Neowin News Feed for: Away

Toshiba slashes Prices of HD Laptops, gives away 5 HD Movies

Slimy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:23:04 +0000

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Toshiba’s Digital Product Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Incorporated, has lowered the starting price on its HD DVD notebook line to $899 (starting with the Satellite A205 notebook). In addition to the... Read more...

AMD Chips Away At Intel Market Share

Slimy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:39:44 +0000

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Relax, this isn't about Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beating the Core 2 Duo. After gaining slightly more than 2% in both desktops and notebooks, AMD has broken its own record by capturing 25.3% of the... Read more...

Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:41:02 +0000

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Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and... Read more...

Crackdown demo blows away competition

Todd Tanner — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:16:21 +0000

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Microsoft's recent Crackdown demo, a free download available only for Gold Tier members on Marketplace, this week made Microsoft history. That's right, beating out top downloads like Lost Planet and Fight Night... Read more...

Freenode's founder passed away

Daylene — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:10:56 +0100

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Neowin has just gotten word that the Creator of the Freenode IRC network, Rob Levin (aka lilo) has passed away. Although there is not much information yet on the subject, this is what fellow Freenode... Read more...

Napster UK to give away free MP3 players

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:20:02 +0100

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Napster UK is giving away free MP3 players to all new subscribers of its portable music service. Anyone taking out a three-month Napster to Go subscription from 14 September will receive a 512MB Sandisk Sansa... Read more...

Mass Market for WiMax Still Years Away

Daylene — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:07:47 +0100

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The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years. "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to... Read more...

iTunes to Give Away 70 Million Songs

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:51:45 +0100

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Thanks slimy for this submission in Back Page news. Apple is teaming up with Coca-Cola in Europe for a huge iTunes giveaway, in which 70 million codes for free songs will be distributed inside packages... Read more...

Netsky blown away in June virus charts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:58:06 +0100

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Netsky.q has been pushed off the top of the virus charts for the first time since 2004, according to monthly statistics released by Kaspersky Lab. Netsky.q has been the most widespread email worm since 2004... Read more...

Microsoft gives away Introducing Visual Basic 2005 eBook

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:51:10 +0100

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Oh yea! Microsoft handing out free stuff, count me in! Although this will only be interesting for people who code in Visual Basic, it's still worth a mention. Get a focused, first look... Read more...

TiVo May Give Away Set-Top Boxes

malebolgia — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:29:00 +0000

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TiVo Inc., the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, on Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers. Chief Executive Tom Rogers said... Read more...

Neowin Annual October Give away - 2005 Edition, ROUND UP

Steven Parker — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:48:09 +0100

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So you didn't win anything huh? Well, this year we have a prize for everyone, winners included. Our own in-house DJ Chris Allen aka [NFC]Wave] has done a full 74 minute... Read more...

Neowin Annual October Give away - 2005 Edition, WINNERS

Steven Parker — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:50:51 +0100

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As promised, one week after the draw here are all the winners that our script randomly generated. 5107 members took part and the script selected 83 from that amount. Members were paired with a prize... Read more...

Mountain Dew and Microsoft to Give Away Xbox 360 Systems

malebolgia — Wed, 18 May 2005 17:11:15 +0100

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Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2005, Microsoft Corp. and Pepsi-Cola North America announced a U.S. promotion to put the Xbox 360 (TM) next-generation video game and entertainment system from Microsoft into the hands... Read more...

Apple takes a step away from FireWire

malebolgia — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:35:40 +0000

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FireWire is still Apple Computer's baby, but the proud parent is cutting the cord. With the latest crop of iPods, Apple is no longer including a FireWire cable in the box. The... Read more...

Opera Gives Away Educational Licenses

lardiop — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:17:31 +0000

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Opera Software has announced that it will make its popular web browser available free of charge to universities and colleges. Originally, schools had to purchase licenses in bulk at a cost of $1 each. Institutions... Read more...

Flash-based iPod days away

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:13:33 +0000

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Thanks to jerry for the heads up in BPN. Apple's long-rumored flash-based iPod will be introduced at Macworld Expo in 1GB and likely 2GB versions, Apple enthusiast website Think Secret has confirmed.... Read more...

Microsoft plan lets subscribers download away

malebolgia — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:53:02 +0000

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Chris Gorog is convinced people won't continue to pay $1 a song for online music. That is despite Apple's record string of recent achievements, including 200 million songs sold at its iTunes Music Store, and... Read more...

Pepsi to give away an iPod an hour until Christmas

malebolgia — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:51:32 +0100

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Over the weekend, Pepsi Canada launched a new iPod promotion that will givewaway a "truckload of iPods." The company said that it would offer a free iPod an hour, every hour, of every day, for... Read more...

IBM won't use XP update right away

malebolgia — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:16:32 +0100

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Microsoft says that the code for its update to the Windows XP operating system is finally ready. But IBM's internal technology department disagrees. Microsoft on Friday released Service Pack 2 (SP2) to... Read more...