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By - Darren Straight

Dr. Azzam Tamimi believes U.K. terror plot was a hoax

As fears rise on both sides of the Atlantic after terror threats, Dr. Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought and senior member of the Muslim Association of Britain says the U.K. terror plot was all a big hoax. I don’t believe him but hey why don’t you watch the video for yourself and decide for yourself if you

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Experts meet to decide Pluto fate

Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930. Experts are divided over whether Pluto – further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System – deserves the title.

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Windows Live: What’s the point?

I’m always frequently searching the Blogosphere for people who just don’t seem to understand what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with Windows Live, and when I find people like Simon Howard (a.k.a sjhoward) who write lengthly posts about why they don’t get windows or live or what’s the point with Windows Live I always try and ask them a question or two about what they

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Microsoft adCenter to Launch in the U.K.

Just got word that Microsoft adCenter is to Launch in the U.K. on Tuesday the 15th of August 2006, here’s the post from the AdCenter Blog: We’re really excited to announce today that Microsoft adCenter will launch in the U.K. this week! For the last couple of months we’ve run a pilot in partnership with a number of U.K. advertisers

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Frucall to be releasing new features for August 2006

Remember my recent post about Frucall the new US Web 2.0 Service which will allow you to find the comparision of shopping prices by calling 1-888-DO-FRUCALL and typing in or reading the product’s barcode number to the system which will then search the product on Amazon.com, Yahoo! Shopping and Streetprices.com and will return the pricing results within ten or so seconds. Well I