Neowin News Feed for: Scraps

Google scraps newspaper ad program

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:29:51 +0000

Google posted in their blog on Tuesday that they will be putting an end to Google Newspaper-ads, which currently links more than 800 U.S. based newspaper, after a failed attempt to sell the business. ... Read more...

Nvidia Scraps "Designed by Nvidia"

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:08:45 +0000

Nvidia Corp. will reportedly end its "Designed by Nvidia" mainboard marketing program due to lackluster welcome by mainboard suppliers. While the company will continue to offer reference design devices to its partners, the whole chipset... 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...

Mobile firm 3 scraps roaming fees

Steven Parker — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:02:25 +0000

Mobile phone network 3 has abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations including Italy, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Its users will no longer be charged extra for making or receiving... Read more...

AOL Scraps Music Now in Favor of Napster

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:14:59 +0000

AOL has scrapped AOL Music Now and is calling Napster their exclusive supplier of subscription music for its AOL Music site. Over the next 60 days, AOL's 350,000 paid accounts will be transferred over to... Read more...

Rockstar scraps bully for Xbox

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:22:53 +0000

Rockstar has confirmed today that Bully, currently in development at the company's Vancouver studio, will be an exclusive title for PlayStation2. The news comes as recent trends show a massive drop in support for Microsoft's... Read more...

Microsoft Scraps WinFS for Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:54:57 +0000

Microsoft has scrapped plans for a WinFS Beta 2. Instead, elements of WinFS are being rolled into other products. Going back to the early days in the development of what is now known as Windows... Read more...

eBay Scraps Plans to Sell Live Pets Online

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:24:55 +0000

Online auction giant eBay has cancelled plans to offer live pets for sale online after receiving thousands of negative letters from its users, according to the Associated Press. While eBay has... Read more...

Microsoft Scraps Old Encryption in New Code

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:10:00 +0000

Microsoft is banning certain cryptographic functions from new computer code, citing increasingly sophisticated attacks that make them less secure, according to a company executive. The Redmond, Wash., software company instituted a new policy for... Read more...

Mozilla Scraps Firefox 1.1, Looks to 1.5

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:08:18 +0000

Mozilla has just updated the Firefox development roadmap to reflect a decision on the next major release of the popular open-source browser. The non-profit foundation has decided to increase the version number of the next... Read more...

European Parliament Scraps Software Patent Law Proposal

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:17:18 +0000

A proposed law intended to bring together the software patent rules of 25 countries in the European Union has been criticized by the European Parliament, which threw out the proposal and demanded that the decision-making... Read more...

IT Brings Labor Back Home; Scraps Offshoring

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:22:00 +0000

Not long ago in the IT sector, it seemed outsourcing jobs overseas was the logical, better and cheaper thing to do. Now, as many have said all along, they are realizing that it wasn't the... Read more...

Yahoo scraps enterprise IM

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:44:37 +0000

Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that it is no longer selling a version of its popular instant-messaging service for corporations, ending the Web portal's attempt to sell IM as a software package. The dropping... Read more...

Microsoft Scraps Eagerly Awaited Online Game

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:37:26 +0000

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it has scrapped plans to roll out an online game that was supposed to help it revive the fortunes of its Xbox game console in Japan. "True Fantasy Live Online,"... Read more...

Microsoft scraps Hailstorm

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:50:15 +0000

Thanks to Wickedkitten for posting in BPN .NET My Services, Microsoft Corp's high-profile set of XML web services postponed eight months ago, seems to have dropped off the company's 2003 roadmap.... Read more...

America Online scraps teen shopping

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:54 +0000

America Online has banned teens from its shopping areas, following criticism that the proprietary online service allowed young adults to buy pornography, alcohol and tobacco from partner sites. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Monday that... Read more...

Calif. scraps agency at heart of Oracle flap

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 20:14:18 +0000

In the wake of a bungled state contract with Oracle, California officials on Wednesday effectively shut down the agency that negotiated the controversial software deal and ran an expensive state Web site. ... Read more...

Microsoft scraps Web services initiative

Darren Bolton — Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:53:53 +0000

Microsoft has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of the software giant's foray into the market for tightly linked Web services. The service, originally code-named Hailstorm... Read more...