Neowin News Feed for: Finds

Canada's New Anti-Camcording Legislation Finds First Victim

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:16:18 +0000

After being caught trying to record the movie 'Dan in Real Life' last month, a man from QuÃ©bec now faces up to two years in jail, if convicted, thanks to Canada's new anti-camcording legislation. Should... Read more...

RIAA finds new unlikely target: Usenet.com

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:18:58 +0000

In the southern district of New York, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit on October 12 saying that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law. Usenet.com,... Read more...

Symantec Finds Exploit in Doc Created with Word 2004 for Mac

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:18:03 +0000

Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild. This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word... Read more...

Hacker Finds Serious Flaw in Adobe PDF

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:23:39 +0000

The same hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Incorporated's PDF file format. Using Adobe Reader 8.1 on Windows... Read more...

Study Finds 25 Countries Block Web Sites

Fri, 18 May 2007 18:08:13 +0000

The OpenNet Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Toronto, had the time and capabilities to study only 40 countries and the Palestinian territories. The... Read more...

Danish consumer agency finds design flaw in Apple iBook

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:30:25 +0000

After receiving complaints from iBook owners that their machines would no longer start up, the Danish Consumer Complaints Board conducted a detailed study of four complaints received between April and November 2006, including a microscopic... Read more...

New System Finds, Fixes Java, C++ Bugs

Wed, 02 May 2007 20:20:26 +0000

Coverity Incorporated has announced the availability of its Coverity Prevent Software Quality System, an automated solution that identifies and resolves vulnerabilities in C, C++ and Java source code. A technology (patent pending) the company calls... Read more...

Dell Finds 'Evidence of Misconduct'

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:29:41 +0000

Dell shares fell by 4% in late trading Thursday after the company once again delayed its annual report because of growing accounting concerns. Dell said its Audit Committee has identified "a number of accounting errors,... Read more...

Disney finds backdated Pixar stocks; clears Jobs

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:02:20 +0000

Walt Disney has confirmed that it has found backdated stock options at Pixar prior to its acquisition in January 2006 and has cleared Steve Jobs (CEO of Pixar at the time) of any wrongdoing. "The... Read more...

Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:08:29 +0000

A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits. Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ALSR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta... Read more...

Lost Planet finds US release date

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:22:01 +0000

Keiji Inafune unveiled Lost Planet last December for a late 2006 release in Japan for the Xbox 360 console. Today, Capcom has announced that it will ship Lost Planet to USA in the first quarter... Read more...

Microsoft Finds Unlikely InfoCard Ally

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:27:41 +0000

Microsoft has found an unlikely backer for its ambitious InfoCard online ID management system. At the RSA Conference here, Verisign dispelled the notion of a rivalry with Microsoft over identity management and announced that its... Read more...

Yahoo's Finds of the Year 2005

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:56:02 +0000

Yahoo UK & Ireland have announced their top finds of last year. Top of the table was a cloud watching website, called The Cloud Appreciation Society, which won the weird and wonderful website award. ... Read more...

MIT Finds Manufacturer for $100 Laptop

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:52:12 +0000

MIT announced today that it has chosen Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, to produce its ultra-low cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media... Read more...

Sims 2 Finds Life on PSP

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:44:13 +0000

Pixelated people find new neighborhood in Sony's portable; characters get their life on this Friday. The Sims sensation is one step closer to claiming another victim today. Electronic Arts has announced... Read more...

Philips Finds New Material for Future Memory Chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:53:57 +0000

Dutch Philips Electronics said on Wednesday its researchers have come up with a new material to integrate memory in very advanced semiconductors featuring very thin circuits. The new material needs only a tiny voltage to... Read more...

Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New Study Finds

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:02:26 +0000

Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday. The so-called Reflex study, conducted by 12... Read more...

Pentium M Finds Its Place

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:39:07 +0000

Intel will likely add support for location-based services to its Pentium M line of mobile processors in 2006, a senior company executive says. As with cell phones, location-based services for computers are based on the... Read more...

