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NASA finally abandons Mars Phoenix Lander

Brad Sams — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:41:51 +0000

NASA has finally given up on trying to resurrect the Phoenix Mars Lander. As of early last week NASA stopped sending signals to the rover who is fighting the intense winter temperatures on Mars.... Read more...

SpaceX Has Finally Made History and Reached Orbit!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:33:07 +0000

SpaceX, a private company established by Elon Musk the founder of Paypal, has once again attempted to successfully launch a shuttle into space. This launch comes after the failure of the Falcon 1... Read more...

Microsoft's Webmaster Tools is finally out of beta.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:03:20 +0000

There is a Big Update to Microsoft Webmaster Tools Center. This update includes several new features that provide webmasters more information about how Live Search is crawling and indexing your sites, as well as a... Read more...

Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-Ray Drive

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:12:59 +0000

After months of rumors and denials, the XBOX 360 with a Blu-ray disc drive is due to be manufactured soon and shipped in Q3 of 2008. Pegatron Technology, an OEM subsidiary of Asustek Computer, is... Read more...

Vonage Finally in the Legal Clear

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:38:37 +0000

In a settlement that marks the end of Internet phone company Vonage's legal troubles for the time being, the company announced in a press release yesterday that it had agreed in principle to end the... Read more...

Yahoo Finally Unveils Its Showcase Vista App

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:46 +0000

They say late is better than never. But is late worth the wait? That's the question for Yahoo, which late last night released a preview of its instant messenger client for Windows Vista. The wait... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M: Fast DX10 Mobile GPUs Finally Arrive

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0000

It has been more than a year since NVIDIA released their GeForce 8800 GTX graphics chip for desktop computers - a chip that remains to this day the fastest gaming GPU (if we include the... Read more...

Record Companies finally woken up by Radiohead

Steven Parker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:02:48 +0000

Remember 2001, when it was decided that the record industry was going to be brought to its knees by peer to peer sharing? Remember yesterday, when last time we checked, there was still a thriving... Read more...

NASA's Dawn Finally Rises

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:30:40 +0000

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, originally scheduled for launch on June 20th, is finally on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday morning following a... Read more...

Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:38:19 +0000

Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. The application, designed for indexing and finding data in PCs,... Read more...

Billions of excuses later, Gates finally gets degree

Steven Parker — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:59:13 +0000

Bill Gates has joined George Washington and Benjamin Franklin as the holder of an honorary degree from Harvard, 32 years after he dropped out of the school. View:... Read more...

The Beatles finally coming to iTunes?

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:29:40 +0000

It would appear that the final obstacle to get The Beatles music on iTunes, and other services, has finally been overcome. Apple Corps, which is owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of... Read more...

Luxor 2 finally hitting Xbox Live Arcade this week

Todd Tanner — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:34:15 +0000

Luxor 2, the Egyptian-themed casual game, will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, at 2:00 am PST. Luxor 2 combines the pick-up-and-play fun of games like Zuma with the mystique of ancient Egypt.... Read more...

Xbox 360 Elite Finally Announced

Joe Cashman — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:49:54 +0000

Possibly the worst kept secret in gaming history, but finally the Xbox Elite has been announced. On Channel 10 last night Albert Penello showed off the black matte console, featuring HDMI output and a 120GB... Read more...

Oxford English Dictionary finally recognises 'wiki'

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:23:58 +0000

The Oxford English Dictionary has recognized the word 'wiki' as a word, among many others in its latest quarterly update. 'Wiki' began life as 'wiki wiki', a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick', but the OED has... Read more...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Finally Gold

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:13:45 +0000

Gamespot is reporting that long-delayed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, developed by GSC Gameworld and published by THQ, has finally gone gold. The announcement was made by THQ's Executive Vice President, Kelly Flock, at THQ's Gamer's... Read more...

Prince of Persia Movies Finally Moving Along for 2008

Marcel Klum — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:54:52 +0000

Another video game series is being eyed for a film adaptation franchise, this time the Prince of Persia games from Ubisoft. The game has taken off in recent years with at least 3 recent sequels... Read more...

PS3 Game Finally Makes it into Japanese Top 10

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:47:11 +0000

It has taken a while, but it finally looks certain that Japan will adopt the PS3. Virtua Fighter 5 on the PS3 stormed into the number 1 slot of the Japanese charts this week, selling... Read more...

FTC finally settles with Sony BMG over rootkit

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:18:19 +0000

Sony BMG started with a class-action lawsuit, continued with a settlement with state attorneys general and ended with the federal government. I use the term "ended" very loosely. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced... Read more...

Palm finally delivers real push e-mail

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:40:25 +0000

After many months, even years, of promising an e-mail push technology equivalent to what the RIM Blackberry service offers, it looks like Palm has finally done it. At least it has come close, with a... Read more...

