Neowin News Feed for: Doubles

Scope of TJX data breach doubles to 94M

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:47:24 +0000

For anyone who thought that 45 million was an absurdly high number of payment cards to be compromised in a data breach, try 94 million. That's the total number of cards actually exposed in the... Read more...

Profit at India's HCL Technologies Doubles

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:31:29 +0000

Indian software company HCL Technologies Ltd. announced today its profit in the most recent quarter doubled from a year ago, thanks to a slew of new outsourcing orders that more than offset the impact of... Read more...

Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB

Wed, 23 May 2007 21:45:03 +0000

First Google pulled their stunt with a constant increasing maximum space for Gmail accounts. Then Yahoo countered with unlimited space. Right away, I said the web e-mail war would turn to attachment size. Now, it... Read more...

Malware doubles as hackers turn to web: report

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:08:04 +0000

In the first quarter of 2007, security firm Sophos PLC identified 23,864 new malware threats, more than double the 9,450 the company found in the same period last year. The company's report said this growth... Read more...

Virgin Media doubles cable bandwidth to 20Mbit

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:38:39 +0000

THE NEWLY RE-BRANDED cable operator Virgin Media, previously known as NTL:Telewest, has officially announced plans to double the maximum speed of UK cable-based internet services. Virgin Media will introduce a new 20Mbit cable internet offering,... Read more...

'Lost' preview doubles as Windows Vista ad

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:45:31 +0000

The link below is a video of a "Lost" promo using the Flip 3D interface. The blog entry points out that the average user may not realize that the Flip 3D effect has anything to... Read more...

McAfee Doubles Down On Security Risk Management

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:35:50 +0000

As McAfee's antivirus cash cow becomes commoditized, the security vendor has been giving itself a security risk management makeover. Now channel partners are being encouraged to get up to speed on selling the vendor's more... Read more...

India Nearly Doubles Mobile Phone Use in 2006

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:45:25 +0000

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi, India went from 75.94 million (end of December 2005) to 149.5 million (December 2006) mobile subscribers. In other words the Indian market gained over... Read more...

Seagate doubles 15K drive capacity with perpendicular

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:10:33 +0000

Seagate has updated its Cheetah 15K enterprise-oriented hard disk drive line-up with a model that incorporates perpendicular recording technology and takes the 15,000rpm drive family's capacity to 300GB - more than double the current top-of-the-line... Read more...

Microsoft's Quarterly Profit Doubles

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:58:28 +0000

Microsoft yesterday posted its smallest growth in quarterly revenue in nearly five years, but its bottom line met Wall Street's expectations, and the company said it foresees bigger growth in the year ahead. The Redmond... Read more...

Google Doubles GMail Storage Space

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:13:45 +0000

Reports that GMail could launch today have been dismissed after Google detailed new plans for popular "invite-only" service. Speaking to CNet News late yesterday, GMail project manager Georges Harik dismissed rumors that the one year... Read more...

HP doubles up Itanium server processors.

Wed, 05 May 2004 21:07:13 +0000

In June, Hewlett-Packard will begin shipping its mx2 technology, code-named Hondo, which lets two Itanium processors be plugged into a single socket, the company said Wednesday. Though Intel builds Itanium, HP helped develop its architecture... Read more...

Adobe doubles profit, reports record revenue

Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:45:44 +0000

San Jose, California-based Adobe Systems Inc. on Thursday reported financial results for the company's fiscal fourth quarter and year-end 2003. The financial picture looks good for Adobe as the company doubled its quarterly profit, and... Read more...

MSN Doubles Worldwide Availability of Internet Subscription

Tom Warren — Thu, 15 May 2003 00:40:03 +0000

Addition of 13 MSN Extra Storage Markets Increases Subscription Potential To More Than 76 Million Users of Hotmail Consumers in 13 new markets around the world -- including large parts of Asia,... Read more...

Microsoft Doubles Loss in Xbox Division - Filing

Tue, 13 May 2003 16:17:59 +0000

Things are not going too well in Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said that its Home and Entertainment division lost $190 million before taxes, write-offs and other charges in its... Read more...

HP doubles recycled PC rebates

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:04:20 +0000

Not to be outdone by Dell's recent revamp of its PC recycling programme, HP has said it will double the incentive it offers to consumers for handing in their old, unwanted computers. ... Read more...

Time spent on instant messaging doubles at work

Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:18:51 +0000

A report by Jupiter Media Metrix (the things people do studies on!) states that officer workers are doubling their time swapping real-time messages, with the number of minutes spent instant-messaging at work in the United... Read more...