Sender ID Finds New Life

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:21:54 +0000

Internet Light and Power says it will become one of the first ISPs to deploy Microsoft Corp.'s anticipated Sender ID technology in daily operations. Sender ID will become part of the Toronto-based company's iPermitMail virtual... Read more...

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:55:31 +0000

All 585 pages of the 9/11 Commission's final report is now available on the web. The 9/11 Commission on Thursday issued its final report on the terrorist attacks of 2001 and,... Read more...

Probe Finds IBM Altered Document

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:09:05 +0000

IBM lobbyists, possibly with the aid of Treasury Department officials, illegally altered an internal Treasury document during a debate on pension policy last fall, the Treasury's acting inspector general has concluded. Dennis... Read more...

Oddworld's "Stranger" finds a home with Electronic Arts

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:30:53 +0000

EA confirms that it will publish the next Oddworld title; game is bound for PS2 and Xbox gamers sometime in 2005. Oddworld cofounder Lorne Lanning takes us behind the scenes. Quoted from GameSpot. ... Read more...

Morpheus Finds Its Voice

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:21:16 +0000

Morpheus users who rely on the peer-to-peer service to swap files will soon have another option to get connected: The Morpheus Voicebox, which lets you turn a household landline phone into an Internet-based, Voice-over-IP telephone.... Read more...

O&O Software finds patient files on used hard disks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:12:29 +0000

The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,... Read more...

Survey finds human at fault for security breaches

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:00:04 +0000

Human error is to blame for 84 per cent of IT security breaches, according to a survey of more than 900 organisations. In its second annual study of IT security and the workforce,... Read more...

Transmeta Finds A Buyer And Investor In NEC

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:41:24 +0000

Microprocessor company Transmeta Corp. says NEC Electronics has become the first company to license Transmeta technology for reducing the "leakage" of electrical current in computer chips. In addition, the companies say Japanese chipmaker NEC took... Read more...

NVIDIA's GoForce Finds Home in Mitsubishi Mobile Phones

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:00:18 +0000

The long-lasting battle between NVIDIA and ATI Technologies on desktop graphics market is not over and will never be, but there is another one underway. Weeks after ATI announced its huge design-win with Motorola and... Read more...

Study Finds Video Games Good for Treating Phobias

Marcel Klum — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:12:16 +0000

Scared silly of spiders? Horrified by heights? Terrorized by tight spaces? Play a video game -- doctor's orders. Regular, off-the-shelf computer video games are an effective method of treating people's fears, using a... Read more...

Microsoft Finds New Uses for Usenet

Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:22:00 +0000

Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that makes it easier to navigate Usenet news groups and could eventually help clear clutter in e-mail inboxes, a Microsoft researcher said Tuesday. A Microsoft concept called the... Read more...

Coder Finds New Way to Swap Tunes

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:01:29 +0000

Like Daniel entering the lions' den, programmer Jim Speth is about to release some new music-sharing software that could land him in a world of legal pain. Unlike Daniel, Speth doesn't have... Read more...

SGI finds 2,048 uses for an Itanic

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:57:32 +0000

If anyone can find a use for an Itanium chip, it ought to be SGI. Although the processor remains stillborn as a commercial computing proposition, the benchmarks are impressive and improving, and SGI's technical computing... Read more...

Study Finds Windows Cheaper Than Linux

Marcel Klum — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:17:43 +0000

A Microsoft-sponsored white paper from research group IDC, which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies, found that the... Read more...

Bell Labs fires researcher after committee finds 'fraudulent work'

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:56 +0000

A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at... Read more...

Motorola GPS chip finds mobile gear

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:10:45 +0000

Motorola is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS satellite sensor small enough and hence cheap enough for practical use in consumer-electronics devices such as cell phones and notebook computers.... Read more...

Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight

Sat, 18 May 2002 20:25:25 +0000

Powerful computer and telecommunications companies are allying with upstart file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net. Stung by... Read more...