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Family Guy Episodes Coming to Xbox Live

Microsoft and 20th Century Fox have announced that starting this Monday the 2nd of September, the first two seasons of the popular american animated tv show Family Guy will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace. Xbox 360 owners will be able to purchase each of the episodes from the first two seasons as well as the straight-to-DVD film “Family Guy

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Brad Abrams to demo Silverlight in action in Second Life Microsoft Island Theater

Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework and developer technology enthusiast will be on the Second Life Microsoft Island Theater on Thursday, August 30th, 3 PM SLT. He has grown up with the .NET Framework from the early days of just getting Fibonacci to work on the first CLR before Console. WriteLine() was written. Nowadays, Brad’s work is about ASP.NET, AJAX,

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Windows Live Hotmail gets updated to 5GB of space

Great news Windows Live Hotmail Users and Fans, the Windows Live Hotmail Team have launched a new update to Windows Live Hotmail.  This newly released update features many new features and improved performance which people will be really happy to see, some of my most looked forward features have been included like duplicate contact merging, vacation replies and an option

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LEAKED: Windows Vista SP1 analysed in-depth

It’s no secret that there’s a leaked beta of the Windows Vista SP1 (service pack 1) floating around, but no-one has of yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does. So James Bannan from APCMag has made it his mission to trawl through the registry and file changes in SP1 to find out as

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lastminute.com Talking iPhone Translator

Following the successful launch of the six free Talking Mobile Phrase Books for Nokia and Sony Ericsson cell phones in May earlier this year, software developers Coolgorilla have today announced an all-in-one version of the talking phrase books for Apples new iPhone. Sponsored by online travel and leisure retailer lastminue.com the iPhone Translator is a completely free service providing travellers

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Sonific launches Playlists: finally, no more one-track music widgets!

Sonific LLC, a leading provider of music widgets for social media sites, have recently announced the availability of playlists for its SongSpots music widgets. Following this release, a www.Sonific.com user can build and share fully customizable playlists with up to 25 full-length tracks containing any of the over 200.000 songs provided by Sonific, on-demand and in any order, without any restrictions, free

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Backup and Restore text messages on Windows Mobile Devices using PIM backup

How many times have you had to hard reset you’re Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC or PDA just to find that you couldn’t backup/archive you’re text messages? 🙁 Well if you look around like I did, you’ll find that there are quite a few applications and websites out there that allow you to back/restore you’re text messages, contacts, appointments etc

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Future of Web Apps London is back October 2007

The Future of Web Apps (FOWA) is back in London this October 2007  – anyone going? As I myself am, so if you want to meet up let me know! 🙂 There’s a great range of speakers: Confirmed speakers Kevin Rose Pownce / digg Lessons Learned From Launching a Web App: The Story Behind Pownce Om Malik GigaOM What is The Future

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Digg goes from Google to Microsoft for online ads

Digg and Microsoft have announced an agreement in which the two companies will collaborate to bring relevant advertising to the more than 17 million unique monthly visitors to Digg, an innovative Web site that harnesses the collective wisdom of the world’s online audience to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the Web. Microsoft’s advanced advertising technology and sales