Neowin News Feed for: Details

More details about Nokia-Windows Phone 7 deal revealed

Piers Hausjell — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:25:20 +0000

The deal which is meant to see Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices has taken a new turn according to the 20-F document Nokia have filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The PDF shows... Read more...

Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs

Tom Warren — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:02 +0100

Details leaked to a Microsoft enthusiast blog on Monday reveal the software giants immediate plans for Windows 8. Francisco Martin, a Microsoft Enthusiast, posted several confidential pieces of information to his blog on Monday revealing improvements... Read more...

Microsoft announces Windows 7 RTM, MGX details

Tom Warren — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:38:45 +0100

Microsoft officially confirmed today that it has finished Windows 7 and released the final build to manufacturing (RTM). Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer at Microsoft, confirmed that Microsoft has finalised Windows 7 during his speech... Read more...

Windows 7 upgrade details leak out

Brad Sams — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:17:14 +0000

Neowin covered this back in early January, but with all the other Windows 7 news from CES that was coming out at the time, it seems to have been overlooked by other outlets. Now it... Read more...

No more Palm OS devices from Palm, other details

Sam Symons — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:36:22 +0000

Pre Central has posted Palm CEO Ed Colligan's talk with investors, revealing many interesting details. Amongst the most interesting of these is the fact that Palm will not release any more PalmOS devices after the... Read more...

Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 beta 2, RC details

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:27:05 +0000

Stephen Sinofsky, Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft, has written a blog post to everyone testing the Windows 7 Beta giving out details about skipping the Windows 7 Beta 2, and... Read more...

Microsoft details the Windows 7 Taskbar

Tom Warren — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:41:55 +0000

Chaitanya Sareen, Windows Team at Microsoft, has produced a blog post detailing the new Windows 7 Taskbar. In the post Sareen highlights the following areas of evolution: Refreshed Look Pinning Unification... Read more...

Details on Windows Vista SP2 emerge

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:51:05 +0000

Microsoft has begun to release some details on the enhancements that they intend to bring with Windows Vista Service Pack 2. As we reported on Neowin last week, Microsoft has released an early beta build... Read more...

BT release details of fibre optic rollout

tiddlie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:49:10 +0100

If you receive your broadband through either of the following exchanges, now's a good time to start getting excited. BT have announced that Muswell Hill, London, and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan will be the first two... Read more...

Neowin 8 years today & details on a new design

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:42:18 +0100

Neowin has turned 8 years old today, and to celebrate we will again be giving away some goodies throughout this month to our registered members. We have hosting packages, USB keys and even 2 Neowin... Read more...

Comcast details bandwidth management plans

recon13 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:13:47 +0100

Last month, the FCC officially ruled that Comcast acted unlawfully and dishonestly when they decided to throttle peer-to-peer traffic from applications such as BitTorrent. The giant Internet provider was then ordered to amend its network... Read more...

Google employee details stolen in burglary

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:55:58 +0100

Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies... Read more...

Card details stolen in web hack

tiddlie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:11:21 +0100

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Clothing company Cotton Traders has been found to have had 38,000 customer credit card numbers taken from its website in an attack earlier this year. The firm has not directly confirmed the size of this... Read more...

Microsoft Details IE 8 Security Default Change

Steven Parker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:43:11 +0100

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Microsoft plans to make a key Internet Explorer default change to thwart attackers trying to hack into its Web browser. The software maker will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8... Read more...

Yahoo details plans for new online ad sales system

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:17:30 +0100

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Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known... Read more...

New Blackberry Update Details

Troll — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:45:04 +0000

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Let's face it - the BlackBerry line isn't as cool as the iPhone and other multimedia phones. So it's good to know that Research in Motion (RIM) is working to improve the software in the... Read more...

Windows 7 (Seven) M1 post-install details leaked?

Steven Parker — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:22:13 +0000

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I noticed over at Long Zhengs website that he has decided to post about the supposedly leaked post install details and analysis of Windows Seven M1 (Mile Stone 1). "Kenipnet", a Neowin member reported... Read more...

Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Details Released

chuggyhandbags — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:41:38 +0000

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The Xbox 360 firmware sees two major updates a year—in the Spring and the Fall. This year's Fall update is just about upon us. On Tuesday December 4th, Microsoft will unleash a flurry of new... Read more...

Microsoft details Vista SP1 search changes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:11:41 +0100

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Microsoft released documents on Wednesday that detail changes it will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista that will be included as part of the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) update.... Read more...

Wikia Details Plans for Search Rival to Google

Sagittarius — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:35:33 +0100

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The ever expanding, and potentially lucrative, market of search engines may soon be welcoming another player into the fray. Last Friday, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his commercial startup,... Read more...