Neowin News Feed for: Breaks

War breaks out between AdBlock Plus and NoScript

Sat, 02 May 2009 18:35:42 +0000

A quiet war has broken out between the authors of AdBlock Plus and NoScript and money is on the table. Both are trying to outdo each other by disabling each other's functionality. The issue... Read more...

Microsoft breaks silence on Windows 7

Tom Warren — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:34:53 +0000

Microsoft broke silence on its Windows 7 plans today in a blog post from Chris Flores. In an honest post the Microsoft spokesperson killed off some rumours regarding Windows 7: "Contrary to some speculation, Microsoft... Read more...

Windows XP SP3 Update Breaks Home Server Remote Access

Steven Parker — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:08:51 +0000

Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3. Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server's Remote Access... Read more...

Memory trick breaks PC encryption

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:02:46 +0000

Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It... Read more...

Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:43:44 +0000

Last week a Danish court ordered the ISP "Tele2″ to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. The decision heated the debate on ISPs Internet filtering, and it now turns out that filtering traffic... Read more...

DS Breaks UK Hardware Record

Andrew — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:25:16 +0000

All the predictions of a bumper Christmas for Nintendo in the UK seem to be proving accurate, with news that its consoles are selling in record numbers, GamesIndustry.biz reports. The DS has now broken the... Read more...

Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads Barrier

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:29:31 +0000

Easily one of the most popular publicly available torrent sites, Mininova has over 3 million visitors per day which places them in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet. The site has... Read more...

Google breaks down language barriers

Fri, 18 May 2007 03:44:04 +0000

Google is preparing a future update of its search engine that lets users search content in any language by translating queries into English, performing the search and translating the results back to the original language.... Read more...

Internet ad revenue in Canada breaks $1 Billion

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:05:39 +0000

According to the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada, Internet advertising hit $1.01 billion in Canada for 2006, an 80% increase over the $562 million collected in 2005. The association forecasts that revenues in 2007 will... Read more...

PS3 Breaks UK Records

Joe Cashman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:25:21 +0000

It took a while, but the PS3 finally arrived in the UK last week, and already it has raked in some impressive stats, selling an estimated 165,000 in the first two days of sale, an... Read more...

Chris Pirillo Breaks up with Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:05:43 +0000

Pirillo: Windows Vista I'm breaking up with you. No, seriously. When I know I have time, I'm "upgrading" from Windows Vista to Windows XP. I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of... Read more...

Wikipedia breaks into U.S. top 10 sites

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:49:19 +0000

According to comScore Networks' Thursday report, January 2007 marks the first time when US-based Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia (including Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews and of course Wikipedia encyclopaedias) cracked the top ten list of most popular... Read more...

Castlevania SotN Breaks 50 MB XBLA Limit

Todd Tanner — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:42:05 +0000

The upcoming release of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as a downloadable Xbox 360 game is noteworthy for a few reasons. Beyond adding the highly regarded game to the system's catalog, it breaks the mold... Read more...

Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:08:48 +0000

Thanks to Hurmoth for posting this in BPN. German electronics company Siemens has set a new network speed record: 107 gigabits, 2.5 times faster than the previous record. The test was performed over a 100-mile... Read more...

Transistor Breaks Speed Record

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:51:10 +0000

Thanks to funding by the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the record for the world's fastest transistor has been broken once again by U.S. researchers. The new transistor, made of iridium phosphide and iridium... Read more...

IBM Dual-Core Power6 Processor Breaks 4GHz Limit

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:57:29 +0000

IBM is expected to push its next-generation Power6 dual-core processors to run at higher speeds, rather than following the Intel/AMD concept for high-end computing that packs more cores on a die. The new CPU will... Read more...

Researchers Say New Chip Breaks Speed Record

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:07:51 +0000

IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that their researchers have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz -- 500 billion cycles per second -- by cryogenically... Read more...

'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:04:38 +0000

Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen has cracked the lock on Google's new in-browser video player. Johansen, also known as 'DVD Jon' for his work on decrypting DVD security codes, has created a patch for the... Read more...

DVD Jon Breaks ITunes Security--Again

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:19:08 +0000

Described by its developers as "the fair interface to the ITunes Music Store," PyMusique is a new application that lets users connect to Apple Computer's ITunes Music Store and download songs without Digital Rights Management... Read more...

