Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices

Today at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft announced three new Windows Live for mobile services that provide search and communications capabilities to help people access their world of relationships, information and interests from their mobile device. Now available in the United States and the United Kingdom, Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java provide customers with advanced

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Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software

Microsoft today unveiled Windows Mobile 6, the newest version of its mobile software platform. By improving usability and adding support for Microsoft Office features previously available only on PCs, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 delivers to the small screen a familiar and rich experience that meets the needs of work and life while on the go, all with a single device.

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Ed Byrne Bytes – Enjoy Exclusive new Comedy on MSN Video

Comedy lovers can visit MSN Video today to enjoy a dose of humour from one of Ireland’s most famous exports Ed Byrne. The comedian from Dublin has created a series of 3-minute stand up clips called Ed Byrne’s Bytes, exclusively for MSN Video. Containing fresh and exciting material, a new clip will be uploaded onto the site each day from

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MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Mail? No it’s Windows Live Hotmail!

Is it MSN Hotmail, is it Windows Live Mail? No it’s Windows Live Hotmail. When the Windows Live Mail Team at Microsoft launch their new mail service worldwide, it will be named Windows Live Hotmail. That’s right, Windows Live Hotmail! Some of you will begin to see the Windows Live Hotmail brand show up in the beta first in the Microsoft internal

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Wikipedia running out of cash this 2007?

It seems that Florence Devourad, chairwoman of the Wikipedia Foundation, has warned the audience this morning at LIFT that they need more funds to keep servers up and running. At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months. If we do not find additional funding, it is not impossible that Wikipedia

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MySpace UK launches MyMovie MashUp

MySpace has launched MyMovie MashUp in partnership with Vertigo Films a competition to find the best short film director on MySpace. The winner will get to direct a feature film with a budget of over £1 million with the film scheduled for theatrical release in 2008. Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of filmmakers and actors who will

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The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) – February 2007

Well as you may or may not know, I’m now an IT Consultant for The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at Medway which is a University-based IT Consultancy (provided as a University Module) which aims to provide help and expertise to the small and medium enterprise. As well as providing support to small and medium companies, The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) also provides a laptor

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Netcraft Phishing Feed To Protect Microsoft Customers

Microsoft has licensed Netcraft’s Phishing Site Feed for use in its Microsoft Phishing Filter Service, providing users of Internet Explorer 7 protection against the latest phishing attacks reported by the Netcraft Toolbar Community. Microsoft’s inclusion of Netcraft data in the Microsoft Phishing Filter was announced by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates during his keynote speech today at the RSA Conference in

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February 2007 Web Server Survey by Netcraft

In the February 2007 survey we received responses from 108,810,358 sites, an increase of 1.93 million from last month. Apache has a decline of 442K sites this month, and sees its share of the web server market slip by 1.47 percent to 58.7 percent. This is the first time Apache’s market share has been below 60 percent since September 2002.