve Jobs’ life.
Great American Garage Entrepreneurs
| October 28, 2011
Setting up shop in a garage may sound like a cliché, but did you know that a number of thriving American businesses really got their start that way? One of the most famous examples is, of course, Apple Inc., founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak. Find out about their brainchild and other major companies that trace their roots to humble birthplaces.
The garage in Los Altos, California, where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Inc. in 1976.
On April Fool’s Day in 1976, 21-year-old Steve Jobs and 25-year-old Steve Wozniak established Apple Computer, later known simply as Apple Inc. Pioneers in the burgeoning world of personal computers, the pair worked out of Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Jobs, a college dropout, became one of the great innovators of the digital age, transforming not just his original field but also music, animation and mobile communications. He died at 56 on October 5, 2011, after a long struggle with cancer. Apple’s notable products include the Macintosh computer line, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, iTunes, the Mac OS X operating system and Final Cut Studio.
MC Hammer Launching A Search Engine
| October 28, 2011
You have got to be kidding me, MC Hammer is launching a search engine? And it is called WireDoo?
The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. At the conference, he said what will make his search tool better than Google (or, too legit to quit, if you will) will be its “deep search” ability. “It’s about relationships beyond just the keywords,” he said, according to Mashable, a CNN.com content partner.
Speak Out Against Canada’s Anti-Piracy Law!
| October 28, 2011
Following pressure from the US Government, Canada is preparing to ram through a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers. The Conservative majority government has reintroduced the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act Bill C-11. This Bill is a carbon copy of Bill C-32 and the government is set to expedite this legislation into law over the next few weeks.
