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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Messenger for Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones

Earlier today I got word my friend Rob at A Welsh View that a Chinese company has made a Windows Live Messenger client for Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones (N80, N73, N93, etc) but that it wasn’t known if this was an official release or not! Well I found out after doing some research that MSN Mobile China is infact officially

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Back from my first ever Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Event!

Hey everyone, as you know or may not know I’m now a UK Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) 2006/2007 and well I’ve just arrived home from Reading (UK) after spending the past two days there for my first ever Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Events. And well what can I say, it was great, I met lots of new people, had lots

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Troubles accessing Blogger.com!

Anybody else having troubles accessing anything on Blogger.com? I’m just getting a 503 Errors: HTTP Status 503 – Servlet NewFrontend is currently unavailable ——————————————————————————– type Status report message Servlet NewFrontend is currently unavailable description The requested service (Servlet NewFrontend is currently unavailable) is not currently available. ——————————————————————————– Apache Tomcat/4.1.24 All I can say is that right now I’m so glad I dont

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Cool I’m an Official Blog Partner for WebProNews

Hey everyone just thought id let you all know that thanks to Chris Crum the Content Manager of WebProNews, I’m now a blog partner for them. You can see what articles of mine have been published on WebProNews by checking out my author page here! It’s nice seeing my name on a list which contains some top tech bloggers like Robert Scoble, Andy Beal, Jeremy Zawodny, Nathan Weinberg

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Windows Live Webcast Series Canada – Live for You!

Any platform. Any browser. Any language. Windows Live makes it easy for developers to extend and customize applications through open service APIs, straightforward licensing, and permissive terms of use. The new Live for You webcasts are your opportunity to get trained on Windows Live in advance of the official product launch. Be among the first developers in Canada to learn

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Microsoft Releases ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 (aka “Atlas”)

Microsoft’s general manager Scott Guthrie who runs the teams that build IIS, ASP.NET, Atlas, CLR, Compact Framework, Windows Forms, Commerce Server, Visual Web Developer 2005 and Visual Studio Tools for WPF has now announced the first official Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0. You can download it now from the http://ajax.asp.net site. Available on the site are three download options:   The ASP.NET

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Windows Live Mail M8 now officially released!

Following my recent post about Windows Live Mail M8 finally being rolled out onto some server bays, Windows Live Mail M8 is now officially released and availbale to all! Windows Live Mail is Friendlier Check out these new M8 features that make WLM friendlier to you, your browser, and your friends: Choose which of your multiple email addresses an email should

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Early Internet Explorer 7 Final Release Download!

As you may have already noticed today, neowin have been pointing to what is supposedly the final version of Internet Explorer 7 packaged into a Yahoo Mail Download, now I’m not sure if the version which is included in Yahoo Mail is really the final version of IE7 or not but it does seem to be, plus this same version of IE7 can

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Microsoft Signs New Book Search Deals

Cornell University and Kirtas Technologies, a maker of scanners and digitization software said Tuesday that they had signed deals with Microsoft to support its Windows Live Book Search Project. Microsofts answer to Google Book Search, announced in late 2004. Microsoft has brought on board Kirtas Technologies, whose robotic scanners can scan at a rate of 2,400 pages per hour. Books scanned