AMD Finally Discloses Mobility Radeon X1900 Specs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:05:48 +0000

ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices, has finally published specifications of the Mobility Radeon X1900, a chip which has been unveiled by such producers of high-end gaming systems as Alienware and Fujitsu-Siemens. Apparently,... Read more...

Xbox 360 to Finally Receive 100GB HDD, Xbox.com Maintenance

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:27:59 +0000

After long complaints about the petty size of the Xbox 360 (20GB) hard drive, Microsoft will finally offer a 100GB version on the shelves. Right now there is no price set, but we're looking at... Read more...

RHEL 5 Beta 1 Finally Arrives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:22:51 +0000

Red Hat on Sept. 7 finally released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1. In a mailing-list message announcing the release, the company noted that "This is a public beta. Feel free to forward this... Read more...

FreeDOS finally hits 1.0 milestone

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:01:13 +0000

The FreeDOS project, an attempt to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, has finally reached a major milestone. After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now available for download from... Read more...

DDR2 Finally Crowned DRAM King

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:47:34 +0000

After a much longer than expected delay, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation) has finally taken over as the most popular memory chip used in PCs. The crossover to DDR2 from the previous mainstream chip,... Read more...

Red Hot Chili Peppers Finally on iTunes

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:55:39 +0000

Since 2003, the management for the band Red Hot Chili Peppers has maintained a non-digital stance to stop the decline of the album format. This stance changed however today with the announcement that the... Read more...

PSP 2.0 Firmware Finally Released to US Customers

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:42:22 +0000

After being promised by August 12th and then the week of August 15th, Sony has finally made good on its promise to release version 2.0 of the Playstation Portable Firmware. The biggest addition to... Read more...

Microsoft finally acknowledges wi-fi security standard

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:50:31 +0000

Microsoft has released native support for the IEEE 802.11i wireless security specification in Windows XP and its variants, nearly a year after the standard's ratification. The update, made available on Friday, gives Windows compatibility with... Read more...

Longhorn Transformation Pack 6 is finally released!

Marcel Klum — Tue, 25 May 2004 18:22:33 +0000

Another Longhorn Transformation pack has been released :) The pack will update your Windows XP with Neowin GUI by adding some themes and patch system files. Changes in Version 6.0 - Added Avalon and... Read more...

Cisco to Finally Unveil Its 'Huge Fast Router'

Fri, 21 May 2004 19:10:11 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. next week will show off its long-awaited advancement in router technology and make the case that it has returned to networking's cutting edge, a place where Cisco has been challenged of late.... Read more...

California town for sale on eBay finally sold

Fri, 21 May 2004 12:29:15 +0000

This tiny Northern California town, which sparked an ill-fated eBay bidding war nearly two years ago, has finally been sold -- this time for real. (Proves to me that you can get *just* about anything... Read more...

UK News: 2.8GHz Prescott finally available

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:31:53 +0000

RETAILERS IN THE UK, Austria and Bosnia have received stocks of Prescott 2.8 CPUs we learn, and we ghuess the chip is heading for other European territories too. But it seems that this is the... Read more...

NTL Finally sort their Email service...

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:06:40 +0000

Dear Customer, We are about to upgrade and improve our email system. This is a major project and will take several weeks to complete. When we have finished, we hope that you'll... Read more...

Game XP is finally out!

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:10:34 +0000

Game XP optimizes the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to set up your system to match your gaming needs. Game XP extends your operating system's capabilities and makes Windows faster and... Read more...

Pocket PC 2003 Is Finally Here!

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:15:33 +0000

Thanks malebolgia for the heads up Well, the big day has finally arrived. Microsoft has officially announced Pocket PC 2003, which it's renamed Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. It's the third... Read more...

nForce2 GART Driver Finally Released For Linux

Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:16:31 +0000

"Rejoice, Radeon owners! For those of you who bought an nForce2 motherboard with the hopes of doing a bit of linux gaming on it, I'm sure it was a pretty hard let down to find... Read more...

Tactical Ops - Assault On Terr 3.4 patch - finally !

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:59:30 +0000

The long awaited and promised 3.4 patch has finally been released, weighing in at 97mb it is quite a hefty download. But due to lots of bug fixes and new additions hopefully it... Read more...

IBM does VoIP, finally

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:43:16 +0000

SIGHTING DEMONSTRABLE COST savings and improved efficiencies, IBM on Wednesday announced it has begun offering a full set of services for migrating separate enterprise voice and data networks to a single IP- based network. ... Read more...

ATI finally delivers Linux driver

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:17:07 +0000

THE LINUX COMMUNIITY gained a strong supporter this week as graphics company ATI finally introduced its unified driver for the open source operating system. ATI promised that it would work harder on its Linux support... Read more...

Nforce2 boards finally for sale

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:02:08 +0000

BOARDS BASED ON Nvidia's long-awaited NForce2 chipset are slipping into retail outlets both in Europe and the US. In the UK, scan.co.uk reported receiving stocks of Asus' A7N8X-Deluxe board this week, and is... Read more...