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Rogers confirms iPhone 4 prices; big three offering 6GB data for $30

apple By Andrew Lyle, 4 hours ago 8 Comments

Hours before doors open to Apple Stores and all the major carriers here in Canada, Rogers, Fido and Bell all released prices for the iPhone 4, including special price promotions for data plans. Rogers has confirmed that the iPhone 4 (black) 16GB will retail for $159 and the 32GB model will... Read More »

Google might release Nexus Two next month

google By Andrew Lyle, 7 hours ago 42 Comments - Hot!

Neowin has just learned from an inside source close to Google that they are hard at work on the successor of the Nexus One, dubbed the Nexus Two. Although not too much information has been revealed about the Nexus Two, the tipster has revealed Google is going to release it within... Read More »

Rumor: Nintendo 3DS launch details coming soon?

nintendo By Darren Tebo, 8 hours ago 8 Comments

When Nintendo announced their new portable glasses-less 3D system (3DS) at E3, it was expected that they might at least hint at a price or release date. That didn’t end up panning out. However, we may soon be getting that information. N4G via Connected Consoles claims that Nintendo UK Marketing... Read More »

Updated: Google fully blocked in China

google By Owen Williams, 9 hours ago 38 Comments

Reuters reports that Google is entirely blocked in China today, with only a very small percentage of users able to access the web service. As a result, Google shares have plummeted by 1.4 percent, and Baidu, China's largest search engine operator has seen a 3.5 percent increase. According to Google's mainland... Read More »

iPhone 4 launch MIA in New Zealand

apple By Owen Williams, 10 hours ago 10 Comments

According to a report by TechDay, the iPhone 4 may not be available in New Zealand after Vodafone pulled all information from their website this morning, and the devices are not available in stores as of yet, even though the launch was announced for this Friday. Vodafone had previously said that... Read More »

Rogue Android app steals data while showing pretty pictures

android By Owen Williams, 10 hours ago 17 Comments

Mobilebeat is reporting that a rogue Android wallpaper app has been collecting personal data and sending it off to a site in China, as discovered by mobile security firm Lookout as part of their App Genome Project. Lookout found the dodgy wallpaper application as part of the Genome project, where they... Read More »

Update: HTC Evo to get Android 2.2 August 3rd

android By Owen Williams, 11 hours ago 18 Comments

Following hot on the heels of news that the HTC Desire and other devices are receiving Froyo soon, it's been pinned by Engadget that the HTC Evo may also get the Froyo update as soon as tomorrow, though they say the date may not stick. Engadget's gotten hold of internal slides... Read More »

Microsoft confirms IE9 public beta is arriving in September

microsoft By Tom Warren, 15 hours ago 26 Comments - Hot!

Microsoft said on Thursday that it's currently readying an Internet Explorer 9 public beta for September. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans the software giant was originally targeting late August for the public beta but this date slipped slightly. Although Microsoft officials didn't confirm the exact date for the public... Read More »

Google cleared of wifi snooping charges in the UK

google By Brandon Boyce, 16 hours ago 16 Comments

According to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Google did not collect any personal details when collecting data from wifi networks for their location based services. Google was cleared of the charges after the ICO reviewed some of the data that was captured from unsecured networks and found nothing significant... Read More »

Internet Explorer 9 build reveals new download manager

microsoft By Tom Warren, 21 hours ago 89 Comments - Hot!

An early Internet Explorer 9 build has revealed a new download manager for Microsoft's popular web browser. Screenshots of the build leaked to Chinese website Cnbeta earlier this week. The screenshots reveal a download manager for pausing and canceling downloads, a new icon for Internet Explorer 9 and what appears to... Read More »

Sluggish iOS 4 performance on the iPhone 3G? We have the fix

apple By Brad Sams, 18 hours ago 72 Comments - Hot!

After information surfaced yesterday that Apple is investigating sluggish performance on the iPhone 3G when running iOS 4, a Neowin reader posted what could be a quick and easy fix and the best part is, it actually works. To remedy the sluggish performance (or at least one cause of it)... Read More »

TechSpot: StarCraft II Wings of Liberty GPU & CPU Performance

gaming By Julio Franco, 19 hours ago 23 Comments

It's been more than a decade since the original StarCraft was released, but unlike a wide majority of the titles released in this time frame, the game never really faded away throughout the years and remained the benchmark of what a well-conceived real-time strategy game should be. For that reason StarCraft... Read More »

Motorola takes another shot at iPhone 4

motorola By Curtis Green, 21 hours ago 69 Comments

The battle for mobile phone dominance heats up once again, with the new ad for the Motorola Droid X, stating "No Jacket Required" referring directly to Apple. It's getting more and more personal between Apple and Motorola. The battle of words started when Motorola used the line "hold the phone any... Read More »

Virgin Media launches trial web video-on-demand player [UK]

virgin By Tom Warren, 22 hours ago 8 Comments

Virgin Media announced today that it will be launching a trial of its first online and mobile TV player: Virgin Media Player. Virgin Media has confirmed 'hundreds of hours' of content for the beta trial including ITV, LIVING, Disney, Cartoon Network, National Geographic and a range of MTV, Comedy Central and... Read More »

Amazon announces new Kindle

amazon By Brenton Currie, 23 hours ago 35 Comments

Amazon's e-reader, the Kindle, has today received a makeover, with a new, slimmer range announced. The Kindle, one of the first e-reading devices to hit the market, still remains one of the most popular e-reader devices on the market, although in recent times has become overshadowed by hot new tablet devices... Read More »

Adobe teams up with Microsoft to issue early security alerts

microsoft By Tom Warren, 29 July 2010 - 03:34 5 Comments

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it plans to extend its Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability information sharing from Adobe. The announcement, made at the Black Hat USA 2010 conference, called upon the broader security community to move to coordinated vulnerability disclosure. Launched in October 2008 by the Microsoft Security... Read More »