Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft and Ingenio combine for mobile Pay Per Call ads

Ingenio, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of Pay Per Call advertising, has announced an agreement with Microsoft that enables Ingenio Pay Per Call listings on Windows Live Search for mobile. When mobile users search for local business information, such as restaurants, travel and hotel information or other local services, relevant Ingenio Pay Per Call advertisers appear within these results. Windows

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Project Glidepath 2.0 is now available for download!

After 3 months and nearly 4,000 downloads of the Project Glidepath Technical Preview, the Project Glidepath 2.0 release is finished! Project Glidepath 2.0 contains many additional features and facilities including multiple factories and better support for VB.Net along with C#. Information regarding downloading Project Glidepath 2.0 can be found here and full details of the changes incorporated into Project Glidepath 2.0 can be found here.

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I’m a Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition Winner!

Microsoft you Rock again, thanks for giving me the chance to be a winner on the Windows Live Sessions Fans Competition. I cant wait to go to one of the following UK music festival with a friend. 😀 Reading Festival (Fri 24/08/07 – Sun 26/08/07) Leeds Festival (Fri 24/08/07 – Sun 26/08/07) Bestival (Fri 7/09/07 Sun 9/09/07) V Festival (Sat 18/08/07

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The Live Sessions competition band shortlist is now available

The Live Sessions competition has now ended, and the shortlist of the top bands is available. The judges will now pick three bands from each genre to go through to the next round and who ever goes through will compete in a battle of the bands against the other two winners in each group. The ultimate winner will get a £300,000 promotion deal. INDIE

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Store your mobiles contacts and calendar securely on ZYB

“If you are afraid of losing all the contacts stored on your mobile, try ZYB.com a free and easy to use service that allows you to store and manage your mobiles data online for free.” The service is free and works with more than 200 different phone models. It’s very simple to get started, just sign up on zyb.com, select

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Social Networking with XTParty!

Ever heard of XTParty? well if not then don’t worry you’re not alone because neither had I until I received an invited request to check it out, at first I thought it was just another social networking site like PPLParty and blahblahbox, and I guess that it is somewhat that! But like all sites and products I test I thought I would

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CondomText.com GrabAcondom.com is now Live!

Just got word that CondomText.com / GrabAcondom.com is now Live! You are getting this mail because you fancied being told when our new condom ordering service using your mobile phone when live. Today is that day! A few days earlier than hoped! You may have arrived at the site via the name CondomText.com, this name has now changed to grabacondom.com and

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Windows Live Messenger Mr Xclusives!

Hey anybody heard about the Windows Live Messenger Mr Xclusives bot? Mr Xclusives can be your buddy in-the-know, giving you the inside knowledge of all the exclusive content from Windows Live Messenger. Want to get on the red carpet with star treatment? Follow these three simple steps. Click on the ”add buddy” icon at the top right of the messenger

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Google in talks to buy YouTube

Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (£856m). The Wall Street Journal said discussions between the two sides were at a sensitive stage and the talks could break up, neither Google nor YouTube have made any comment on this as of yet. Founded by three former employees of eBay’s PayPal electronic payment unit,