Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

HTC Announces HTC Touch the new Touch Screen Experience

HTC has announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that features intuitive touchscreen navigation (very much like the new iPhone). The new HTC-designed homescreen provides one-touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts, as well as current weather conditions and forecasts for hundreds of cities around the world. Leveraging the

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Live Earth Goes Live on MSN in the UK

With the eagerly awaited Live Earth concerts only weeks away, MSN, the events’ exclusive online media partner today launches its Live Earth UK website at http://liveearth.uk.msn.com. The site is packed full of information on the artists, events and wider green issues to give people all the information they need in the run up to this monumental worldwide music event. In

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Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth partners with BBC

Today, the Microsoft Live Labs team is announcing a collaboration with the BBC to launch three dimensional photographic representations of historic sites throughout the UK. The online 3-D viewing experience will be available in conjunction with the BBC’s new series How We Built Britain (http://www.bbc.co.uk/britain) which airs now and runs until mid-July. The time-limited technical trial uses Microsoft’s Photosynth 3D

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Microsoft Adds In-Copyright Books & New Features To Live Search Books

Microsoft has announced that they have added in-copyright books to Windows Live Search Books as well as carrying the successful two-pane interface of Windows Live Search Academic over to Live Search Books. Microsoft says that this unique two-pane interface makes it easy to scan and preview search results. The preview pane includes a cover image, summary of the book and table of contents previews