Neowin News Feed for: Passes

Google Wallet to notify you about your tickets if you happen to be nearby the venue

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:08:01 +0000

Google Wallet is developing a new feature that will notify you about upcoming events if you are nearby. Read more...

New York Passes Videogame Bill

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:37:22 +0000

New York senate has passed legislation creating a governmental advisory council to examine potential impact on violent video games. The bill, which won with a vote of 61-1, mirrors one passed by the New York... Read more...

Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid2 Test

Tom Warren — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:16:51 +0000

Microsoft has let the world know that Internet Explorer 8 will support web standards. It has taken Microsoft years to recognise that developers want to have a web browser that supports web standards. According to... 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...

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...

Microsoft "super excited" as Office Live passes 100,000 user

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:31:19 +0000

According to Internet statistics company, Ipwalk, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft's web hosting, email and collaboration service for small businesses has accumulated more than 100,000 users since its beta launched in February this year, despite several... Read more...

House Passes Compromise Digital TV Plan

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:36:18 +0000

The House of Representatives on Monday approved legislation to complete the country's transition to new, higher-quality digital television by February 17, 2009. Under a deal negotiated by Republicans in the Senate and House, a $1.5... Read more...

House Passes Second Anti-Spyware Bill

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:06:39 +0000

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed a second bill targeting perpetrators of computer "spyware" that hides in users' computers and monitors their activities. The House voted 415 to 0 to stiffen jail... Read more...

RuneScape passes 100,000 subscribers

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:14:34 +0000

Browser based MMORPG achieves 101,184 subscribers today. 11th August, Cambridge, UK. Jagex, the developer and operator of the 3D Java online adventure game RuneScape today announces that it now has more... Read more...

Xbox Live Passes 1 Million Subscribers

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:48:40 +0000

Microsoft's million-member online gaming service reaches membership milestone in less time than HBO, America Online and TiVo. Microsoft Corp. today announced that more than 1 million people are now members of the... Read more...

Congress Passes ID Theft Bill

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:58:43 +0000

The U.S. Senate today announced legislation to stop identity theft. To accomplish this goal identify theft would have harsher penalties of up to two years in prison. However this bill does not address... Read more...

House panel passes spyware permission bill

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:39:25 +0000

A U.S. House subcommittee approved a bill on Thursday that would regulate computer "spyware," forcing software makers to notify consumers before installing some kinds of monitoring programs on their PCs. The bill, introduced... Read more...

Playstation 2 passes 25 million sales in North America

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:55:42 +0000

SCEA has announced that it has sold over 25 million PlayStation 2 consoles in North America to date, with 2.6 million of them enabled for online play and a million gamers using PS2 online gaming... Read more...

Congress Passes Bill That Will Limit Spam

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 03:53:09 +0000

Congress moved significantly closer to the first-ever federal protections against unwanted commercial e-mails with the House passing a bill Saturday that would impose new limits on sending irritating offers on the Internet. Final approval by... Read more...

House Passes Ban on Internet Access Tax

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:34:28 +0000

Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support, makes permanent a ban on taxing Internet connections. A temporary ban on... Read more...

WorldCom Settlement Passes Key Judicial Test

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:18:09 +0000

WorldCom Inc. cleared a major legal hurdle yesterday when a federal judge in New York approved a $750 million settlement that would resolve the Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud case against the nation's second-largest long-distance... Read more...

Yahoo passes paid subscriber goal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:36:12 +0000

Internet media company Yahoo met its goal to end the year with 2 million paying subscribers ahead of schedule in early December, its chief executive said Monday. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investment conference in... Read more...

Deadline Passes for European Digital Copyright Law

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:08:24 +0000

W00t! My illegal CD piracy scam can continue into the new year! :S "A deadline for adopting a new EU law on copyright protection has passed with just two member countries signing up,... Read more...