Lights? Not quite

Grok Headline matches for Lights? Not quite

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out?

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out? 08/06/2004 09:40 AM

SF Chronicle: Death Star' trader admits manipulating California market. The Enron Corp. energy trader who devised the notorious "Death Star'' scheme to bill California for fictitious electricity pleaded guilty in a San Francisco court to a federal fraud charge and admitted plotting to manipulate the market during the state's energy crisis.

Who else should be indicted? An e-mail correspondent this morning points to one of the worst offenders in this scandal: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where inaction in the face of utter sleaze is a way of life. Instead of helping California and the other states that got screwed by the bandits at Enron and other energy companies, FERC has consistently stiffed the victims, offering a tidbit here and there but essentially doing nothing serious. FERC keeps insisting that it's on the case. We'll need some actual evidence one of these days.

Think Blinky Lights

Think Blinky Lights 12/08/2003 03:38 PM
It's that time of year I usually fire up xsnow on my sparc console and stare at the swirling...

Too many Christmas lights?

Too many Christmas lights? 12/10/2003 07:56 PM
Is there such a thing as too many Christmas lights? I love seeing lavish displays of lights at Christmas time. Some folks like a few old-fashioned Christmas lights and some like to deck the halls in a blaze of glory (this one boasts 700,000 lights). And how much does it cost to run a fabulous display?

Bryght lights

Bryght lights 09/01/2004 12:02 PM

Roland Tanglao reports......

If you haven't already, go check out our new venture, Bryght.

What is Bryght? Bryght is all of the following:

1. "The Salesforce.com of community content"
2. Content Management System + Community Blogging System + Email + DNS + Domain Name Registration + much more (see our features page for more details)
3. A hosted website service for communities, corporations, organizations and individuals built using the open source Drupal system.

What is the relationship between Bryght and StreamLine? None, other than the fact that I work on both :-) !

Seriously, StreamLine continues to resell Blogware blogs to individuals and Bryght is focused solely on hosted Drupal sites (with domains, email and DNS as well).

Why Blogware blogs? Because Blogware is still the best individual hosted blog service out there.
Why Bryght? Because Bryght is the best hosted website service for communities.

and those bright lights

and those bright lights 04/01/2005 02:42 PM
Just after 9 Wednesday morning, we said goodbye to Felix The Bear. He left us peacefully and quietly, surrounded by...

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights...

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights... 06/11/2004 04:05 PM

Gateway to consolidate Midwestern facilities: With this, Gateway is leaving Sioux Falls completely. This is too bad, as Gateway is a child of South Dakota.

Gateway will close its Sioux Falls, S.D., facility this month, as part of its plan to return to profitability.

Here's a statistic for you: in the last four years, Gateway has reduced their workforce by 91%, from 24,000 workers worldwide in 2000 to just 2,000 workers after this latest round of layoffs.

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Show lights up Paralympics

Show lights up Paralympics 09/17/2004 06:21 PM
The XII Paralympics begins in Athens, after a spectacular opening ceremony.

Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States

Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States 07/10/2004 06:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 10 2004 10:12AM GMT

Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go
down (USATODAY.com)

Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go
down (USATODAY.com) 09/03/2004 06:49 AM
USATODAY.com - The general election campaign roared to life Thursday night less than an hour after President Bush's acceptance speech here at the Republican convention. Bush was to head for the crucial state of Pennsylvania shortly after the balloons dropped in Madison Square Garden, and Democrat John Kerry held a midnight rally in Ohio.

Lights, camera, technology

Lights, camera, technology 04/19/2004 07:07 PM
CNET Apr 19 2004 11:15PM GMT

NYC Lights Design Competition

NYC Lights Design Competition 01/07/2004 02:02 PM
New York City Lights Design Competition (via Gothamist). What are the existing examples of urban illumination that impress? Are there unused designs or interesting ideas from art and movies floating around?

EV-DO lights up mobile data

EV-DO lights up mobile data 08/02/2004 08:00 AM
The light at the end of the tunnel to 3G mobile data services in the U.S. is getting brighter as technology that builds on Code Division Multiple Access networks comes into view.

Red traffic lights in Naples

Red traffic lights in Naples 06/05/2004 03:58 AM

I heard from one of our hosts last night that when driving in Naples, "there are three kinds of red lights. Some you must stop at or you will die. Some provide advice to be careful. Others are merely decoration." Seriously though, I have never seen so many drivers completely ignore traffic lights in my life.

