Neowin News Feed for: Reader

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News Staff — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:00:01 +0000

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Dopamine - a fantastic music player developed by one of our readers

Usama Jawad — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:36:01 +0000

If you were looking for an awesome and fluid music player which follows the Modern UI, search no further, veteran Neowin member Raphaël Godart has the perfect answer to your demands. Read more...

Google cans another product - this time, it's Latitude

Paul Ferson — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:42:35 +0000

Google's spring-cleaning of services continues, taking down another service. With Reader gone, the company has decided to eliminate Latitude next, as well as all products pertaining to the service. Read more...

Google Reader is officially dead!

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:03:50 +0000

In case you somehow missed it, we have some bad news for you: Google Reader is now officially dead. However, there are some good alternatives out there and you can still get your Google data for now. Read more...

Adobe Reader and Flash exploits found at Pwn2Own

John Callaham — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:36:37 +0000

Security programmers found exploits in both the Reader and Flash software made by Adobe as part of their participation in the Pwn2Own competition this week, part of the CanSecWest security conference. Read more...

Windows 8 to add PDF support for Reader app?

John Callaham — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:54:59 +0000

A new Internet info leak claims that Windows 8 will include support for reading PDF-based documents via the operating system's Reader app, although this has not been confirmed by Microsoft. Read more...

Adobe Reader 10.1.2

Steven Parker — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:20:40 +0000

Adobe Reader is the global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and... Read more...

Sumatra PDF 1.9

Razvan Serea — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:38:22 +0000

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, XPS, DjVu, CBZ and CBR reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is small and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority. Portable version included. Read more...

Sumatra PDF 1.8

Razvan Serea — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:01:24 +0000

Kindle for PC 1.6.1 Build 32800

Steven Parker — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:27:13 +0000

Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC. Read Kindle Books on Your Computer Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required Access your Kindle books... Read more...

Six out of ten users use vulnerable Adobe Reader versions

Tom Dwyer — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:55:38 +0000

Avast Software, one of the biggest names in computer security have announced that six out of ten people are vulnerable to attacks through them having outdated versions of Adobe Reader. What’s more worrisome is that hackers... Read more...

Kindle for PC 1.6.0 Build 32771

Steven Parker — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:13:57 +0000

Adobe applications most vulnerable in Q1 2011, beating Microsoft and Oracle

Denis Wong — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:06:57 +0000

A prominent figure in the computing world made headlines last year for his thoughts on Flash. Simply, "Flash is evil." Of course, Flash either ran poorly on his company's products, or was completely unsupported on... Read more...

Adobe fixes critical vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader as exploits begin

Denis Wong — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:36:21 +0000

Adobe has released updates to Adobe Acrobat and Reader, fixing a critical vulnerability discovered last week in Adobe Flash 10.2. The vulnerability, which has since been fixed in a Flash update, could potentially allow an... Read more...

Adobe Reader for Windows 10.0.1

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:48:30 +0000

Foxit Reader 4.3.1.0323

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:46:15 +0000

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Main Features: Incredibly small: The download size of... Read more...

Adobe Reader X

Steven Parker — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:44:27 +0000

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign,... Read more...

Foxit Reader 4.3.0.1110

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:13:14 +0000

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader... Read more...

Microsoft Tag comes out of beta

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:04:59 +0000

Microsoft Tag was released 18 months ago into a public beta, and now 1 billion tags later, Microsoft has moved Tag out of beta and into V1. In the month of April, more than... Read more...

Adobe PDF exploit discovered, bypasses all security measures

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:14:58 +0000

The only thing blocking a PDF file written by security researcher Didier Stevens from harming your system is a warning dialog. With some slight tweaking of the warning, and some crafty social engineering, your system... Read more...

Foxit Reader 3.2.0.0303

Joshua Seed — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:01:06 +0000

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF standard 1.7. Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader... Read more...

