It’s hard to be a Celebrity and stay on a Social Network site. Bill Gates’s confession today, at an event in New Delhi, India, came up as a shocking surprise for the Industry. He gave up on Facebook because he failed to live up to the friend requests. Gates expressed that “There were 10,000 people wanting to be my friends after I tried out the service … it was time consuming to decide if I knew this person, did I not know this person”. That kind of thing is Expected Read further »

Bill Gates is now living a life of a free man who is still looking into the betterment of the industry. Ofcourse, he’s still driving most of the things at Microsoft on the undercover. The Bill-ionaire, today, urged India to move away from the current strategy of low-cost labor towards high-end research and development to keep its giant IT sector competitive. On a visit to New Delhi, he called on the Indian government to speed up its commitment to R&D and to boost low number of home-grown PhD students. Gates told a panel discussion that India’s “IT success story” should strive to add value and move away from low-cost labor as other Read further »

Vogue magazine in March month’s features an interview with philanthropist Melinda Gates. When the topic of their children comes up, Mrs. Gates admits that world richest parents have banned iPods from their home, giving this irresistible quote: There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids. When pressed on the topic Mrs. Gates admits that she’s been tempted by the iPhone, saying: Every now and then I look at my friends and say ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone’. But think about it, would you Read further »

It was a show-stopping move by any standards. Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, let loose a swarm of mosquitoes at a technology conference in California to highlight the dangers of malaria. ‘Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,’ the Microsoft founder yelled at a well-heeled crowd at a technology conference in California. ‘I brought some,’ he added. ‘Here, I’ll let them roam around – there is no Read further »