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Bill Gates delivers his last keynote address to the crowds at this year's CES

Bill Gates reflects on his 30 years with Microsoft, talks about recent innovations in the consumer market, and looks toward the future for both Microsoft and his philanthropic pursuits.

Former EMC executive Steve Redman has joined McAfee as president for the Asia Pacific region.

Toshiba, Sony and analysts respond to the news that Warner will dump HD DVD in favour of Blu-ray Disc

After a long-winded battle to take over the largest independent middleware vendor, Oracle on Wednesday refused to allow media or analysts to ask any questions during the brief conference call announcing that the price had been agreed upon. This is an unusual step for Oracle. For the last several years, for example, Ellison has turned his keynote address at the firm's annual customer conference into a sort of town hall meeting. Having managed to conquer yet another rival, there's no real reason to clam up now.

Oracle touted its pending acquisition of BEA Systems as a way to gain a middleware stack that will provide better value than those from rival Microsoft and popular open-source alternatives.

Users of technology from both companies today expressed concern about Oracle's US$8.5 billion agreement to buy BEA Systems and to fold in the latter's middleware to the Oracle software stack.

Oracle has entered into a "definitive" agreement to buy leading middleware vendor BEA Systems for approximately US$8.5 billion, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

The publishers and author of the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography could be sued under Australian defamation laws if anyone in Australia read it online in the form of an e-book.

As a follow-up to the joint Computerworld-Hydrasight survey in June 2007, Computerworld, in conjunction with HP, held a round table discussion forum with 15 IT leaders on virtualization to talk about how the technology can be successfully applied and what challenges it is yet to overcome.

The late Internet pioneer Jon Postel (1943-1998), among others, developed the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) in 1982 that is still used today for Internet mail communications. But I'm sure Postel would be turning over in his grave if he could see the abuse that his protocol is subject to today.