Windows Phone Blog and We Are Juxt have got together to host a Twitter party in which one lucky participant will come away with a brand spanking new Nokia Lumia 928! More...

The second monthly photography contest is complete, and ArcticRift was the winner! The contest's next theme is "The View From My Window," and the prize is a Neowin subscription! More...

The April photography contest is now closed, and the voting is open to select the winner. Take a look at the photos, place your entry for the best, and help one lucky member win a Mimobot! More...

The official Neowin photography contest is underway and we have many excellent entries. Remember, the winner will take home an 8GB Captain Kirk Mimobot thumb drive! More...

The photography competition from March is now closed, a winner has been chosen, and a new theme for April has been selected. Participate in the next contest and you could win a Mimobot! More...

A Linux community association has complained to the EU against Microsoft, claiming UEFI Secure Boot is an anti-competitive "obstruction mechanism" to booting other operating systems on Windows 8 PCs. More...

Students aged 8-18 were asked to use Raspberry Pi to "Make the World Better." Creativity ruled, and some of the students used the tiny computer to help the elderly answer the door and take medicine. More...

Craig Mundie, adviser to Steve Ballmer, has opened up about Microsoft's thoughts on where the Surface sits compared to OEMs, and Microsoft's recent move to become a hardware company. More...

Enjoy photography? Enjoy contests? Enjoy winning? Then take a look at Neowin's official monthly photography contest to try and win or just see great photography by our members. More...

An update to Google's YouTube app for Android added some interesting code, indicating you could be paying to subscribe to channels in the near future, though the company has been tight-lipped. More...

In association with our friends at BundleStars, Neogamr is giving ten games each to two lucky readers. All games are Steam-redeemable, so you've nothing to lose by entering. Good luck! More...

Microsoft is extending the deadline for the challenge quiz requirement of its Imagine Cup competition a month to give student teams from across the globe time to celebrate holidays. More...

Fancy winning a brand new Ultrabook? Acer is giving Facebook users a chance to win one of their Aspire S7 Windows 8 Ultrabooks, one a day, until December 31st. That's 34 in total! More...

Neowin has partnered with threadsquad and launched a store that sells official Neowin T-shirts. Now we're turning to the members to submit great Neowin related designs that we can include in the store More...

Microsoft is about to kick-off its premier student competition in Sydney, Australia. Neowin has come along for the ride and the show is about to begin as Microsoft takes over Darling Harbor. More...

Get ready for five great episodes of The Walking Dead courtesy of Telltale Games. Yes we have one steam season pass to the game to give away here on NeoGamr and its very simple to enter to win. More...

Microsoft reveals the winner of its PC Hardware Design Project competition - a flexible keyboard that can be squeezed, bent and twisted, offering new ways to interact with computers and devices. More...

Microsoft have brought their 'Smoked by Windows Phone' advertising campaign, intended to show the speed of WP7 devices, to Hong Kong. More...

We have a brand new Sony Ericsson Xperia ray to giveaway in our latest Neowin competition. The phone has had excellent reviews both on the web and here at Neowin where it received an excellent 8/10 More...

We have a copy of Adobe Creative Suite Student and Teacher Edition 5.5 to giveaway to one lucky reader, and info on how to win £10,000 by competing in the Adobe Imagination Challenge! More...

The Nokia Tune remains one of the world's most well known corporate jingles. 17 years after its launch, Nokia has launched a contest to compose a new ringtone, with a $10,000 prize up for grabs. More...

A few days ago we asked the great users of Neowin to send us their mockups of IE 9. What we ended up with were quite a few designs that represent that particular users... More...

Neowin recently posted up user created mock-ups of IE 9 and because of its popularity, we want to take it to the next step. Neowin is looking for your IE 9 mockup to be featured... More...

Congratulations to Rudy on winning! This week Neowin is giving away a Tonido Plug, read the review of it here. The Tonido Plug is a simple, small NAS and server device all wrapped up... More...

Google has announced their first Map Maker Global Competition, which asks users to add high quality data on universities, schools, hospitals and medical clinics using Google Map Maker. Running until January 31st, 2010, the winner... More...

