Yes, it's finally here. We are upgrading Invision Power Board from 3.2 to 3.4.5. So for now the forums are offline. We appreciate your patience as the server hamsters enjoy a well earned break. More...

It has been a while since we have been able to post a Member Review here on Neowin, but we're back with a 'quick 'n dirty' review of the recently released Samsung Galaxy S4. More...

As we prepare to upgrade to Invision Board 3.4.5 we need to make changes to our huge (8+GB) database, and that requires among other things a database conversion. More...

When Neowin first started out in 2000, I couldn't have imagined we'd be here thirteen years later, let alone have active members from over a decade ago, or one that has posted 100,000 times. More...

According to a HTC developer who is known as a "notorious insider", the HTC One should be getting an update to Android 4.2.2 very soon. It's also likely that it will include Sense 5.1. More...

This week Google updated the notifications center and alerts to a richer, more modern experience. Although this feature is enabled by default in Chrome 28 Beta, you can also enable it in Chrome 27. More...

Aimed at the student, youth entry level market, the latest Asha budget-phone launched by Nokia also comes with a dedicated WhatsApp key as well as being made available in a few vibrant colors. More...

Spanish mobile manufacturer Geeksphone shifts the first one thousand Firefox OS powered smartphones in just a few hours, but mainly to Mozilla employees and select partners. More...

If you are, or were an iPhone 4 owner and you submitted a claim to Apple for the $15 settlement instead of a bumper case for the "Antennagate" issue, then you should receive that check very soon. More...

Eric Schmidt dropped a hint during an interview with BBC Radio 4 that Google Glass will most likely be available next year, and for under the $1500 price tag the developers had to fork out. More...

Gaming news will now be published to the Neowin Gamers' Hangout and sub forums from now on, but major gaming news announcements will still be posted on the main Neowin website. More...

There's so many forum topics and comments about the absence of the Start menu and button, so we created a poll to see where our readers stand on the issue. Make yourself heard! More...

Samsung aren't the only company that appreciates that "bigger is better", Dell has ideas of its own too making available the whopping 18" XPS 18 tablet/AIO for pre order today. More...

Microsoft has uploaded a video to Youtube showing the first of its many buildings going up on the Microsoft campus in a time lapse to complement its 88 Acres initiative. More...

Yesterday, it appeared that the Whatsapp messenger service might be Google's next big acquisition in a potential $1 billion buyout. Today, it's nothing more than fantasy talk and denial. More...

Proving you can still get more gigabytes per dollar, Seagate has made available the worlds first 4TB hard drive utilizing four 1TB platters, and the cost won't burn a hole in your pocket either. More...

Certain members of the press have received an invite from Facebook to "come see our new home on Android", could it be they're launching a smartphone, or simply an update to their app? More...

Nine popular Xbox game titles are up for grabs courtesy of Electronic Arts for Windows Phone; and with a saving of up to 40 percent, you'd be mad to pass this up. More...

If you live in Australia and own a NFC capable device, you too could win a copy of Office 365 Home Premium valued at $119, for nothing! More...

Google Play turns one today, and to celebrate, the team is throwing freebies your way for a limited time only; what can be better than freebies I ask? Not a lot. Info after the jump. More...

The Surface Twitter account has put up a contest where by answering a (for a NASCAR fan) relatively easy question, you could be selected to win a Touch Cover signed by NASCAR driver Alex Bowman. More...

The UK High Court strikes back: Following last years ruling that The Pirate Bay and its known addresses must be blocked by all major ISPs, the Court has now added three other sites to the ruling. More...

Microsoft has finally made Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 RTM as well as SP1 available in more than 30 languages. However, It's not on Windows Update yet; link after the jump. More...

For some, 2012 has already come to a close, for others not quite yet. In any case, on behalf of the Neowin team we wish all of our readers a safe and Happy New Year and give thanks for your support. More...

In what seems like almost daily new twists in the John McAfee saga where he is being sought for questioning by the Belize government over a murder inquiry, now an alibi video has been posted online. More...

Just over a week ago it was revealed that the first major update for Windows Phone 8 would land in the first quarter of 2013 and that update is codenamed Apollo+, not so according to one source. More...

Nokia are pressing on with their Lumia line, today at LeWeb 2012 in Paris the company unveiled the Lumia 620 which also runs Windows Phone 8 and won''t burn a hole in your pocket. More...

The First Person Shooter is arguably the most successful genre in the PC gaming scene, and we have an infographic that shows where it started and what defined the genre. More...

IBM investigated the extent of online sales for this past Cyber Monday, a now permanent online discount following Thanksgiving and the Black Friday weekend and found it was awesome! More...

We've all been there: you want to attach a file in Gmail that's a few megabytes only to find the recipient server rejects it, or it's a little too large to attach. Now Google has a solution for that. More...

An overclocker by the name of AndreYang has set a world record in CPU frequency of 8.67GHz using the FX-8350 AMD chip, but only after two previously set records were set just yesterday. More...

The FBI has arrested a man in connection with the theft of 3,600 iPad Mini's, but the haul, and two others remain at large while a large number of iPad Mini's are appearing on sites like Craigslist. More...

Is it a phone, camera or both? It's pretty much both if you don't need to make calls on it. From today you can grab this exclusively at AT&T on or off contract, it also comes pre-loaded with Jellybean More...

It's that time of the week again, where we showcase a review submitted by a member in our forums. This week Osiris makes an appearance with a Samsung Smart PC (XE500T) review. More...

Microsoft has made the Office 2013 Professional Plus Evaulation available for download via the TechNet Evaluation program, both 32 and 64-bit versions can be downloaded for a 60 day trial. More...

Google has launched a new experiment that allows Chrome users to literally 'browse' the entire Milky Way. Called "100,000 Stars" the data is generated from among others, NASA and the ESA. More...

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) of the UK has once again hit Virgin Media with a ban on their advertising methods, after the service claimed you could "say goodbye to buffering" misleadingly. More...

A US district judge who had earlier this year blocked sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 due to Apple's claim of design infringement has now lifted the ban after a jury found Samsung innocent of wrong doing More...

Apple has their own spin on their line of products, and it's fair to say we know what to expect from them (most of the time). But what about a typical fan's take on the evolution of Apple? More...

It's that time of the week again, where we showcase a review submitted by a member in our forums. This week mrk returns with a video review of the Samsung Allshare Cast Wireless HDMI Dongle. More...

Smartphone manufacturers manage to cram in more and more technology into ever thinner devices; and while the trend now appears to be screensize, we ask you where smartphones will be in five years time More...

If you ever thought about owning a Netbook, today might be your lucky day to get one that's dirt cheap, runs Android 4.0 and has a 10.1 display. The deal is limited to the UK though. More...

Are you one of the lucky people in the UK patiently waiting for your iPhone 5 to arrive? If so, we've put togther a guide on how you can track your shipping status, after the jump. More...

Apple will today start rolling out iOS 6 to the world, and we have put together a guide for who can upgrade to it, when, the new (major) features and how you can get it. More...

An image sneaked out of Microsoft shows some extensive cosmetic changes to the Office 2013 icons, with Outlook getting the most changes. The new are cleaner and more appealing. More...

Today we take emoticons for granted, they are embedded in most chat programs as images too; But thirty years ago today, the sideways smiley face was born to remove confusion for the context of a post. More...

It's that time of the week again, where we showcase a review submitted by a member in our forums. This week n_K makes an appearance with a super in depth server rack review. More...

You have to see it to believe it. The Sheriffs Department in California released surveillance footage of a "smash and grab" on an Apple store that resulted in an estimated $600,000 worth of damages. More...