Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

3.8 Terabytes worth of Windows Live Maps/Virtual Earth Imagery

A major imagery release just went online at Live Maps and the Virtual Earth platform – 3.8 terabytes worth of imagery to be exact. The 3.8TB update features dozens more cities of Birds eye coverage as well as some high resolution ortho imagery from the Ultracam and GlobeXplorer. And lots of European Birds eye coverage, including some countries that had not

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Windows Vista Debuts with Strong Global Sales

Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP. These initial figures reflect the broad interest in the security and usability enhancements in Windows

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The end of an Era 2004 – 2007 is fast approaching!

Wow the end of an era of being at University/College is fast approaching with only a week left and though I still have exams to attend too in May and of course lots of studying to do in April, myself and my fellow University Friends think we should organise something fantastic while we are still University Students. But what? Some

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Windows Live Hotmail M10 on the way!

Looks like Windows Live Hotmail M10 is not far from being on the way, and with this new release brings some new changes: The new Windows Live Hotmail branding Faster and more reliable. Classic Version: Spell checker, Improved photo uploading and Bi-Directional language support (for our users who read Arabic and Hebrew). Improvements to the safety bar Pick your view with

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Reading & Leeds Music Festival 2007 Official Lineup Announced!

Finally that time has come, the Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Official Lineup has been Announced, what’s your thought’s? Are you going? Are you trying to refresh the offical website or ticket sites but failing to get anywhere? Have you got youre tickets yet? let me know… 🙂 Reading Music Festival 2007 Lineup: FRIDAY 24 AUGUST- MAIN STAGE Razorlight Kings Of Leon

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Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Official Site Launched!

The launch countdown for the brand new spanking Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 website we have all been waiting for has now finished, and when I mean finished I mean it… As you won’t get to see anything great if you head over to the new site now: http://www.readingfestival.com/home/ http://www.leedsfestival.com/home/ As it looks like the timer has gone crazy by getting its

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Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 Official Site Launches Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Saturday the 17th of March 2007 at 10:00am, the brand new spanking Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 website will be launched, are you ready to getting one step closer to knowing the offical Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 Lineup. http://www.readingfestival.com/ http://www.leedsfestival.com/ Enjoy! 🙂

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Microsoft Office 2007 Tutorial / Review Contest

Hi fellow University of Kent Student’s, this post is for you! Myself Darren Straight a Microsoft Student Partner at the University of Kent is proud to announce a “Office 2007 Tutorial / Review Contest” to celebrate the release of Microsoft Office 2007. In this contest, students are required to author a user friendly tutorial on Office 2007 (it may be

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Microsofts Video HyperLink Technology Showcasing Kohl’s

Here’s some cool news. It looks like Microsoft is now starting to implement its adCenter Labs Video HyperLink Technology with real world clients. The first signs of this come this week as MSN Entertainment shows of Kohl’s department store using the Video HyperLink Technology, which is an interactive video tool which provides more information about objects in a video when you click or even hover on

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Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion

Just days after Google (GOOG, news, msgs) CEO Eric Schmidt said that media companies will have no choice but to work with online sites such as YouTube, the first of the big media companies has responded — with a $1 billion lawsuit. Media giant Viacom (VIA, news, msgs) is charging that the video-sharing site, now owned by Google, has shown