Adobe Reader 9.3 released

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:17:38 +0000

Abobe have updated their Abode Reader PDF viewer and Acrobat 9 to version 9.3.0. The new release is a quarterly update which provides a fully encompassing update which includes functional improvements as requested by customers... Read more...

Hands on: Blio ebook reader software

Brad Sams — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:08:17 +0000

Today, Neowin got an over view of the upcoming Blio ebook reader software. The application is unlike other ebook reader software in many ways and it showed during our private demonstration. The... Read more...

Adobe won't patch public zero-day exploit until Jan 12

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:20:01 +0000

Adobe is set to release a patch in their next quarterly security update that will address a zero-day exploit. The exploit has already been publicly released and can infect users through javascript in Adobe... Read more...

ASUS planning world's cheapest dual touchscreen Eee Reader

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:28:58 +0000

Back in March ASUS had shown us a glimpse of their dual panel touchscreen concept at CeBIT. Since then we had all forgotten about this little beast from the company. Just over a week ago,... Read more...

Sony Reader gets 500,000 e-books from Google

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:23:25 +0000

Half a million books are to be made available for free by Google on Sony's e-book reading device, according to the Associated Press. This is the first time Google will have made it's vast collection... Read more...

UK spent 6.6 billion on new ID's, didnt buy one card reader

Brad Sams — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:55:19 +0000

The British government has spent 6.6 billion dollars for a new identity card program that is based around biometrics. Like any new ID card program it is designed to help enhance security for everyone... Read more...

Sony Expands E-book Reader Range

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:57:55 +0000

Sony is introducing a second electronic book reader to its range in the U.S. that comes with upgraded hardware and will go on sale in November. The PRS-700 features a similar 6-inch electronic paper display... Read more...

Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE Licensed by Microsoft

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:52:13 +0000

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software, Adobe's award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet... Read more...

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:13:24 +0000

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe PDF is the open standard for worldwide electronic document distribution. Documents converted into PDF format preserve... Read more...

Privacy Concerns Prompt Google Reader Tweaks

Steven Parker — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:51:49 +0000

Amidst a user backlash regarding changes to its Reader application, Google on Wednesday made slight adjustments to the service to enable more control over sharing capabilities. Reader users can now separate shared newsfeeds into categories... Read more...

Amazon Launches Kindle e-Book Reader

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:57:11 +0000

Online merchant Amazon.com Inc. is hoping to "kindle" interest in the still nascent market of e-books by introducing its own reader with free wireless connectivity, the aptly named Kindle. Monday's long-anticipated announcement comes as e-books... Read more...

Attack code targets unpatched Adobe Reader flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:26:04 +0000

A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The researcher, known only as 'Cyanid-E', unveiled his creation in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on... Read more...

Foxit PDF Reader 2.2 Build 2129

Razvan Serea — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:39:38 +0000

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function... Read more...

Foxit PDF Reader 2.1 Build 2023

Razvan Serea — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:33:13 +0000

eXPert PDF Reader 1.5.1030

Razvan Serea — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:47:42 +0000

eXPert PDF Reader is a free pdf viewer software that lets you view and print pdf documents on windows operating systems. eXPert PDF reader will also allow modification of existing documents. You may modify document... Read more...

Adobe Reader 8.1

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:23:34 +0000

According to Adobe's website, Adobe Reader has recently been updated, from version 8.0 to 8.1. A changelog is not available yet. Adobe's description of Adobe Reader: *Work smarter - a clean new look, custom toolbars... Read more...

Foxit PDF Reader 2.0 Build 1606

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:28:22 +0000

Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free and very small PDF document viewer and printer. It opens up very quickly but does not lack a solid feature list. Version 2.0 includes interactive form filler, multi-language UI... Read more...

eXPert PDF Reader 1.5.960

Razvan Serea — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:59:48 +0000

Foxit PDF Reader 2.0 Build 1516

Razvan Serea — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:44:34 +0000