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Bill Gates not impressed with Apple iPad, is he out of touch?
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a strong advocate for tablet computing for nearly a decade. Back in 2001, he famously told CNN: The tablet takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it available whenever you want it…It’s a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the […]
Continue reading...Video of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Here’s the video clip we mentioned earlier of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs for his work in turning around Apple from the brink of irrelevancy and extinction.
Continue reading...How Steve Jobs is different from most other CEO’s
Friday, November 13, 2009
Last night, CNBC aired a program called “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great”. Buffett and Gates are two of the wealthiest men in the world, and part of the program featured direct questions from the audience. At one point during the show, an audience member asked Gates for his thoughts on Steve Jobs and […]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Friday, November 6, 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs checks in as the 43rd richest American in 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Forbes recently released its list of the 400 wealthiest people in America for 2009, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked in at the 43rd spot with a net worth of approximately $5.1 billion. With that kind of cash, Jobs could buy 864,406 iPod Shuffles or 255 thousand iPhone 3GS’s for $199. Or, he could also […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates parodied in hilarious cartoon [Video]
Friday, August 7, 2009
This might very well be the funniest Mac related video ever done. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates battle it out in an “I’m a Mac” backdrop, with a hilarious cameo appearance by the Finder. Unbelievably well done, and well worth checking out.
Continue reading...12 years ago today, Apple and Microsoft made amends, sort of [Video]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote in Boston where he announced a number of new initiatives with its ole’ rival Microsoft and an end to the legal battle over Apple’s allegations that Microsoft illegally copied the “look and feel” of the Mac OS. In the video below, a non-turtleneck clad Jobs announced […]
Continue reading...Bill Gates Facebook Page
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
via PC World Who knew that Bill Gates like himself some “Tool Academy.” I’m a little disappointed, though. I pegged him more as an “I Love Money” kinda reality fan. Anyways, check out the snarky message from good ole’ Steve Jobs. Click on the picture below to see the full version in all its glory.
Continue reading...No iPods or iPhones for the Gates children
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
In a shocking revelation, Melinda Gates recently revealed in an interview with Vogue magazine that the Gates children aren’t allowed to use iPods or iPhones. 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. I can just […]
Continue reading...Family Guy makes fun of the Zune
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Family Guy pokes a little bit of fun at Microsoft: It’s kinda funny, though sort of forced. I thought NBC’s show “Chuck” did a better job at it earlier this year. Check out the clip below:
Continue reading...Bill Gates unleashes Mosquitoes at TED conference
Thursday, February 5, 2009
You can’t make this stuff up – Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes* upon those in attendance at the TED conference. Before you go and come up with a bad Microsoft/bug joke, I should point out that Gates was trying to drive home the point that individuals in poor countries shouldn’t be the only […]
Continue reading...1983 Macintosh Dating Game ft. Jobs and Gates [Video]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Check out this 1983 Apple Macintosh Dating Game starring Steve Jobs as the host, and starring Fred Gibbons, Mitch Kapor (the former president of Lotus), and Bill Gates as the contestants. Yes, you read that correctly 🙂 Jobs is clearly having the time of his life as he asks each of the contestants when they […]
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
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