Bill Gates had a vision for a smartwatch nearly a decade ago. Will it be Apple, with the new iPod Nano and maybe a case with a strap, that brings the idea to life? Biography Biography Biography Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet.

Acting legends Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro and Catherine Deneuve will be joined by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bill Gates at next month's Toronto International Film Festival.

Bill Gates at the launch of Windows 95, which hit the market 15 years ago today.

Some kids grew up wanting to be astronauts, or athletes, or, wow, even the President. I grew up wanting to share beautiful hot sexy celebrities with the world, to be the Bill Gates Foundation of amazing boobs and butts....

Bill Gates, Bruce Springsteen, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michael Moore are among the guests who will engage in onstage discussions at the Toronto International Film Festival, the festival announced on Tuesday.

TIFF also announced more than 100 additions to its film lineup, including new films from directors Tom Tykwer, Hong Sangsoo, Vincent Gallo, Gregg Araki, Gareth Edwards, Catherine Breillat, Ken Loach and Jerzy Skolimowski.

Acting legends Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro and Catherine Deneuve will be joined by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bill Gates at next month's Toronto International Film Festival.

The cofounder of Microsoft talks energy.

When Bill Gates is interested in something new, his organizing, capacious intelligence learns everything about it, and he imagines ways it could be better. Now the cofounder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is interested in energy. At his offices in Kirkland, WA, he spoke to Jason ­Pontin, Technology Review's editor in chief. Gates called for energy "miracles" and a more rational energy policy, and he explained how being a software "fanatic" prepared him to invest in new ideas.

Sea Island might have provided famous guests including Anna Kournikova, Bill Gates and John Travolta memories to cherish, but for Lloyds Banking Group it has proved a holiday from hell.

Adrian Mercado credits Microsoft's Bill Gates with turning around his life. No, it's not that Gates--although Microsoft Office did play a starring role in Mercado's transformation from wayward youth to motivated future worker.

Germany's super-rich have rejected an invitation by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to join their 'Giving Pledge' to give away most of their fortune. The pledge has been criticized in...

Bill Gates says that soon more lectures will be available online than schools.



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Bill Gates just might be the world's most famous college dropout (sorry, Kanye), but lest you think he's changed his mind about the educational establishment, he's got a few words of reassurance for you. As the closing speaker of the Techonomy 2010 conference, Bill dished out his vision of how learning will evolve over the next few years, stating his belief that no single university will be able to match the internet when it comes to providing the learning resources a student needs. Describing traditional studies as "place-based" and inefficient, he forecasts that university education will become five times less important within five years, with online lecture sources picking up the reins of enlightening our youth. In other news, Bill's pen-based tablet PC idea is going great !

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“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” says Bill Gates. “It will be better than any single university.” He believes the $50,000 a year university education could be done via the web for as little as $2,000.

IT'S easy to sneer at the 38 US billionaires who last week signed up to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's The Giving Pledge - a moral commitment to divest themselves of

IT'S easy to sneer at the 38 US billionaires who last week signed up to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's The Giving Pledge - a moral commitment to divest themselves of

Some of Germany's wealthiest citizens have criticized a philanthropic campaign started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, saying charitable spending is best left to the government.

Some of Germany's wealthiest citizens have criticized a philanthropic campaign started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, saying charitable spending is best left to the government.

"Take nuclear: It takes longer than the length of a patent to get something done.

Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. No, it's not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte -- instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon. Well, provided they're self-motivated learners. "Five years from now on the web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world ," Gates said at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA today. "It will be better than any single university ," he continued.

To wrap up the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, Bill Gates took the stage to talk with host Brent Schiender. A big idea of the conference was the future of technology, especially as it related to the economy. Gates talked a lot about that, but perhaps in a way you wouldn't imagine. His mind was in the gutter. Literally. "Latrines are fascinating ," Gates said. The way he said it was in a bit of a joking manner, but he's not kidding. He talked about how many books he reads on the subject these days. "No one wants to read about it -- it's one of the greatest under-investments ," Gates said.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates convinced dozens of American billionaires to give away at least half of their fortune to charity in June. German politicians say their nation's wealthy should follow suit. But will they?

Philanthropist billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet will approach rich people in India and China to urge them to donate at least half their wealth.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates convinced dozens of American billionaires to give away at least half of their fortune to charity in June. German politicians say their nation's wealthy...

A number of US billionaires have pledged at least half of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign launched by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and…

Microsoft founder Bill Gates , New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and 38 other billionaires have signed a pledge to give away 50 percent or more of their fortunes to charity. Sounds good! We'll kill them last when the revolution comes. More »

Since launching the The Giving Pledge campaign in June, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have spoken to about 20% of the wealthiest people in the United States.

40 US billionaires, including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, have decided to pledge at least 50 percent of their wealth.

Bill Gates recently convinced over 30 billionaires to give away half of their fortunes to charity.

Thirty-eight US billionaires have pledged at least 50% of their wealth to charity through a campaign started by investor Warren Buffet and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

America's wealthiest persons have pledged to give away most of their fortunes.



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Forty wealthy families and individuals, including Michael Bloomberg and Larry Ellison, have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Forty wealthy families and individuals, including Michael Bloomberg and Larry Ellison, have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Forty wealthy families and individuals, including Michael Bloomberg and Larry Ellison, have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Forty wealthy families and individuals, including Michael Bloomberg and Larry Ellison, have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Forty wealthy families and individuals, including Michael Bloomberg and Larry Ellison, have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Announcement comes as part of campaign started by famed investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates

More than 30 U.S. billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give away at least 50 per cent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Thirty-eight billionaires promise to give at least half their wealth to charity through a campaign started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Forty of America's billionaires and their families pledged on Wednesday to give more than half of their fortune to charity in a drive organised by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

Forty of America's richest people pledged on Wednesday to donate over half of their fortunes to charity as part of the "The Giving Pledge" campaign organised by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and legendary investor Warren Buffet.

MANY of the world's greatest entrepreneurs have a special glow about them, something that suggests they were born to build hugely successful businesses. Just think of the likes of Larry Ellison, Bill Gates and Henry Ford - stubborn visionaries who forged their own businesses with little regard for conventional wisdom.

The 18th International AIDS Conference was recently held in Austria with delegates from across the world including prominent names such as Bill Gates and former US president Bill Clinton.

Seattle-based software company Infoflows has been awarded $20m in damages by a US Court...

If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition software over the years, you know that it's been a rocky road. Pundits ranging from Ray Kurzweil to Bill Gates, have, at various times, proclaimed speech recognition to be the wave of the computing future, but...

(Pictured: Bill Gates, Co-Trustee The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) Bill Gates, Co-Trustee The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation YesterdayIn what has been hailed as a landmark meeting - Bill Gat...

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