When Forbes publishes its list of the year’s billionaires tomorrow, one thing we are sure about is that Bill Gates will not make it to the top slot this time. Well, the news is that the software moghul is losing his title after giving away $28 billion to charity. This accounts for almost more than a third of his wealth and has been donated to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The charity organization stands for global health and development and education in the US. The wealth of Bill Gates now accounts for $49 billion, says Reuters. Gates is preceded by Mexican

We are really not that sure if Steve Jobs is too bothered about being called ‘Sir Steve Jobs’. In fact, maybe he has better titles going around the Apple offices! But it seems a bit stupid when the prime minister of a country shoots down the idea of conferring an honor because the guy refused to speak at one of his party meetings in the past. Of course neither Apple nor Brown commented on the matter, but with the way things go in politics, this seems par for the course. According to The Telegraph, an unnamed UK Labour party MP has given out this news bit. Knowing the man

The power of Google is immense – you can compare prices for items you want to purchase with Google Product search, find the whereabouts of an old classmate using the standard Google search or even look at your house from above, courtesy of Google Maps. One way in which Google is being used more and more, however, is as a news collection service. Using the tools provided in Google News and iGoogle, you can tailor news feeds, send updates to your email account and even grab an RSS feed of the information you want and feed it to your computer! The Basics of Google News

The much awaited Windows Phone 7 OS will be out very soon (and it better be since there are many Smartphones lined up counting on it) and to absolutely nobody’s surprise it will be Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who will be the keynote speaker at the launch event on October 11 in New York City. Surely NYC will be all set for the much anticipated event as already press invites have been dispatched across the web with people queuing up to take the first look. On the stage along with the windows wiz Ballmer will be AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega, who quite obviously has enormous

It seems to be a popular choice for celebrities to open up their own Twitter accounts lately – and wouldn’t you know it, Bill Gates joined in on the fun too! His account, named @BillGates, has already added various other accounts to its following list. The list seems to be rather exclusive, but features names such as Kara Swisher, Steven Levy of Wired, and even Ashley Tisdale and Ashton Kutcher – with the last one bringing a huge question mark to our faces. Bill Gates seems to be covering mainly events related to Haiti right now, as he is involved in the

If you’ve been living in the Twitterverse then you’ve surely felt the aftershock of Bill Gates making his first official appearance on the social media ripsnorter just hours ago. As you’d expect, @BillGates is following a number of accounts related to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. He’s even following a few tech-media dignitaries like Kara Swisher of All Things Digital and Steven Levy of Wired. But of the 40 accounts that Bill is following, we didn’t expect to see Ashley Tisdale (fresh off her Microsoft Store performance) and uh, Ashton