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Google Glass patent shows the future of the project, looks impressive

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:04:00 +0000

A newly uncovered patent suggests that Google Glass is going to receive an update that allows for binocular vision, instead of just one lens, increasing the use for Glass tenfold. Read more...

Google introduces +1, answers Facebook's "Like"

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:35:54 +0100

While not the social network that people keep murmuring about under their breaths, Google is introducing a new social layer to their search engine that is a clear response to the popularity of Facebook's "like"... Read more...

1,800 Gather for Microsoft 2008 MVP Global Summit

Steven Parker — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:39:00 +0100

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Microsoft Corp. honors its 2008 Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), a highly select group of experts who represent the best and brightest in technical communities, at the 2008 MVP Global Summit April 14–17 in Seattle at... Read more...

Amazon's free shipping costing €1,000 per day in France

EL1TE — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:54:24 +0000

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Did you hear the one about Amazon? It offered free shipping in France, got sued for it by the French Booksellers' Union, and lost. Now it's choosing to pay €1,000 a day rather than follow... Read more...

1,400 Wii Consoles Sold In Ten Minutes On Amazon

Andrew Gallacher — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:17:44 +0000

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It's the Wii console's second Christmas out and there a strong sense of dÃ©jÃ vu in reports that talk of internet-breaking sales as punters go mental for Nintendo's console. Amazon apparently sold 1,400 consoles in... Read more...

Samsung Electronics sheds 1,600 jobs

Slimy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:55:50 +0000

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South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's largest producer of memory chips, has shed more than 1,630 jobs this year (the first fall in its labour force for five years): from 86,899 eight months ago down... Read more...

IBM to Cut 1,315 Jobs in U.S., Union Says

Slimy — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:11:17 +0100

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International Business Machines Corporation, the world's largest technology services company, is cutting 1,315 services-related jobs in the United States, affecting employees in a variety of areas including computer server systems operations, technology integration and management... Read more...

Intel cutting up to 1,000 jobs in New Mexico

Slimy — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:51:24 +0100

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Intel has warned the workers at its Fab 11 plant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, that it could lay off as many as 1,000 of the 1,500 employees when it stops producing flash memory chips... Read more...

Lenovo to Cut 1,400 Jobs Worldwide

Slimy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:59:31 +0100

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Lenovo may have managed to become the world's 3rd manufacturer of PCs, but that isn't stopping the company to once again, just like last year, fire some of the people that helped them get to... Read more...

Sony Promises 1,000 Backwards Compatible PS2 Games

Joe Cashman — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:29:37 +0000

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Phil Harrison, President for Sony Worldwide Studios this week revealed that over 1,000 PS2 titles will be backwards compatible with the new spec PS3, which will be released throughout Europe on March 23rd. Speaking with... Read more...

Ubisoft to expand Quebec operations, create 1,000 more jobs

Slimy — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:50:05 +0000

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Thanks to Fred Derf for submitting this to the Front Page. Worldwide video game producer and distributor Ubisoft is expanding its Quebec operations. The plan is to increase from the current 1,600 employees in Quebec... Read more...

A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute?

Slimy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:55:54 +0100

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Imagine an ink-jet printer head that could theoretically spit out 1,000 pages a minute, or more. The JeTrix project, which is still in a very early stage of development, is expected to be available commercially... Read more...

How Much Are 1,000 Pixels Worth? A Neowin Subscription?!

Mr magoo — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:17:29 +0000

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As we noted recently, real estate availability on the now infamous milliondollarhomepage.com is approaching zero. How would you finish what has been a meteoric rise to fame and fortune, online? eBay off the last few... Read more...

Sun to lay off 1,000 Staff

malebolgia — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:51:05 +0100

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Sun Microsystems expects to lay off around 1,000 staff at a cost of about $100 million as part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting strategy, according to Sun's chief financial officer. Sun Chief Financial Officer Steve... Read more...

NV4X generation has MPEG 1,2,4 encode/decode

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:25:01 +0000

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NVIDIA'S NV40 is not going to be just fast in shaders and pixels, it will have some additional features that will be interesting to anybody that messes with Video. The video capabilities of NV40 are... Read more...

Neowin reaches 1,000,000 Forum posts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 05 Jul 2003 11:02:37 +0100

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Well it had to happen eventually, Neowin is proud to announce that our Forum now has 1 million forum posts in 85020 topics. As you can imagine we are very proud of... Read more...

Microsoft adding 1,500 as part of hiring drive

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:57:27 +0000

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Software giant Microsoft Corp. is hiring 1,500 sales staff to promote its programs directly to corporate customers, Chief Financial Officer John Connors said on Friday. "If you think about how will we... Read more...

RC5-64 broken in 1,757 days

me101 — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:35:07 +0100

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Slashdot has just announced that RC5-64, RSA's 64 bit encryption challenge has been broken. On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03... Read more...

Struggling Internet service provider to cut 1,200 jobs

configure — Sun, 05 May 2002 05:39:48 +0100

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In the wake of another unprofitable quarter, Genuity Inc. said it would cut up to 1,200 jobs, or 30 percent of its work force, and reduce its capital spending. There was no word... Read more...

Novell Laid Off 1,400 Employees!

configure — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:54:58 +0000

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Things are not looking good over at Novell recently. The Register had reported that Novell has just laid off 19% of its employees to cope with software falling sales. Here is what they've said. ... Read more...