Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Great Escape Festival 2007 – 7 days to go!

The Great Escape is Europe’s leading music industry convention, offering three days packed full of high profile debates and interviews with key international players from Norman Cook to MP3.com founder Michael Robertson. But passes are running out fast. So if you still want to go you better hurry up: http://www.escapegreat.com/tickets

By - Darren Straight

Windows Live Hotmail T-Shirt – I Love Hotmail!

Windows Live Hotmail has launched and as a personal “Thank You” from the Windows Live Hotmail Team for all the Beta Testing I’ve done, I’ve been given this specially commissioned limited edition Windows Live Hotmail T-Shirt. Only the top UK Windows Live Hotmail beta testers will receive this unique T-shirt design and we hope you’ll wear it with pride! If

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder

Microsoft have announced that is has acquired a minority stake of 4% in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web. Microsoft has also agreed to extend a pre-existing partnership with CareerBuilder until 2013. The deal, in which Microsoft’s MSN