The Bill Gates Engadgethology

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

As part of our ongoing Bill Gates Day coverage, we present to you the Bill Engadgethology. This is by no means every Gates-related story from over the years -- just the choicest cuts from Club Bill Gates.

Bill and us
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates, Part 1
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates, Part 2
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates (again!)
Bill Gates, Engadget reader
A lunchtime chat with Bill Gates at CES
Bill Gates: the exit interview

Bill Gates live
Bill Gates: Live at Microsoft"s Digital Entertainment Anywhere Event
In real time: Engadget live from the Bill Gates 2005 CES Keynote at the Las Vegas Hilton
Live coverage of Bill Gates CES keynote
Live from the Bill Gates keynote
Live at the Windows Vista launch event
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007 -> Poll: Jobs and Gates sit down in an alternate reality
Bill Gates: live at his 12th and final CES keynote
Live from D: Gates and Ballmer debut Windows 7

Bill in high society
Bill Gates to get knighted -> Bill Gates getting knighted
Bill Gates the dropout to receive honorary Harvard degree, will finally be able to do something with his life
Bill Gates gets Harvard degree, not at all smug about it

Bill vs. "PC"
"I"m a PC." "And I"m also a PC.": Gates vs. Hodgman on Daily Show tomorrow?
Bill Gates on Mac ads: "I don"t even get it"
AdAge asks Gates about Hodgman to ill effect

More Bill after the break. Photo by Brennanator.

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HTC Touch Pro gets handled, keyboard better than X1"s?

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

The question on quite literally every WinMo fanatic"s mind as we go into the second half of the year here is, "Touch Pro or X1?" It"s not an easy question to answer, and anyone hoping to sink some cash on either one of these models in a few months is going to want to do so with a crap-ton of research and anecdotal information under their belts lest the buyer"s remorse set in particularly quickly. MobileBurn scored an early look at the Touch Pro -- which won"t be available at retail for a month or three yet -- and came away impressed with the all-important keyboard, saying that it was "much more" usable than the QWERTY found on Sony Ericsson"s rival superphone. Closed, it"s said to be virtually indistingushable from the Touch Diamond (which we"d say is a good thing) other than being a bit thicker to accomodate they keyboard and picking up a matte-finish rear cover. Unfortunately, HTC refused to show off the Touch Pro"s interface -- apparently on account of some new tricks up TouchFLO 3D"s sleeve that haven"t already made their way into the Touch Diamond -- but they did share that the new model will handle landscape mode with particular aplomb. So this one might have the X1 beat in the keyboard department, but the X1"s WVGA display takes the crown for sheer pixel count. Decisions!

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Competencia de Firefox con el explorer

Un nuevo estudio sobre el comportamiento de los internautas indica que el navegador web Firefox ya tiene el 25% del total mundial. Los reveladores datos Un estudio reciente de XiTi mostraba que el browser de la Fundación Mozilla era utilizado por el 25% de los internautas en Europa. Y ahora las estadísticas de W3Counter son contundentes: el navegador gratuito Firefox es utilizado por el 25% de las personas que navegan por internet. El crecimiento de Firefox hace que el Internet Explorer de Microsoft vea caer su cuota de mercado al 66,36% frente a un crecimiento del Firefox, que ahora es utilizado por el 24,82% de los internautas. De acuerdo a lo informado por W3Counter, el trabajo se basa en los datos de más de 30 millones de usuarios únicos en más de 4.000 páginas. Por el lado de los sistemas operativos, el líder absoluto sigue siendo Windows: sólo el XP cuenta con el 85% del mercado mientras que MacOS X llega al 3,87% y Linux al 1,21 por ciento.

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Everex (mostly) acquired by NewMarket

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Never heard of Everex? They"re the smallish, low-end PC maker owned by FIC (who we"d guess also might not know) that makes the Cloudbook (among other things). We only mention them because a third, even more unfamiliar company, a systems integrator named NewMarket Technology, is buying out 75% of Everex to flesh out their mobile hardware presence in certain developing nations. The sum"s undisclosed, the transaction"s due for completion this September, and you might still be wondering what it all means to you. Well, unless you live in Asia or Latin America, probably not a whole lot.

[Via PC World]

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Sweety stress reliever hears you out, won"t complain if you batter it

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We"ll go ahead and squash your welling excitement: from what we can glean, Sweety is nothing more than a concept, but for enough cash, designer Haishu Zhang may be willing to make your dreams a reality. Nevertheless, this highly sophisticated stress reliever somehow hears you out and can determine the root cause of the tension in your life. He"ll also invite you to play interactive games to keep your mind on more peaceful endeavors, but if the world just tosses too much in your way, he isn"t opposed to being maltreated if it steers you clear of the roof.

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Volkswagen prepping a plug-in "Twin Drive" hybrid for 2010

Filed under: Transportation

You know how we love plug-in hybrids around these parts, particularly if they"re actually going to get built -- crazy, we know. Now it looks like Volkswagen is going to get into the game, with a "Twin Drive" Golf powered by a 122 horsepower diesel engine and 82 horsies of electric motor. The car should debut around 2010, and VW plans on spending $769 million on the project, helped along by a $23.5 million program put in place by the German government to help along such development. The car, which uses the electric motor for primary power, supplemented by the diesel motor and regenerative braking for extra juice, should be able to squeeze about 31 miles out of its Sanyo-developed lithium-ion batteries in all-electric mode.

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