Neowin News Feed for: Month

Microsoft helps you go pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Alan Cone — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:29:36 +0100

October, in the United States, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During the month of October, the color pink is shown to support those who are fighting to find a cure for this disease. NFL players... Read more...

Microsoft set to launch a music streaming service this month

Tom Warren — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:57:57 +0100

The Telegraph is exclusively reporting that Microsoft is planning to launch a streaming music service, similar to Spotify, later this month. The service will allow users to stream music for free and also download to... Read more...

Demigod post launch, two month roundup

Spencer Scott — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:18:32 +0100

It's been just two months after the launch of Demigod, and after a bunch of very long workdays, Demigod connectivity is pretty solid and thousands upon thousands of people are currently playing online matches. ... Read more...

Time Warner Cable to expand bandwidth caps, 40GB per month

Brad Sams — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:08:55 +0000

TWC will be expanding its test of bandwidth caps to more cities in the coming weeks. Beaumont, Texas was the testing ground for TWC and has decided that its 40 GB caps for internet... Read more...

Microsoft delays Windows Vista SP2 by a month

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:53:44 +0000

Tech ARP reports that Windows Vista SP2 might be delayed until March. Microsoft will deliver a Release Candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 in March and not in February. Also, Microsoft will send the... Read more...

Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month

Tom Warren — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:24:51 +0000

Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's... Read more...

Teen racks up 14,528 texts in one month

Brad Sams — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:16:22 +0000

In California a 13 year old girl was able to rack up an astounding 14,528 text messages in one month. For those keeping track that's 484 a day which breaks down to 20 an... Read more...

1 month until Belgian game rentals are illegal

Mike Brown — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:49:07 +0000

Following an announcement in June stating that Belgian rental shops will no longer be able to rent out newly released games, another announcement has been made that states from December 1st it will be illegal... Read more...

French lawyer gets 6 month ban over P2P legal threats

Darko3d — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:36:04 +0100

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A lawyer working with Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep has received a ban from practicing as a lawyer for six months. Elizabeth Martin sent inappropriately aggressive and deliberately false and misleading letters to thousands of alleged... Read more...

Office 2003 SP3 on Microsoft Update in 1 Month

Slimy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:14:22 +0000

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Office 2003 SP3, released to customers on September 18, 2007, will become ready for automatic distribution via Microsoft Update (for Vista and XP) starting February 27, 2008. This means that the availability will happen gradually... Read more...

Office for Mac 2008 goes gold, available next month

Simon Andrews — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:09:13 +0000

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Microsoft has announced that Mac Office 2008, the Macintosh version of their incredibly popular Windows productivity suite, has gone gold, and is shipping to manufacturers. It's been nearly half a decade since Microsoft updated the... Read more...

Orange iPhone Contract 49 Euros Per Month

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:48:09 +0000

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Orange has accidentally leaked the fact that it will provide iPhone contracts in France for 49 euros per month, Reuters reports. The two-year contract will cost a total of 1,176 euros ($US1,754) when it goes... Read more...

Free Xbox LIVE Gold later this month (Europe)

Slimy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:14:38 +0000

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Microsoft has announced Xtival 07, a European event set to take place from November 23 to 26. During the event all Xbox LIVE members will have access to Gold level functionality for free, making it... Read more...

Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning

westonb_2005 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:28:55 +0100

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Apple Inc. kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard," OS by reminding users that the beta license for Boot Camp -- the utility that runs... Read more...

Apple gets money every month for iPhones purchased

wctaiwan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:26:51 +0100

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AT&T is paying Apple $3 or $11 per month for every iPhone, a business analyst says. According to Gene Munster, Apple gets $3 per month for existing AT&T customers, and an additional $8 per month... Read more...

BBC to launch TV-on-demand software next month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:06:54 +0100

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The BBC will launch its iPlayer TV-on-demand service on 27 July, allowing viewers to watch programmes over the internet up to seven days after broadcast. The software has been tested by some 15,000 users already,... Read more...

Month Of ActiveX Bugs Reveals Critical Vulnerabilities

Slimy — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:59:28 +0100

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The latest Month of Bugs project, Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB) started up on May 1 and has already found two critical flaws. First off, Microsoft's ActiveX controls, used to make Web pages richer and... Read more...

Animated Wallpaper: This Month in Dreams (March '07)

Spencer Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:46:36 +0100

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With the growing popularity of animated wallpapers, or "Dreams" as we call them, I wanted to take the time and produce a monthly feature which visually showcases the animated wallpapers that were some of the... Read more...

Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

Slimy — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:48:05 +0000

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Two hackers, known as Mondo Armando and MÃ¼staschio, don't want to disclose their real names but promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, every day in April. "The purpose of the exercise is not... Read more...

Month of PHP Bugs Begins

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:18:23 +0000

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Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open-source HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. The... Read more...