PHONE BILL: Gates wants mobile operators to use Microsoft products
What do you get when you combine Microsoft, the planet's biggest software company, which is desperate to move into the mobile phone industry, with Vodafone, the planet's second biggest mobile operator? Would you guess a) a mobile phone based on a Microsoft operating system, or b) a dongle? When Microsoft boss Bill Gates jetted into Geneva's ITU Telecom World Conference last week, he came up with answer b).
That's right, a dongle. About the size of a small travel alarm clock, the dongle attaches to a desktop PC or a laptop and lets users charge small...
