Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

A review of Box.net a virtual storage space for your computer files

At the beginning of this month I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dylan Smith the guy in charge of Sales and Finance for Box.net, a virtual online storage service. He asked me if I would interested in a Beta Account of their upcoming revamped (Version 2.0) online file storage service Box.net so I could search for bugs and

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The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane

It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets. Meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer.   Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater. The Cormorant, a stealthy,

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Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Hey check this post out below, I know it’s directly copied from Gabor Scelles Blog, but I just fealt the need to post it here as well, full credit goes to him of course! 😀 It’s good to keep an eye on headcount when comparing companies. The number of employees you have pretty much defines what you can do: How

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How they named companies

Now here’s a pretty cool site which names a load of companies and how they got their names, here’s a few of them: Adobe- came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke . Apache- The name was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé),

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London City to be Wi-Fi-enabled

London City is soon to be totally Wi-Fi-enabled now in my opinion I think call great news for a great City because I believe that Wi-Fi is definitely the way to go at the moment especially as it gives so many people more access to the internet when out and about, the internet is now part of a daily lives

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New York pans skyscraper escape pods

Read this, it caught my attention so it might be of some what interest to you as well! NEW YORK (AP) — The idea emerged after Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni and a team of aspiring inventors in Israel watched a television documentary about victims trapped on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Shimshoni recalled seeing