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Bill Gates had been number 1 on the Forbes list for 15 consecutive years, but now Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates to become the richest American in the Forbes 400 list. But as Gates has now officially retired it is not really detrimental to form.

Every year like minded individuals join together to blog about Poverty, to help bring awareness to everyone in the hope that we can all do our little bit to help make poverty history.

If you would like to take part there are numerous ways of helping out.

There’s no doubting the Wii was a ground breaking introduction to the console market with it’s highly interactive feature set, most noticeably the ingenious controller, which vibrates and interactively moves pre-programmed elements on screen.

Nintendo have continued this development with lots more clever kit for the console; including the Wii Fit system a multitude of controller add-ons including tennis rackets and fishing rods to guitars and light guns.

With all our senses fully loaded, there has been one that has been left somewhat behind; speech.

Steve Oldmeadow has never set foot in Silicon Valley, but this month the software developer became one of a select few to be handed a $120,000 cheque from Google.

The new phone, slightly more compact than its predecessor, does have a fresh case design and goes with full touch interface using SPB Shell on top of Windoze Mobile 6.1, plus the 3-D transition effects for the file and program browsing. While the CPU is the same Samsung S3C 6400 533 MHz, the RAM amount was doubled to 128 MB catering for even larger applications.

Such a great idea, making the most of the subway draft in an unusual art form.

Some of you may remember the first Tron film hitting the screens in 1982, where Jeff bridges took the role of Kevin Flynn; well Disney have decided to make the second incarnation of the film some 26 years later; and yes Jeff bridges will still play the main role, albeit some what older, but still bad ass as ever.