Gran Turismo 4 breaks sales record for Playstation 2

Todd Tanner — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:34:44 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today that first day sales of Gran Turismo 4 have broken the record for Playstation 2 in PAL territories. The single day sales have been impressive to say the least,... Read more...

Firefox breaks 25 million downloads in less than 100 days

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:34:12 +0000

On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. "Thank you." says Blake on spreadfirefox.com "Thank you for helping us take this product... Read more...

Supercomputer breaks speed record

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:45:19 +0000

The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM's prototype Blue Gene/L machine. It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, a US... Read more...

Techland breaks with Strategy First

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:38:20 +0000

The move leaves upcoming PC racer Xpand Rally without a North American publisher. Poland-based developer Techland today announced that Strategy First will no longer publish the company's games in North America. This... Read more...

McDonald's breaks IT barriers with McAsian web site

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 May 2004 08:11:04 +0000

Is it possible that McDonald's - a brick-and-mortar burger seller - has outclassed its corporate peers in the IT sector with the most profound use of the Internet yet? Yes. When we first... Read more...

Nasa breaks Linux records

Darren Bolton — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:29:02 +0000

Fast results on ocean simulation system Nasa has completed its fastest simulation of ocean circulation using the Linux operating system running on a 256-processor Silicon Graphics Altix system. The simulation model, called... Read more...

Microsoft breaks into hosted apps market

Tom Warren — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:39:09 +0000

Partnership with Ensim will target comms service providers Microsoft is to move into hosted applications through a deal with hosting automation firm Ensim. The first fruit of the venture will be... Read more...

Accident records database breaks down

Darren Bolton — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:11:04 +0000

Three years' accident data not added to database because of IT problems IT problems have delayed updates to the government's database of accidents that happen within the home. The Home Accident Surveillance... Read more...

AOL breaks down the ICQ-AIM Barrier.

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:48:39 +0000

Now you can send instant messages between AIM/AOL and ICQ. Please join us in testing out this new capability. In order to use this feature, you must have one or more of the following clients:... Read more...

IBM breaks silence on server speed

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:19:33 +0000

IBM posted long-awaited performance scores Wednesday for its x440 server with 16 Intel Xeon processors, a system Big Blue is using to try to impose itself on a key part of the server market. ... Read more...

PS2 breaks sales records

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:31 +0000

PlayStation 2 sold more than 6.5 million units worldwide during the month spanning Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared to five million units during the same period the previous year, Sony says. Once again Sony has rewritten... Read more...

Splinter Cell Breaks U.K. Sales Records

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:07:02 +0000

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for the Xbox is the fastest selling game for Microsoft's console in the United Kingdom. In this launch week 40,000 copies of the game were sold. Due to this achievement, record... Read more...

Burglar breaks in for porn

Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:09:30 +0000

Police in a small town in Wyoming, US, are trying to trace a man who breaks into houses to log on to porn websites. According to reports in the press, the porn-addict burglar... Read more...

Lindows breaks off on its own

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:24:13 +0000

Lindows on Monday unveiled the latest version of its low-cost operating system aimed at bringing Linux to the masses. The release of LindowsOS 3.O marks the first time the company is selling its software as... Read more...

Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:45:59 +0000

Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on... Read more...

EU: .Net Passport breaks data privacy rules?

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:10:39 +0000

The European Union is examining charges that Microsoft's .Net Passport system breaks EU rules on data privacy, a European Commission official said Tuesday. The official said he expected member states to make... Read more...

Fujitsu Siemens breaks into the black

Thu, 09 May 2002 14:50:29 +0000

Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV has finally broken into the black and has forecast that it will be able to achieve revenue growth ahead of the overall IT hardware market in the current financial year. In... Read more...

BUSTED! Breaks door down starts yellin, that kinda stuff

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:41:21 +0000

Well, that same little bird that has been updating The C-A-D with the latest news about the FBI piracy busts has a sad story to tell. He himself has been raped of his computer,... Read more...

IE6 breaks McAfee AV scanner

Steven Parker — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 17:34:54 +0000

This was sent in by Mike "I thought this was worth a mention -if it hasn't been already. It seems that IE6.0 breaks McAfee VirusScan completely. More specifically, everything expect the... Read more...