Just a quick reminder to anyone who hasn't yet entered the Annual Neowin Competition that today is the last day to enter. The cut-off point is today 23:59 GMT . Any entries after that... More...

These days, more and more gadgets are being released to try and help make life easier. People and businesses are moving away from using paper based products, and everything is digitised. But for those of... More...

Ambitious plans for an online video on demand service offering more than 10,000 hours of classic TV shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 were hit yesterday by a decision to refer them to... More...

Microsoft Corporation has announced the first round of winners in the Ingenuity Point contest, which focuses on recognizing software solutions that are making a meaningful difference in the areas of education, healthcare and environmental sustainability.... More...

Despite the retail giant's plans to offer a sub-$200 Toshiba HD DVD player, Walmart was recently beaten to the punch time-wise by CircuitCity and now price-wise by BestBuy. Toshiba's HD-A2, which started out at $500,... More...

Six years after the landmark antitrust settlement between the United States and Microsoft, the Department of Justice said Aug. 30 that the deal has benefited consumers by promoting competition in the middleware market. In a... More...

Executives at AMD are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones. At a meeting of industry analysts... More...

MySpace, in partnership with Vertigo Films and Film4, is offering its users over £1m to make the world's first user-generated feature film. The MyMovie Mashup competition unfolds in 10 'acts'. The first part of the... More...

Microsoft's recent Crackdown demo, a free download available only for Gold Tier members on Marketplace, this week made Microsoft history. That's right, beating out top downloads like Lost Planet and Fight Night... More...

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) needs access to the raw data collected by the FCC in order to unearth the true statistics proving or disproving competitiveness in the US broadband market. The FCC has... More...

Remixing music has been around for years, it's about time film had a turn. Stray Cinema has released the raw footage from a film shot in London, for the general public to download and make... More...

Security solution provider Agnitum claims that Microsoft's kernel patch protection will shut out competing products unless competitors resort to hacker tactics. In an article posted to the company's Web site, Agnitum said that because of... More...

Intel has had a very bad year. Intel's profit of 33 cents per share dropped to a profit of 15 cents per share this year, a drop of 57%. We, in the Community of Neowin,... More...

Nintendo announced yesterday that once again the Nintendo DS has destroyed all competition. Just an amazing two days after the launch of the Nintendo DS (June 11) the handheld... More...

Google has just announced the start of its own European "Code Jam", a competition that gives coders around Europe to win a stake of the €30,000 up for grabs. Europe's best coders will go through... More...

At the CES conference in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft chief Bill Gates announced the winner of the Start Something PC competition. The main prize of $50,000 was won by Prashant Chandra, an... More...

On Saturday, Stanford University's robot vehicle "Stanley" won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert, taking home a $2 million first prize. Entrants into the race had to navigate... More...

Sony's PSP has reportedly sold more than 185,000 units in its first four days according to official Chart-Track figures. This is more than double that of Sony's closest competitor, Nintendo whose DS console sold 87,000... More...

Popular tabloid newspaper, The Sun has announced it is to offer exclusive movie content for the PSP. The exclusive content includes video trailers for upcoming titles and movies. Currently visitors to The Sun's website can... More...

Microsoft has decided to celebrate Windows 20th anniversary by launching a competitions together with IDSA. Microsoft is offering a price of 125,000 USD for the best design. The challenged is to help Microsoft shape the... More...

Legal fears have led to the organisers of a competition to create the first in-the-wild virus to infect Mac OS to halt the event. DVForge, which builds Apple accessories, was offering a $25,000 prize to... More...

Apple Computer Inc. may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors are turning the up the heat... More...

The organizers of the Ansari X-Prize have launched the equivalent of the X-Prize in a variety of technology areas, called the WTN X-Prizes. The idea is to have a series of prizes... More...

Intel's release this week of a 64-bit Xeon server processor made one thing clear - AMD has its rival in a real tizzy. As an Intel spinmeister was describing the new Nocona processor, we couldn't... More...

Price competition for entry-level motherboards is expected to intensify in the third quarter as some of Taiwan's second-tier makers, including Biostar Microtech International and Jetway Information, plan to introduce new boards with ASPs (average selling... More...