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

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

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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

EL1TE — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:23:03 +0000

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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 10:31:13 +0100

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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

Slimy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:55:47 +0100

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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

Slimy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:45:14 +0100

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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 10:18:32 +0100

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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 08:59:05 +0100

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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 10:01:44 +0100

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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

Slimy — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:57:18 +0100

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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

Slimy — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:14:22 +0100

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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

Slimy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:51:44 +0100

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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

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

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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

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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'

TheDogsBed — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:49:23 +0100

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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 13:45:25 +0100

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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

MonkeyClaw — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:46:18 +0100

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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

davemania — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:05:27 +0100

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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

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

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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...