Neowin News Feed for: Mark

Teens admire Steve Jobs for making the world a better place

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:20:16 +0000

According to a survey by Junior Achievement, Steve Jobs is the most admired entrepreneur amongst 35 percent of teenagers, with nearly two-thirds of respondents who chose him saying they did so because he has "made... Read more...

BlackBerry passes 10m subscriber mark

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:59:14 +0000

Research in Motion has announced strong second-quarter results for its BlackBerry brand, adding around 1.45 million subscribers to break the 10 million mark. Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 reached $1.37bn, up 27%... Read more...

Intel tops 1 million mark on quad-core processors

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:32:20 +0000

Danny Cheung, an Intel Corporation spokesman in Singapore, announced that the millionth quad-core Xeon chip was shipped this month. The chip giant has unleashed more than 1 million quad-core Xeon 5300 microprocessors since introducing them... Read more...

IBM, Sun Look to Leave a 'Petaflop' Mark in Supercomputing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:53:07 +0000

IBM and Sun Microsystems are looking to bring supercomputing into the "petaflop" era. The two IT giants will detail the specifics behind their new supercomputer systems to the audience attending the 2007 International Supercomputer Conference... Read more...

Xfire surpasses 7 million user mark

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:54:29 +0000

Xfire, one of the fastest growing online gaming communities, announced today it recently crossed seven million registered users and supports over 800 of the most popular PC games worldwide. Xfire's goal is "gaming simplified,"... Read more...

Wii Zelda passes the million mark

Todd Tanner — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:25:32 +0000

Nintendo's new Wii console has its first million-seller. In an interview with IGN Wii on Thursday, NOA's VP of marketing and corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, said that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has sold... Read more...

World of Warcraft Passes 8 Million Subscriber Mark

Todd Tanner — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:26:58 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now played by more than 8 million gamers around the world. World of Warcraft has... Read more...

Epic's Mark Rein Makes PC Users Cry. Gears of War Denied.

Todd Tanner — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:51:48 +0000

Well, Epic's Mark Rein has once again devastated PC users . He has denied us Gears of War. He shall pay! Anyway, all this started when someone noticed in a new set of Nvidia drivers... Read more...

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos Goes Golden

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:51:18 +0000

Faithful to the Warhammer license, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos puts the focus squarely on the battlefield with a real-time combat system that gives the player unprecedented customization and control of his army. An epic battle... Read more...

Epic's Mark Rein has some harsh words for Intel

Todd Tanner — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:27:46 +0000

Gamesindustry.biz has posted a rather scathing statement by Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games. In Mark Rein's "opinion piece" he pretty much blasts Intel for destroying the PC Gaming market by flooding the retail sector... Read more...

New Super Mario Bros. sells past half million mark

Todd Tanner — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:17:16 +0000

Nintendo announced in a press release this afternoon that the newest Mario Bros. game "New Super Mario Bros." for the DS handheld system has just sold past the 500,000 mark in the United States. This... Read more...

Mark Ecko tags the Web

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:11:58 +0000

Mark Ecko's Getting Up sure has seen difficulties getting onto store shelves. The game, which follows a graffiti writer earning respect by tagging up a fictional city, has been the target of politicians and activists... Read more...

Intel misses Itanium sales mark by $26.6bn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:26:56 +0000

If everything had gone according to plan, sales of Itanium-based servers would have totaled $28bn in 2004. That figure takes into account boom-time spending, flawless execution from Intel and widespread support for the chip. How... Read more...

Nvidia 3D Mark benchmark bug skews results

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:54:08 +0000

In the world of hardware, points make prizes. Chipmakers pile on the megahurtz to woo potential punters. The bigger the hard disk, the more the buyer may be tempted and the faster the system the... Read more...

Mark Rein's response to the leaked UT2k3 demo

Marcel Klum — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:59:14 +0000

A leaked early test version of UT2003 is floating around the internet. It is not representative of the quality or performance of the final game. Infogrames' job in situations like these is to go after... Read more...

Halo for Xbox Tops 1 Million Mark In Record Time

Marcel Klum — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 11:27:36 +0000

Hailed widely as "video game of the year" and recipient of multiple industry awards for excellence, "Halo™: Combat Evolved" has earned the distinguished honor of being the fastest million-unit seller ever for any next-generation console.... Read more...

Mark Rein Interview (Epic / Unreal)

Marcel Klum — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:30:01 +0000

Some bits from the interview on HomeLan Fed: "Making UT2 a better game than the original is what Digital Extremes (DE) has planned to do all along. From a graphics standpoint alone they're... Read more...

Xbox Climbs Over 1 Million Mark

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:22:15 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft® Xbox™ video game system has surpassed the 1 million mark in shipments, with 1.1 million units "sold-in" to retailers. These sell-in results build on the spectacular Xbox sell-through rate... Read more...

Posting halted for 24 hours as a mark of respect

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:50:02 +0000

As a mark of respect to the people who have suffered a terrible tragedy in The United States of America I am halting all posts for 24 hours and I also call for all visitors... Read more...