Turn off the lights when you leave.

Turn off the lights when you leave. 07/24/2004 06:16 PM
The end of the light bulb? E. Fred Schubert, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "claims to have invented a 99-percent efficient reflector that promises to speed the replacement of light bulbs with LEDs." According to researchers, this could happen within the next five years. The current prototype is bankrolled by the ARPA and The National Science Foundation "recently award Schubert's team a $210,000 grant to create in three years a commercial version of his patented omnidirectional reflector."

"Schubert claimed that lighting accounts for 25 percent of U.S. electrical energy consumption. Since white LEDs emit more light per dollar and generate less unwanted heat, they are potentially a major energy saver." (see EE Times link)

Meanwhile, some of the oldtimers seem to be pretty refractory.

Texting lights up Glasto

Texting lights up Glasto 06/26/2004 02:20 PM
Techzonez Jun 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights

PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights 01/04/2004 01:39 AM

"Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!"

"Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!" 12/26/2003 09:03 AM

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP 04/19/2005 08:47 AM

Myriad hacks are emerging for the PSP as eager tweakers have their way with the black box. Add to the list the ability to control your home automation system (and TiVo) wirelessly. Liquidice explains:

I now have the ability to turn my lights on and off. [I] have full control (Play, Stop, Pause, Menu) of my DVD player, TIVO, and High Def TV, all wirelessly from my PSP. ... I put an image map on [some] graphics and created some HTML pages which are hosted on my WACI NX server. The links are crafted so that when the PSP highlights and clicks on a spot on the image map, it instructs the WACI NX server to send an IR signal to my A/V equipment or triggers it's relays to cut power on the lights.

While he doesn't have step-by-step instructions, he explains his methodologies pretty clearly, and mentions that an official Sony web browser for the PSP will make things much simpler.

(#gizmodo frequenter AMIB points out (with some sass, it's noted) that the PSP isn't so spectacular in this feat because all the heavy lifting is handled by the home automation web server. A valid point, by way of saying any device or code that can make a GET request to a web server can accomplish the same thing.)

P SP Home Control 1.0 [psphacks via PVRblog ]

Lights in Plague Park

Lights in Plague Park 12/02/2003 01:26 AM
Plague Park has a rather unusual collection of lights hanging from a tree. In the darkness they look like...

The Truth of Neon Lights

The Truth of Neon Lights 12/02/2003 02:01 AM
She's turning 30. And I mean, turning. Walking, one street fades like a dawn fog and without a signpost or a lamplight she strides into Next, and 24 hours - towards a café she isn't sure is really as open...

More Northern Lights photos

More Northern Lights photos 12/30/2003 12:09 AM
OK, I thought my pictures were pretty cool albeit a little dark and grainy, but check out these photos over at Yahoo....

Sun Lights Up U.K. Servers, Desktops

Sun Lights Up U.K. Servers, Desktops 12/08/2003 10:33 AM
Systems vendor's low-cost office software line makes more headway against rivals as the company signs Britain's Office of Government Commerce to a five-year deal.

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com! 12/25/2003 08:07 AM
UGLY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. COM .. and then you have these

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Meteor Lights Up Sky in Washington State

Meteor Lights Up Sky in Washington State 06/04/2004 01:08 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jun 3, 06:31 pm GMT

Boingo's SBC Home Roaming Lights Up

Boingo's SBC Home Roaming Lights Up 06/24/2005 10:01 PM
Boingo customers can now roam onto 3,400 SBC FreedomLink locations that SBC has directly contracted: To avoid confusion, SBC should probably better label its different offerings. SBC operates 3,400 FreedomLink locations at The UPS Store, Barnes & Noble, Caribou Coffee, and other locations. This is its home network. It also resells access to Wayport and a few other networks as part of its roaming network. And it buys access to McDonald's restaurants via Wayport, but includes that access in its standard network. So SBC FreedomLink subscribers who sign up for the basic deal gets SBC-run locations and McDonald's. Add in roaming, and they get the roaming partners, which includes airports, hotels, and other locations. Boingo Wireless announced it would resell SBC-run locations, and those locations are now live in their network. Whew....

