style.com - 3/2/2009
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Melinda French Gates may be the most ambitious woman on Earth; she certainly has some of the most profound ambitions. “We are trying to solve hunger in the world,” she says matter-of-factly when asked what she considers the principal goals of the world’s largest philanthropy, which she runs with ...
geeksugar.com - 3/2/2009
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geeksugar.com —
This month's Vogue has a great interview with
Mrs. Bill Gates, the lovely philanthropist Melinda Gates. The...
interview focuses on the Microsoft founder's better half, but there's a fun Apple rivalry moment in the piece, when the subject of the couples' ...
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Melinda Gates Says No iPods or iPhones Are Allowed | ...
i.gizmodo.com - 3/2/2009
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According to linda Melinda in an interview with
Vogue, the Gates' kids can play Xbox, run Windows...
7, and massage photos on Microsoft Surface all they want, but they can't have iPods or iPhones: There are very few things that are on the banned list ...
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iPhones and iPods Banned at Gates' Home [Apple Vs Microsoft]
crunchgear.com - 3/2/2009
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Apparently an article in this month’s Vogue (I
can’t believe I let my subscription run out!!!) found...
Melinda Gates saying that iPods and iPhones are a no-no in the Gates household. Mrs. Gates says: “There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods ...
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No iPods allowed in Bill Gates’ house
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Melinda Gates admits to having iPhone envy
Crave: The gadget blog —
... This morning a few tech blogs are highlighting some choice quotes from a Melinda Gates interview that appears in the most recent issue of Vogue. According to the Vogue piece, the couple has ...
No iPods, iPhones allowed in Gates household
AppleInsider —
... Published: 01:00 PM EST The three children of Bill and Melinda Gates may not be allowed to have a product from a certain Cupertino-based rival in their home, but that doesn't mean Mrs. Gates doesn't wish for an Apple gadget every once in a while. Melinda Gates told Vogue in a recent interview that the couple's three children try to have "as regular a childhood as possible,", but that doesn't include Apple's ubiquitous iPod digital music and video player or its cellular companion, the iPhone. "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household," she ...
iPods e iPhones não entram de jeito nenhum na casa dos Gates
MacMagazine —
... , em meio a Windows 7s, Xboxes 360 e Microsoft Surfaces, tem muita coisa, menos iPods e/ou iPhones. O engraçado é que a própria mulher do fundador da gigante de Redmond admitiu, em entrevista para a revista Vogue, que há poucas coisas que eles proíbem em casa, mas que não se importaria em ter um iPhone, principalmente quando vê o produto tão difundido em meio a seus amigos. ...
Mrs. Gates Keeps iPhones Away From the Kids
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... The full story can be read here, which mentions the couple's plans about graver topics than cell phones, including slowing down the poverty and malaria epidemics. ...
Apple forbidden fruit in Gates of Heaven
D' Technology Weblog —
... Microsoft founder Bill Gates has banned iPods and iPhones from his household, “There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids,” Melinda Gates said in a recent interview with Vogue. But the rule has evidently been difficult to follow for Gates now that the Apple wundergadgets are the talk of the town. “Every now and then I look at my friends and say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that ...
Melinda Gates Secretly Pines for an iPhone
textually.org —
... In a recent Vogue interview, Melinda Gates confided that she's battled some iPhone envy in her day: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone'." It's just too bad for her that Apple is forbidden fruit in the Gates household. "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids," said Melinda. ...
If I were Bill Gates, I'd ban iPhones too
Crave: The gadget blog —
... Melinda Gates was recently interviewed in Vogue magazine and had some rather interesting things to say about her husband and the technology in her home. ...
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