ZTE today announced the world's first Firefox OS handset, the 'Open', an entry-level device with a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 256MB of RAM and a 3.2MP cam, designed for first-time smartphone buyers. More...
After one Android developer decided to take their app free to play because of piracy, an iOS developer is blaming it on the 'corrosive mentality' of open platforms like Android. More...
According to Gigaom, the worlds most popular social networking site -- Facebook -- has opened up its data centres and servers by releasing a tonne of previously unknown information. During a news event earlier on... More...
Microsoft always planned to open up the Outlook PST data format in 2010 and last week it made good on its promises by releasing a technical structure specification document. Paul Lorimer, Group Manager of Microsoft Office... More...
The founder of the popular MySQL database is calling for people to protest against Oracle's attempted takeover of Silicon Valley based Sun Microsystems. Michael Widenius says that the European Commission must block the deal in... More...
Dear Microsoft, Congratulations on recently releasing the Windows 7 release candidate. As I've mentioned before, it's shaping into an excellent product and I have given my reasons why I think people should upgrade. But let's... More...
Microsoft has recently appointed David Porter Corporate Vice President of retail stores, who has 25 years experience with Wal-mart and 2 years with DreamWorks Animation in 2007. In a recent post on Neowin, a... More...
After months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to increase activity, and advertising on its Internet sites through social connections and online applications. The company has been... More...
An open, customizable music player built on Mozilla with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and a growing developer community. Key Features: GStreamer - The main media playback system, across all platforms -... More...
The Cray XT supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is now the World's fastest unclassified supercomputer, boasting a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops and a sustained performance of 1.3 petaflops. The only computer... More...
Fans of Google's Android OS, now available on T-Mobile G1 phones, can finally feel more "at home" with the Open Source notion Google is taking. "Jailbreaking", a popular term popularized by Apple's iPhone, means "getting... More...
Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement. The case concerns a company, Kam Industries, that downloaded open-source code for use in a product... More...
Inquisitor has reported that the nemesis to Twitter, Plurk is about to announce the release of an API. What's the big deal? Perhaps not, but the API would enable third party application development, taking Plurk... More...
Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Microsoft Corporation that it is continuing to review potential transactions with Yahoo!: "Yahoo! has confirmed with... More...
A stealth-mode startup is readying a Linux-based handheld gaming device with WiFi, USB, and a 4.3-inch 800x480 touchscreen. The "Pandora," headquartered at OpenPandora.org for now, runs Linux on a next-generation ARM SoC with integrated OpenGL... More...
Windows Vista was hit by significantly fewer publicly disclosed security flaws in its first year than Windows XP and open source rivals in their first years, according to a report from Microsoft. The report, written... More...
New York (NY) - Open minded people are more likely to purchase a Mac, according to a new survey released by Mindset Media. The company interviewed 7500 people and found that liberal thinkers were 60... More...
CD Projekt has the new modding board for The Witcher up on the official The Witcher web site. With the Djinni Toolset around the corner, I'm sure modders are already outlining their ideas for his... More...
Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting... More...
Verizon Wireless is surprisingly embracing open networks. The nation's second largest cell phone carrier said today that customers will have the option of connecting hardware and software not sold by the company to its network.... More...
Novell has released a bunch of whitepapers in support of Open Source technologies over Microsoft products, hardly a surprise really but at least Novell outlines in it's documents why such a move would benefit you... More...
The OpenDocument Foundation — a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format (ODF), but which ended up backing a different document format instead — has... More...
Microsoft kicked off a series of technical conferences this week by pledging to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November, making the developer IDE the first of three major Windows platform updates scheduled... More...
If you rely on BT for high-speed internet or VoIP, there's a good chance a pair of UK-based researchers know how to enable a backdoor in your router that leaves you wide open to eavesdropping,... More...
If you've ever accidentally closed a tab in Internet Explorer 7 when you didn't mean to, then you will know how handy this IE7 add-in can be. With the IE7 "Open Last Closed Tab" add-in,... More...
