Neowin News Feed for: Years

Happy Birthday! The SMS turns 20

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:43:47 +0000

Lots can change in 20 years in the technology space. 20 years ago Windows 95 was in its design and planning stages and in December of the same year the first SMS, or text, was born in the UK. Read more...

9 years down the road with Neowin

Steven Parker — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:30:52 +0100

Hi there it's Steve here, otherwise known as Neobond on the forums. It's also weekend, and a perfect day for an "opinion piece". Remember back in 2000 when we started? Many of you will because... Read more...

I am a PC and 7 years old

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:21:49 +0000

Last week we had Kylie, a 4 year old girl using Windows Live Photo Gallery to send pictures to her family, in the new Microsoft Rookies ad campaign. Now we have Alexa, a 7 year... Read more...

I am a PC and I am 4 1/2 years old

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:37:11 +0000

Neowin reported earlier about the new Windows ad which is a part of a new phase in the Ad Campaign called Rookies. The ad will be premiered during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, but, Microsoft... Read more...

Apple Macintosh turns 25

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:55 +0000

Introduced by the now famous "1984" advert, directed by Ridley Scott and aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on 22 January 1984, the first Macintosh is turning 25 this weekend. The Macintosh,... Read more...

25 years ago Bill Gates showed off Windows 1.0

Brad Sams — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:25:23 +0000

Twenty-Five years ago Bill Gates gave the world Windows 1.0. No one knew at the time what would become of Windows but looking back it's quite incredible what it has become. Bill... Read more...

Neowin 8 years today & details on a new design

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:42:18 +0100

Neowin has turned 8 years old today, and to celebrate we will again be giving away some goodies throughout this month to our registered members. We have hosting packages, USB keys and even 2 Neowin... Read more...

Ten years later, a "Third" Google founder is revealed?

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:06:31 +0100

Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the "third" founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself... Read more...

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:36:25 +0100

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Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is thought to have been coined by Joel... Read more...

Two years after patch, a new IE5/6 FTP flaw

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:59:52 +0000

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A flaw in the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser processes FTP commands could let attackers steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site. The bug, which affects users of IE6 and the unsupported... Read more...

Ten New Years Resolutions for the PC Industry

Brad Wardell — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:27:42 +0000

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Happy New Years folks and that means it's time for New Years resolutions. We have some suggested resolutions for the PC Industry that will help them...and us! #1 To the PC Makers: Stop pre-loading... Read more...

Windows Is 22 Years Old

Steven Parker — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:17 +0000

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Pop the Champaign, its time to celebrate! The Windows operating system has turned 22. That's right, considering the fact that Windows 1.0 was made available on November 20, 1985, the platform is 22 years old... Read more...

Another EliteTorrents Uploader Facing 10 Years in Prison

Slimy — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:26:10 +0000

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It seems that every few months the FBI manages to come up with yet more people to charge in connection with Operation D-Elite, the joint ICE and FBI raids against the US-based BitTorrent tracker EliteTorrents,... Read more...

Xbox Live Collects Eight Million Users in Five Years

Slimy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:31 +0000

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On November 15, Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with "more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV." To celebrate... Read more...

US spammer gets over two years in jail

Slimy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:40:36 +0000

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A New York judge has sentenced 28-year-old Todd Moeller to a 27-month term and fined him more than $180,000 after he pleaded guilty earlier this year for his part in a spamming operation that sent... Read more...

Senate extends Internet tax moratorium by 7 years

Slimy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:49:51 +0100

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With the ban on taxing Internet connections set to expire at the end of October, the Senate has passed a bill that would extend the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act yet again, this time for... Read more...

Gordon Moore Predicts 15 More Years for his Law

Sagittarius — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:51:20 +0100

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Moore's Law, one of the most widely known laws in the computing world, may not have much longer to live. According to Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and best known for his theory predicting that... Read more...

Prank Starts 25 Years of Security Woes

Slimy — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:27:38 +0100

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What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal... Read more...

Serial eBay fraudster jailed for two years

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:23:17 +0100

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A low-rent recidivist con man who targeted eBay customers was jailed for two years on Tuesday. Phillip Shortman, 20, from Cwmbran near Newport in south Wales, was sent to a young offenders' institution following a... Read more...

US identity fraudster jailed for seven years

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:41:53 +0100

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US authorities have sentenced a man to seven years in prison for buying stolen identities from cyber-criminals in other countries. Jacob Vincent Green-Bressler was convicted of soliciting information including credit and debit card account numbers,... Read more...