EC green lights Infineon state aid

EC green lights Infineon state aid 07/14/2004 06:54 AM
Portuguese hand-out

Lights go out for Microsoft's anti-SP2
tool

Lights go out for Microsoft's anti-SP2
tool 04/12/2005 06:48 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 12 2005 11:11PM GMT

Lights out for Lucid's Manchester
subsidiary

Lights out for Lucid's Manchester
subsidiary 04/06/2005 11:23 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 7 2005 3:42AM GMT

US green-lights Sony BMG merger

US green-lights Sony BMG merger 07/30/2004 06:56 AM
Implementation starts Monday

Bright Lights, Burning City

Bright Lights, Burning City 09/08/2004 05:03 AM
This year's Burning Man festival was alive with light all day and all night, as luminescent art and wild displays of fire lit the desert skies. Daniel Terdiman reports from Black Rock City, Nevada.

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie 09/19/2004 02:42 AM
The movie "Tarnation" marks a milestone in cinema history. It was made by one person sitting in front of a personal computer. By Allan Hoffman, The Star-Ledger (via MyAppleMenu)

Biolaser Lights Up Stem Cells

Biolaser Lights Up Stem Cells 04/01/2005 06:16 AM
A new laser could help researchers learn how to change stem cells into neurons, heart cells and other types of therapeutic cells. And they might learn a thing or two about cancer along the way. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Designer: Christmas Lights on Web a Hoax
(AP)

Designer: Christmas Lights on Web a Hoax
(AP) 12/28/2004 01:11 PM
AP - A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.

Morfeo Couch with Eyestalk Lights

Morfeo Couch with Eyestalk Lights 08/09/2004 07:27 AM

There's not a whole lot of detail available about this Morfeo couch with hide-away bed, but really, how much information do you need? It's a couch with two bendy lights at the corners to be easily positioned for reading and other couch-bound activities. No word on price or availability, or if there will be other version that don't look like slug heads.

Read - Morfeo [FunFurde]

Ibiza Outdoor Lights with Speakers

Ibiza Outdoor Lights with Speakers 03/31/2005 07:08 PM

Italy's Oluce has unveiled their new line of outdoor lights called Ibiza. The Oluce fixtures are made out of white, weatherproof polyethlene and feature an integrated speaker. They're not wireless, sadly, with a separate stereo cable included. The speakers also only put out 20 watts, so this might be the type of fixture for your local dark (yet style-conscious) parking lot instead of your own backyard. Available now, if you can hunt down an Oluce distributor.
Product Page [Oluce via MoCoLoco]

Variable Intensity Brake Lights

Variable Intensity Brake Lights 08/10/2004 11:31 PM
Here's an idea. Why not design brake lights whose intensity varies depending up on how hard the driver is stomping on the pedal? It might help ease some of the overreaction I've seen on various highways and interstates in the last few years. According to a quick search, this isn't a new idea. But why it it only mentioned on the expensive 5 series BMW cars?...

Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug

Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug 12/27/2004 07:21 PM

R!OT Lights Up Motorola 'Homing Device'

R!OT Lights Up Motorola 'Homing Device' 01/27/2004 08:38 PM
Design In Motion Jan 28 2004 1:06AM GMT

Zander lights a fire under Motorola

Zander lights a fire under Motorola 12/17/2003 08:24 AM
ZDNet Dec 17 2003 7:53AM ET
Grok Description matches for Lights? Not quite
GrokA matches for Lights? Not quite

The Man Behind The Bill Gates Email
Forwarding Hoax

The Man Behind The Bill Gates Email
Forwarding Hoax 06/29/2004 02:15 PM
Over the years, there have been plenty of different variants on the chain letter urban legend saying that Bill Gates will give you cash for forwarding on the email. A reporter at Wired Magazine began to wonder just how these hoax emails got started. While most of the article goes through how people get suckered into passing on chain letters all the time (and what their reasoning is), he eventually (towards the end of the article) tracks down the guy who started the very first "Bill Gates will give you money for forwarding this email" email. The guy started it as a joke, and never ever expected it to get as far as it did. When it first took off at a ridiculous rate he got scared that he would get in trouble for fraud -- but he's been mostly erased by history. Most of the emails were quickly modified to remove his name (which brings up completely different questions...). When asked why he didn't want to claim "credit" for one of the longest-living, constantly mutating hoaxes, he responds with what the author calls "one of the greatest social critiques of our age": "I didn't really think of that. It's just a hoax. And if I admitted to it, why would anyone believe me?"

