Bill Gates launches new technology company

Bill Gates has yet again entered the shadowy world of the technology business, with the launch of bgC3, a mere four months after departing from Microsoft.

The details of what the company actually does are shrouded in mystery.

While TechRadar is hoping this means that Gates is re-branding himself as a real-life James Bond super-villain, the blogosphere believes that bgC3 is merely a business ‘think tank’ that will help create the next big ideas for the technology industry. How very boring.

Small business

Experts are dampening any promise that bgC3 will be as big as Microsoft, citing a recent letter to a Kirkland city official – where the new business will be based – where a Gates official explained that between just 40 and 60 people will be employed by the company.

This is the first major announcement of what Mr Gates has been up to since his departure from Windows in June of this year. Well, other than starring in the ill-fated Gates/Seinfeld Windows adverts.

NEC develops glasses-free 3D LCD

3D displays are ten-a-penny these days but, of course, most require us to don a pair of funky cardboard specs to enjoy the experience. Not so NEC’s latest prototype.

The Horizontal Double Density Pixels (HDDP) screen goes on display for the first time next week at Japan’s International 3D Fair and measures 12.1 inches on the diagonal.

No squinting

As with many 3D displays, resolution is low at just 800 x 600 pixels but NEC says the unique arrangement of those pixels means it isn’t uncomfortable to look at.

The company hopes the screen will find a home with makers of digital signage, although it hasn’t said when a finished version will be ready for market.

Microsoft Started bus service for employees

Microsoft Started bus service for employees & Employees can start work from the bus itself and their office hours counts from the time they start work in the bus
Traffic jam is quite normal and company do not want to waste the time of the employees in Roads.

Apple to replace iPod with ‘iWatch’?

Company co-founder hints at what lies ahead

In a candid interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted that the iPod’s popularity could be wavering, and that Apple’s future may actually be in timepieces.

In an interview that is bound to have Apple’s PR team up in arms, Wozniak explained to the Telegraph about his fears that the iPod has run its course: “The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one.

“If you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while.

“It’s kind of like everyone has got one or two or three. You get to a point when they are on display everywhere, they get real cheap and they are not selling as much.”

iWatch

And it’s not just the iPod that gets the death-knell treatment, as Wozniak believes that in these credit-crunching days, the whole computer industry should put the brakes on, saying that: “For 20 years we have been in this replacement and upgrade market.

“It is very easy to postpone that when there are financial irregularities.”

Perhaps most interesting of all, however, was what Wozniak thought may be in the pipeline for future Apple products.

Although he admitted that nobody, not even Steve Jobs, knows what the future holds for the company, he did hint that Jobs let slip that Apple could well be investing in the humble watch, called, unsurprisingly, the ‘iWatch’.

With no other details than Woza’s words, it’s hard to speculate too much, but the idea that Apple may try and revitalise the watch market is a very interesting prospect indeed.