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By - Darren Straight

Microsoft’s Zune Details Revealed!

Marking the next big milestone for its Connected Entertainment vision, Microsoft have today unveiled details of the first products to be released under its Zune brand. Designed around the principles of sharing, discovery and community, Zune will create new ways for consumers to connect and share entertainment experiences. The Zune experience centers around connection connection to your library, connection to friends,

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Download Free Report Abuse Desktop Client by Zack Whittaker

Have you seen Zack Whittaker’s Report Abuse Desktop Client over at MSBlog yet? There’s probably a chance you havent so let me explain to you what it is. This Report Abuse Desktop Client is an application which enables younger users of the Internet to report online abuse or suspicious activity of online predators to their local law enforcement agency by the click

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Flash Tenth Anniversary

Just got word from my friend Eric that Adobe have finally rolled out their Flash Tenth Anniversary Micro site, and well I couldnt agree more with what Eric said to me in his email: I would like to say, this site is just a masterpiece… featured a selection of flash videos combined with flash contents seamlessly. This experience is something you

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What exactly is Sonifics SongSpots Music Player?

Ever heard of Sonific’s SongSpots? Are you on the Sonific’s SongSpots Limited Private Beta? What do you think of Sonific’s SongSpots Service? What’s this, you havent heard of Sonific’s SongSpots Service yet, well let me explain, or better yet lets have Sonific the company explain to you first about their selves as a company: Sonific was founded in July 2005,

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Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary

Last month Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith Teare (edgeio), Steven Marder (Eurekster), Joe Kraus (JotSpot), Jeremy Verba (Piczo), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), Chris Alden (Rojo), Gautam Godhwani (Simply Hired), Jonathan Abrams (Socializr), David

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Frucall to be releasing new features for August 2006

Remember my recent post about Frucall the new US Web 2.0 Service which will allow you to find the comparision of shopping prices by calling 1-888-DO-FRUCALL and typing in or reading the product’s barcode number to the system which will then search the product on Amazon.com, Yahoo! Shopping and Streetprices.com and will return the pricing results within ten or so seconds. Well I

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IBM PC’s 25th anniversary

Computer firm IBM made technological history 25 years ago on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer – the IBM 5150. Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory – scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth. The machine was not the first attempt to popularise computing but it soon came to define the

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Microsoft Zune Will Hit Stores at $299

Microsoft is in the process of unveiling to select retailers the first of its line of Zune wearable digital audio players and informed retailers it will offer a single unit this fall, available in three colors at a suggested retail price of $299. Retailers who have been briefed by Microsoft told TWICE the player will offer Wi-Fi capability, but will