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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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MSN Hello Christmas Competition

MSN has ramped up its online ad activity for Windows Live Messenger, ahead of Live.com’s launch in the New Year, with a Christmas campaign site that’s aimed at promoting its video-call service. MSN’s Hello Christmas site, which has now gone live, is a video-sharing portal where users can view and upload video messages to friends and loved ones around the

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A new event is launching in February called Startup!

Startup! is a new event, in conjunction with TechCrunch UK, that has the aim of bringing together people, ideas & money by bringing together the UK’s best technology startups and the best active investors: angels, VCs and corporates. Right now the first Startup! event in central London is in the final stages of planning with a number of interested investor partners. The

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The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour

Wow did I have a great time or what on The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour. Not only did I get to visit like five to six london pubs as well as the Internet People Dinner and Firefox 2 Party, but I also got to meet loads of cool people! Here’s a short list of some of them: Robert Scoble

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Top 10 Search Keyphrases for November 2006

1266 different keyphrases were used to find my site in November 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overal usage percentage. vtunnel | 3109 | 43.8 % vtunnel myspace | 352 | 4.9% zune software download | 216 | 3% websites like vtunnel | 132 | 1.8% sites like vtunnel | 110 | 1.5% https//

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MSN Movie Mogul Quiz 2006

Are you a fountain of knowledge when it comes to film trivia? All you have to do is correctly answer the five questions on the MSN Movie Mogul quiz homepage for a chance to win one of hundreds of prizes. Ten lucky entrants will win the Creative Zen W portable media player. Fifteen lucky entrants will win a year’s free movies from MSN

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Telcogames Launches 3D Puzzle Sil For Smartphones

Telcogames, a global publisher, developer and distributor of mobile games yesterday announced the launch of award winning SiL, a 3D silhouette matching puzzle for smart phone devices and PC.SIL the latest Nokia award winning 3D puzzle game to be launched and developed by Telcogames takes on the addictive puzzling antics of shape recognition but with a whole new reverse twist.  Train

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Vizu Answers has been successfully launched!

Vizu Answers places interactive polls directly onto Web site pages; there are no popup or new browser windows involved. Their technology integrates the poll widget seamlessly into a site unlike advertising assets that often look out of place compared to the rest of the page. When a user votes on a poll, the results load within the widget without a refresh

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Windows Live Messenger for mobile browsers is here!

Mike Smuga, Program Manager for Windows Live Mobile has announced, on his blog, that Windows Live Messenger for mobile browsers is here! And what a cool App it is. The app is targeted at all users who don’t have Windows Live Messenger rich clients running on their devices, but have access to a web browser on their phone. We experimented with

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Microsoft UK Launch Event: Ready for a New Day

Anybody else going to the UK “Ready for a New Day” Microsoft Launch Event of Microsoft Exchange Server, 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows Vista? Be among the first IT professionals to experience first hand the new releases of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Vista and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The invitation to attend this showcase event has only