Neowin News Feed for: Admits

Pentagon admits to having spy satellites

Brad Sams — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:16:27 +0000

The Pentagon has gone on record to officially say that they do have satellites that spy on other satellites. The Mitex micro-satellites, which were launched in 2006 have been flying around in the geostationary... Read more...

Steve Jobs admits to poor health

Tom Warren — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:27:32 +0000

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" throughout 2008 but plans to stay on as the company CEO. In a letter posted by Jobs and addressed to the Apple Community,... Read more...

MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:35:05 +0000

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44... Read more...

'Botmaster' admits infecting 250,000 computers

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:23:03 +0000

A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by wiretapping their communications and accessing their bank accounts. John Schiefer, 26, agreed to plead guilty to... Read more...

Adobe admits PDF exploit, posts workaround

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:31:13 +0000

Adobe Systems Inc. has confirmed that there's a critical bug in its most popular programs, but it doesn't yet have a patch that protects Windows XP users against attacks arriving as PDF files. In an... Read more...

Monster admits 1.3 million users hit in hack

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:55:47 +0000

Monster.com has confirmed hackers who used servers in Ukraine stole login details from employers registered with the site. They then used those details to glean personal information from 1.3 million users who had logged resumes... Read more...

US man admits P2P child porn charges

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:45:14 +0000

David Leroy Knellinger Sr, 60, pleaded guilty before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He admitted to using iMesh p2p software to obtain three videos depicting child pornography. US District Judge... Read more...

Mozilla admits Firefox is flawed just like IE

Steven Parker — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:18:32 +0000

In a public mea culpa, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer acknowledged today that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for... Read more...

SAP admits Oracle data downloads

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:59:05 +0000

SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its... Read more...

Apple admits laptop battery issue

Tom Warren — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:01:44 +0000

Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace... Read more...

Sony admits, fixes problem with DVD DRM

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:57:18 +0000

Sony has said that it will replace the DVD titles that caused problems for many of its customers thanks to the company's ARccOS copy protection. ARccOS is a secondary level of DRM on Sony's DVDs,... Read more...

Vonage admits it has no workaround

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:14:22 +0000

Vonage has acknowledged it has no workaround for technology that was found to infringe Verizon Communications patents and does not know if one is feasible. Vonage has said it was developing workarounds, or other ways... Read more...

Google admits word database came from third party

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:51:44 +0000

Google has acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently released software tools came from a third party. Google's Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) "was built leveraging some non-Google database... Read more...

Microsoft admits "high impact issues" in Vista -- SP1 coming

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:20:00 +0000

Microsoft has admitted -- in a roundabout way -- that Vista has "high impact issues". It has put out a call for technical testers to participate in testing of Service Pack 1, due out later... Read more...

Warner CEO Admits His Kids Pirated Music

Tom Warren — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:12:26 +0000

According to Reuters, Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman recently admitted that his kids stole music. When asked whether any of his seven kids stole music. "I'm fairly certain that they have, and I'm fairly certain that... Read more...

Internet user admits 'web-rage'

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:49:23 +0000

On the web, nobody can hear you scream. But they might just pop around to your house after a heated exchange in a chat-room and attack you with pickaxe handle! An internet user has been... Read more...

Microsoft Admits Hardware Fault But Refuses to Repair

Joe Cashman — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:45:25 +0000

An interesting conversation with the Xbox technical support was posted on the web yesterday, the sound recording was made after a previous conversation was cut short before a resolution could be found. The recording made... Read more...

Foxconn Admits to Breaking Chinese Employment Laws

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:46:18 +0000

Apple's iPod supplier Foxconn has admitted to breaking Chinese employment law. The Hon Hai Industry-owned company has been under the microscope since the Mail on Sunday published claims that many workers on its iPod... Read more...

We Were Evil, Google Founder Admits

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:05:27 +0000

Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.... Read more...

Sony Admits PS3 Delay Possible

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:50:06 +0000

Issues with mass production of Blu-ray drives could be to blame if spring system launch is pushed back to fall. In recent weeks, speculation that Sony would not make its previously announced... Read more...