Columbia Sunset Picture

Columbia Sunset Picture 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
This picture is of the sun setting over Europe and Africa. Half of the picture is still in day, the other in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights. The barren area is the Sahara Desert. This amazing picture was taken, via satellite, by the crew on board Columbia during its last mission!! Note how the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and how it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

Is Bill Gates Innovative?

Is Bill Gates Innovative? 09/17/2004 12:34 AM
I'd argue, to a certain degree, yes. After all, he is probably one of the major force in creating the software industry -- software as something that a company can sell on its own, rather than something that is given away free with the hardware.

Bill Gates on webl0gs and RSS.

Bill Gates on webl0gs and RSS. 05/21/2004 01:07 PM
Bill Gates on weblogs and RSS. It was inevitable, wasn't it?! Embrace and extend, baby. Embrace and extend...

Bill Gates CES Keynote

Bill Gates CES Keynote 01/08/2004 07:33 PM
You know, tomorrow morning, when the International CES officially opens, you will see the most cutting edge products and technology from nearly 2,500 exhibitors. The International CES has a very impressive lineup of leaders who want to share their knowledge with you. Our keynoters include Fumio Ohtsubo, the president of Panasonic's AVC Networks Company, and senior managing director of Matsushita Electronic Industrial Company; Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard Company; and Gary Forsee, chairman, president and CEO of Sprint Company.

Bill Gates gets a 4% pay raise

Bill Gates gets a 4% pay raise 09/21/2004 12:24 PM
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, got a modest pay raise over the last year, according to a company filing.

Gates, who is also the company's chief software architect, received $901,667 in salary and bonus from the company for the fiscal year ended June 30, the company revealed in its proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's up 4.4 percent from the year earlier total in salary and bonus.

But Gates' increase was lower than the nearly 15 percent rise in pay and bonus he received the previous fiscal year. The filing also shows Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received the identical pay and bonus as Gates, as he has each of the previous two years. Neither executive received stock options.

With 1.1 billion shares of Microsoft stock, or about 10 percent of its shares outstanding, Gates' dividends during the year came to about $175.6 million.

This November, the company plans to pay a special dividend of $3 per share, subject to shareholder approval. The company announced in July that Gates will donate his $3.3 billion proceeds of the special dividend to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization named for him and his wife.

News source: CNN Money

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bill gates on bl0gging

bill gates on bl0gging 05/20/2004 09:53 PM
CEO summit talk where he name-checks RSS and blogging for the second time

Bill Gates: Unplugged

Bill Gates: Unplugged 11/19/2003 03:25 PM
Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.

Dinner With Bill Gates

Dinner With Bill Gates 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
Jeff Maurone: Are you beginning to feel like you are in Myst (the video game), because I was.

Bill Gates on Spam

Bill Gates on Spam 06/29/2004 01:38 PM
Internet News Jun 29 2004 4:59PM GMT

Bill Gates to Upgrade Fun

Bill Gates to Upgrade Fun 09/01/2004 01:57 PM
The Microsoft man has a plan for the parks. What it is, he's not saying yet.

Bill Gates Is A Genius And You're Not

Bill Gates Is A Genius And You're Not 07/21/2004 11:39 PM
Analysts are cheering the news that Microsoft will pay its shareholders a one-time dividend of $32 billion, that it will increase its quarterly dividend and buy back another $30 billion in shares.

Bill Gates fined $800,000

Bill Gates fined $800,000 05/03/2004 04:36 PM
CNN May 3 2004 8:05PM GMT

Bill Gates And The Next Holy War

Bill Gates And The Next Holy War 06/24/2005 04:42 PM

By Howard Anderson, Macworld UK

Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New
Building

Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New
Building 09/16/2004 01:06 AM

took Bill Gates several hours

took Bill Gates several hours 06/06/2004 03:12 AM
A nice intuitive challenge .. Bill Gates figured it out .. Here’s

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U.S. fines Bill Gates $800,000

U.S. fines Bill Gates $800,000 05/03/2004 03:16 PM
It may just be pocket change for the richest man in the world, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been fined $800,000 by the federal government for violating an antitrust rule. Will the world's richest man feel an $800,000 fine? The technical incident has nothing to do with the government's massive antitrust battles with Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates). Gates, whose fortune has been estimated at more than $40 billion, ran afoul of the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division for his purchases of stock in a drug company and a waste-hauling firm.

