How the mighty have fallen! Bill Gates, once the most sought after figure in the tech world, now can't buy an interview.

Linus Torvalds didn't use words half as lyrical as those of the immortal Beatles when he first announced the arrival of Linux 20 years ago (for those who don't know, the headline for this article is taken from the famous album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by the band in 1967).

According to 2011 research published in the journal The Lancet, 347 million people in the world have diabetes (as of 2008), which is over double the number from 1980. It is especially high in the U.S. and Australia, two countries with the highest rates of obesity, too.

When one thinks of Microsoft, the name that automatically comes to mind is Bill Gates. Not too many people know that Gates was the lesser of two co-founders, Paul Allen being the other.

Microsoft has appointed Chris Capossela to the role of senior vice president of its newly created consumer channels and central marketing group. He will also be the company's chief marketing officer.

The second day of is year's annual TED conference, being held in Long Beach on 3 March and 'curated' by Bill Gates, will be beamed live to an audience in Sydney's Bondi Pavilion.

Want a quiet word in the ear of Bill Gates? Now's your chance

Microsoft Research, Microsoft and its chairman, Bill Gates, have launched a Web site that makes the 1964 lectures of physicist Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time.

Ray Ozzie, the man behind Lotus Domino/Lotus Notes and now Bill Gates' replacement as Microsoft Chief Software Architect has voiced his take on Google Wave during an interview at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club. He claims Wave is anti-Web while Microsoft’s Live Mesh is web friendly.

Cast your mind back four years. Bill Gates was spruiking sender ID as the solution to spam, proposing extensions to the standard e-mail protocol. Nothing came of it. Does the new kid on the block have the goods?