Chinese laws forcing real-name registration to use the internet have been passed, with further revisions likely to come. The legislation could allow removal of "illegal" posts within the country. More...
After taking a hard line against BitTorrent and file-sharing sites, PayPal has moved onto Usenet service providers, freezing funds and stopping them accepting payments to their accounts. More...
For users who lost access to files at the time of Megaupload's shutdown, there may yet be some hope that they can retrieve their data from the petabytes of data still available to the server's hosts. More...
Microsoft's email service, Hotmail, has rang in the New Year with a few show-stopping issues. Right on the turning of 2010 to 2011, users all over were experiencing loss of their emails and even receiving... More...
So now that we've all recovered from the CES 2009, everyone is back to business including the folks up in Redmond, WA. It has been confirmed that Microsoft has started rolling out another major update... More...
Microsoft currently offers POP3 access for $19.95 per year as part of its Hotmail Plus service. Rumours posted on several Windows Live forums this week and Ars could indicate that POP3 access is about to... More...
It's been a while since a PSP firmware update did anything really interesting, but it seems like firmware v5.0 could be the one that changes all that. French site PSPgen has managed to obtain information... More...
If you're living in a part of the EU that has yet to be reached by broadband internet access, then help could be at hand from the European Commission. The European Commission is about to... More...
Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3. Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server's Remote Access... More...
Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS. The technology is leveraged in enterprise rich Internet applications, Adobe... More...
Online criminals are exploiting a flaw in the Microsoft Office Access database to install unauthorized software on computers, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned Monday. In its brief warning, US-CERT offered few... More...
Google will eventually provide an open application programming interface for its Trends analysis tool, allowing users to embed the tool in their applications, or download data from the application for personal use, a company official... More...
The ruling junta in Burma has cut internet access to citizens in an attempt to stop footage of pro-democracy protests escaping the country. Internet cafés have been closed and the state ISP is claiming that... More...
AirCell has announced that it is partnering with Virgin America to offer Wi-Fi broadband Internet services on the airline's continental U.S. flights, enabling passengers to surf the Internet and check e-mail during flights in 2008.... More...
Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey after clips insulting former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had appeared on the site. Even after YouTube removed the offending clips, a court... More...
A revolutionary new piece of mobile phone software which can give parents control over what photographs and videos their children can download to their handsets is being launched by a Glasgow-based web security firm. Netintelligence,... More...
Apple will charge Mac users $4.99 to turn on faster, longer-range wireless technology included with machines equipped with Intel's Core 2 Duo or Xeon processors, a pair of Mac enthusiast Web sites reports. According to... More...
Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi... More...
Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today fromtelecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant"...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietarytechnology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to theire-mail and other data."... More...
Nintendo and McDonalds have joined forces to provide free wireless access for the Nintendo DS handheld in nearly 6,000 McDonalds restaurants around the world. While McDonalds offers wireless internet access at many of its... More...
Leaders of the largest Communist nation in the world announced over the weekend they intend to standardize "the management of news and information" of the country. The new rules are clearly directed at bloggers and... More...
Microsoft has announced the opening of the Private Beta program for Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access (aka Budapest). Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access is the web client for Live Communications Server 2005, which MS expect... More...
The files in this ZIP archive make up the optional files and custom Outlook Web Access theme. Overview The files in this ZIP archive make up the optional files and custom... More...
Sun, following in IBM's footsteps, have announced the company will grant open source projects access to over 1,600 patents, the largest single release of I.P. ever. Sun CEO Scott McNealy said "Today represents a huge... More...
Thanks to oddcrap who posted this in BPN for the heads up. President Bush signed a bill that renews a ban on Internet access taxes on Friday amid praise from lawmakers and... More...
China is blocking access to the Web site Google News, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, and accused the U.S.-based company of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site. The Paris-based group said... More...
In what it is billing as "e-mail portability," Google Inc. is opening access to its Gmail e-mail service from desktop clients and mobile devices. On Wednesday, the company began providing free POP3 (Post Office Protocol... More...