Bill Gates to be Knighted

Bill Gates to be Knighted 01/25/2004 10:37 AM

Make Spammers Pay, Bill Gates Says

Make Spammers Pay, Bill Gates Says 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 25 2004 7:08PM GMT

Bill Gates Hasn't Stopped Spam Yet

Bill Gates Hasn't Stopped Spam Yet 04/08/2005 08:15 PM
Early last year, Bill Gates announced that he was concentrating on the spam problem and had a few ideas on how to stop the problem. Of course, all of those ideas sounded like ideas that others were already trying -- and there was still plenty of spam. It's now been a year since Bill Gates said that his methods could get rid of spam in two years and it's not clear if his efforts have done very much. Certainly, Microsoft has been suing spammers, and some claim that the overall amount of spam has been decreasing a bit. However, we're still quite a long way from getting rid of spam -- which means the special department at Microsoft who's only job is to manage Bill Gates' spam (even if it's not as much as we were originally told) will probably still have plenty of work to do a year from now.

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates 11/06/2003 06:28 AM
vnunet.com Nov 6 2003 5:31AM ET

Bill Gates : CES Coverage 2005

Bill Gates : CES Coverage 2005 01/06/2005 12:15 AM
Bill Gates, like many years before, headed up the keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show 2005. Introduced with some light hearted comedy by TV presenter Conan O'Brian, Bill Gates keynote announced Microsoft's plans for the "digital lifestyle" in 2005.

Gates, starting 10 minutes late, announced that many new devices are joining the "PlaysForSure" Microsoft program; the company perceives there being problems amongst consumers as them being unsure as to what music / content plays on what devices. Microsoft hope that any concerns on these issues will be alleviated by this program. Gates described music somewhat vaguely as "going digital", and suggested the company was "pioneering" in the area. He showed off the iRiver device, and the Samsung PMC. The ability to view photos on PMC devices like the Samsung was touched on by Gates, who discussed Microsoft’s advances in the area of viewing pictures. He’s hoping to make it simpler to transfer digital content like pictures onto your PC and demoed a camera (Nikon D2X) with new transfer technology, as well as in built wireless connectivity. Gate’s looked rather frustrated when attempting to demo slide show technology on MCE 2005; unfortunately, despite numerous attempts (and comic suggestions from O’Brian) the slideshow failed to work until later in the show. It became clear later that the bit had been setup to provide O’Brian / MS PR team with an opportunity to Photoshop some photos of Gates for comedy value; all in all the demo had three major failures.

Gates focused on “choice”, highlighting a commitment to letting people view content when they wanted, on whatever device they wanted. He described the centre piece for the drive as Windows Media Center Edition, and noted that they had shipped 1.4 million MCE devices. Products announced at CES included a MSN TV device, a DVD Recording device, new SPOT watches, IP-TV, and much more. Demoed was the MCE Extender for X-Box and MSN Remote Record (currently in beta, to be launched later this quarter). The DVD recorder was also demoed; the device is a records DVD’s, and also has a TV tuner and a hard drive packaged together; the box is made by LG, and features a MCE-esque style layout, with a very simple functionality. This device is one of many new “integrated devices” that Microsoft is keen on launching with MCE 2005. It also became clear that the company is enthusiastic with High Definition (HD) TV devices, offering high quality content in the home. One of the presenters talked about voice, video and data coming through the same pipe- named "IP-TV", an exciting, high bandwidth (and perhaps futuristic) vision of content being offered in the years to come. Software was demoed showing a baseball game where users could control elements like angles viewed, made possible via IP-TV. The potentials did seem quite endless for the technology, with a demo being given on content being streamed from a MCE box onto a mobile phone, and a mobile phone interacting with the box, functioning as a big remote control. It’s re-assuring that Microsoft aren’t just focusing on delivering content to one device (MCE boxes) but much more; it’s also rather worrying that the company could be dominating in many more markets.

