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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Windows Live Make The World a Better Space Competition

Not long to go now until the Windows Live Make The World a Better Space Competition ends on Friday the 23rd of February 2007, so if you haven’t added the Better Space Prize Gadget to you’re Windows Live Spaces yet, then you better hurry! 🙂 So we’ve created the Better Space Gadget that’ll present you with a daily stream of

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Microsoft Wow Search Term!

Damn do I love search term statistics of how people got to my blog or what! Just noticed that if you search for “Microsoft Wow” either with quotes or without that I rank quite high in the search engines: Position number 5 in Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=microsoft+wow Position number 7 in Live Search: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=microsoft+wow Position number 10 in Yahoo Search: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft+wow Update: Seems like my

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Microsoft & BT Launch connected services sandbox competitions

Yesterday at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft Corp. and BT announced the launch of the Connected Services Sandbox competition series to help promote the development of innovative customer solutions that merge traditional telecommunications offerings such as voice or text messaging with Web 2.0 applications such as mapping or search. The competitions will be managed by TopCoder Inc., a leader in online

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Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices

Today at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft announced three new Windows Live for mobile services that provide search and communications capabilities to help people access their world of relationships, information and interests from their mobile device. Now available in the United States and the United Kingdom, Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java provide customers with advanced

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Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software

Microsoft today unveiled Windows Mobile 6, the newest version of its mobile software platform. By improving usability and adding support for Microsoft Office features previously available only on PCs, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 delivers to the small screen a familiar and rich experience that meets the needs of work and life while on the go, all with a single device.

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Ed Byrne Bytes – Enjoy Exclusive new Comedy on MSN Video

Comedy lovers can visit MSN Video today to enjoy a dose of humour from one of Ireland’s most famous exports Ed Byrne. The comedian from Dublin has created a series of 3-minute stand up clips called Ed Byrne’s Bytes, exclusively for MSN Video. Containing fresh and exciting material, a new clip will be uploaded onto the site each day from

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MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Mail? No it’s Windows Live Hotmail!

Is it MSN Hotmail, is it Windows Live Mail? No it’s Windows Live Hotmail. When the Windows Live Mail Team at Microsoft launch their new mail service worldwide, it will be named Windows Live Hotmail. That’s right, Windows Live Hotmail! Some of you will begin to see the Windows Live Hotmail brand show up in the beta first in the Microsoft internal

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Wikipedia running out of cash this 2007?

It seems that Florence Devourad, chairwoman of the Wikipedia Foundation, has warned the audience this morning at LIFT that they need more funds to keep servers up and running. At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months. If we do not find additional funding, it is not impossible that Wikipedia

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MySpace UK launches MyMovie MashUp

MySpace has launched MyMovie MashUp in partnership with Vertigo Films a competition to find the best short film director on MySpace. The winner will get to direct a feature film with a budget of over £1 million with the film scheduled for theatrical release in 2008. Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of filmmakers and actors who will