One of the richest men in the world is getting a new job.Bill Gates today ends his tenure as a top leader at Microsoft, the software giant he co-founded, to devote himself full-time to his huge charitable foundation.
Instead of working to solve problems in the information technology business, he’ll now be working to solve the world’s health problems and other major challenges.Gates is officially leaving Microsoft as of Friday, although he will remain the company’s non- executive chairman.
Since Microsoft’s start in 1975, Gates has piled nearly all its hats on …

Falling in love is easy; telling someone you love them isn’t always as simple.You want to make the first time you say, “I love you” to be special and the millionth time to be just as memorable.So, how do you do it?
Saying “I love you” doesn’t have to be perfect, but the intention and the feeling behind it should be. In a word, saying, “I love you” needs to be genuine.
If you’re stumped for ideas about how to tell your lover that you love them,here is the ebook for you …

Cyber-bullying used to involve sending threatening texts or e-mails, but the class of 2008 are finding social networks to be a fertile, and occasionally dangerous breeding ground, as Ian Hardy found out.
It does not take much for a teenager’s cyber universe to spin out of control.
A fight at school, an online misunderstanding, and within minutes he or she can become the victim of a cyber-bully campaign, thanks to the fact that millions of children are connected by computers and gadgets.
“Cyber-bullying is when one child or teen targets another for …

Microsoft won’t be dropping support for Windows XP anytime soon, and has recently announced that they will actually commit to support the OS into 2014. That will be 13 years after XP was originally released, and while it seems like a long time it is actually only a three-year extension compared to their previous operating systems.

The extended support for XP is undoubtedly driven by the fervor of many businesses and people upset over the cost of upgrading to Vista, for both the OS itself and the more powerful hardware required, …

It wasn’t all that long ago that owning a PC was considered a luxury. Particularly during the early period of PC sales growth in the late 80s and early 90s, a PC was a relatively large and expensive piece of equipment that many could do without, and many still do today. The number of people going without one, however, is rapidly shrinking – and according to recent estimates, there is nearly 1 PC for every 6 humans on the planet.

Research firm Gartner estimates that the installed base of PCs worldwide …

In an effort to tackle recent advances into the smartphone world by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, Nokia has announced its intention to buy the remaining 52 percent of Symbian shares that it does not already own and open the mobile operating system for royalty free use.

Though Symbian software has never been popular in the US, it is used widely throughout Europe where it holds about two-thirds of the market for smartphone operating systems. Furthermore, Nokia has formed the Symbian Foundation to drive the new platform globally, together with big-name …

MySpace is now no longer number one when it comes to social networking dominance, with Facebook slipping by them to take a slim lead, globally, for the number of visitors last month. Facebook netted around 123.9 million unique visits across a total of 50.6 billion pages views, coming above MySpace at 114.6 million unique visits and 45.4 billion page views.
That’s a narrow margin, but a significant one. MySpace is slightly older than Facebook and had an easier time opening up to the public. MySpace was also purchased by News Corp …

It turns out that while Google Android initially was expected to be available by the second half of 2008, phones based on the open source platform may not be around until the very tail-end of the year, with most carriers not expecting to have devices available until 2009.
Apparently T-Mobile is the only carrier expected to have an Android-powered phone come fourth quarter, but that launch is taking up so much of Google’s attention and resources that Sprint is reportedly considering to put its Android device plans on hold for a …

Do you know that their is an add-on for Firefox through which you can post a blog in your website from anywhere and anytime while surfing net.The add-on is called ScribeFire.Just search the add-on by clicking on Tools >> Add-ons.Type ScribeFire in the search box,install it and restart the Firefox browser.Now you will see a small read icon in the status bar of your browser as shown in figure

Clicking on this link will display your browser in two part.First or Upper part, with the website you are visiting and second …

The new issue of Newsweek will hit the stands with a familiar face on the cover: Bill Gates.
Gates, who is stepping down from his full-time roll at Microsoft this week to focus on his $37 billion charitable foundation, is the subject of an article that profiles Microsoft’s successes and failures during his tenure, as well as the difficult transition the company and its founder will likely face.
While the Newsweek story mentions Microsoft’s challenges in antitrust probes, Windows Vista versus Windows XP, and the Internet search arena, the story also offers …