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By - Darren Straight

Amazon now sells groceries with Amazon Grocery Beta

Hey check out Amazon’s New Grocery Beta Stocked with more than 10,000 non-perishable items–and growing every day All items are eligible for free Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime Great everyday prices plus special offers on your favorite brands It’s just a they don’t currently offer perishable items such as milk, fresh meat, or peaches as I was thinking of

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Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates

Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities,

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Skype 2.5 out of beta!

What’s new in Skype 2.5? Easier to call ordinary phones Send SMS messages View and call Outlook contacts directly Buy Skype credit more easily Features Make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world See who you are talking to with free video calls Chat with up to 100 people in group chats Conference call with up

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@live.com & @windowslive.com domains post removed!

Straight after being the first person yesterday to comment and blog about the new @live.com and @windowslive.com domains, I started to let other sites know about the news by sumbiting it to news sites like digg.com and neowin.net as well as posting it on my MS Discussion site, but now I’ve noticed that the Windows Live Mail Support Team has removed the original

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Nokia podcasting application beta coming soon!

Nokia is soon about to launch a new podcasting application that will let you download podcasts straight on to your mobile phone. It will work with mobiles that use the S60 third edition operating system, but Steven Stewart, Nokia’s Podcasting product manager, has explained that it has been optimised for use with a Nokia N91. The Nokia Podcast application, which

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First Internerd of the Month at The Beta Tester

The Other Day on my Birthday I was contated by Joel Monegro from a new Beta Tester Blog asking me if I could help out with the reviews on the site, now normally I would have said yes as I’m always up for helping out new sites but unfortunelty this time I had to say no as I’m quite busy with all my exams coming up. After

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New Windows Live Page Uncovered

Today Zero1 an administrator over at mess.be has uncovered a new Windows Live page which is supposedly planned to be the next up-coming refresh of the live.com portal which we recently heard about on LiveSide.net While he should really be studying, admin Zero1 found a development site for Live.com to be publicly accessible. The Windows Live start page shows a Google-ish search

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Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio Genica!

I think I remember seing something about Genpets posted ages ago on some forum, but as I was just reminded about it after seeing it posted on Miel’s Blog I thought I might as well post it here as well. Say Hello to the all New Genpets from Bio.Genica! The Genpets are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today! That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots.

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Coming Soon: @live.com and @windowslive.com domains

The title of this post says it all, on the 20th of June 2006, two new domains will be available for customers signing up for a new Windows Live ID. According to the Windows Live Mail Support Team Blog the two new domains @live.com and @windowslive.com will be available to register when you sign up for a new account with Windows

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Msn Spaces Mobile now has Stats

Starting today, when you go to your space from your mobile phone (http://mobile.spaces.msn.com/) and sign in you’ll see statistics for your space at the bottom of the page: you’ll see the number of page views from the last hour, today, the current week, and total page views since the inception of the space. The page views are tracked when your