Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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YNIS – YourNameIntoSpace.org

What’s Unique: 450+ students, 18 countries, 1 satellite and 121,866 pieces of prime real estate. We are the largest American student-led spacecraft design program, and this is the first time that individuals and organizations around the world have the opportunity to personalize their very own portion of a satellite, and by doing so, support cutting-edge student research. Their Mission: To raise

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Microsoft Adds 3D City Models to Windows Live Local Search

Microsoft today announced U.S. availability of Virtual Earth 3D, a new online mapping interface that is part of the Live Search offering, providing consumers with a three-dimensional experience to search, browse and explore the real world online. When people visit Live Search (http://live.com), type a query into the search bar and click on the maps tab, they get their search

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Ugenie – unlock hidden savings!

Earlier today I received an email from someone called Archana inviting me to check out Ugenie and well as I had not heard of Ugenie before I thought I would take a look. And well it seems like Ugenie is a powerful new online shopping aggregator to help you find the best price on books, music, movies, and video games. You can

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2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden

Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. The unprecedented quantity of feedback from beta testers and customers helped the Office development team effectively validate product

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Microsoft Launches the VHD Test Drive Program

Microsoft has announced the VHD Test Drive Program, which provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster and less expensive, better supported and more flexible. The VHD Test Drive program is a first for Microsoft software and the more than 7,000 software vendors who can now deliver pre-configured mainstream applications within Windows Server-based virtual machines to their

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Microsoft restates China policy following Mr Tipson’s Comments

Microsoft has restated its position on China following the comments made earlier this week by Microsoft senior counsel Fred Tipson who said concerns about repression in China might make it reconsider its presence there.Mr Tipson was speaking at the first Internet Governance Forum held in Athens which debated many issues of internet policy. He said “We have to decide if

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Iraqi PM hails Saddam’s sentence to Death

The Iraqi prime minister has hailed the sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for crimes against humanity as “a verdict on a whole dark era”. Nouri Maliki said he was a criminal who deserved the punishment he was given. The former Iraqi leader was convicted over the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail

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Windows Live Product Upload launches into beta!

Looks like Windows Live Product Upload has silently launched into beta, shame you need to pre-register to access the beta though, check it out: http://productupload.live.com/ Windows Live Product Upload Beta is a free service that helps Internet-based sellers add catalogs (A complete Product Upload Beta catalog consists of a group of online settings and an uploaded file containing offers that

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Ask.com Selected to Power LYCOS Network Search

Ask.com, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) and LYCOS, Inc.(www.lycos.com), a leading web portal, have announced a multi-year agreement whereby Ask.com will be the search and sponsored listings provider for the LYCOS Network, including LYCOS.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Under the terms of the agreement, Ask.com will provide branded algorithmic search, including Web Search, Image Search, and Zoom Related Search,

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Zune Windows XP Theme

Along with the launch of the Official Zune site – Zune.net and its little brother – Zune-Arts.net has come a Zune theme for Windows XP. So that along with your new Zune you can be sporting a sexy new Zune theme on your computer. Download it now! Thanks goes to Decipher for pointing it out to me over at Zuneinfo.com