SPOT watches, R.I.P.: 2004 - 2008
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| After a long, painful, nearly anonymous ride on the wrists of a select few
| uber-geeks, Microsoft's finally throwing in the towel on one of its
| longstanding pet projects: the SPOT watch. Those who've followed the
| technology recently (you know who you are) already know that the writing's
| been on the wall for some time; the applications and content available to the
| watches haven't been updated in ages, and indeed, the entire line of Abacus
| Smart Watch 2006 models -- the only type being recently offered -- has been
| discontinued and out of stock for a few months.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/spot-watches-r-i-p-2004-2008
Another Gates 'prediction'. More hilarity below.
Recent:
Despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers
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| "Two years from now, spam will be solved."
|
| — Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates, 2004, World Economic Forum in Switzerland
|
| [...]
|
| "I never said it would be solved," Gates said in an interview with USA TODAY
| last month. "I said it would be substantially reduced, and in fact it has
| been reduced a lot."
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-11-22-spam_N.htm?csp=N008
Related:
Why Bill Gates is wrong about mobility
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| I think Gates is dead wrong about all of this.
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| Instead of phones getting bigger and PCs getting smaller, phones
| will get smaller, and mobile PCs -- laptops and tablets -- will get bigger.
|
| And the UMPC is dead in its crib.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9019900
http://tinyurl.com/2g7hd5
Microsoft Versus Your TV
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| The problem? None of Gates' media efforts are making money. Microsoft's
| MSN online arm lost $200 million during its most recent quarter. And
| Microsoft's entertainment and devices business, which is built around
| entertainment gizmos such as the company's XBox 360 console and Zune
| music player, lost $315 million. Rupert Murdoch he ain't.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/08/microsoft-tv-gates-tech-cx_bc_0508gates.html?partner=yahootix
Gates anticipates AIDS vaccine in his lifetime
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| Microsoft founder Bill Gates expects an AIDS vaccine will be developed
| while he's around to see it, he told CBC News in an interview Friday.
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/10/gates-interview.html?ref=rss
Gates Foundation’s Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agency’s policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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