Neowin News Feed for: Work

Yahoo employees soon barred from working at home

Anthony Tosie — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:08:38 +0000

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move. Read more...

What it's like to work at a closing tech store: Circuit City

Brad Sams — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:10:28 +0000

When Circuit City announced that it was closing all of its stores it showed the true signs of the economy. Circuit City was a massive corporation employing over 30,000 employees which would all be... Read more...

Massive continue work with Activision

tiddlie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:45:55 +0000

In more Massive news, Activision have announced that they will continue their partnership with Massive Inc for a further 18 titles. If you've ever played "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock", or "Tony Hawk's Proving... Read more...

Work while you travel with Microsoft

Damien Reynolds — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:42:58 +0000

I know when going to work one of the most annoying things that can happen is traffic jams especially if you have to get somewhere before a certain time well Microsoft may have a wacky... Read more...

Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:38:54 +0000

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Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for... Read more...

Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems

EL1TE — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:48:29 +0000

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El_Oscuro brings us a Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million... Read more...

MySpace Targeted as Time-Waster at Work

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:01:43 +0000

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As companies move to restrict Web surfing at work, more of them are blocking access to MySpace than to Facebook, according to a survey released Wednesday by Web security company Barracuda Networks Inc. While 44%... Read more...

Microsoft wraps up work on Windows Home Server

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:37:39 +0100

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Microsoft released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing today, hitting the final milestone for software that will power several turnkey home servers that OEMs will put on the market in late September and early October.... Read more...

Halo 2 Vista - How much work went into the in-game browser?

Todd Tanner — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:27:10 +0100

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So, think porting Halo 2 from the Xbox to Windows Vista was easy? Well, it might have been easy I suppose. But the way this blog post from one of the developers goes, it sounds... Read more...

ISPs don't work for the RIAA

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:02:25 +0000

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The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders. "EFF and others have... Read more...

The (Few) Ways Vista Makes Office Work Better

Slimy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:04:01 +0000

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Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95.... Read more...

Call of Duty 3 "Valor" Map Pack Doesn't Work

Todd Tanner — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:32:27 +0000

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As many of you have discovered already, the newly released (for 800 Microsoft points no less) Valor map pack for Call of Duty 3 has 5 brand new maps for you to kill each other... Read more...

Windows Vista: More Work in Progress

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:46:00 +0000

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Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No." The question and answer might seem strange given that Microsoft released Windows Vista gold code in early November... Read more...

Intel to Work with Ericsson on Mobile Broadband

MonkeyClaw — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:37:25 +0000

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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on applications for mobile computers that will increase their attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday. Ericsson said the joint effort... Read more...

Unlock Work Internet or Risk Losing Staff: Microsoft

danwarne — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:44:32 +0100

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People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. "These kids are saying: forget... Read more...

Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:25:24 +0100

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Thanks Andareed for submitting this in Back page News on our forums. Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such... Read more...

Apple Adds Mac At Work Section to US Site

MonkeyClaw — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:27:47 +0100

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Apple has quietly introduced a new "Mac at Work" section to its US website. The new zone is available through the navigation buttons at the top of the company's US website. It's UK website still... Read more...

Microsoft Halting Work on "Photoshop Killer"?

Mr magoo — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:54:01 +0000

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According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year,... Read more...

Mortal Kombat actors get film work

Dice — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:30:37 +0000

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When Mortal Kombat burst onto the arcade scene in the early 1990s, manygamers were taken aback at how the characters looked like real people.Of course, they were real people, digitized and animated. In fact, themajority... Read more...

Sims 2 Work Retail

malebolgia — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:56:01 +0000

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Open for Business expansion is...open for business; add-on lets Sims trudge off to work, manage store, hire, and fire employees. With more than 58 million units moved, the... Read more...