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Discover The Ultimate Keyboard for Windows Live and Vista

According to PCAdvisor a new slim, wireless keyboard is being developed by Microsoft’s hardware division that will allow users of Windows Vista and Windows Live services to access key features more easily. This keyboard apparently dubbed The Ultimate Keyboard will be announced later this year as part of a desktop package which will include a wireless laser mouse. The keyboard

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Live.com now has more language support than ever before!

It looks the Live.com site is now undergoing or has undergone another update, and though as of yet there has been no mention of this update on the Live.com Team Blog it’s clear to see what the differences are so far on this new update: New Windows Live ID icon next to the sign out text. Choose between Search only

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Jurassic Park 4 To Film Next Year

Acording to KillerMovies, Steven Spielberg is set to begin filming Jurassic Park 4 next year, because producer Frank Marshall says the script has been finalised. “It has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running next year, for release in 2008.” Here’s a possible synopsis to Jurassic Park 4. 65 million years ago, a terrible

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Inside Live a Windows Live Product Team Tour

Following Microsoft’s promotional website called The Insider Club, Microsoft has now launced another Windows Live promotional site called Inside Live in an attempt to let the general public know what Windows Live is. Inside Live will hopefully be one of many new promotional sites that will start to explain what Windows Live is all about as a lof of people are still confused. In this first version of the Live

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Windows Live Local comes to Australia

According to this Windows Live Local Australia Blog, Windows Live Local has now arrived in Australia. So you can now start navigating around Australia with detailed imagery, mapping and places of interest. However I’ve checked myself and as of yet can’t find a single detailed image of Australia on Windows Live Local, only the screenshot on that blog, and the only reason for

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Disappointment over Dolly cloning 10 years later

It’s now been 10 years since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, where she lived between 5th July 1996 to the 14th February 2003. But the creator of Dolly the Sheep, Professor Ian Wilmut, has now said that he is “disappointed” that Britain did not develop cloning technology involving animals, as more could have been done

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Shuttle Discovery Launched Successfully for July 2006

The Space Shuttle Discovery has now launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center on the 4th of July 2006 (US Independence Day) at 1438 EDT (1838 GMT) heading it’s way to the International Space Station (ISS). However though it was a successfully launch, NASA is luckey to be lauching at all as this is the first shuttle flight of 2006 and

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Microsoft Windows Live will be recruiting on July 25th 2006

Microsoft’s Windows Live Team will be recruiting in Waltham on July 25th. So if you feel like you’re up for a carrer with Microsoft, please send your technology or Program Management Resumes to Susanhan@microsoft.com if you qualify for the requirements as listed below. This Event is invite only. TCP/IP expert to advanced knowledge SQL working knowledge Network design and development