Neowin News Feed for: Light

Toshiba unveils world's thinnest 10-inch tablet [Update]

Andy Weir — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:21:19 +0000

Toshiba's Excite X10 - its new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet - is both thinner and lighter than the iPad 2. Could this finally be the device to dethrone the iPad as king of the tablets? Read more...

Ubuntu shows off new "Light" theme; brown is history

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:23 +0000

Beginning with the release of Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS), which is expected to hit PCs at the end of April, Ubuntu's UI will no longer look like it came about as a result of a... Read more...

LED light bulbs to cut energy bills by 75%

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:23:30 +0000

LED light bulbs are not a new invention but currently they are a costly alternative to the more traditional incandescent light bulbs. A report from London based Metro newspaper indicates that scientists have discovered a... Read more...

Apple applies to light up laptop touchpads, iPod clickwheels

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:55:15 +0000

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Apple has touched on a new way to help you find your way around its products. The company has registered technology in the US that could see the iPod's clickwheel or your MacBook Air's touchpad... Read more...

Light to shrink computer clusters

Lt-DavidW — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:39:43 +0000

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Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop thanks to research by IBM. Scientists at IBM have completed work that may make it possible to do away with the copper wires used to... Read more...

Video game sheds light on brain activity during danger

Slimy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:35:16 +0100

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A computer game in which volunteers had to move a blue triangle through a 2D maze while avoiding a red dot "predator" has shed light on how the brain reacts to imminent danger. If the... Read more...

DDR3 standard gets the green light

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:46:12 +0100

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The Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec) has published the specifications of the forthcoming Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) memory standard. DDR3 memory promises improvements in performance and power consumption over DDR2 and older standards.... Read more...

Google gives UK mobile maps the green light

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:38:26 +0100

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Google Mobile Maps is now available to UK users for route planning and local searching. The service, integrated with Google Earth for showing satellite images, has been available as a Java application for a while.... Read more...

LG's Blu-ray/HD DVD Player May Never See the Light of Day

Slimy — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:36:37 +0000

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In its current state, the LG BH100 player cannot receive certification from the DVD Forum and therefore cannot be advertised or sold to the public. The player that plays both HD formats, conforms to all... Read more...

Judge Gives Green Light to Monopolization Suit Against Apple

malebolgia — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:21 +0000

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With all the hoopla of the video iPod and speculation that Apple was going to release a media center-style PC and switch to Intel chips, it seems that the media last September inadvertently – or... Read more...

.xxx given green light

dbfriends — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:29:10 +0100

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ICann has given the go-ahead to plans for what has been described as a "virtual red-light district", with the creation of a .xxx TLD. Negotiations are to begin with ICM Registry Inc, which will run... Read more...

PeopleSoft Shareholders Give Oracle Green Light

malebolgia — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:05:28 +0000

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Oracle Relevant Products/Services from Oracle, backed by what the company views as a favorable response from PeopleSoft Latest News about PeopleSoft stockholders, is applying more pressure in an effort to complete its proposed US$9.2 billion... Read more...

Gran Turismo 4 hits red light

malebolgia — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:09:24 +0000

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Sony's driving sim gets pushed back in both Japan and North America; SCEA targets early '05 as new launch window. Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the Gran Turismo 4 release date... Read more...

Thurrott Sheds Light on Longhorn and Office 12

lardiop — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:10:20 +0100

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In an article just posted to the web, Paul Thurrott has shed some light on current beta and release dates for Microsoft Office 12 and Windows Longhorn: It's been a quiet year... Read more...

First look at MSR's touch light prototype

malebolgia — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:20:56 +0100

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Channel9 Forums has put together another great video showcasing technology from Microsoft's Research group. This latest video is a prototype of Microsoft's new "touch light" technology. Right now its still in the early... Read more...

Service Pack 2 sheds light on Longhorn

malebolgia — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:34:17 +0100

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With the release of Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP later this month, users will be re-evaluating their upgrade plans. Existing Windows XP desktops are likely to receive the SP2 update,... Read more...

Jump To Light Speed Opens Up Beta Registration

malebolgia — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:28:45 +0100

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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that they are accepting applications for beta testing for its Star Wars Galaxies expansion Jump to Light Speed. Taking place between Episode IV and V, the game will include 15... Read more...

Microsoft shines more light on Longhorn

malebolgia — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:02:35 +0000

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As Microsoft prepares developers and independent software vendors for Longhorn, the next version of its Windows operating system, the company wants to wean them off older Windows programming models. Speaking at the... Read more...

DivX Light : a DivX alternative

moua — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:07:53 +0100

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DivX Light is only the original DivX® Decoder in a very light (242 KB) and simple installer. It's useful if you don't want to download the big 5MB DivX codec on DivX.com with... Read more...

Chips Could Crunch at Light Speed

sphere — Mon, 05 May 2003 11:59:09 +0100

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Researchers at IBM have used carbon molecules to emit light, a breakthrough that could replace silicon as the foundation of chips and lead to faster computers and telecommunication equipment. The focus of... Read more...