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Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer

Dittoand may he have a successful recovery....May God be with Paul and ....... is family during this difficult time. I don't recall you as being so generous toSteve Jobs when he was out for awhile.RE: Paul Allen diagnosed with cancerHere's to hoping he beats cancer and returns to good...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, scumbag, Allen, health care, Paul Allen

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees of Vulcan, Allen's company. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees...

Tags: Paul Allen, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-17

Best guess: Paul Allen's Telescope Array won't find any aliens: because there are no aliens to find

Best guess: Paul Allen's Telescope Array won't find any aliens: because there are no aliens to findI wish you would have told us more about the telescopesabilities and specificatons.Sad waste of precious dollarsWith all the problems besieging us it's sad to see a billionaire spending truck loads of money on...

Tags: alien, Paul Allen, Best Guess, Telescope Array

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

Best guess: Paul Allen's Telescope Array won't find any aliens: because there are no aliens to find

If you want to talk about the ultimate broadband communications over distances, you would have to cite radio telescopes that are tuned in to listen to signals from alien civilizations. Last week at someplace called Hat Creek, Calif., Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen attended the unveiling and activation...

Tags: Earth, Paul Allen, Radio, Alien, Radio Dishe, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-15

SpaceShipOne: A giant leap for high-tech vets?

SpaceShipOne: A giant leap for high-tech vets?Cop outI had always heard that you must carry 3 PEOPLE on those flights. Now I see that it is "or their equivalent weight", as only the pilot was in the craft. What a cop out!Amazing that Paul Allen would spend $20 million on...

Tags: Paul Allen, SpaceShipOne

Discussion threads 2004-09-29

Microsoft's other founder finds the limelight

Microsoft's other founder finds the limelightMy rep recently paid homage to Mr. AllenMy rep routinely extolls the virtues of BillG, but the other day we got to talking about Paul Allen and we soon realized he was probably the 2nd most important inventor behind BillG. When you look at his...

Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., Paul Allen, DOS

Discussion threads 2004-06-19

Additional Resources

There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group

John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...

Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Guest Post: Steve Wylie on The Enterprise 2.0 Conference

I'm heading over to the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston on June 22. If you're interested in the social customer and how businesses should respond to them - and how workplace performance can be improved - this is the one conference you shouldn't miss all year.  I mean that.  Go. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Tweet This: IAC Might Be Interested in AOL (Says Barry Diller)

Well, maybe the founders of Twitter and the CEO of Yahoo aren’t interested in acquiring AOL. But IAC chairman Barry Diller might be. The Time Warner online service, which is openly for sale, still is a “tremendously valuable property,’’ Diller...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., America Online Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Greenest billionaires? Guess who's on top...

#1 eco-billionaire according to the "Sunday Times" in Britain: Warren Buffett, the money man of Omaha. He is listed as major player in wind energy. The "Times" just published its annual "Green Rich List." It's necessary to note that this newspaper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but of course...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Lousy time for a technology startup? Ask Bill Gates

There's been plenty of speculation that we won't be seeing a lot of startup activity this year. But consider the environment some of today's IT and corporate giants dealt with when they were starting up. An article in Fortune identifies five prominent companies that all got their...

Tags: Recession, Bill Gates, United Technologies Corp., IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobsthe end is comming for M$Linux and OSS are winning the battle with the evil.It's time to dump M$ stock and software and invest in OSS software and companies.Change is comming to America and the world, fueled by the grass roots of the FOSS.RE: Microsoft to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, stock, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Mark Greaves of Vulcan sees business opportunities in the Semantic Web

Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks the company behind Twine and Evri. Last week, I had...

Tags: Knowledge, Vulcan, Mark Greaves, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Strategy, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Management, Manufacturing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand

No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...

Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Thoughts on Bill Gates

Thoughts on Bill GatesGood lawyeringOne thing that is often forgotten is the fact that, when Gates purchased and licensed dos to IBM, the contract was the "killer app".It required IBM to pay for DOS on every machine whether they used it or not, while allowing MS to license DOS...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...

Tags: Apple iPhone, ICANN, Novell OpenSuse, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, 3G, Cellular Phones, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-27