The UK's independent ISP market just keeps on shrinking, with Pipex hawking itself around looking for a buyer. Weekend reports said Chairman Peter Dubens has appointed bankers UBS to find a buyer for the firm,... More...

ntl, the UK's leading provider of broadband internet services, today unveiled plans to unleash the potential of its fibre optic cable network by launching three super-speed broadband internet services. Available in early 2005, the new... More...

Sainsbury's has had to cancel a series of discounts offered to online shoppers after voucher codes posted on a web forum were used by literally hundreds of people. The company had offered online shoppers £10... More...

UK telco BT could soon be selling digital music through its 70,000 payphones if talks with a major online music provider prove fruitful. According to a BBC report, the telco wants to allow owners of... More...

Kaspersky Labs has detected Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor for PDAs running under PocketPC (based on Windows CE). Brador is a classic Trojan backdoor program: it opens the infected machine for remote administration. Brador... More...

Nintendo has announced the preliminary lineup and release date for its' DS console! As memories of this year's E3 begin to fade, we bring you some good news from Nintendo on the... More...

RETAILERS IN THE UK, Austria and Bosnia have received stocks of Prescott 2.8 CPUs we learn, and we ghuess the chip is heading for other European territories too. But it seems that this is the... More...

Tiny Computers re-establishes itself as the leading consumer PC brand in the UK. Tiny Computers, the UK's best value PC manufacturer, and sister-company of Time Group Ltd. and a member of the successful Granville/Time Group,... More...

So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is... More...

"I'm a monopolist first, geek second... probably an entertainer third..." Wernham Hogg's managerial genius that is David Brent has been employed by Microsoft to train its staff in personal development. Although the... More...

Yup, it's another scam email sent in a spoofy manner by a load of merchant bankers... The Bank of England says it has intercepted over 100,000 fraudulent e-mails masquerading as computer... More...

It's been a tough week for Hormel. The president signs an e-mail nuisance bill called the CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, ed: now thats a... More...

MPs have been alerted to the danger of 'young people swapping files' online, and told that P2P users should be made to pay for their bandwidth demands. The sticky issue of metered broadband services has... More...

I know this has been posted in the forums but as the Cube appears to be experiencing quite a renaissance (as Nintendo resumes production) I thought I'd post news of a massive bargain from Nintendo.... More...

Freeserve has made its first profit, the ISP revealed today. Exact details were not revealed but it seems that during August, Freeserve made more cash than it spent. The use of black ink comes a... More...

Electrical retailer Dixons is expected to sever its long-standing relationship with Freeserve and instead install AOL's Internet access software on its PCs. Dixons helped create Freeserve during the dot-com boom, and the ISP... More...

British motorists are to be banned from using handheld mobile phones when driving. From December 1 they will be fined £30, rising to up to £1,000, if the case comes to court. When the government... More...

The debate over how to define high-speed internet services continues to cause confusion across the industry. NTL, currently advertising a 150Kbps service as 'high speed', is challenging the ruling of the Adverstising Standards Authority (ASA)... More...

Microsoft has sold its interest in Telewest Communications for a fraction of what the software giant poured into the U.K. phone and Internet service provider. IDT Corporation bought Microsoft's stake for $5 million, a Microsoft... More...

NEWSPAPERS HERE [UK] are reporting that our Minister of the Interior [Home secretary -Ed] will introduce compulsory identity cards this autumn and citizens will have to pay for the privilege. The Guardian says that David... More...

Southern Electric claims it has received a "good amount of interest" in its commercial trial of broadband through three-pin electrical sockets in Winchester. Details of the trial were formally announced at the end of April.... More...

UK telecoms provider, BT, unveiled plans this week for it's 'BT Midband' service which launches on 1st June. 'BT Midband' is a 64/128K ISDN based Internet Access solution aimed at people who are out of... More...

AntiCap can reveal today that Telewest/Blueyonder have proposed the following draconian alterations to their 'Acceptable Use Policy' that would quite simply outlaw peer to peer filesharing and the running of game servers as well as... More...

In its biggest release of the year, Microsoft launches new versions of its server operating system and database software later today, aiming to crack the Unix dominated high-end market and boost .Net web services adoption.... More...

