3G coverage here in the UK at least in my experience has been a very patchy affair with distinct variations in signal strength, speed and reliability. What does the Future hold for Wireless Internet? More...
Neowin Veteran Ross Dundas takes a critical eye over the Apple brand and how the incident of a man losing his phone in a San Francisco bar demonstrates the almost feverish enthusiasm for Apple products. More...
The UK's High court has rejected a legal challenge by Talk Talk broadband and BT at the legality in light of European law of the right of content producers to force ISPs to disconnect suspected... More...
Caution: Video NSFW - Language Perhaps hell hasn't frozen over quite yet: In a not so shocking announcement, Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford has announced that the game has been delayed until June 14th in the... More...
Admins can rest easy for a bit as it seems there was a bit of a miscommunication by Microsoft's IE team earlier this month. They advised then that IE9 would be pushed out to all... More...
Last month, when the rumour mill started turning with whispers of Apple's design head, Jonathan Ive, mulling a move back to the UK, it highlighted just how critical the designer is to Apple's business. Aside... More...
Microsoft has begun rolling out some of the technical elements of a new collaborative filtering technology called "Matchbox" to its Bing search engine. It hopes the move will bring a more "human perspective' to the... More...
One of the big issues of late has been that of net neutrality; the fundamental principle that all internet traffic is equal regardless of the source of that traffic. Current 3G wireless providers such as... More...
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but Julian Assange may be set for a big pay day if plans for a WikiLeaks movie get the green light. Pre-production is said to be already... More...
Hollywood giant Warner Bros is keen to get a shoe in on its competition in digital delivery of its content by being the first movie studio to a rent a movie on Facebook. The studio... More...
Customs officers throughout Europe have been told to seize new imports of Playstation 3 consoles. The Civil Court of Justice in Hague has ordered all new PS3s imported into Europe to be confiscated for at... More...
Traditionally, many users of Mac OS X have thought themselves at a much reduced risk of attracting malware due to it being less widely used than Windows. As Macs have gained popularity and Mac OS... More...
As you might remember late last year, Apple released a sneak preview of Mac OS X 10.7 codenamed Lion. A major aspect of what was unveiled has already been implemented with the Mac App store.... More...
Virgin media broadband users have fallen foul of technical problems with UK cable broadband giant's new SuperHub. The hub which is custom built Netgear hardware, combines a cable modem and wireless router in one. It... More...
Image Credit: Facebook Nun expelled from order for having 600 friends on Facebook It would seem that our lord and savior doesn't approve of Facebook. As Spanish nun María Jesús Galán, dubbed 'Sister... More...
The corporate world of Apple is clouded in secrecy. But what is it like to actually work there? Popular Mechanics has an amazing article based on an interview with an apple store employee which gives... More...
According to The Journal, it would seem that Microsoft's latest security updates aren't playing nice with VMWare viewer. The updates in question, KB2482017 and KB2467023, seem harmless enough but will break VMware's viewer application. There... More...
The BBC has finally released its long awaited iPlayer iOS and Android app, according to Wired. However, some users are seething at the fact that it can only be used on the iPad and not... More...
A report by security firm McAfee has revealed some rather worrying trends in recent years of the increasing volume of cyber attacks that are occurring in the oil and gas sector. Through good old fashioned... More...
Everything Everywhere, the new name for the merged T-mobile and Orange brands in the UK, is to launch its first test retail outlet in Altrincham near Manchester on the 18th February, according to Channel Register.... More...
Some of you may remember some time ago a story that was widely circulated concerning UK law firm ACS Law and their activities with UK net users where demands were made for payment for allegedly... More...
UK mobile telecommunications provider O2 has entered the UK public wireless Internet market (WiFi) and is currently offering free wireless internet access to the public, according to The Guardian, regardless of whether they are customers... More...
Coming from the prophet of doom department (we have a lot of funky departments over-seen by our mighty overlord Mr. Parker here at Neowin :-) ) comes this rather negative article from PC Pro’s Barry... More...
Coming from the “Oh my god you can’t be serious!” department is news from Game Informer that Duke Nukem Forever finally has a release date. The much-maligned title will finally hit PC, Xbox 360 and PS3... More...
According to Techcrunch, Amazon is set to acquire European DVD rental service LOVEFiLM in a $312 million deal. The company currently operates in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Amazon already owns a significant... More...
