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Ending an era with Bill Gates' best quotes

News As the world's most famous tech boss, Bill Gates has been quoted more times than you can shake a stick at -- but there have been some particularly insightful, bold and wide of the mark comments that stand out.

Tags: industry, speech, magazine, cnet news

27 June 2008, 10:00

Yahoo expands mobile phone search functions

News The new SMS Search feature promises to let people get specific information in text on their mobile phones, such as weather, stock quotes and store addresses, and use shortcuts on the keypad to make it faster.

7 July 2005, 10:06

News.blog: iPhone SDK downloads hit 100,000

News Apple included quotes from a number of third-party developers that give a pretty clear signal of what types of applications are already in development. NetSuite (ERP/CRM software) and Six Apart (blogging software) are a few of the companies whose...

Tags: apple, developers, problems, event

13 March 2008, 9:06

Virgin's mobile TV handset launch in sight

News The first handset in the UK to support mobile broadcast TV has appeared in a Carphone Warehouse brochure, which quotes a September release date. The catalogue has Virgin Mobile's Lobster 700 TV device -- designed by HTC and running on Windows...

4 August 2006, 11:06

New Google desktop tool offers customisation

News Google has rolled out a beta version of its desktop software, adding such features as 'Sidebar', which offers a personalised panel of information such as email, stock quotes and news. The software, unveiled on Monday, also includes a scratch-pad...

23 August 2005, 10:33

News.blog: Sony kills off 20GB PS3

News The blog quotes Sony saying the 20GB version will no longer be shipped to North American retailers. Sony is axing the lower-end model of the PlayStation 3, which has been available to date in the US and Japan, according to the gaming blog Joystiq.

12 April 2007, 10:50

News.blog: Microsoft, Sony talk 360 Blu-ray drive

News The report comes from a Financial Times story that quotes an unnamed "senior executive", who says that Sony and CNET.co.uk's sister site Gamespot.co.uk posted a news blurb on a report that "Microsoft has entered into talks with Sony to bring Blu...

Tags: disc, ray, xbox, layer

7 March 2008, 9:19

Google ready to do hardware?

News The newspaper quotes sources as saying Google is now in negotiations with retailers including Asda parent Wal-Mart to sell a low-cost PC or other computing device. Google could be about to shift its focus from software and search to hardware.

4 January 2006, 8:53

New mobile screens cut battery use

News As a result, a mobile phone equipped with such a screen could continually broadcast stock quotes, news stories or show a music video to go along with a built-in MP3 player. A new breed of screens for mobile phones, now in development, is getting...

12 June 2006, 11:35

News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009

News The report quotes Samsung SDI's VP of mobile display marketing, Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the US this year.

Tags: samsung, inch, market, lcd

23 April 2008, 10:12

Wi-Fi mobiles the next big thing?

News Mobile service providers initially saw Wi-Fi as a threat to sales of data services such as weather reports and stock quotes. Sales of mobile phones with both GSM and Wi-Fi capability will be booming by 2010, according to a study by market research...

28 June 2006, 10:15

Google Desktop 3 in final testing

News The accompanying Sidebar is a floating tool palette that offers personalised news, RSS feeds, weather, stock quotes and other information based on a user's preferences. Google is adding new features to its Desktop search program, including further...

9 February 2006, 10:16

Sex workers call for 'GTA' boycott

News The organisation quotes various points from Walsh's paper including, "Children are more likely to imitate a character with whom they identify. The Grand Theft Auto franchise is being attacked from all angles.

17 February 2006, 8:48

BBC2 to broadcast on broadband

News The BBC Web site quotes Keating saying: "A broadband channel could of course offer simulcast programming [broadcasting simultaneously on multiple media] and the kind of comprehensive catch-up currently being piloted in the BBC Player tests.

28 November 2005, 10:46

News.blog: Qtrax links with Universal, for real

News January -- with a star-studded party and lots of breathless quotes from executives. Qtrax, the legal P2P music start-up, really has signed a licensing agreement with a major label this time. On Tuesday, the company announced it has inked a deal...

Tags: labels, companies, company, signed

7 May 2008, 10:10