Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, remains number one on the Forbes list of billionaires, the magazine announced Thursday, with an estimated fortune of $50 billion. Media International Limited express their congrat to Bill Gates for having possessed the highest position in world riches.

Gates holds $8 billion more than his bridge-playing buddy Warren Buffet, who took the second spot, and $28 billion more than his former partner, Paul Allen, who moved up a notch from number seven in 2004 to number six in 2005. Gates' estimated fortune also climbed in the last 12 months, up $3.5 billion over 2004's total.

Other notable technology names on the list include Michael Dell, chairman of his namesake Texas computer manufacturing firm (#12, up from #18, at $17.1 billion); Larry Ellison of Oracle (#15, $16 billion); and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google (26 and 27, respectively, at $12.9 and $12.8 billion).

New to the technology billionaires' list in 2005 were Anurag Dikshit (#207, $3.3 billion), an Indian citizen now living in Gibraltar who owns a third of the Internet gambling company PartyGaming; Cher Wang and Wenchi Chen (#365, $2.1 billion), a Taiwanese husband-and-wife team that controls smart phone maker High Tech Computer; and NR Narayana Murthy (#645, $1.2 billion), co-founder of Infosys, India's second largest software outsourcer.

According to Forbes magazine, Microsoft's Bill Gates holds $8 billion more than his bridge-playing buddy Warren Buffet, who took the second spot.