Microsoft have begun increasing free users accounts to 250MB storage and their paid subscribers to 2GB of storage. We exclusively revealed the details of extra storage back in June. All users are expected... More...
Those MVPs living within the already 27 countries that have signed up with Microsoft's Windows Source code program can now see it for free (limited source code of course). Specifically the programs cover Windows... More...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to renew a four-year ban on taxes on Internet connections such as DSL and cable modems instead of a competing plan that would have made a moratorium permanent. ... More...
President Bush on Monday urged the U.S. Congress to make Internet access permanently tax free and to reduce regulations so high-speed access can be universally available by 2007. Bush complained that the United... More...
The FBI proposes that they be allowed to wiretap Xbox Live communications... Today it was learned that the FBI has made a proposal to the FCC that would require all Internet Providers to... More...
California (AP) -- A federal appeals court is standing by its October ruling that cable TV operators should open their lines to rivals who also want to use them to sell high-speed Internet service. ... More...
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had developed a utility technology that will let users check their Outlook data on a notebook computer without needing to boot the machine. The Phoenix FirstWare... More...
Overview The MDAC 2.8 SDK is for developers who are building applications using ADO, OLE DB, and ODBC. It contains updated documentation, headers, libs and typelibs for x86, IA64 and AMD64 platforms, as well... More...
Thanks to the guys at AW for sharing this. A flaw in Microsoft's MSN Explorer software has allowed some Web surfers to gain free access to features and services that normally cost $9.95 a month,... More...
Overview This is the security patch for Microsoft Data Access Components as described in the MS04-003 : Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components . A security issue has been identified in Microsoft Data... More...
Thanks to Iluvatar for the heads up on this one As one of the first to install new MSN® 9 Dial-up, you'll soon experience the Internet the way you've always wanted. If... More...
Connections to the Internet would remain tax-free under a bill the House passed Wednesday. The legislation, passed with bipartisan support, makes permanent a ban on taxing Internet connections. A temporary ban on... More...
Experience the latest advancements in messaging and collaboration in Exchange 2003 by registering for this seven-day Microsoft Office Outlook® Web Access trial account, available at no charge and no obligation to any user anywhere in... More...
Scandinavian Airlines on Wednesday said it will offer high-speed Internet access aboard some long-haul flights, letting passengers surf the Internet or send e-mail. As signed a contract with Boeing Co. to install its wireless broadband... More...
Billionaire Bill Gates learned the hard way that the Secret Service means business when it comes to checking identification at the White House gates, ROLL CALL reports. Gates showed up at the White House on... More...
Overview An identified security issue in Windows Media Player 9 Series could allow an attacker to see certain information on your computer after you viewed a web page. For instance, this issue could allow... More...
Dell Computer customers will be able to connect to the Internet through AT&T's cellular networks under a new agreement between the two companies. Dell said customers who purchase access to the network no longer have... More...
Quick Info File Name: mdac_typ.exe - Download Size: 5262 KB - Date Published: 5/30/2003 - Version: 1 Overview The MDAC 2.7 SP1 Refresh release installs the same Data Access... More...
REDMOND, Wash. -- March 31, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of a free Microsoft® Windows® XP download to support Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), a new standards-based wireless network security solution from the... More...
By now the majority of neowins know about Earthlinks anti pop-up ad feature. However something is very wrong with this. Sure Earthlinks pop-up blocker will block pop-ups from www.bigboobies.com, but it generates its... More...
Microsoft has announced it will release this northern summer a native Exchange Server access solution for Apple's Unix-based Mac OS X operating system. The initial Exchange access solution for OS X will... More...
Overview This update enables applications to access HTML Help in a new, restricted mode. Future updates of Internet Explorer require this new capability. Download now to ensure that Internet Explorer can properly display HTML... More...
Microsoft is working behind the scenes with leading antivirus software vendors to improve the way desktop security software works with its next major operating system, code-named Longhorn. Under enormous pressure from customers, partners,... More...