Gates also announced a partnership between Microsoft, music channel MTV, and Tivo. Microsoft's relationship with MTV is key for its push into the media centre market. The company badly needs media providers like MTV to create unique content to get users on the Windows Media platform. As part of the agreement, MTV (and its sub-sites) will begin streaming content using WMV 10. Microsoft wants to channel more content from providers like MTV onto their media devices. The announcement comes with MSN Video, offering content for download straight to media devices like the Creative Zen PMC. "We've declared our vision of enabling digital entertainment anywhere, and today we are delivering three more solutions to make that possible," said Blair Westlake, VP of Media at Microsoft.

Tivo's recently launched "TiVoToGo" will be done in partership with Microsoft, allowing customers to transfer content recorded from TV onto their Windows PC. Microsoft will offer a membership based download service from the site, charging $19.99 per year for un-limited access to content offered online. Content will be available from Microsoft partners like MTV, as well as CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Sports, Cookie Jar, Home and Garden TV, DIY Network, Food Network, Fine Living, iFilm, Want Media and Break TV. Content offered will be suitable for the range of "PlaysForSure" devices and will later be compatible with Smartphones and Pocket PCs that support video. Xbox news was limited to discussion about the products achievements over the past year, and noted that the X-Box actually outsold the PS2. He noted Halo-2’s success, and said that there were 6.2m users playing the game. He noted a commitment to making it easier for developers to code games for the Xbox platform. Rumours that CES would see the launch of X-Box 2 were false; he touched on the fact that the next generation of Xbox would be taking advantage of much higher graphics power, which combined with HD-TV would produce much more enticing games.

All in all, Gates announced an impressive line up of new products at CES. Although MCE didn't really take off as well as it might have last year, the company hopes that 2005 will see far more interest in the product. Microsoft hopes to re-assert itself in areas where it perhaps lagged behind, and the offerings shown at this years CES are certain impressive enough to make a good start.

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Bill Gates stalks Nintendo - again

Bill Gates stalks Nintendo - again 08/05/2004 10:29 AM
Have cash, will buy unwanted shares

Bill Gates Says Make Spammers Pay

Bill Gates Says Make Spammers Pay 01/23/2004 11:00 PM
AP via Daily Press Jan 24 2004 3:08AM GMT

Bill Gates, ¿creador de Internet?

Bill Gates, ¿creador de Internet? 05/14/2004 09:06 PM

Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel

Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel 02/07/2005 01:23 AM
Slashdot Feb 6 2005 5:13PM GMT

Bill Gates at the 2005 International CES

Bill Gates at the 2005 International CES 01/05/2005 06:30 AM
Once again, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opens the show with his vision of the year ahead in consumer electronics. Bill will present his 2005 International CES keynote address Wednesday, Jan. 5, at 6:30 p.m. PST in the Las Vegas Hilton Theater.

Bill Gates Has Left the Building

Bill Gates Has Left the Building 04/28/2004 05:25 PM

For the first time ever in the two years I've been blogging, I have closed the comments on an entry. I always thought I could never get enough comments, but the things happening on the semi-legendary Bill Gates entry need to stop. Comments are split between very sad stories, and people making fun of those sad stories.

While I was at it, I closed the comments on the Bush and Clinton entries as well. People thought they were talking to Bush (a title of "Emailing the President" probably didn't help), and the Clinton thing is straying too far into politics (admittedly, my own comments aggravated this).

I had to dig out the manuals to find the right tag to close them, because I removed that tag from my template long ago, thinking I'd never want to close the comments on anything.

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Bill Gates talks about bl0gging

Bill Gates talks about bl0gging 05/21/2004 04:10 AM

Reuters

Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging as Business Tool

Gates described to his audience, which included Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Carly Fiorina, Barry Diller and other top business executives, how blogs worked and suggested that they could be used as a tool for businesses to communicate with customers.

[...]

Microsoft, which has already amassed more than 700 employee bloggers talking up its products and software in development, is embracing blogs and RSS technology because they are yet another potential threat and opportunity, said Joe Wilcox, analyst at Jupiter Research.

[...]

Instead of RSS, however, Google is also promoting a rival syndication standard called Atom.

So, we already knew that Microsoft knows about and cares about blogs. Does the fact that Bill Gates explained blogs to a bunch of people who already knew what blogs were mean anything substantive?

Scoble, can you give us the inside skinny? Is this going to turn into a Google-Atom vs. Microsoft-RSS war as the article insinuates?

via Gen Kanai

Lights? Not quite

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