Neowin News Feed for: Daily

Acer giving away 39 Aspire S7 Ultrabooks!

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:01:36 +0000

Fancy winning a brand new Ultrabook? Acer is giving Facebook users a chance to win one of their Aspire S7 Windows 8 Ultrabooks, one a day, until December 31st. That's 34 in total! Read more...

MSN Offers giving deals and offers in the US

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:16:18 +0100

Depending on where you're from Bing Daily Deals and MSN Offers, in conjunction with Tippr, are offering consumers deals and discounts for "places you'll love" across a number of US cities. Read more...

Man pins child porn accusations on pet cat

Sam Symons — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:17:35 +0100

Child porn is, understandably, a very serious offense; so much so that there's an entire TV show dedicated to catching those willing to have sex with a minor, thus potentially also guilty of the first... Read more...

Life on the EEEdge: Daily life with Asus' tiny laptop

Slimy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:29:25 +0000

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Like many gearheads, I've owned a lot of portable computers over the years -- and I've wanted to replace every last one with a smaller, sleeker upgrade, from the "luggable" Apple IIc onward. But most... Read more...

Vista Launch: Bill Gates on Daily Show

Steven Parker — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:50:11 +0000

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Thanks to Steve Sinchak of Tweak Vista who uploaded these 2 videos of Bill Gates appearing on the Daily Show to talk with Jon Stewart about the launch of Windows Vista. ... Read more...

EU to Cap Microsoft Daily Fine at $3.8 Million

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:31:53 +0100

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The European Commission plans to raise the ceiling of future fines on Microsoft to 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a day if the company continues to defy an antitrust decision, a diplomatic source said on... Read more...

Bill Gates Leaving Daily Role at Microsoft, Remains Chairman

Rob Wright — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:48:39 +0100

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Bill Gates will be transitioning out of a day-to-day role in the running of Microsoft by July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work with the Bill & Melinda Gates... Read more...

Microsoft: Oops, We Forgot to Mention, WGA Calls Home Daily

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:36:48 +0100

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Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.... Read more...

$5m daily fine beckons for bad boy Microsoft

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:21:02 +0000

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Although the European Commission's statements are diplomatic to the point of opacity, there's no mistaking what it thinks of the latest turn in the Microsoft antitrust saga. The Commission doesn't think Microsoft's trying hard enough,... Read more...

Daily Spam News pt. 857

cheekymonkey — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:58:59 +0100

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In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail, the US state of Virginia enacted a law Tuesday imposing harsh felony penalties for sending such messages to computer users through deceptive means. ... Read more...

Hotmail Daily Message Quota?

Tom Warren — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:45:49 +0000

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According to activewin some users of hotmail (MSN's free email service) who send a lot of e-mail are now receiving messages that they have sent "the maximum number of messages in a 24 hour period."... Read more...

The Daily Hotmail (round up by The Inquirer)

Steven Parker — Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:04:38 +0100

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As Neowin readers are aware, 80 per cent of the 2 billion emails appearing in the 110 million Hotmail inboxes daily is unsolicited rubbish. The free service has become virtually unusable as, the 2Mb of... Read more...

AOL's Colburn Gives Up Daily Duties -Post

configure — Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:56:53 +0100

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AOL Time Warner Inc.'s top dealmaker, David Colburn, is giving up day-to-day oversight of the business affairs division of America Online, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions. Citing sources familiar with... Read more...