Neowin News Feed for: Virtual

Evalaze 2.0.5.2

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:25:41 +0000

Evalaze software virtualization is a technology that allows applications to run in a closed system, a virtual sandbox without having to be installed in the "traditional" way. Read more...

Time-Limited giveaway YesShield sandboxes your PC

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:54:19 +0000

Very effective solution for your PC to fight against unwanted changes. When your computer disk is in protection mode, all changes made to it will restore to the original state after a reboot. Read more...

New virtual grocery store at London's Gatwick Airport

Rob Schorman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:17:03 +0100

If you're just back from your holiday and have no food in the fridge, there's a new virtual store at Gatwick Airport. Just scan the barcode with your smartphone and have everything delivered at home Read more...

Dexpot 1.5.17

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:05:01 +0100

With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Read more...

VirtualBox 4.1.0 Beta 2

Steven Parker — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:07:13 +0100

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox... Read more...

US virtual economy to make billions

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:48:13 +0000

The sale of virtual goods for social games, such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, are set to become worth $5 billion in the next 5 years according to industry experts. Sales of virtual goods are... Read more...

Microsoft Virtual Earth gets a 48TB update

Sean Bradford — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:08:03 +0000

Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release. What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over... Read more...

Virtual Blackberry OS on Windows Mobile revealed

Tom Warren — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:44:16 +0000

Back in April 2007, Research In Motion announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile devices with a new software application suite. RIM originally planned to release the virtual suite by the end of... Read more...

"Music Mogul", a virtual world for musicians and fans

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:43:07 +0000

Nicholas Longano, former executive of Vivendi Games, and Grammy Award winner Rodney Jerkins, are teaming up to work on creating a new virtual World for musicians and fans. Dubbed "Music Mogul", the site will offer... Read more...

Need For Speed leaves virtual reality

tiddlie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:20:54 +0000

EA, the publishers behind the Need For Speed series of games, have announced that fans of the popular series will be able to act out their car fantasies in real life in June 2009. Over... Read more...

iTech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard Review

FlishFun — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:16:16 +0100

For years now I've been using the same keyboard at home, a Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite Keyboard. It's not a bad board, thought it has seen better days. While looking around for a replacement I... Read more...

$345m Invested in Virtual Worlds This Year

tiddlie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:56:28 +0100

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Hot on the back of Google getting involved with Virtual Worlds, with their 'Lively' project, figures have been released about the industry in general, and investment into Virtual Worlds. It turns out that over the... Read more...

Windows 7 to add native support for Virtual Hard Disks

Sam — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:06:23 +0100

Out of what little we know of the next version of Windows, this feature might just be the most interesting yet. A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in... Read more...

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Howard Thomson — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:36 +0100

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Save time and money as Virtual PC allows you to maintain the compatibility of legacy and custom applications during migration to new operating systems and increases the efficiency of support, development, and training staffs. With... Read more...

Cell phones and virtual worlds morphing shopper ways

EL1TE — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:18:53 +0000

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Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail. Retailers,... Read more...

Virtual Earth Map Control SDK 6.0

Mercury_22 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:30:13 +0000

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This software development kit (SDK) provides programming references and how-to topics for getting started with the map control for Virtual Earth™. You can use this control to build your own Web sites that use Virtual... Read more...

FedEx Integrates Virtual Earth

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:11:30 +0100

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Federal Express has launched their new drop box locater service using Virtual Earth. Search for the nearest drop boxes and you'll get a resulting list of locations. Near the top of the result list is... Read more...

AMD Teams up with Virtual Desktop Pioneer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:15:52 +0100

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Hosted desktop pioneer Nivio has taken an undisclosed investment from AMD to help it work on its ambition of making virtual Windows XP desktops and software accessible from any connected device -- even a Linux... Read more...

Beijing Police Launch Virtual Web Patrol

Slimy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:27:19 +0100

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Starting September 1, police in China's capital will use animated officers to walk, bike or drive across a user's browser viewing 13 of China's top portals every half hour with warnings to stay away from... Read more...

Symantec Delays Virtual Security Appliance

Sagittarius — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:10:19 +0100

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Symantec has delayed the launch of its Virtual Security Appliance for Intel's vPro enterprise desktop platform. Originally intending to ship the application next month, the security vendor has pushed back the launch date to mid-2008,... Read more...