Neowin News Feed for: Startup

Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:37:25 +0100

DuckDuckGo is a small startup search engine which offers fair and unrecorded results to anyone. Neowin has interviewed Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, on Google, Bing and more. Read more...

Dailybooth, the original Instagram, shutting down

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:51:49 +0000

DailyBooth, one of the original photoblogging websites, has announced to its users via email that the service is to close and they have up until December 31st to download their pictures. Read more...

The amazing spray-on antenna

Tyler Holman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:20 +0000

A startup called Chamtech took to Google's 'Solve for X' event to show off their awesome new invention, a super efficient organic canned antenna that you can spray onto almost any surface. Read more...

Google buys another startup, Agnilux

Brad Sams — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:46:02 +0100

Another day and another startup has been acquired by Google. This time Google purchased Agnilux for an undisclosed amount of money. Little is known about the company but many believe that they may... Read more...

Startup Radiospire Has Sights on Wireless HDTV

chuggyhandbags — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:36:10 +0000

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Startup Radiospire has thrown its hat into the world of wireless content transmission with its own cable-replacement technology for HDTVs. According to Paul Powers, the company's chief executive officer, the company has signed up... Read more...

Startup Transforms Windows Desktop Into Panoramic Display

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:36:47 +0100

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360Desktop is a startup that reorganizes the standard Windows desktop into a panoramic, revolving pane of glass thousands of pixels long. 360Desktop is due to debut Wednesday at the DemoFall 2007 show in San Diego.... Read more...

PC Tools Startup Explorer 5.0.0.24

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:40:16 +0100

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PC Tools Startup Explorer allows a user to customise the startup behaviour of their PC. Items that can be controlled include: * Startup Programs * Systems Services * Scheduled tasks... Read more...

Google invests in startup of co-founder's wife

Slimy — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:46:35 +0100

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Google Incorporated co-founder Sergey Brin and biotechnology entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki are married, not only religiously, but now in business too. Google has invested $3.9 million to obtain a minority stake in Wojcicki's biotech startup, 23andMe... Read more...

Startup aims to keep network security vendors honest

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:52:52 +0100

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With the help of one of the world's best-known hackers, a little-known Austin startup hopes to give Internet service providers and enterprises a way to tell if their networking hardware is living up to its... Read more...

Startup using water to fuel cars

naap51stang — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:33:07 +0100

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A small startup has patented a way of extracting the hydrogen in water to supliment or replace gasoline in automobiles. The inventor was working on a way to replace the dangerous fuels in cutting... Read more...

Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:18:52 +0100

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A startup funded by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware- and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits. Komoku, of College... Read more...

McAfee Gobbles Up Web Ratings Security Startup

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:48:38 +0100

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Anti-virus security specialist McAfee has wasted no time gobbling up SiteAdvisor, a 1-year-old startup that rates the Web to determine if a site's content includes spyware, spam, viruses, browser-based exploits or online scams. McAfee announced... Read more...

IBM to buy open source startup

malebolgia — Tue, 10 May 2005 17:46:54 +0100

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Continuing to bet heavily on open source software, IBM later on Tuesday will announce it is buying Gluecode Software, a small startup that figures to give Big Blue a presence in the lower end of... Read more...

MSN Buys Desktop Search Startup

malebolgia — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:40:24 +0100

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The tech giant announced yesterday that it has acquired the company Lookout Software LLC. According to eWeek this company offered "add-on to Microsoft Outlook that indexes and searches e-mail as well as desktop files."... Read more...

Innovative Startup Firewall 2.0

UltimateBear — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:25:55 +0100

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Innovative Startup Firewall protects your computer from programs that insert themselves into the Windows startup in order to start automatically when you start your computer. Having many programs start automatically increases your computer boot time... Read more...

Startup Claims InfiniBand Alternative

configure — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:17:18 +0100

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Precision I/O is working on software to improve performance of the Ethernet link between server and network -- without requiring hardware upgrades or special devices and protocols, extra baggage Estrin says goes with InfiniBand. ... Read more...

Nintendo Invests $15M in 3D Memory Startup

Marcel Klum — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:13:32 +0000

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Four year-old startup Matrix Semiconductor Inc. today said Nintendo has invested $15 million in the company, bringing the total funding raised by Matrix to $95 million. Matrix claims to be the first company... Read more...

IBM, Startup Launch Massive 'Grid' for Online Gaming

Marcel Klum — Fri, 10 May 2002 11:41:52 +0100

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A start-up, Butterfly.net Inc., and computing giant IBM IBM.N , have created a global network for online video games capable of supporting a million players or more that will be rented to major game publishers,... Read more...

Advanced StartUp Manager 1.31 released!

aco — Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:12:14 +0000

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Thanks to Max for sending this info to us. When Windows starts up, it automatically launches a number of programs for you. Advanced StartUp Manager is program that allows you to control what... Read more...

Windows XP / 2000 Startup Tweak Guide

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:51:36 +0000

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Tweak3D has posted a Windows XP / 2000 startup tweak guide It's been a couple months since you last installed Windows. Hopefully longer if you have some system stability. Everything was zippy... Read more...