Neowin News Feed for: New york

Google invites some lucky people to the Glass Explorer Program

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:26:12 +0000

Google's hunt for new Explorers with Glass is over. While the contest ran during February, the company has only begun to send out invitations to join the Explorer Program via Google+ today. Read more...

New York's mayor points out Apple products caused rise in crime in 2012... kind of

Paul Ferson — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:45:48 +0000

New York City narrowly missed out on lower crime than in 2011, with the theft of Apple devices being just enough to push the famous city over a potential record for decreasing crime levels. Read more...

Windows 8 free WiFi promotion launched in NYC and San Francisco

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:57:26 +0100

Microsoft has launched a Windows 8 promotion that offers residents in New York City and San Francisco free access to WiFi hotspots from provider Boingo from now until the end of 2012. Read more...

Tesla museum receives funding with more than a month to go

Paul Ferson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:36:05 +0100

With more than a month left to go, the internet has decided that Nikola Tesla had better get a museum in his honor, providing the cause with close to a million of the 1.7 million dollars needed. Read more...

E3 2013 announcement set for Monday

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:07:12 +0100

The ESA trade group will be making an announcement related to where and when the 2013 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show will be held on Monday. Read more...

Martin Scorsese appears in Siri commercial for Apple

Paul Ferson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:27:02 +0100

Martin Scorsese has appeared in an advert promoting Apple's Siri voice assistant software, with the famed director appearing in his natural environment of New York. Read more...

New York proposes banning anonymous online comments

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:21:00 +0100

A bill proposed in both chambers of the New York State Legislature aims to target cyber-bullying by banning anonymous comments on websites, blogs, forums and social networks. Read more...

Viewing on-line child porn ruled legal in New York

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:45:33 +0100

A NY State Court ruled that merely viewing child porn on the web can't be considered as a crime. The defendant conviction still stands because of image file found on his computer's hard disk. Read more...

Microsoft holding Hotmail event on October 3 [Update]

Brad Sams — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:38:53 +0100

Microsoft is hold a Hotmail specific event in NY and SF on October 3. It appears that Microsoft is looking to relaunch the service and will announce all new updates on October 3. Read more...

Report: New York subpoenaed Sony over cyber attacks

John Callaham — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:09:23 +0100

Sony continues to be taken to task by government representatives over the cyber attacks on the Playstation Network. Bloomberg reports via unnamed sources that the latest such group to enter the fray is the New... Read more...

Twitter helps homeless man find his daughter after 11 years

Michael Collado — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:51:40 +0000

We've all been witness to the power of Twitter when it comes to worldwide crises like the Haiti earthquake, the Iran elections, or even the more recent Egypt problems, but this story perhaps hits a... Read more...

Windows Phone 7 to launch on October 11?

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:29:36 +0100

Microsoft is expected to kick start the launch of Windows Phone 7 devices at a New York launch event on October 11, according to reports. UK tech blog Pocket Lint reports that the software giant will... Read more...

New York man claims to own 85% of Facebook

Owen Williams — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:11:44 +0100

A New York newspaper has discovered that a man in the suburb of Wellsvile, by the name of Paul D. Ceglia may own a 85% share of Facebook, in return for web design he did... Read more...

AT&T powering up free WiFi hotspot in Times Square

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:25:32 +0100

AT&T will give New Yorkers fumbling around for decent 3G coverage in the crowded city a nice gift today. Engadget reports that AT&T is expected to announce their first free outdoor WiFi hotspot later today.... Read more...

School of gaming to open in New York

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:26:18 +0100

A new public school is to open in New York next month, which will use video games and software packages such as LittleBigPlanet and Maya to teach its pupils, as well as board and card... Read more...

New York Orders Large Web Retailers To Charge Sales Tax

RangerLG — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:30:06 +0100

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New York Internet shoppers, take note: in five weeks, sales tax-free shopping will end on many Web sites thanks to rewritten state rules that are trying to force Internet retailers to collect. For years, retailers... Read more...