Neowin News Feed for: Drops

Apple introducing new, cheaper Macs very shortly?

Sam Symons — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:28:16 +0000

What have we got here? A delicious Apple rumor, of which could actually be true, taking into account the current economy. As AppleInsider is reporting, various sources have informed the technology world that Apple is... Read more...

Apple drops iPhone NDA

Tom Warren — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:40:12 +0000

Apple has announced it has dropped the NDA (non disclosure agreement) regarding development of iPhone software. In a statement on the company's website Apple explains "We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS... Read more...

Square Enix drops Tecmo bid

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:04:30 +0000

Less than 24 hours after Tecmo said no thanks to its $200 million offer, Square Enix has officially withdrawn it. Initially, the Japanese role-playing game giant didn't rule out a hostile bid for Tecmo. However,... Read more...

Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Drops From $2,999 To Free

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:28 +0000

In December, Microsoft released a $2,999 Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator that allowed developers to test HD DVD projects on the 360 from a USB drive or networked PC. It was an easy way to... Read more...

New Line drops HD DVD as well

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:02:13 +0000

It is now clear that New Line (Owned by Warner Bros.) will also drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray. The announcement comes on a day that can only be described as a nightmare for... Read more...

Samsung Quietly Drops the Price of Blu-Ray Disc Player

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:33:22 +0000

Samsung Electronics, a leading maker of various equipment, has quietly started to sell its BD-P1400 Blu-ray disc (BD) player for $299 in certain locations. The decision moves Blu-ray format into the same price range as... Read more...

AMD drops out of the Top 10 of Semiconductors

Steven Parker — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:21:32 +0000

According to Toms Hardware, AMD has drop 3 places to #11th, while Intel managed to solidify its expansion in the market place. The acquisition of ATI helped AMD to enter the chip top 10 last... Read more...

AOL drops free Kaspersky anti-virus, offers McAfee

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:13:50 +0000

AOL has quietly stopped offering its free Active Virus Shield software in favor of a competing alternative from vendor McAfee. The free anti-virus software, based on technology from Kaspersky Lab, had been available for the... Read more...

Microsoft drops Digital Image Suite

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:41:39 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has discontinued a line of digital photo software, saying that the functions can now be found in Windows Vista and other Microsoft software. Copies of Digital Image Suite will be available while supplies... Read more...

Sony Drops Price of Incoming Blu-ray Player

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:49:06 +0000

Sony has announced that its second-generation Blu-ray Disc player, originally set to launch at $599.99 this summer, will ship to retailers this week at a reduced price of $499.99. The BDP-300 will essentially cost half... Read more...

Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:40:20 +0000

At the Mix'07 conference in Las Vegas—Microsoft's annual event for web designers and developers—the spotlight has largely been on Microsoft's Silverlight platform, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Silverlight is a set of tools for... Read more...

Microsoft Drops Lawsuit Against FairUse4WM

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:09:48 +0000

Late last year, a team of coders found a way to strip the WM DRM system from media files, allowing playback of said media on any device, with a tool called FairUse4WM. Claiming the creator... Read more...

SonyStyle Drops 20GB PlayStation

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:22:16 +0000

The cheaper 20GB flavour of Sony Computer Entertainment's two PlayStation 3 consoles is getting harder to find in the U.S. In addition to Best Buy dropping the $500 version, Sony's own online store, SonyStyle, now... Read more...

Price Drops Boost LCD-TV Sales

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:24:51 +0000

iSuppli has raised its forecast by 3% to 75.2 million LCD-TVs, which is 42.7% higher than the 52.7 million units sold last year. While the growth is impressive, it marks a slowdown compared to 2006,... Read more...

Motorola cuts 3,500 jobs as profit drops sharply

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:46:09 +0000

Following Nokia, Motorola is the world's second-largest wireless handset vendor. Despite the company's recent success, Motorola has recently reported a 48% plunge in its fourth quarter profit, from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $624 million... Read more...

Google Drops Beta Tag from Blogger

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:07:29 +0000

Google Blogger has officially left its beta tag behind. Google bought Pyra Labs in 2003 and introduce the beta version of "Blogger" last August. The Blogger web site now introduces "the new Blogger" on its... Read more...

Archlord drops PLAYplus system

Todd Tanner — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:44:23 +0000

ArchLord™, the MMORPG where one player will rule the world, [will ship to stores in North America on October 3rd] will launch on Friday 6th October, Codemasters Online Gaming confirmed today. It is also announced... Read more...

N.Y. Politician Drops 'Porn' Lawsuit Against Google

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:09:37 +0000

A Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimedthe search engine company Google Inc. profits from child pornography. Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County Legislature fromOceanside, filed suit in May... Read more...

AMD Plans Major CPU Price Drops Day After "Conroe"

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:16:05 +0000

Submitted by member oddcrap with thanks to Blackima for first reporting this in BPN. AMD will drastically cut prices on its desktop processors after the July 23rd release of Intel's Core 2... Read more...

Yahoo drops CEO salary to $1

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:44:15 +0000

On Friday, Yahoo's board of directors have brought Chairman and CEO Terry Semel's annual salary to one dollar! This is done while boosting overall future compensation through stock options and grants. In a filingwith the... Read more...

