You can read yesterday's announcement that " the two companies would expand their advertising partnership and that Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation. Under the expanded strategic...

It was wonderful to receive such an enthusiastic welcome at the University of Glamorgan yesterday. It's VERY rare that I get chance to speak at Universities. I thoroughly enjoyed lecturing students on the wonders of information security. The room was...

You can watch a recording of last night's " Great Facebook Debate " by clicking here . The event itself took place in London - I was there in person. It's free to watch the recording - it cost £25 to be there. Paul Walsh hosted the event on behalf...

There's a full description of the new features on the MapForums blog - there's a wealth of funky new functionality including pretty effective 3D mapping - you have to download a free client for this feature. I really like the 3D birds eye views and videos...

It seems like five minutes since we wrapped up the Q1 tour and we're already planning Q2's tour commencing in November It's funny for me to read the title of the session I wrote though - it's...take a deep breath..." How to take online backups of...

I can't quite believe that there are quite so many - there are 16,758 members of the Microsoft group in Facebook as I type this!

As Eileen mentions the UK Partner Team are on the road - follow the appropriate link below if you'd like to snap up on the last remaining seats: Wednesday 10 October 2007 - Microsoft, Cardinal Place, London Thursday 11...

We have a lovely new building with a Gym in the basement - why on Earth do such places require me to find a legacy writing implement to sign up for a trial! I know that the question kind of answers itself in some respects as it's typically the requirement...

Looking back I do feel a little bad about the A/V technician who was somewhat surprised when we asked him to provide video switching for five machines - he was only expecting a single machine. The location was our new London office and clearly it's...

Like many of you my alarm went off while it was still dark this morning - soon we'll be plunged into the early morning darkness on a regular basis. The folks at time.org.uk have a nice clear website that lets you know when we (in the UK at least) change...

The Windows Management User Group (WMUG ) are having their very FIRST meeting on the 17th October @ Microsoft's office in London. You are very welcome to join them - it's free - and should be fun. Simply drop them an email to let them book catering and...

Get Safe Online is an ongoing government initiative that's supported by commercial organisations including Microsoft - I've written about our engagements several times over the last two years. This November the team will be back on the road as they have...

Yes it's true - there are those who don't know what Halo3 is about and would benefit from knowing the background - the nice people @ Bungie have created as site just for newbies I can't believe quite how many baddies have been killed in Halo 3 so...

Viral has written an interesting post looking at how some large (traditional) organisations are afraid that their employees will waste time unless access to all social networking sites & Instant Messaging is/are banned - the BBC wrote a piece on the...

As I mentioned yesterday Daniel and Tony are this year's hosts of The Virtual Side. Several of us have been unable to view their intro video online and hence I'm delighted that Eileen's posted an updated link - it's rather entertaining ...

Tony Krijnen and Daniel van Soest have taken over the reigns as hosts of this year's " The Virtual Side of TechEd: IT Forum ". I was delighted to be invited to meet them earlier today to shoot a short interview and to hear of their plans to cover the...

I first saw this image some time ago in one of Steve Riley's presentations and stumbled across it again on the MIT Hacks site thanks to Nik following the Halo 3 Master Chief Hack