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  • Queen to visit Google London HQ

    Queen Elizabeth II is to visit search giant Google's London headquarters in October, as the monarch accepts an invitation following the success of her YouTube channel.

  • Gates gonged as OSS community fights patent war

    The shadow cast over open source development by patent regime reform and associated litigation is growing ever longer.

  • Outrage at Bill Gates' knighthood

    The honorary knighthood awarded to Bill Gates by the Queen is about as popular with ZDNet readers as the Blue Screen Of Death.

  • Berners-Lee honoured for creating the Web

    The Millennium Technology Prize could soon be lined up next to the knighthood, honouring Tim Berners-Lee's achievement in building the foundations of the World Wide Web

  • Tim Berners-Lee knighted for creating Web

    It's official: the Internet is now part of the establishment, as Tim Berners-Lee - the man who combined HTML with URLs and came up with the Web - gets a gong in the New Year honours.

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  • A Gates reality check

    Microsoft's chairman talks about taking on the big guns in the business software market. "We are patient people," he says.

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