It seems that Google is very keen to squish bugs in its Chrome browser; so much so in fact that, according to Infoworld, it has paid one researcher $3,133.7 for finding a single bug. Researcher... More...
Hope everyone is enjoying the easter weekend.. I know i am (sort) after I for some unknown reason (well prolly because mums doing that whole spring cleaning thing) i had a clearout of old computer... More...
Ownt.com has a sorta (even just for the sceenies) cool article about Id Software's upcoming FPS for the PC and Xbox due out in the autumn. The article is basically a regurgitation of an item... More...
If you can get near it..as the gremlins are well and truely guarding it.....telewest has a registration server up for the trial of its new 2mbit internet service which is launching in the summer. ... More...
UK High Street retailer Argos looks set to dump Nintendo's gamecube console following weak sales of Nintendo's next-gen console. The move follows the move by the dixons group to stop ordering any further stock of... More...
In another hilarious example of pricing goofs. Amazon.co.uk was taken down for almost 50 minutes today after it was found a string of pricing errors were running riot throughout the site. The most prolific examples... More...
Well...we arrived here yesterday in New York. Neil (ClaymoreFan) and we were totally knackered after what was a looooooooong journey (about 12 hours total) from "sunny" falkirk, Scotland. First off I want to apologise to... More...
This month sees my first ever trip to the states where Neil (aka ClaymoreFan on the forums) and I will be hitting the Big Apple and harrassing unsuspecting yanks! ;) If you fancy catching up... More...
Serial ATA looks set to bring about the biggest change in storage technology in the past 10 years. Take a long look at the IDE ribbon cables in your pc because you might not be... More...
A U.S. District Judge. J. Frederick Motz, has ordered microsoft to reintegrate sun's Java programming language back into the windows operating system. The ruling in sun's private anti-trust case is seen as a decisive victory... More...
Looks like /. upped the ante on Michigan based Spam lord Alan Ralsky who is responsible for a significant percentage of the Spam circulating on the internet along with the lovely e-mails that you wouldn't... More...
Microsoft continues to use its weight to muscle Windows Enthusiasts which are liberal in there content in terms of downloads and software covered by non-disclosure agreements. In the latest incident of Microsoft muscling sites which... More...
And the neowin bizarro news of the day award goes to.... Ok so i was looking about at some IT hardware sites (as you do) and came across what is perhaps one of... More...
Greetings from the Notorious R.A.D. no not a fallen overweight rapper but your host on a journey through the days Bits, Bytes and the just plain crazy. No i wasn't drunk when i posted this... More...
Are you paying too much for computer games? The fairplay campaign thinks so and i'm inclined to agree. Did you know that the game you recently bought for your PC, Xbox, Gamecube or... More...
Well if anyones interested, lookes like deviantart.com are having a contest to design the CPL's new logo: Calling all Deviants, the Cyberathlete Professional League and deviantART have teamed up to create... More...
Its been nearly 2 years since the last ross report. Steve (aka our fearless leader Neobond) and I decided it was time to revive the series which if all goes to plan should be published... More...
If anyone is still allive and breathing at this time of night we're having a little frag fest on the official neowin counterstrike server. If anyone wants to come and play :P Server... More...
Tbreak news sent us over some pics of the latest version of Creatives NOMAD Jukbox MP3 player and i have to say it looks sweet. I have one of the original DAPs so i probably... More...
Saw this over at Ananova . Looks like some fanboy took it a little too far this time and actually changed his name to playstation2. He even tried to marry the damn thing. I think... More...
Ok this is pretty freaky, you know when your l337 geek best mate turns round to you and says "dude! my CPU runs so damn hot i could cook an egg on it!"? Well, now... More...
Coming from the so wacko it may or may not be true department, Mike Strickland sends over this little ditty, where he describes how Carl Lovern saw one of his collegues put some broken... More...
According to a post on Musiccity.com, the recent "bug" which was allegedly found in Music City's Morpheus media file sharing application is a hoax. (thanks Blasphemous Girl for the heads up) The file... More...
Big shout out to my best mate neil for sending over todays link of the day....its the microsoft satire image gallery! My favourate image is the one where they suggest that the DOJ should have... More...
I want to take a few minutes with you guys to comment on the news submissions that we have been recieving of late. I have come across several people "faking" links and therefore news stories.... More...