Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Will you be Quitting Facebook Today?

According to QuitFacebookDay.com, a website set up by Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee, today is the big day that you should commit to quiting Facebook due to it’s data privacy concerns. However currently only 26080 people are committed Facebook quitters of the over 400 million plus users of Facebook, that’s only around 0.00652% of facebook users! WOW not a lot – but I guess everything

By - Darren Straight

Call Of Duty Modern Welfare 2 Hacked Servers Rank Level 70

I was playing Call Of Duty Modern Welfare 2 today and all of a sudden my Rank Level shot up from Rank Level 28 to Rank Level 70 Commander! :-O On seeing this I was pretty angered to say the least! However lucky enough I was able to recover my original Level, well one level back from the orginal anyhow, I managed to recover

By - Darren Straight

Fly.com Takes Off in UK

A new concept in online flight search officially takes off in the UK today with the launch of Fly.com. Already hugely successful abroad, simple-to-use Fly.com scours all the major airlines, international carriers and online travel sites, and then helps people easily sort and refine results by criteria such as number of stops and departure times and traveller class.    Unlike

By - Darren Straight

British Library and brightsolid partnership to digitise up to 40 million pages of historic newspapers

The British Library’s Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley, will today announce a major new partnership between the Library and online publisher brightsolid, owner of online brands including findmypast.co.uk and Friends Reunited. The ten-year agreement will deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen: up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will

By - Darren Straight

New roaming technology turns Wi-Fi into 4G

Swedish startup Anyfi Networks today came out of stealth mode to present Anyfi.net, a Wi-Fi roaming technology they hope will shake up the mobile broadband industry. This new technology lets an Internet service provider offer the same Wi-Fi user experience both at home and on the go. “Until now Wi-Fi hotspots have been difficult to use and inherently insecure. Our

By - Darren Straight

O2 gives you free GPS navigation on your mobile phone

Telefónica O2 Germany is giving its customers a complete search, mapping and navigation system, effective immediately. It doesn’t matter whether you are travelling by car or on foot: almost any GPS-enabled mobile phone will become a pocket-sized route planner with Telmap Navigation – including the latest traffic information from ADAC. Telmap Navigation uses spoken and graphical navigation instructions to guide

By - Darren Straight

The First Internet Generation Grows Up – Whats Next For The Net Set?

Microsoft Life Academy and Internet Explorer launches its State of the Internet Nation findings, revealing the hopes and fears of the first internet generation of 18-25 year old Brits 70 per cent of 18-25 year olds believe the Internet gives opportunities to bring about social change Nearly nine in ten are fearful of sharing details, censorship or cyber stalking and

By - Darren Straight

Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia Debuts

Today, Microsoft and Nokia launched the first application from their alliance around mobile productivity, Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia devices. This new unified communications client connects directly with a company’s communications systems to streamline mobile collaboration. Owners of a number of Symbian based Nokia Eseries smartphones can download the English version today from Nokia’s Ovi Store, the easiest place to

By - Darren Straight

Ovi Maps in your Own Voice

Nokia has announced the launch of Own Voice for Ovi Maps, a free app from Ovi store, which allows people to personalise the voice that gives them turn-by-turn instructions when using Ovi Maps drive navigation.  The Own Voice app lets you create a new voice pack, taking you through each step of the process. Find a quiet space to record,