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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Windows Live Session 2: Video

Following my recent post yesterday about my Windows Live Session 2 Video Interview with Phil Holden the Director of Windows Live, Romain from heaven has now let us all know that the video of the Second Windows Live Session in London is now up for download. So go ahead and check it out, it’s great! 😀 People interviewed on the video:

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Windows Live Session 2: Video Interview with Phil Holden

Great news, my Windows Live Session 2 Video Interview with Phil Holden the Director of Windows Live is now up. So I would like to say a big thank you to Phil, Romain, Nicolas and the rest of the guys at Microsoft and Heaven who made this possible as it really was a great experience for me to do this interview especially

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Microsoft finally admits No one is getting a Free USB Pen Drive

Last March, I posted a blog post titled “Free USB Pen Drive from Microsoft”  which gave you the chance to get a Free USB Pen Drive from Microsoft with some Windows Desktop Licensing info on it. But it now looks like that our signing up for the free usb pen drive was all for nothing as Microsoft has now admitted

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640 x 480 Projector from your Mobile Devices

A small Adelaide company called Digislide based at Dry Creek is earning some worldwide attention after inventing a miniature projector named Digismart which will solve the problem of how to display something on a mobile device screen in large without carrying a separate device. Basically what this means is that with the Digismart patented technology you will be able to

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World Trade Center Movie

The World Trade Center Movie is a heroic yet sad movie directed by academy award-winning director Oliver Stone which tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to help

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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition

The Tutankhamun Exhibition (Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs) is coming soon to London in 2007 at the 02, formerly known as the Millennium Dome. So if you haven’t done already I would like to highly recommend to you that you sign up and print a ticketing certificate to guarantee your tickets for The King Tutankhamun and the

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Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s mystery insider

Just game across this article, it’s a very interesting read even if it doesn’t tell us the man behind Minimsft (Mini-Microsoft) The voice on the line, which had been easy and confident with a staccato laugh, suddenly lowers with concern. It’s because I mention his first name. “Please don’t put that in the paper, Danny,” the voice says. “I don’t

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Microsoft in talks to buy EBay and merge it with MSN

According to the New York Post, Microsoft has been in discussions for several weeks about a possible acquisition of the online auctioneer eBay so they can merge it with its MSN Portal. If this MSN/EBay acquisition was to go ahead it would surely give both MSN and EBay a great advantage over Google, but as the New York Post pointed,

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Announcing Internet Explorer 7+

With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, The IE Team has now announced that they will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista “Internet Explorer 7+”. While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+, most significantly the addition of Windows Vista-only features like Protected Mode, Parental Controls,

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The MSN Conspiracy game

I’m guesing most of you remember the Msn game titled “Can you solve the Kitty Caper mystery?” which was a detective game were you could win prizes by solving the mystery of the Kitty Caper, well if you liked that one and would like to have the chance to win some prizes, then you might just like to try The MSN Conspiracy