Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft Windows Live and Qwest Team Up!

Today Qwest announced that it is now the first communications company to announce plans to offer co-branded Windows Live services in the U.S. providing personalized Internet experiences for customers. Marshall Kirkpatrick has posted on his blog that he thinks this was a very good deal and that this is going to help Web 2.0 take off to the road even more than what it

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CafeMSN UK – April 2006

Hurray goes to me for once again winning a £10 Gift Certificate for Amazon UK from CafeMSN UK, thanks CafeMSN I think you are doing a great job of getting people to participate in the discussions on the Buddy Program at CafeMSN by rewarding them with prizes. My Winning so far: April 2006 Prize winner #5 £ 10 shopping voucher winner

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DMCA complaints on Google Search

Today while searching on Google for some windows live messenger winks, I came across a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice message at the bottom of the Google Search Results page, which goes as follows: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish,

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Is 06/06/06 anything special?

Is today (06/06/06/) set to be once again just a normal day, or will something else happen. Well the people at St. Louis Post-Dispatchre have posted an article on what they think today means, so go ahead and check it out. Revelation’s author is having a big laugh. Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans

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June Chat with IE7 team

Members of the IE team will be online for an Expert Zone chat this coming Thursday June 8th at 10.00AM PST (05:00PM GMT / 06:00PM British Summer Time). As always these chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product team. A transcript will be published after the chat and transcripts of