A newly uncovered patent suggests that Google Glass is going to receive an update that allows for binocular vision, instead of just one lens, increasing the use for Glass tenfold. More...
While not the social network that people keep murmuring about under their breaths, Google is introducing a new social layer to their search engine that is a clear response to the popularity of Facebook's "like"... More...
Microsoft Corp. honors its 2008 Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), a highly select group of experts who represent the best and brightest in technical communities, at the 2008 MVP Global Summit April 14–17 in Seattle at... More...
Did you hear the one about Amazon? It offered free shipping in France, got sued for it by the French Booksellers' Union, and lost. Now it's choosing to pay €1,000 a day rather than follow... More...
It's the Wii console's second Christmas out and there a strong sense of déjà vu in reports that talk of internet-breaking sales as punters go mental for Nintendo's console. Amazon apparently sold 1,400 consoles in... More...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's largest producer of memory chips, has shed more than 1,630 jobs this year (the first fall in its labour force for five years): from 86,899 eight months ago down... More...
International Business Machines Corporation, the world's largest technology services company, is cutting 1,315 services-related jobs in the United States, affecting employees in a variety of areas including computer server systems operations, technology integration and management... More...
Intel has warned the workers at its Fab 11 plant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, that it could lay off as many as 1,000 of the 1,500 employees when it stops producing flash memory chips... More...
Lenovo may have managed to become the world's 3rd manufacturer of PCs, but that isn't stopping the company to once again, just like last year, fire some of the people that helped them get to... More...
Phil Harrison, President for Sony Worldwide Studios this week revealed that over 1,000 PS2 titles will be backwards compatible with the new spec PS3, which will be released throughout Europe on March 23rd. Speaking with... More...
Thanks to Fred Derf for submitting this to the Front Page. Worldwide video game producer and distributor Ubisoft is expanding its Quebec operations. The plan is to increase from the current 1,600 employees in Quebec... More...
Imagine an ink-jet printer head that could theoretically spit out 1,000 pages a minute, or more. The JeTrix project, which is still in a very early stage of development, is expected to be available commercially... More...
As we noted recently, real estate availability on the now infamous milliondollarhomepage.com is approaching zero. How would you finish what has been a meteoric rise to fame and fortune, online? eBay off the last few... More...
Sun Microsystems expects to lay off around 1,000 staff at a cost of about $100 million as part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting strategy, according to Sun's chief financial officer. Sun Chief Financial Officer Steve... More...
NVIDIA'S NV40 is not going to be just fast in shaders and pixels, it will have some additional features that will be interesting to anybody that messes with Video. The video capabilities of NV40 are... More...
Well it had to happen eventually, Neowin is proud to announce that our Forum now has 1 million forum posts in 85020 topics. As you can imagine we are very proud of... More...
Software giant Microsoft Corp. is hiring 1,500 sales staff to promote its programs directly to corporate customers, Chief Financial Officer John Connors said on Friday. "If you think about how will we... More...
Slashdot has just announced that RC5-64, RSA's 64 bit encryption challenge has been broken. On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03... More...
In the wake of another unprofitable quarter, Genuity Inc. said it would cut up to 1,200 jobs, or 30 percent of its work force, and reduce its capital spending. There was no word... More...
Things are not looking good over at Novell recently. The Register had reported that Novell has just laid off 19% of its employees to cope with software falling sales. Here is what they've said. ... More...
Thanks Warp2search for the heads up on this one! The Extreme Performance Project (XPP) has gone nuts? They are giving away AMD XP Cpu's to passer-by's!!! Are we really giving... More...