Dell Drops Hard-Drive MP3 Line

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:07:52 +0000

Dell Inc. stopped selling its most expensive digital music players after failing to take market share from Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, discontinued three Digital Jukebox players that sell... Read more...

HP Drops iTunes, taps RealNetworks for Music

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:39:07 +0000

After several years of distributing Apple Computer's iTunes software with its new PCs, Hewlett-Packard is shifting its allegiances to rival RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service, the companies plan to announce Thursday. The computer... Read more...

Microsoft drops MSBlast writer's $500,000 penalty

Brad Wardell — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:50:11 +0000

Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teen convicted of writing a variant of the MSBlast worm, won't have to pay $500,000 in restitution. The damages were to be paid to Microsoft for the teen's... Read more...

Mozilla Drops 1.8 Release, Introduces Transition Plan

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:38:35 +0000

Mozilla has just announced that it will not be releasing or supporting any subsequent versions of its "Mozilla Suite" software. The suite has been moved aside so that Mozilla can focus on developing its key... Read more...

FBI Drops Web Surveillance System

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:40:49 +0000

A computer system being produced by the FBI to read e-mails and other online communications has been dropped. Feds are instead turning to commercial software to eavesdrop on traffic during investigations into suspected criminals, terrorists... Read more...

Lycos Drops Spam-Fighting Screensaver

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:29:55 +0000

A week after its launch, internet portal Lycos has decided to pull the download of its controversial spam fighting screensaver. Dubbed "Makelovenotspam", the Lycos screensaver was designed to flood known spam servers with useless traffic,... Read more...

Microsoft Drops Windows 2000 SP5

Tom Warren — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:48:41 +0000

From Paul Thurrott: "A source close to Microsoft today sent me documentation about an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 that the software giant will release in 2005 in lieu of a Service Pack... Read more...

Intel Drops Wireless LAN Support by Chipsets

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:33:56 +0000

Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of silicon chips for computers, has decided to abandon the plan to incorporate wireless LAN functionality into its i915- and i925X-series desktop chipsets. The move was said to be... Read more...

Sony drops online from Gran Turismo 4, hits Xmas releas

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:18:41 +0000

Polyphony Digital's long-awaited PS2 racing title Gran Turismo 4 is on track to meet worldwide release dates in early December - but at the cost of online play, which has been removed from the game.... Read more...

NBA Live 2005 goes gold, moves forward, drops price

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:03:40 +0000

EA Sports' B-baller travels to the factory early; will now be released before ESPN NBA 2K5 for just $39.99. When the August NPD best seller charts were revealed, they left no question... Read more...

Nintendo drops GBA SP price to UKP 69, launches new bundles

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:56:08 +0000

Following on the heels of a similar price cut in the United States earlier this month, Nintendo of Europe has today announced that the GBA SP is set to drop to UKP 69 from September... Read more...

EA drops Def Jam: Fight for NY soundtrack details

Wed, 08 Sep 2004 05:32:04 +0000

Fighting game will include songs by Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Method Man, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, and Ultramagnetic MCs. With over 30 hip-hop artists appearing in Def Jam: Fight for... Read more...

Nintendo drops GBA SP to $79.99 in America; Euro cut may fol

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:03:00 +0000

Pint-sized console drops in price ahead of the arrival of the DS. The price point of the Game Boy Advance SP is to drop to $79.99 in the United States later this... Read more...

Retailer drops Manhunt after media frenzy over teen murder

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:50:28 +0000

Grand Theft Auto makers causing media trouble again. British electronics retailer Dixons has removed Rockstar's Manhunt title from stores, after newspapers and TV news shows reported allegations that the title had influenced... Read more...

Top id tech drops Doom 3 details

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:02:19 +0000

Two weeks after Todd Hollenshead used his .plan to announce Doom 3 had gone gold, another id Software staffer has used his own .plan to reveal more details about the game. In a lengthy update,... Read more...

EA drops more Fantasy Football details

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:55:37 +0000

Game giant's DIY dream team service will have real-time coverage of stats, standings and injury reports, league news, cheat sheets, and more. At today's EA press event, EA gave the press its... Read more...

IBM Drops Gloves in Database War with Oracle

Sat, 22 May 2004 03:13:56 +0000

IBM is taking off its kid gloves. IBM, the blue-chip company with a buttoned-down reputation, on Friday fired off a full-page newspaper ad in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal aimed... Read more...

Eidos drops new Crash 'N' Burn details

Sat, 01 May 2004 19:50:53 +0000

Today, Eidos released new info to keep console racer fans up to speed on Crash 'N' Burn. Currently in development at Climax's Brighton studio, the Xbox and PlayStation 2 racer will let up to 16... Read more...

RIAA drops amnesty program

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:31:27 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America has pulled the plug on a controversial program that offered file sharers amnesty from the group's legal campaign to stop the unauthorized swapping of music files over the Internet.... Read more...

Lindows.com drops letters in European revival

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:28:14 +0000

Controversial Linux seller Lindows.com is back in business in Europe, minus a few letters. The software company, in the midst of a wide-ranging dispute with Microsoft regarding trademark rights to the Windows name,... Read more...