After Qualcomm Inc. stopped selling Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, in May of this year, it did not simply lay the program to rest in the collective digital graveyard of... More...
An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a security hole to sneak malware past the improved security features in Windows Vista and straight to the Vista Kernel. Microsoft says that they are working with... More...
A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming... More...
Former arch rivals Linspire and Microsoft have continued their recent rapprochement with a collaboration to improve interoperability between OpenOffice.org's Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML. Linspire said that it is joining Novell and... More...
The BBC's upcoming iPlayer service is being targeted by the UK's Open Source Consortium. The iPlayer in question is a BBC service that will allow viewers to watch any show that they have missed for... More...
Popular tweaking site TweakVista.com and Stardock have teamed up to create a new utility for Windows Vista users called TweakVista. TweakVista allows users to change many low level settings in Windows Vista as well as... More...
Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a way to convert the wasted heat in electronic devices into sound and then electricity, promising cooler, greener, and perhaps louder, computers and other machines. Orest Symko,... More...
According to a new IDC study, the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow 26% annually for the next four years, hitting a total market worth... More...
Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com. "Interoperability done on closed APIs isn't... More...
Sun Microsystems has announced the release of an open-source version of its Java Development Kit for Java Platform Standard Edition. Sun has contributed the software to the OpenJDK Community as free software under the GNU... More...
On Monday, AOL plans to announce the launch of its new AOL Search Marketplace, an AOL branded version of Google's search advertising platform, dubbed AdWords. AOL Search Marketplace aims to let advertisers target their ads... More...
A high-end web management software called Igaro has been Open-Sourced to the public. Starting with version 1.5, users can explore the workings of Igaro before choosing to invest in its technology. Igaro software allows web... More...
An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate. The petition is an attempt... More...
Sony previously touted motion sensing technology as the replacement for the rumble force feedback in the SIXAXIS PS3 controller. Now, however, many gamers and developers, including the people at Sony, are no longer convinced. If... More...
A plan to make it easier for web users to manage their online identities has won the support of Microsoft. The Open ID scheme uses web addresses that people already own to help authenticate their... More...
A recording industry group fired back Wednesday at Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, suggesting his company should open up its anti-piracy technology to its rivals instead of urging major record labels to strip copying restrictions... More...
Google on Wednesday morning said its Googlemail service is now open to anyone who wants an account. Previously the service, which provides users with 2.8GB of email storage space, has been by invitation only. The... More...
Microsoft's goal of getting governments across the globe to embrace its Office Open XML format has hit roadblocks in both the United States and abroad. In the United States, legislation was introduced in Texas and... More...
3Com Monday unveiled its strategy to combat the all-in-one networking approach espoused by rival Cisco Systems via a new Linux-based networking module it will use to integrate a variety of applications with its routers and... More...
Ladies and gentleman, head on down to the Vanishing Point Game Discussion forum here at Neowin for all the latest news on the newly-opened Puzzle Box 4. Along with our friends at Unfiction, Neowin... More...
Hewlett-Packard is recruiting researchers to tackle fundamental problems in information management at a new laboratory (its third research facility in five years) in St. Petersburg, Russia. HP is recruiting a total of 25 senior research... More...
Whether it is for the prizes, the number one being a trip to space, or whether it is the great feeling of solving a riddle and knowing there are countless to come, the Vanishing Point... More...
Second Life, the popular three-dimensional virtual world, seems to be becoming an attractive option for many owners wanting to advertise their companies. AOL's Second Life section, dubbed AOL Pointe, will be available for beta testing... More...
A report funded by the European Commission has concluded that open source software could offer considerable savings to organizations with little effect on their business. In "almost all" cases, long-term costs could be reduced by... More...
After an event today in LA, the first of four scheduled to happen over the day (The event in Austin was cancelled). Box 2 of the puzzle challenge has been opened. In another criptic display,... More...