Google Admits Desktop Security Risk

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:03:48 +0000

Businesses have been warned by research company Gartner that the latest Google Desktop Beta has an "unacceptable security risk," and Google agrees. On Feb. 9, Google unveiled Google Desktop 3, a free,... Read more...

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:50:00 +0000

Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and Ã¼berpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very... Read more...

PDC05: Microsoft Admits Product Key Problems

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:49:43 +0000

A post at Tim Sneath's blog confirms it, and after checking that this is publically available information we can now provide the information to rectify any problems PDC attendees might have activating their build. ... Read more...

Apple gets dirty - but admits problem

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:35:20 +0000

Finally Apple have admitted that a batch of iPOD nanos are having problems with the screens cracking, offering replacements to any effected customer, see below. But at the same time denying any problem... Read more...

Microsoft Admits to Media Center Hole

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:42:42 +0000

Microsoft is developing a patch for a newly discovered security flaw in versions of Windows XP which poses a particular threat to computers running XP Media Center edition. The flaw is in Windows Remote Desktop... Read more...

Sony admits PSP problem, offers free fix

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:45:49 +0000

Sony will repair any of its handhelds suffering from a broken square button gratis; new models unaffected. Following complaints by consumers in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment officially announced that it will repair... Read more...

Valve admits Half-Life 2 stuttering issue, promises patch

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:35:51 +0000

Developer acknowledges frame-rate problems experienced by many players of the shooter, says a fix is on the way. Since its release last week, Half-Life 2 has been scooped up many-a-PC gamer. However,... Read more...

Microsoft admits natural keyboards unnatural

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:26:15 +0000

A man from Microsoft told an audience of 400 system integrators today that despite extensive research that resulted in the Natural Keyboard, it has now realized that actually it's rather an unnatural design. The split... Read more...

Google Admits Censorship

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:07:16 +0000

After speculation earlier in the week, Google has admitted to censorship on it's recently launched Chinese version of Google News. Investigations by Dynamic Internet Technology found that Google has dropped at least 8 sites from... Read more...

ATI admits to same "tricks" as Nvidia

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:46:22 +0000

Graphics company ATI, long time critic of competitor Nvidia's video card driver optimizations, concedes to using undocumented optimizations of its own. After criticizing rival Nvidia for using optimized trilinear filtering algorithms in... Read more...

N.J. man admits guilt over 'Hulk' bootleg

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:32:04 +0000

"The Hulk" struck back in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday as a New Jersey man who uploaded a bootlegged copy of the movie to the Web two weeks in advance of the movie's opening pleaded... Read more...

ATI admits to optimizing drivers for 3DMark

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 27 May 2003 01:09:48 +0000

Thanks to fdiaz2day for the heads up in BPN ATI Technologies' Director of PR, Chris Evenden, responded to accusations in cheating with the CATALYST drivers in order to achieve higher results in... Read more...

RIAA admits file sharing is here to stay

Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:33:04 +0000

Thanks to pctuk for emailing us with this story Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has admitted -Gee...It has... Read more...

Fujitsu admits 4.9m (potentially) defective HDDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:39:53 +0000

COURT PAPERS CONFIRM: FUJITSU SUSPECTED 4.9 MILLION DEFECTIVE DRIVES 18 MONTHS AGO Failure rate "exceeds all reasonable industry standards". By Keith Warburton at the PC Association ... Read more...

ATI admits 9700 Pro bug with AGP8X

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:39:05 +0000

The Radeon 9700 Pro, boasting the highest performance card on the market is packed with features, oh and undocumented free bugs too. If you have recently bought one of these cards you are... Read more...

Microsoft admits Win XP DirectX problems on AMD platforms

Steven Parker — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:17:54 +0000

Cheers David for this one. Microsoft has identified a problem with running DirectX 8.1 on AMD processor-based systems. We have the fix. Some DirectX 8.1 programs may simply stop working on AMD... Read more...

Microsoft admits flaw in Passport

Marcel Klum — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:26:04 +0000

Hackers could steal credit cards from 'e-wallet' technology Microsoft Corp. acknowledged that its "Passport" technology for safeguarding Internet purchases has a serious design flaw that could have allowed hackers to steal credit... Read more...