NTL is fuming following a ruling by the advertising watchdog that the unqualified use of "broadband" to describe its 128k service was "likely to mislead" punters. The ruling against NTL, published today, was made even... More...

We are pleased to confirm the launch of AntiCap UK, the campaign for unlimited broadband services in the UK residential internet industry. AntiCap UK is a not-for-profit pressure and lobby group seeking... More...

You may of noticed that since yesterday Neowin has been displaying "Fastclick" ad banners. This is because for the first time in two and a half years we have come to understand that running Neowin... More...

If you can get near it..as the gremlins are well and truely guarding it.....telewest has a registration server up for the trial of its new 2mbit internet service which is launching in the summer. ... More...

BT is to trial a new home-based 1Mbps ADSL service in the autumn which, if successful, could be rolled-out as a full commercial service before the end of the year. News of BT's decision to... More...

Telewest is to trial a 2Mb broadband cable service aimed at home users. The cableco is looking to recruit around 1,500 customers of its existing 1Mb broadband service and upgrade them to the 2Mb service.... More...

The reports are wrong, NetWare is still alive...Surrey County Council (SCC) has replaced its Windows NT servers with Novell NetWare in an attempt to cut costs by 42 per cent over three years. The £1m,... More...

On BBC World and CNN theres news breaking that the US Space Shuttle "Colombia" is in problems and possibly lost with all crew. Shuttle commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael... More...

We don't usually comment on a change of poll but thought now is a good a time as any to remind or members that the poll has been updated for a new one. ... More...

Well.. first off I want to show some appreciation to Hosttyme for supporting us throughout our decided downtime. They have been an immensly supportive with some server issues we've been having. Despite the flood of... More...

UK consumers can get broadband access for under £20 per month for the first time. In the last week, ET Global Solutions launched a rock-bottom residential USB package for £18.95 (including VAT)... More...

Faced with sluggish PC demand and a slumping dollar, Apple Computer has trimmed the price of flat-panel iMacs in the United Kingdom. The low-end model now sells for 1,149 pounds ($1,792.53), a 100-pound price... More...

When it comes to the adoption of broadband, Britain still trails behind the rest of Europe. So says research outfit NetValue which found that Denmark tops the European broadband charts with one in four of... More...

Revelations that aerial maps of Britain's key defence sites can be bought on the internet have sparked calls for greater security. The photos cost just £45 each. They are legal, but it is feared they... More...

England have won a famous victory over deadly World Cup rivals Argentina. Sven Goran Eriksson's team held on for a nail-biting win after skipper David Beckham converted a penalty a minute before half time when... More...

Telewest's blueyonder Internet service [UK] is experiencing problems following a planned network upgrade last night. Punters in and around Gateshead and Gillingham are facing intermittent problems after routers went down in these areas. ... More...

Hey I thought I'd just let you all know that I have been busy behind the scenes to get a hardware vendor to sponsor us in that we can review the stuff they sell. ... More...

This is just a heads up that I am now going to be posting news for Neowin. At Neobonds request, I have decided to to help Neowin stay on the cutting edge by posting... More...

Serious call-up for those people that are able to write a weekly column (read, not newsposters) for Neowin that will focus on the weeks news. My idea for the column will be an in-sight to... More...

Yea, again we have had to get out the leather whip and do a smackdown on what I like to call "lamers" who come to Neowin for the soul purpose of disrupting the forums and... More...

Some errors Howdy! You may of noticed that the site seemed a little screwed over the past 12 hours or so.. This was due to a temporary move onto another server while Hosttyme takes... More...

ahh Part 2 but completely unrelated. This one is to do with the errors we have had in our forums over the past 2 weeks. Redmak has put his protective helmet on... More...

Well just about everybody. Today I want to grab the attention of all the people that are unregistered and come here from other sites to post bad comments on the style of the reporting here... More...

I want to take a few minutes with you guys to comment on the news submissions that we have been recieving of late. I have come across several people "faking" links and therefore news stories.... More...

Hiya Peeps! Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome / TechTV - The Screensavers sent us an email last night, here is what he had to say about Neowin: "I was showing off Windows XP and... More...

As you may of noticed there are a few new links above the news now, let me explain to you what they are. Category View | View All News | Headline View |... More...