Neowin News Feed for: Norway

Live tile + music + falling wall = Norway Windows 8 promo

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:56:54 +0000

The Norway division of Microsoft came up with a way to promote Windows 8 that involved a local rock band combined with a real world version of the Xbox Music live tile. Read more...

Netflix coming to Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland

John Callaham — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:39:03 +0100

Netflix has announced that it will expand its streaming movie and TV show business to the countries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland before the end of 2012. Read more...

Anders Brevik played World of Warcraft for over a year

Paul Ferson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:15:24 +0100

As Anders Behring Breivik faces trial, he comes up with some completely baffling claims, such as being a member of the Knights Templar, as well as being found as an avid player of Blizzard's MMO. Read more...

Norway store pulls some games from shelves in wake of murders

John Callaham — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:40:33 +0100

After the events in Norway earlier this month that caused dozens of people to be killed, a retailer in that country has decided to remove a number of PC and console games from its store shelves. Read more...

Norway Tells Apple Change iTunes or Face Court

Slimy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:39:48 +0000

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Norway has given a final date by which Apple must open up iTunes. If Apple does not make iTunes songs playable on music players other than the iPod, by October 1, the company will be... Read more...

Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

malebolgia — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:36:08 +0100

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An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first... Read more...

Norway throws in the towel in DVD Jon case

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:10:24 +0000

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Jon Lech Johansen, creator of the DECSS DVD crack, won't be going back to court. The Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (Ã˜kokrim) today confirmed that it will not appeal the upholding of his acquittal on copyright... Read more...

Norway Teenage Cyber-Piracy Trial Ends

Toxicfume — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:28:08 +0000

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A landmark trial of a teenager in Norway over Hollywood charges of video piracy ended on Monday with prosecutors urging a suspended 90-day jail term. Jon Johansen, known in Norway as "DVD Jon,"... Read more...

Norway snubs Microsoft

me101 — Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:05:52 +0100

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According to reports, the Norwegian government will not be renewing its contract with the Microsoft, in favor of Linux, even though it will lose discounts of up to 20 per cent on public sector buys... Read more...

DVD hacker Johansen indicted in Norway

NTUsEr — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:01:29 +0000

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Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his role in creating the DeCSS program that unlocked a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a series of lawsuits by the motion picture industry. ... Read more...