The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated £2.5m to help set up 47 Information and Communication Technology centres in deprived areas around Britain. The donation follows discussions between the foundation and Mathew Evans, chairman of the...
The Packard Foundation, which holds a 10.4 per cent stake in Hewlett Packard, has confirmed it is to vote against the company's planned merger with Compaq. The group claims it is in HP's best interests for the merger to fail.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has appointed a new executive director. Peter Brown will take up the position. Outgoing executive director Bradley Kuhn has left to take up the role of CTO at the Software Freedom Law Centre, in order to take up a...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett plans to distribute more than $30bn of his stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation.
The not-for-profit LiMo Foundation plans to announce the launch of LiMo Platform Release 1 at the CTIA show in Las Vegas today. Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing for the LiMo Foundation, said: "This is a significant achievement for LiMo...
The Symbian Foundation has announced a slew of new members, including the mobile operator 3. The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian...