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By - Darren Straight

The Spam Increase in Hotmail is explained on the WLMDB Blog!

Have you been seeing more spam than usual in Hotmail for July? If so then this might be the explanation you’ve been looking for, kindly provided by the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Product Support Blog: July was an interesting month if you keep a close eye and count on junk mail you receive. I got notes on the blog

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Nineteen of 24 people have had their UK assets frozen

Following yesterdays breaking news of the Arrests of 24 people under the Terrorism Act who were found to be in connection with an alleged plot to blow transatlantic flights out of the sky from the UK to the US. Nineteen of those arrested have had their assets frozen under powers granted by the United Nations to tackle the financing of terrorism in the wake

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MS Flight Simulator X Trial Released for Download

Microsoft has released a trial version of its much-anticipated Flight Simulator X, which celebrates 25 years of the popular franchise and will be fully optimized for Windows Vista. The demo includes two airports, three missions, and three different aircraft. Flight Simulator X is compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista, requiring 14GB of hard drive space and a DirectX 9

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Microsoft Zune Will Hit Stores at $299

Microsoft is in the process of unveiling to select retailers the first of its line of Zune wearable digital audio players and informed retailers it will offer a single unit this fall, available in three colors at a suggested retail price of $299. Retailers who have been briefed by Microsoft told TWICE the player will offer Wi-Fi capability, but will

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Live.com updated to include Windows Live Orb Menu

As you have probably already noticed by now, Windows Live.com was updated last night to include the new Windows Live Orb and Orb Menu along with some UI tweaks and performance changes, and though as of yet there’s still no official word from the Windows Live.com Team about this update it’s clear that this updated version of Live.com along with

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Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Build 8.0.0932

Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Build 8.0.0932 is now available for download, but as always make sure you have signed up for the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta on ideas.live.com or you wont be able to access it. To sign up and download Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Build 8.0.0932, follow the following procedures: Go to http://ideas.live.com Find the tile for

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Come and join me at the second Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux

The Date and Location for the Blogger/Web2.0 Mixer Redux (No.2) has now been confimed by Roger, so I hope to see some of you there, let me know if you would like to come, the details are as follows: When: Monday, 11 September 2006 PM 07:30 to PM 11:00 BST Where: All bar one 36-38 Dean Street, Soho London, United

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An Instant Message chat with nataLie the Messenger Bot!

Don’t you just love messing with people who think they can scam you into entering your credit card details onto an unsecure website? Well I for one have done and it’s great to see what they say once you tell them you know they are trying to scam you and that you knew that from the start. Well it happened

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Windows Live Messenger Build 8.0.0812 Released

It’s been less than two months since the final release of Windows Live Messenger, and already is it reported that a new build was released last night. But as of yet there’s been no official word as to what the changes are in Windows Live Messenger Build 8.0.0812, so I expect they are only minor changes but hey it would