Google Play turns one today, and to celebrate, the team is throwing freebies your way for a limited time only; what can be better than freebies I ask? Not a lot. Info after the jump. More...

Microsoft's former CEO, Bill Gates, is celebrating his 57th birthday today. Join us in celebrating and wishing him the best today! More...

Google is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth with a new interactive doodle that's a virtual version of the Turing Machine that the late mathematician proposed in the 1930s. More...

Today marks the seventh anniversary of YouTube opening its doors to the Internet and forever changing how we share our video moments, and view streaming media. More...

The winners from our 11th birthday subscription giveaway have been announced, along with a note about the new style of writing coming to Neowin's news! More...

Neowin turned eleven years old on October 1st, and to celebrate we'll be giving away twenty tier 2 subscriptions, ten for new members who registered after 1 Oct 2011, and ten for current members. More...

Today marks Facebook's 7th birthday from when Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University back in 2004. In less than a decade who would have thought that Facebook is now the... More...

Windows 7 celebrates its first birthday today, a year on from the retail availability of the fastest selling operating system of all time. It has been an incredibly successful year for Windows 7. Microsoft has confirmed... More...

A day later than planned, but here is Part 3 of the Interview with Admins follow up from the original interview back in 2003. If you missed Parts 1 & 2 you can catch up... More...

Here is part 2 of the interview with admins following Neowin's tenth birthday. This post will be updated later with Tom & Marcel's input. If you missed part one yesterday, you can read it here. ... More...

Little did we know ten years ago when Marcel Klum and I registered Neowin, that we'd still be around today, and what a ride it has been! Later today, staff from the UK will journey to... More...

Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, today celebrates its fifteenth birthday as the Redmond-based giant prepares to unveil the next version, Internet Explorer 9. The web browser, the world's most used (but arguably most hated) according to... More...

Bing has officially celebrated its first birthday, after it replaced Live search one year ago. Bing has become a staple in Microsoft's search engine war, competing against Yahoo! and Google. The “decision engine”... More...

Twenty years ago today, one of the most beloved programs of all time was created, Photoshop. Photoshop is a photo manipulation program, loaded with features to create or modify any image to make a... More...

The original mouse invention which is now in use on every office and home PC turns 40 next week. Looking like something that could take your fingers clean off, the wooden block... More...

Windows 1.0, the original 16-bit operating system, was released on 20 November 1985 and today marks its 23rd Birthday. 55 programmers developed the system in a year, making the 1st edition a break from the... More...

Well it's that time again! This month Neowin celebrated its 8th birthday and to celebrate the fact that we are yet another year older Neowin will be giving away some prizes to our readership as... More...

365 days and 100 million licenses later, enthusiasm for a safe, reliable and engaging Windows Vista experience is high. Since the worldwide release of Windows Vista one year ago today, people are doing more and... More...

The internet's Domain Name System is 25 years old this week. Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, is credited with inventing the DNS in 1983. Mockapetris shared his thoughts on the technology during... More...

It is 15 years today since the first commercial text was sent over the Vodafone network by Airwide Solutions engineer Neil Papworth. Today marks the 15th anniversary since the first commercial short message service (SMS)... More...

Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human... More...

5 years ago today Windows XP was launched worldwide after it had RTM'd a month earlier. It has been without a doubt the longest running operating system Microsoft has ever produced. Microsoft typically updated the... More...

There I was using google for my own personal search algorithms, and noticed it's now 8-years old. History Google Inc. is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 7... More...

On the 12th of August 1981 the first ever personal computer - the IBM 5150 - was announced. It became one of the most important releases in the world of technology, ever. With a fraction... More...

This weekend saw Mr Bill Gates turn the magic age of 50, half a century. It has been quite a year for Bill and birthdays, with his own Microsoft turning 30 this year. While people... More...

Microsoft, the worlds largest software company is about to turn 30 years old today. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will congratulate employees for their... More...

For many, it would be among the first websites they ever visited. In an era before Google, it was often seen as the place to search. And tomorrow, Yahoo! will turn 10 years old. ... More...

The Internet's first baby steps began in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab 35 years ago today. The young computer science professor's team had networked its computer with one at the Stanford Research Institute... More...

Neowin is 4 years old today, October 1st, 2004, and to celebrate the occasion we are giving away other people's money! The staff would like to send a big thank you to all... More...

Did you know that Microsoft are the longest standing developer group for mac products outside of apple? How ironic! " In 1984, Microsoft's then-CEO Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "the Mac is... More...

In celebration of our 3rd Birthday, for our members we've organised a large giveaway with many many prizes! Today, we've drawn the second of three draws for the following products. At this point, i'd like... More...

In celebration of our 3rd Birthday, for our members we've organised a large giveaway with many many prizes! Today, we've drawn the first of three draws for the following products. At this point, i'd like... More...

It's Oct 1st again and that means it's our birthday again ;) It's that time of year that Neowin reflects on what's happened & gives away loads of goodies. Over the last year we've hit... More...

The world's most popular site for searching the web, Google, is five years old. It is now an internet giant, used by millions of people every day in more than 80 languages. The search engine... More...

Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test... More...

Transition to TCP/IP took place on 1 January 1983 The internet has officially celebrated its 20th birthday. On 1 January 1983 the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (Arpanet) of the US Department of Defence -... More...

Four years ago today, November 9th, 1998, Half-Life was declared "finished." Here's what Valve's Gabe Newell had to say, way back then:Half-Life has gone gold, and is in manufacturing. I'd like to say how extraordinarily... More...

From all the staff at Neowin we wish you all the best :)... More...

Cheers Paul Thurrot for his blurb of the week otherwise known as WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 8. An interesting blurb is the fact that Email turned 30 this week, I can happily say... More...