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By - Darren Straight

Microsoft Visual Studio Island Challenge

Back on Thursday Microsoft along with the help of Millionsofus, launched the Microsoft Visual Studio Island (go there now) and with the opening party came a challenge, the Microsoft Visual Studio Challenge: Welcome to the Microsoft Challenge —————————————- 10 eggs containing puzzles have been hidden throughout Second Life. As you solve them, your game piece will record the results. Solve

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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

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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

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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

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Live Earth Australia Revealed

Organizers of Live Earth have now announced details of the Australian curtain-raising show for the 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts to be held on 7/7/07. The Australian concert will be staged at Aussie Stadium in Sydney. And tickets for the show go on sale in Australia Friday, May 18 at 9.00 a.m. AEST at: www.ticketek.com. The global concert will begin in Sydney

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Windows Live Hotmail Tour – Why update?

Windows Live Hotmail is the next generation of MSN Hotmail and now that its official launched there’s even more reasons for you to update. But are you still deciding whether or not to upgrade at this current point in time? Well if you haven’t decided whether or not to update your MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail yet, or if

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Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. The most significant upgrade for Hotmail since it pioneered the webmail industry in 1996, the new service has been built to be a vast improvement over the previous Hotmail offering, having incorporated input from more than 20 million beta testers. Windows

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Windows Live Hotmail Launches in US on Monday

I’ve mentioned before of a possible launch date of Windows Live Hotmail in the US sometime in the second week of May and well it looks like I could be right, as according to sources familiar with the company’s plans Windows Live Hotmail will be launching this Monday the 7th of May 2007. And though as of yet Microsoft have

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Flickr to Replace Yahoo Photos

Just got word from my friend Eric Cheung that Yahoo is to shut down Yahoo Photos, with Flickr replacing Yahoo Photos. Yahoo said that users of Yahoo Photos would be given an option of either shifting to Flickr or other photo sharing websites. Announcing the decision Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said that users could move their pictures to other sites

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Microsoft and Yahoo once again in Discussions for Merger!

Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that sources say Microsoft and Yahoo were are talking again about how they might merge or cooperate. To quote from the The New York Post it says: Recent talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. over how to band together betray increasing unrest at Microsoft over how to compete