Microsoft has just finished rolling out its Hotmail refresh to 350 million users but its main rival, Gmail, is hot on its heels. Google announced on Tuesday that it had updated the look and feel of... More...
Facebook recently moved into new headquarters at a building formerly owned by HP in California, USA. The team over at TechCrunch were lucky enough to get a glimpse of the new working environment. The new... More...
As a brand name, Eee is a phenomenon. Scarily reminiscent of a console counterpart with which it rhymes, the Nintendo Wii, Asus' new Eee Box range has as much potential in the desktop sector. Of... More...
For the better part of the last 10 years, browsing the Internet for most meant using Internet Explorer. However, the recent release of Google Chrome as well as the continued popularity of Firefox, Safari and... More...
If you've been a Live Search Club regular, you'll notice a new look and new features for the Club. Live Search Club offers members a fun way to experience Live Search's rich, useful search... More...
Ever wondered what computer viruses might look like? Probably not, but that hasn't stopped conceptual artist Alex Dragulescu creating a set of 3D images. He was given the programming code for the most common... More...
I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. I've been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just... More...
Today we have in our hands the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor, and I know what you are thinking but no, this is not yet another extremely expensive processor featuring the same four... More...
Messenger Plus! Live 4.50, the hugely popular add-on for Windows Live Messenger, has been in beta testers hands for a few weeks now and there are some significant changes. A new design, numerous tweaks and... More...
Just like the boys promised, the early look software developer kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. Pedal your steam-engine over to the Open Handset Alliance site where you... More...
The European Union (EU) review of Google's $3.1bn (£1.5bn) bid for DoubleClick will focus solely on the competition aspects of the deal and not privacy issues. The European Commission will decide by the end of... More...
IBM is challenging Microsoft with a game of "anything you can do I can do." Its new Lotus Symphony office suite -- now available as a public beta -- does much of what the $400... More...
The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work. That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's... More...
Look 'n' Stop is a personal Firewall. Secured by Look 'n' Stop, your PC becomes fully invisible to net hackers by stopping all suspicious traffic. Rated among the highest firewall in leak tests. Unlike other... More...
With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8 and this week's unveiling of Lotus SameTime Version 8, industry analysts say we are beginning to see the evolution of the e-mail client from a... More...
By now, everyone has heard how Microsoft plans to release the next Windows client OS, Windows 7, in 2010. But what the company is not making clear is what new features the OS will have,... More...
IBM and Sun Microsystems are looking to bring supercomputing into the "petaflop" era. The two IT giants will detail the specifics behind their new supercomputer systems to the audience attending the 2007 International Supercomputer Conference... More...
Microsoft has been quick to explain why the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista DVD includes a microscopic picture of three men who just so happen to be members of the team... More...
Look 'n' Stop is a personal Firewall. Secured by Look 'n' Stop, your PC becomes fully invisible to net hackers by stopping all suspicious traffic. Rated among the highest firewall in leak tests. Unlike other... More...
Tablet PCs have been around for a while now but for some reason they still haven't really replaced laptops despite their portability and flexibility. Now we already have ultra mobile PCs. Does anyone really need... More...
In February, Microsoft launched its much-anticipated Vista operating system (OS). According to the company, the successor to Windows XP sports several new features that are designed to increase productivity for Microsoft's clients -- including, of... More...
Look 'n' Stop is a personal Firewall. Secured by Look 'n' Stop, your PC becomes fully invisible to net hackers by stopping all suspicious traffic. Rated among the highest firewall in leak tests. Unlike other... More...
Look 'n' Stop is a personal Firewall. Secured by Look 'n' Stop, your PC becomes fully invisible to net hackers by stopping all suspicious traffic. Rated among the highest firewall in leak tests. Unlike other... More...
Microsoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in the Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers. The vulnerabilities were described earlier this week in postings to a popular security mailing list... More...
ArsTechnica have posted an in-depth look at Mozilla's new project, Firefox 3.0. The significant jump from 2.0, released a mere 2 months ago is mainly due to Mozilla's use of the new Gecko rendering engine.... More...
