Neowin News Feed for: Boosts

Best Buy 3Q Profit Rises, Boosts Outlook

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:30:49 +0000

Best Buy Co., the nation's biggest consumer electronics retailer, said Tuesday its third-quarter profit jumped 52 percent, boosted by holiday shopping and sales of higher-ticket items such as flat-panel TVs. The results beat Wall... Read more...

Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter and Live Search

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:16:24 +0000

Microsoft unveiled today plans for two new utilities, one designed to improve the way partners in the company's adCenter online advertising system generate revenues from paid search and the other to optimize Web sites for... Read more...

Cisco Boosts Stock Buyback Program

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:26:48 +0000

Cisco Systems has boosted its stock buyback effort by $10 billion, a sign the Internet networking supplier still believes its shares are undervalued. The move, announced Friday, is a way for the San Jose-based company... Read more...

Guitar Hero III boosts record sales in US!

Todd Tanner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:58:07 +0000

There are early indications that Guitar Hero III has had a significant impact on record sales for bands featured in the game. The game, subtitled Legends of Rock, was released in the US at the... Read more...

Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:49:21 +0000

University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians and concluded that that people who download more music actually buy more CDs: "We estimate that the effect of one... Read more...

Latest iPhone Update Boosts Wi-Fi Reception, Users Say

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:18:53 +0000

iPhone owners are reporting that the second update issued this month for their smart device has significantly boosted its wireless reception, even though Apple Incorporated only said 1.0.2 included unspecified "bug fixes." Owners on several... Read more...

Bad Weather Boosts Julys Internet Retail Sales

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:29:37 +0000

The poor British weather during July has combined with the country's prevalence of home broadband connections to boost online retail sales by 80%, claims the London-based Interactive Media in Retail Group. Sales rose from their... Read more...

Microsoft Boosts Speech/Voice Capabilities With Tellme Buy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:18:36 +0000

Microsoft took another step toward rounding out its unified communications vision Wednesday with a deal to acquire voice/speech services player Tellme Networks. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, although several online reports placed the transaction... Read more...

Microsoft Boosts Size Of Xbox Memory Unit

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:34:31 +0000

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced plans to launch a 512-megabyte memory unit for the Xbox 360 video game console on April 3. It is expected to have a retail price... Read more...

World of Warcraft boosts Vivendi sales by over 25% in 2006

Todd Tanner — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:20:38 +0000

Yes, that everlasting behemoth World of Warcraft has once again proven to be most lucrative. This time Vivendi is reporting some good news, news I'm sure the executives are happy about: Last year, the... Read more...

Vista Boosts Tech Industry

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:04:07 +0000

A new IDC report on the impact of Windows Vista on the industry claims Microsoft's business partners stand to benefit more financially from the operating system than Microsoft itself will in 2007. According to the... Read more...

McAfee Boosts Wi-Fi Security

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:52:49 +0000

All home Wi-Fi gear comes with the bricks and mortar to put up at least a basic security wall against intruders and eavesdroppers, but McAfee wants to sell consumers a better trowel for building it.... Read more...

RealNetworks Boosts Profits

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:01:54 +0000

RealNetworks brought in $4.7m in the second quarter of the year, the streaming giant said yesterday - meaning the company is on target to break even over the year as a whole. The income was... Read more...

Nintendo boosts profit estimates

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:28:21 +0000

Fluctuations in foreign exchange rates nearly doubles Nintendo's profit expectations for first half of FY 2004. Nintendo today announced that it has raised its net profit estimate for the first fiscal half... Read more...

AMD boosts Athlon 64 performance

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:45:15 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices has bolstered the performance of its Athlon 64 PC processor. The chipmaker on Tuesday released four Athlon 64 chips including an Athlon 64 3800+ and an updated Athlon 64... Read more...

Yahoo boosts e-mail storage

Fri, 14 May 2004 03:00:07 +0000

Thanks NEXTY and NeoSoft for a double team on this. Web portal Yahoo will begin offering "virtually unlimited storage" for its paid e-mail customers and will upgrade free users to 100MB, an executive said Thursday.... Read more...

ATI Boosts RADEON X800 Specifications

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:56:24 +0000

Thanks xStaindx Only weeks before the release, ATI Technologies decided to boost performance of its next-generation code-named R420 processor by increasing the number of pixel pipelines inside the chip. Industry source told... Read more...

Microsoft Boosts 32-Bit Performance

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:08:48 +0000

Intel and Microsoft on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processors. Several years in development, the IA-32... Read more...

Stronger memory market boosts Micron

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:49:20 +0000

Shares of Micron Technology rose Wednesday after the company announced a surprise first-quarter profit on strong demand for memory chips. The Boise, Idaho-based company had net income of $1 million for the first... Read more...

IBM boosts servers with new Intel chips

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:24:22 +0000

IBM on Tuesday said it has pepped up a trio of its xSeries servers, designed for use in heavy-duty computing tasks. The company updated its xSeries x255, x360 and x440 servers, each... Read more...

Intel chip boosts notebooks over 2GHz

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:11:56 +0000

Intel will once again increase the performance of notebooks when it releases a new 2.2GHz Pentium 4-M chip on Monday, according to sources familiar with its plans. The new Pentium 4-M, with "M" as in... Read more...

IBM boosts Linux for oil industry

Fri, 24 May 2002 17:57:15 +0000

IBM has signed a deal with Landmark Graphics to build Linux supercomputers and PCs for oil and gas companies, the companies will announce Friday. Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of petroleum industry support... Read more...

Microsoft says Passport boosts privacy

Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:53:20 +0000

What if technology that could track your every move was embedded in your cell phone, your smart card and your laptop? And what if that information were tied to a database that stored personal information... Read more...

Bill Gates; Microsoft boosts employee security

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:07:53 +0000

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday the software giant was boosting security measures after six employees were exposed to a letter that had tested positive for anthrax. "Obviously, like all companies,... Read more...