Neowin News Feed for: Programming

$13 Stellaris computer could take a slice of Raspberry's Pi

Paul Ferson — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:04:18 +0000

The Stellaris Launchpad has appeared in the wild, taking on the Raspberry Pi to claim the title of "cheapest single board PC". The Launchpad is retailing for $13, in a price range all its own. Read more...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 - Final Released

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:36:11 +0100

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET Framework 4. By using the .NET Framework 4.5 together with the C# or Visual Basic programming languages, you can Read more...

EU court rules programming languages can't be copyrighted

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:19:44 +0100

The highest court in the European Union ruled yesterday that programming languages cannot be copyrighted, although original works created from programming languages can be. Read more...

Codecademy crowdsources programming lessons

Tyler Holman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:07:40 +0000

Codecademy is bringing teaching to the masses with Course Creator, a new crowdsourced social tool that lets anyone create programming lessons in Java, Ruby and Python. Who needs qualifications? Read more...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-creator of Unix, dies

John Callaham — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:23:36 +0100

Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system while he worked at Bell Labs, died over the weekend at the age of 70. Read more...

Apple brings Television Programming to iTunes Canada

Slimy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:44:46 +0000

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Apple has begun offering hit television programming from Canada’s top networks, US broadcasters and the National Hockey League for $1.99 (CAD) per episode from the iTunes Store in Canada. The television shows, which are only... Read more...

HD programming wars: Comcast says 800 HD channels by 2009

Slimy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:09:39 +0100

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Cable and satellite companies are aware of the tiny number of HD channels contrasted with the increasing demand for HD. At CES 2007, DIRECTV proudly announced that it would have 100 HD channels available by... Read more...

Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain

Andareed — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:25:25 +0000

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Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Programmers must begin to develop applications that take full advantage of the increasing number of cores present in modern computers. However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to... Read more...

Google's €30,000 European Programming Competition

Joe Cashman — Tue, 02 May 2006 11:45:24 +0100

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Google has just announced the start of its own European "Code Jam", a competition that gives coders around Europe to win a stake of the €30,000 up for grabs. Europe's best coders will go through... Read more...

Key open-source programming tool due for overhaul

malebolgia — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:45 +0000

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The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built... Read more...

Firefox's biggest obstacle is lazy programming

malebolgia — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:38:00 +0000

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The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming – not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE. ... Read more...

TiVo Offers Remote TV Programming to AOL Users

me101 — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:32:01 +0100

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TiVo on Monday said it agreed to allow subscribers to America Online's Internet system to program their home TiVo television recording service remotely, via a Web site. Users of America Online, a unit... Read more...

Winners of 2003 Imagine Cup Programming Competition

Tom Warren — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:44:17 +0100

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Real-World Applications Earn Students a Place in World Championships This Month at Microsoft Tech·Ed Europe Today Microsoft Corp. announced the U.S. winners of the Imagine Cup competition, which seeks to provide... Read more...

Intel programming tools edge forward

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 May 2003 12:03:02 +0100

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Database giant Oracle has chosen Intel to supply crucial programming tools called compilers for creating software that runs on servers using Intel processors. The move is one of several steps Intel is taking to improve... Read more...

Microsoft tunes in to TV programming

NTUsEr — Mon, 06 May 2002 19:50:14 +0100

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Microsoft may have muted its interactive television ambitions, but with a new program guide it is trying to stay tuned to what viewers want to see on the small screen. Rival Liberate Technologies, meanwhile,... Read more...