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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

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

By - Darren Straight

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

By - Darren Straight

Niall Kennedy Leaves Windows Live Team at Microsoft

Niall Kennedy, a high-profile hire from Technorati who joined Microsoft in April 2006 as Program Manager for syndication with the Windows Live team has today announced on his blog that he is leaving Microsoft as of the 18th of August to create a new tech startup. Probably the part that most stands out from his blog post is as follows: