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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

My thoughts on the Farecast Private Beta so far!

Ok so I’ve been on the Farecast Private Beta, an airline fare prediction tool, for less than a week now thanks to Mark and I kind of like what I’ve seen so far, but to be honest there’s still quite a lot of limitations. Now I know this is a very early private beta (invite only) but I think they really need

By - Darren Straight

30 Boxes Webtop!

30 Boxes co-founder Narendra Rocherolle has now posted on the 30 Boxes Blog about their new Webtop Service called 30 Boxes Webtop! And so far it’s looking pretty good as you can even choose a different background image by giving the webtop an URL, it also ties in nicely with your calendar, but yeah anyway I won’t go into depths

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Windows Vista Beta 2: Biggest Download Event in History

For those of you that don’t know yet, the Windows Vista Beta 2 Download is set to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for 2006 because it has set the record for the biggest download event in history with its 3.5GB Windows Vista ISO Image that contains the Windows Vista Installer. We are pumping out bits as

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Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for PodTech.net so what’s next?

Ok so you’ve probably already heard the news about how Robert Scoble, one of the worlds most noticed bloggers and technical evangelists for Microsoft, has announced (10th June 20060) that he is leaving Microsoft to join a new start up called PodTech.net where he will work as Vice President of Media Development. But have you heard the new news about