Neowin News Feed for: Improved

Phil Spencer: "I'm not a big fan of the Xbox One and a half"

Usama Jawad — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:00:01 +0000

Following growing rumors of a possible 'PS 4.5' Xbox head Phil Spencer has dismissed the idea of an 'Xbox 1.5' stating that if "we're going to move forward, I want to move forward in big numbers." Read more...

Carbon ring storage aims for 1,000 times denser memory

Sam Symons — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:10:44 +0000

In the land of Germany, Ruijuan Xiao at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research and a few pals have devised a method of increasing the density of storage by up to 1,000... Read more...

Windows Mobile 6.5 brings improved Soft Keys

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:57:17 +0000

We earlier saw some leaked screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21159 which showed some changes in the user interface. One such improvement was that of the Windows Media Player This seems... Read more...

Improved Windows interoperability in Ubuntu

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:15 +0000

A proposal has been created by Scott Richie, an Ubuntu MOTU, that Wine be included in the Main repository of Ubuntu. This does not mean the Wine would be installed by default but instead that,... Read more...

Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:02:53 +0000

Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about... Read more...

Microsoft shows off improved search

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:20:42 +0000

Microsoft scientists have some new thoughts when it comes to search ranking and retrieval accuracy. New techniques for analyzing search relevance--the way users browse and click through specific content--can improve the algorithms used to rank... Read more...

NVIDIA Patents Improved VGA Connector

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:10:00 +0000

The Tech Report has found out that NVIDIA has been granted a patent for an improved VGA connector. Here's a snippet from the patent's abstract: An improved VGA connector that supports enhanced... Read more...

Intel Celeron to Gain Improved AMD64 Compatibility

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:20:00 +0000

Intel's desktop Celeron D chips are to be the latest processors to get the chip giant's NetBurst core update, The Register has learned. According to Intel documentation, Celeron model numbers 326, 331, 336, 341, 346... Read more...

States want Microsoft licensing program improved

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:51:56 +0000

A program intended to level the playing field in the software business in the wake of the U.S. antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. doesn't seem to be working as intended, the states that have settled... Read more...

Piracy rate in Ireland not improved in two years!

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:49:18 +0000

Honest guv... some bloke gave me this shiney disk thingy in da pub the other night and said it was all registered and all, give it a "whirl"... Despite experiencing the highest drop... Read more...