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Apple Calls For Microsoft To Pay Cash For Settlement
News In all, Microsoft would donate $500m to charitable foundations for these schools and $500m in free software. By contrast, if Microsoft were to give $1bn to charitable institutions geared toward building technology capabilities inside of schools...
[December 7, 2001, 10:58]
Microsoft Moves Beyond The Gates Era
News His decision to step down from day-to-day management in 2008, announced late on Thursday, will allow him to devote more time to his charitable foundation. June 16, 2006: Bill Gates will withdraw from his day-to-day work as Microsoft chairman in...
[June 16, 2006, 16:20]
Google Announces Charitable Move
News As companies throughout the world pay special attention to charitable giving after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Google is gearing up to launch its corporate foundation in the coming year. Google's founders announced their intention to create the...
[January 4, 2005, 7:50]
EasyNet Case Study: Sculpture At Goodwood
White Papers Sculpture at Goodwood is a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting and selling contemporary British Sculpture. They re-launched the website leading to traffic going up 30 fold to 40,000 hits per day.
[February 8, 2005, 23:00]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
Talkback So what are this charitable foundation's aims then? Considering how crucial Station X was in helping to secure Allied victory in World War 2, a small donation wouldn't hurt. Thanks Bill. Another wonderful advert for your software company.
[August 11, 2003, 12:59]
Mobile Technology Doubles Patient Capacity, Improves Nursing Care
White Papers The Home Nursing Foundation (HNF) is a Singapore charitable organization providing home nursing services to needy, elderly and sick patients. Relying mainly on funding from public donations, HNF wanted to improve service delivery, decrease...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
ICT Emergency Planning Starts With Gatwick Evac
Blog I have just arrived in a damp yet picturesque Pisa to observe, and maybe even take part in an ICT Emergency response training day hosted by the World Food Programme, The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone's charitable wing Vodafone Group...
[May 21, 2008, 9:14]
Ballmer Should Follow Gates Out Of Microsoft
Leader As you've probably read, seen and heard already today, Microsoft's chairman will take a back seat in 2008 and devote more of his talents to his charitable foundation. There's no argument that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a well...
[June 16, 2006, 16:40]
Survival Training With The UN's ICT Specialists
News Vodafone Group Foundation, the charitable wing of the telecoms provider, and the UN Foundation have had a relationship since October 2005, when the mobile-phone giant donated $20m (£10m) over five years to the UN charity.
[May 30, 2008, 15:05]
City IT Staff Support Technology Charities
News Livery companies have a long history -- going back some 700 years -- and as well as dedicating themselves to maintaining high standards in the trades, they also have a history of supporting charitable causes and community work.
[December 1, 1998, 14:35]
Mobile Tech Gets Cautious Praise From Aid Groups
News The report was also funded by Vodafone Group Foundation, the charitable wing of the mobile operator. Speaking at the launch of a United Nations Foundation report into the impact of mobile technology on the work of non-governmental organisations...
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
Sun 'distorts' Definition Of Free Software
News Irakli Nadareishvili, the chief software architect at charitable organisation Development Gateway Foundation, attended JavaOne and told ZDNet UK he was disappointed by Schwartz's comments. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software...
[July 1, 2005, 12:05]
Buzzing Bots Behave Like Bees
News The Lemelson charitable foundation has access to over $250m (£158m) and donates to a variety of causes to promote scientific education. The Lemelson Foundation was created by Jerome Lemelson, one of the more polarising figures in modern day patent...
[February 27, 2003, 10:06]
Google Hires Another Brilliant Larry
News Search giant Google has hired an award-winning expert in health and development to oversee the charitable arm of its business, which Google's founders claim could one day have a greater impact on the world than the main company.
[February 22, 2006, 15:45]
BT Engineers Assist Tsunami Relief Effort
News The company projects that its matching of employee charitable contributions worldwide will provide an additional $1.5m in corporate donations to relief agencies. On Friday, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation announced a $3m donation, saying that...
[January 4, 2005, 14:00]
Bilingual Enterprise And Solution Architecture
White Papers Business refers to the users of technology i.e.business, government, educational institute, charitable foundation etc.and technology as the providers of technology-based solutions. The use of the term "Bilingualism" in this paper signifies the...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Exclusive: Founder Gill Exits Quark
News And over the next several years I'll be moving most of those assets to the Gill Foundation," a charitable organisation that Gill founded in 1994 to promote justice and equality "while building awareness of the contributions gay men and lesbians...
[October 25, 2000, 9:17]
Saving Lives With Mobile Open Source
News The UN Foundation and the charitable arm of mobile operator Vodafone recently carried out some research into the impact mobile phones are having on developing countries. In fact, with the huge rollout we are doing with the WHO in their African...
[June 6, 2008, 15:25]
Get The Details On Microsoft's June Security Bulletins
News For most people, the big news this past week was Bill Gates' announcement of his plans to gradually leave Microsoft in order to concentrate more on his charitable foundation. However, the software giant's Patch Tuesday overshadowed this momentous...
[June 20, 2006, 12:45]
Nottingham Kids To Get Laptops On Loan
News The e-Learning Foundation is a charitable venture launched by Bill Gates in February. The Greater Nottingham Partnership (GNP), a local regeneration body, has teamed up with Microsoft and professional services company Arthur Andersen to create an e...
[September 18, 2000, 9:43]
