Neowin News Feed for: Hits

Google gets record 1 billion hits in a month, Facebook hits 750m users

Owen Williams — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:44:00 +0100

Last month, Google broke the record for the most visited site in the space of a month, with them smashing their previous record, 931 million, and breaking into new territory; 1 billion hits. On top... Read more...

Microsoft hits 10,000th patent

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:33:51 +0000

Microsoft has surpassed its next milestone in the race to patent its operating system. The company has been trying to file as many patents within the last two years to safe guard its innovations.... Read more...

Google maps car hits a deer, records it all. Oh deer

Brad Sams — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:07 +0000

Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived". It's a sad fact that deer get hit by cars everyday... Read more...

Windows worm hits 8.9 million PCs in past week

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:25:43 +0000

A windows worm named Conficker or Downadup or Kido (as called by various anti-virus vendors) which targets unpatched networks and poor passwords has been reported to have affected 2.4 million machines to over 8.9 million... Read more...

Pandora 2.0 hits the iPhone tonight

Nic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:13:24 +0000

Pandora Radio, the internet radio service that is personalized to musical attributes (vocal style, guitar riffs, etc.), is releasing Pandora 2.0, the major overhaul of the original iPhone application later tonight. Pandora is set to... Read more...

A Blizzard hits Massive advertising

tiddlie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:39:08 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment and Massive Inc today announced a multi-year advertising deal which will see Massive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, deliver advertising on Blizzard Entertainements websites and Battle.net. Blizzard's websites include the popular World... Read more...

Intel Core i7 hits the streets on Monday

Brad Wardell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:06 +0000

This Monday Intel is scheduled to release its next generation processor, the Intel Core i7. While we have long since moved away from names like Pentium 4 and such it seems, there seems to... Read more...

Facebook hits 10 billion photos

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:18:26 +0100

Facebook has revealed that it has hit a huge milestone, 10 billion photos are stored on the site. Doug Beaver, a Facebook engineer, revealed the statistic yesterday evening on the companys blog. Perhaps more impressive... Read more...

Windows 7 hits milestone 3

Brad Wardell — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:46:20 +0100

Mary-Jo Foley's blog reports some of the new things in Microsoft's internally released Windows 7 milestone. The successor to Windows Vista is only about a year away and scheduled to go into beta next month.... Read more...

'A Family Affair' ad for Microsoft hits the web

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:34:51 +0100

Microsoft has released their latest advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. This one features the duo living with a suburban family to "better connect" to normal people. Only the first part of the commercial... Read more...

Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News

Steven Parker — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:04:29 +0100

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As a part of its Rome release, Microsoft's Live Search team has launched a new Live Search News, a direct competitor to Google News. At this time, Live Search News looks like a simplified version... Read more...

Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks

Slimy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:25:34 +0000

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Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By... Read more...

PSP Firmware hits v3.80, Internet Radio added

Slimy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:52:44 +0000

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Sony has added Internet Radio in the PlayStation Portable’s latest firmware update: version 3.80. PSP owners will now be able to access thousands of stations via Wi-Fi, emphasizing the music side of the portable multimedia... Read more...

DS Hits 20 Million In Japan

Andrew Gallacher — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:55:04 +0000

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Sales monitor Media Create has announced that Nintendo's handheld DS system has passed the 20 million sales barrier in Japan. Released in December 2004, the Nintendo handheld sold six million units in Japan by February... Read more...

MP3 Spam Scam Hits In-boxes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:52:17 +0100

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Elvis and the Beatles probably never could have imagined they would one day be used to commit stock fraud. But that is exactly what is happening, as spammers have taken to using MP3 attachments in... Read more...

OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems

franzon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:28:29 +0100

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Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers. OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier versions are vulnerable to maliciously crafted TIFF files,... Read more...

Google's Stock Price Hits New High

Sagittarius — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:58:49 +0100

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Shares of Google jumped to a new high of $559.99 on Friday, a surge which comes on the heels of a few positive analyst reports and news Thursday that co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page... Read more...

China hits back at hacking charges

Slimy — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:15:33 +0100

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Recent reports suggested that hackers from the People's Liberation Army of China were behind attacks on computers in a handful of Western countries. Chinese military expert Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military... Read more...

'Critical' BitTorrent flaw hits Opera

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:35:44 +0100

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A 'highly critical' vulnerability has been found in the Opera web browser which could be exploited to remotely compromise a user's system. The flaw is caused when Opera uses already freed memory to parse BitTorrent... Read more...

Video gaming world cup hits Paris

Slimy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:23:03 +0100

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Thousands of gamers are in Paris over the next four days for the Electronic Sports World Cup grand final. More than 750 players are competing for $200,000 (Â£99,200) in prize money, with about 5,000 spectators... Read more...