Social searching is a relatively new idea that gives search engines a special twist. While many search engines will constantly spew out irrelevant information, spam links, and other unwanted results, social searching aims to remove... More...
A DICE team member posted a community update on the EA forums a couple of days ago. More or less he acknowledged the issues players were having with stats and ranks, the constant punkbuster issues,... More...
Thanks to slimy for the heads up! Looks as though PodTech (Robert Scoble anyone?) sat down with Matt Jubelirer, product manager of the Zune program and got a 40 minute video out of it. The... More...
With yesterday's announcement that Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates plans to move away from his day-to-day duties by July 2008, analysts said change is in the air for the company. That's... More...
Earlier in the week, Apple announced that they would start selling an iPod radio accessory, to let you listen to radio on the go. We've got hold of one, and have written up our thoughts... More...
Various online Spanish websites have posted scans from the French Playstation 2 magazine of what looks like a very impressive looking Splinter Cell Essentials for the PSP. Information gleaned from these... More...
Channel9 has posted a great video featuring Kam Vedbrat, lead program manager on the Aero interface being developed for Windows Vista. Well worth the download for those that can spare the bandwidth. Vista will include... More...
Since its entry into the market last year, NVIDIA's nForce 4 SLI chipset has been the chipset of choice for enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. The SLI chipsets feature two x16 PCI-Express slots capable of... More...
Windows Vista has been put into the hands of beta testers and last week Microsoft gave us a sneak peek at what they had in mind. We couldn't say much until the first part... More...
When Office 12 comes down the pike in a year or so, it will have a new look and feel aimed at exposing a user's favorite features. Specifically, Microsoft is working on a "ribbon" concept... More...
What is Avvenu, you may ask? Avvenu is a new remote file sharing program. It was made to have an extremely simple setup for the average user to access their files from where ever they... More...
Thanks utomo for this submission. Like we ever get bored with Windows. Right? Well for those of you who do, or have the time and patience to dable in the world of the... More...
Thanks to Neowin member Amsterdam for the submission of his editorial on a closer look at Codename Istanbul. Microsoft has released information of its new software client, codenamed "Istanbul." The client offers its... More...
WiMax equipment and component makers announced steady progress on fixed wireless broadband products but looked eagerly to a future mobile WiMax, as industry participants gathered at the Wireless Communications Alliance's WCA International Symposium and Business... More...
After dreaming up big plans for its network of retail stores, Apple Computer is starting to think small. The Mac maker plans to expand its network of retail outlets by creating a... More...
Well, here it is, Sony's new, sleek PlayStation 2 boasting rather sexy looks and slipping onto shelves in Europe and the US on November 1 and Japan on November 3. Recommended retail price for Europe... More...
Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer... More...
Channel9 Forums has put together another great video showcasing technology from Microsoft's Research group. This latest video is a prototype of Microsoft's new "touch light" technology. Right now its still in the early... More...
The IBM PowerPC® 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop... More...
Every wonder how the iPod became to be as popular as it is? Wired has an excellent article explaining how the iPod was created, and the problems involved with getting it out the door.... More...
As part of Microsoft's settlement with Sun Microsystems, Sun agreed to take part in a licensing program under which Microsoft gives rivals access to various Windows communications protocols. However, Sun's check is apparently still in... More...
Information Week have published a very detailed look at what changes with Sp2; well worth a read. Find out exactly how that $300 million has been spent. "Remember when Microsoft said service packs... More...
Yahoo on Monday is expected to launch a makeover of its popular instant-messaging software, just days after similar moves by rivals America Online and Microsoft. Called "The All New Yahoo Messenger," the... More...
As we reported a while back, Google had been testing a newish look on seemingly random web viewers (see here). it would appear that the new look has gone live now for all viewers of... More...
We covered this a while back (here). Essentially, by means of a special cookie Google has been testing out a new look on a select few users. Although we were unable to give you access... More...