Neowin News Feed for: Plans

Sling TV to hike prices for its base packages by $5.99 per month in December

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:40:01 +0000

One of the most affordable TV streaming services, Sling TV, has announced that it will increase the prices for its base packages by $5.99/month starting in December. Read more...

Here's how Twitter tried to stop the spread of misleading information during U.S. elections

Usama Jawad — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 03:32:01 +0000

Twitter has detailed its ongoing efforts to curb the spread of fake news related to the U.S. presidential elections. The company will also be reverting some product changes that had a negative impact. Read more...

Microsoft outlines its plans for Project Islandwood

Usama Jawad — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has outlined the changes it'll be making to Project Islandwood - its open source tool to port iOS apps to Windows - with better implementation of UIKit combined with XAML. Read more...

Microsoft reportedly holding off on virtual reality headsets or glasses, for now

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:53:52 +0000

Microsoft may be in our heads, but they won't be selling tech that's on our heads. Not yet anyway, shelving plans for virtual reality glasses due to patent restrictions within Kinect's technology. Read more...

Report: Microsoft killed Surface Mini last minute because it 'wouldn't be a hit'

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 20 May 2014 19:28:14 +0000

According to Bloomberg the Surface Mini did exist but was scrapped due to the lack of differentiation between it and other small tablets. A source claimed it "wasn't different enough" to be a success. Read more...

AT&T escalates mobile war against T-mobile by offering new Mobile Share single and two line plans

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:04:19 +0000

AT&T has introduced two new Mobile Share data plans hoping to match T-mobile's change to its own Simple Choice plan. Will it be enough? Or is T-Mobile's Un-carrier strategy starting to edge out AT&T? Read more...

giffgaff reveals 4G price plans - but 2GB is all the data you'll get

Andy Weir — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 04:30:00 +0000

giffgaff - a carrier famed for offering unlimited data at low cost - has revealed its 4G 'goodybags', but its top-tier 4G package offers just 2GB of data, 500 mins and unlimited texts for £15 a month. Read more...

Sprint adds 'Premium Data add-on charge' to all 3G data plans

Brad Sams — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:36:39 +0000

Sprint has just released a statement about the explosion of data usage among its users. The coy title also hides the fact that they are now adding a '$10 per month Premium Data add-on charge'... Read more...

Netflix streaming-only plan and new pricing for DVD plans announced

Alan Cone — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:10:28 +0000

Netflix has been toying around with offering a streaming-only plan for the past few months. In a new blog post, Netflix VP in Marketing, Jessie Becker released an update to the available Netflix plans and... Read more...

Microsoft set to announce Internet Explorer 9 plans

Tom Warren — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:31 +0000

Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set... Read more...

Microsoft reveals mobile app store plans

Tom Warren — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:41:46 +0000

Microsoft today announced new details about how developers can build and sell applications for Windows phones through its Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft unveiled the application marketplace available with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system... Read more...

Verizon announces LTE plans for hi-speed data

Brad Sams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:02:07 +0000

At the Mobile World Conference this week it was expected that Verizon would announce its LTE (Long Term Evolution) agenda. What was not expected was how specific Verizon would be with its plans. ... Read more...

Microsoft: No plans for 64-bit Silverlight 3

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:19:00 +0000

Once again Microsoft is going back on its push for 64-bit computing for the masses. In an interview with ars technica Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division gave the following response... Read more...

Microsoft plans to divorce viruses for free!

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:06 +0000

Ever heard of "Morro"? Neither had I until today. It appears the boys and girls at Microsoft have been planning a nice surprise for consumers. Focused on "core anti-malware protection", Morro is a streamlined solution... Read more...

Comcast details bandwidth management plans

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:13:47 +0000

Last month, the FCC officially ruled that Comcast acted unlawfully and dishonestly when they decided to throttle peer-to-peer traffic from applications such as BitTorrent. The giant Internet provider was then ordered to amend its network... Read more...

Skype Launches Low-Cost Global Calling Plans

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:06:12 +0000

Skype on Monday launched an aggressive $9.95-a-month international calling plan for U.S. customers that includes landlines and some cell phone calls to 34 countries. The action by the eBay unit comes just days after eBay's... Read more...

Yahoo details plans for new online ad sales system

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:17:30 +0000

Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known... Read more...

DivX Announces Plans to Shut Down Stage6.com

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:04:10 +0000

DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the Company will cease operation of its Stage6.com video service on February 28, 2008. Following an exploration of strategic options that began in July 2007, the... Read more...

Microsoft Plans to Roll Out Cheaper Xbox in Japan

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:06:01 +0000

Although the Xbox 360 has been, in many regards, a success for Microsoft, Japan has yet to embrace the console like the rest of the world, preferring instead Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3. Tokyo-based... Read more...

