Neowin News Feed for: Future

This is Microsoft's vision of the future 'intelligent car'

Brad Sams — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:44:27 +0100

The future of the automobile is something that often includes the thought of self driving cars, hydrogen power and even the possibility of flying cars but Microsoft's view is slightly different. Read more...

Microsoft: Smartwatches are a "possibility," lots of cool stuff coming

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:41:02 +0100

Rick Rashid, Microsoft's chief research officer, has given an interview with The Verge where he states that a Microsoft smartwatch is a "possibility," but the market may not be there. Read more...

Livemocha merges with Rosetta Stone to change how we learn languages

Paul Ferson — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:32:17 +0100

Livemocha has sent an email to its users alerting them that the company is now part of Rosetta Stone, letting users know that this will not change their ability to learn and hinting at a redesign too. Read more...

Mozilla's Collusion demo shows how you can become a marketing tool

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:53:31 +0100

Mozilla's latest project, the 'Collusion' addon for Firefox, builds up an almost-scary picture of how you're connected to the Internet, and how you can be tied across different websites unknowingly. Read more...

Google invites some lucky people to the Glass Explorer Program

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:26:12 +0000

Google's hunt for new Explorers with Glass is over. While the contest ran during February, the company has only begun to send out invitations to join the Explorer Program via Google+ today. Read more...

Code in YouTube app on Android suggests paid channels coming

Paul Ferson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:06:07 +0000

An update to Google's YouTube app for Android added some interesting code, indicating you could be paying to subscribe to channels in the near future, though the company has been tight-lipped. Read more...

Where does Apple's future lie?

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:41:34 +0000

Apple has been riding a tidal wave of success that started with the iPod in the early 2000s. But with increased competition from Google & Microsoft in the mobile space, where does Apple's future lie. Read more...

Microsoft uses headlines to read the future

Paul Ferson — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:34:35 +0000

Microsoft Research, in cooperation with the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel, is working on a system to potentially divine the future from newspaper headlines and other sources. Read more...

Microsoft opens fourteen Innovation Centres across India

Paul Ferson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:52:29 +0000

Microsoft has launched fourteen Innovation Centres across four Indian states. The centres allow for students to gain certification with Microsoft's products, with seven in Andhra Pradesh alone. Read more...

What will technology look like in 2020?

Christopher White — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:08:18 +0000

What will Information Technology look like in the year 2020? That's what HP is trying to find out by crowdsourcing the Internet. Questions are asked on their site and an ebook will be published in Dec Read more...

Internet traffic to reach zettabyte by 2015

Paul Ferson — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:40:01 +0100

We know the future of the internet is only going to see more development, but it can be hard to really comprehend it. We take a look at what a zettabyte is and where the internet could go, given time. Read more...

How will the next generation face a wired world?

Tyler Holman — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:40:27 +0000

A Pew Internet survey shows that while most experts are optimistic about how the next generation can cope with today's technology, others aren't so sure. Others just have utterly bizarre predictions. Read more...

Hackers blast off into space

Paul Ferson — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:45:14 +0000

In an unusual new attempt to circumvent internet censorship, hackers have suggested using satellites in space, as no country could request their removal. Read more...

IBM's five predictions for next five years in tech

Andy Weir — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:34:28 +0000

The year's not yet over, but IBM is looking towards the next five, with five predictions for developments and innovations in technology that it believes will have changed the world by the end of 2016. Read more...

Microsoft unveils new ‘Future Vision' video

Andy Weir — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:25:28 +0100

Microsoft has released its latest 'future-gazing' video, offering an exciting glimpse into how it believes technology will develop and integrate within our personal and professional lives. Read more...

Wozniak: Humans to become like dogs as machines take over the world

Paul Spain — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:40:28 +0100

At a business event on Friday afternoon, Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple alongside Steve Jobs) claimed that humans would "become the pets, the dogs of the house." Wozniak was speaking to an audience of over... Read more...

Paper-thin, flexible phone signals the future of mobile technology

Steve Donaghy — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:22:02 +0100

Ever since their worldwide debut in the 1980's, Mobile phones have been getting smaller and thinner. It's a good thing, too, those first phones were quite literally the size of your average house brick. All... Read more...

Eric Schmidt on computing's future, competition, and his new role

Mike Brown — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:32:19 +0000

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt outlined his vision of the future of computing, where he sees Google heading, and the possibilities Moore's Law can provide the public with. In an interview with The Telegraph ,... Read more...

Editorial: Observations on Linux's Future

Mark Jensen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:10:29 +0000

Linux's Future: Observations by a Linux user Having been inspired by the Neowin original two-part article, "Microsoft's Future" by Max Majewski (part one and part two), I decided that a look at where Linux... Read more...

Microsoft's future: part one

Contributor — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:44:44 +0000

A new hope The year 2009 has been an important one for Microsoft. Redemption is in reach again, after taking hits from increasingly hostile publicity, against its mishandled operating system Windows Vista; several corporate snafus... Read more...