Neowin News Feed for: Users

Roku celebrates 5 million users and 8 billion video streams

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:56:28 +0100

Roku, the Internet-connected video streaming set top box, have announced a major milestone: 5 million users, who have brought in over 8 billion video streams, or 1,600 streams per user. Read more...

Like? Facebook now has over a billion active users

Andy Weir — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:24:21 +0100

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirms that the social network now has over 1bn active users each month. To mark the occasion, the company released a video, telling us that "chairs are like Facebook". Read more...

Pinterest's hype bubble bursts, as overall users decline

Paul Ferson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:40:35 +0100

After usage slowed slightly in March, Pinterest has begun to lose users during April. The decline in users is large, as a third-party monitor observes. Read more...

A closer look at Facebook and its users

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:21:02 +0000

Facebook revealed this week that it now has 845m active users. As it nudges ever closer to the billion-user milestone, a new study reveals interesting findings about the social network and its users. Read more...

Twitter has 100 million active users

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:40:01 +0100

The CEO of Twitter has officially revealed that the social networking service has 100 million active users along with 400 million monthly visitors on the Twitter.com web site. Read more...

Hunch.com: Infographic on Mac users versus PC users

Denis Wong — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:58:12 +0100

Another Mac versus PC war? Probably. Except this war is not about arguing over fancy collections of bits and bytes, or even about the perceived value of one's investments into technology. It's about the users... Read more...

AT&T: Our users wanted data caps

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:42:41 +0100

It was only a few days ago that AT&T instituted the data caps on their broadband connections, but speaking on the situation, AT&T's Mark Siegel proclaimed that it is what the end user had asked... Read more...

Digg users fight back, sabotage main page

Brad Sams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:55:17 +0100

It’s fairly common to hear that most people don’t like change. The common saying is “if it ain't broken, don’t fix it”, this mannerism tries explaining that if you have something that works, don’t drastically... Read more...

Facebook is now 500 million strong

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:44:19 +0100

Facebook announced today that is has surpassed 500 million active users worldwide on its site. That is half a billion users on a single website. The social network started in 2004 as a way for people... Read more...

Office Mac users at risk

Elliot Harrison — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:19:06 +0100

PC security experts have criticized Microsoft this week for releasing security patches attempting to fix vulnerabilities in Windows versions of their presentation program Powerpoint, whilst announcing Mac users of Office Mac could remain at risk,... Read more...

Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users

Sean Bradford — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:21:28 +0000

Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading... Read more...

Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:29:32 +0000

Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the... Read more...

iPhone MMS solution now available for UK users

Tom Warren — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:21:01 +0000

One of the highly requested features from iPhone users around the world is MMS along with copy and paste functionality. Ross McKillop and Ed Lea appear to have addressed the lack of MMS in the... Read more...

Mac users set to receive Picasa

Damien Reynolds — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:49:14 +0000

Google is planning to release a beta of the popular photo editing/viewing program Picasa on the Mac today. According to Jason Cook from Picasa the features you will be seeing in the beta... Read more...

RIAA to stop suing users, cuts them off instead

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:18 +0000

RIAA has reached an agreement to stop suing individuals who continue to share music illegally, but will cut your internet connection off instead. The decision was reached with ISP's to send a warning letter to... Read more...

Facebook reaches 140 million users

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:55:01 +0000

Facebook has recently hit a milestone when they reached 140 million signed up users. The statistics are quite astounding when you look at them, over 600 thousand users are signing up a day which has... Read more...

Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers

Tom Warren — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:35:10 +0100

Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of IT security company Kaspersky Labs, has said Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers and malware writers over the next few years. Linux and Mac... Read more...

Firefox users gain location tool

MightyJordan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:10:25 +0100

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has released technology that helps websites detect the physical location of computers. The system will allow users, for instance, to find local restaurants when they travel to a... Read more...

Microsoft: Safari Flaw a Danger to Windows Users

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:25:00 +0100

Microsoft warned on Friday that Apple's Safari Web browser for Windows exposes PCs to a security hole that permits potentially malicious files to be downloaded to a user's machine and run without prompting the user.... Read more...

Web users 'getting more selfish'

M2Ys4U — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:45:44 +0100

Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go... Read more...