Creative Labs plans a high-end PCIe card

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:59:37 +0000

Creative Labs is in the process of designing a new high-end sound card based on an X-FI design, but this time it plans to launch a high-end card. It will launch something similar to the... Read more...

Facebook plans 'User Profile Clean-up' Tool

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:30:12 +0000

Don’t you just love how Facebook has an application for everything possible? Don’t you just love wading through your friends’ Facebook profiles with the simple goal of finding their Wall? Don’t you just love how... Read more...

CES2008: Cisco plans 100Mbps+ Cable Modem for this Spring

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:37:51 +0000

At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, Cisco Systems Incorporated announced that the DPC3000 Channel Bonded Modem, which is designed to facilitate broadband services in excess of 100 Mbps, would be commercially available to... Read more...

Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:11:49 +0000

In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of... Read more...

Warner Denies Plans to go Blu-Ray Exclusive

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:50:12 +0000

In response to rumours whispered by members of the Blu-ray camp, Warner Home Video announced that it will not be ditching HD DVD for Blu-ray. Warner Brothers is currently the only major studio to support... Read more...

AMD CEO says no plans to step down in 2008

Tom Warren — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:30:27 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD.N Chief Executive Hector Ruiz says he has no plans to step down as head of the microprocessor maker next year. AMD has in the past two years struggled with market... Read more...

Facebook Backs Down on Ad Plans

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:53:13 +0000

Social networking site Facebook has cancelled its advertising program, that showed what members were purchasing from ecommerce web sites. The advertising system, dubbed Beacon, let partner sites like eBay and Sony advertise the fact that... Read more...

Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:49:00 +0000

Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest. One year after the business launch of Vista,... Read more...

MySpace plans Facebook-style news feeds

Tom Warren — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:19:20 +0000

News Corp's popular online social network, MySpace, plans to launch Facebook-style "news feeds" in the next 30 to 45 days, Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said on Monday. News feeds, which alert a user... Read more...

Sprint and Clearwire Abandon Plans to Join WiMax Networks

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:19:28 +0000

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. announced today they have canceled their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks they are building. The two companies originally announced the agreement this July, but were unable to... Read more...

Music-Sharing Plans for London Underground

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:31:44 +0000

Three computer scientists are hoping to turn London's Underground subway system into a thriving network for sharing music unencumbered by copyright. The project, London Undersound, would let commuters download and upload tracks to each other... Read more...

How Symbian Plans to Stay No. 1

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:00:18 +0000

Symbian is the leading developer of smart phone operating systems and is intent on keeping its lead. A key part of maintaining that lead falls under the purview of David Wood, executive vice president of... Read more...

AMD Plans to Slash Pricing of Dual-Core Chips Shortly

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:02:27 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices has notified its partners that starting from next Monday, the 8th of October, it plans to decrease the pricing of some of its dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 chips. The price corrections... Read more...

Chicago Scraps Plans for Municipal Wi-Fi Network

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:31:57 +0000

An ambitious plan to blanket Chicago with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because of its cost and projected limited usage, city officials said Tuesday. "We realized - after much consideration - that we needed... Read more...

Sharp Unveils Plans to Market 20mm Thick LCD HDTV

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:43:44 +0000

Sharp has announced its new slim LCD TV: 29mm thick at its widest point and 20mm at its thinnest point. For my American friends, that's between 1.14 inches and 0.78 inches thick. Sharp claims the... Read more...

Microsoft plans unified communications as a service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:18:19 +0000

Microsoft is working on a "service in the sky" for unified communications, an executive said Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco. The company's current focus for the fast-growing trend of combining voice, video,... Read more...

Microsoft Plans Nine Security Updates for Next Week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:17:16 +0000

Microsoft Corp. will release nine sets of security patches next week, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and its Visual Basic development software. The updates will come as part of Microsoft's regular... Read more...

Dell outlines UK Linux plans

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:36:09 +0000

Dell has outlined its plans to sell Linux computers in the UK. The company will offer the Inspiron 6400n and the Inspiron 530n with Ubuntu 7.04 installed at the factory. The computers will be priced... Read more...

Apple plans iMac desktop upgrade

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:19:29 +0000

Apple plans to upgrade its iMac desktop PC line on Tuesday with a flashier design and thinner keyboard, according to comments and photos on industry blogs. Apple did not return calls for comment, but has... Read more...

Yahoo Plans to Revamp Video Site to Compete With YouTube

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:21:30 +0000

Yahoo, who's own video site offering is losing ground to Google's YouTube, the dominant player in the burgeoning online video market, has decided that a makeover is needed if it is to truly compete with... Read more...

Wikia Details Plans for Search Rival to Google

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:35:33 +0000

The ever expanding, and potentially lucrative, market of search engines may soon be welcoming another player into the fray. Last Friday, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his commercial startup,... Read more...