Microsoft has been hard at work on builds of Windows 7 (post RTM) and Windows 8. While it is impossible to actually list every build compiled, we do have a list, from a reliable source... More...

Have you ever had an inspirational idea about the future of laptops? That stroke of genius that could change the face of how we use our laptops forever? Or maybe you just want to see... More...

Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer 8's key new features for administrators, one of them being crash recovery. One much improved feature... More...

Microsoft built a custom Windows Mobile user interface for a new phone that T-Mobile USA is announcing Monday, evidence that Microsoft may be getting more serious about pursuing the consumer mobile market. The phone, built... More...

Intel Corporation announced an investment of between $1 billion to $1.5 billion in its fourth factory scheduled to use the 45nm process: the Rio Rancho Fab 11X site. The production in New Mexico is scheduled... More...

Researchers with the University of California at Santa Barbara, working in conjunction with Intel, are preparing to announce today the next step in their joint plans to produce an entirely solid-state photonic processor assembly -... More...

Microsoft researchers are experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company's Internet Explorer Web browser. Researchers at the Redmond, Wash., company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow... More...

Microsoft is set to deliver a new Windows Vista build—possibly Build No. 5506—to testers some time in the next few days, according to Vista testers who asked not to be named. The forthcoming build will... More...

Apple has seeded new Intel-based and PowerPC-based builds of Mac OS X 10.4.6, the sixth minor update to Mac OS X "Tiger" since it's released last April, this week to developers. ... More...

Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. The researchers claim... More...

America Online Inc. is bundling its own Web browser into the newest versions of AOL Instant Messenger in an effort that is likely to expose a wider swath of users to the browsing features it... More...

Today's technology announcements typically involve smaller and smaller components, computers and other gadgets, but Samsung Latest News about Samsung this week touted the "world's largest" television based on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology -- a... More...

Google is spending some of the cash it raised from its IPO on headhunting staff to build a web browser. Staff have already been poached from Microsoft and Sun. Joshua Bloch, a senior Java developer... More...

Every now and then, I come across some news that is just plain odd. This would have to be one of those stories. If the military can build a missile that... More...

Thanks Jackalo. The new PearPC SDL builds has been published at Richard Goodwin's web site. This new release comes with the Win32 clock patch which smoothens a lot of graphical task, such as the Genie... More...

The latest build of the client operating system is richer and more stable, but it will require heavy-duty hardware. In the opening keynote address at WinHEC, held earlier this month in Seattle,... More...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of additional tools and resources for developers building Web applications. The Microsoft® ASP.NET Resource Kit provides a wealth of resources that include tools, tutorials and samples to help new... More...

Half-Life 2 developer partnering with Limelight Networks to upgrade its online delivery service. Just a few days after Cyber X Games organizers blamed Steam problems for scuttling its Counter-Strike tournament, Valve has... More...

According to InfoWorld, "Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address on Sunday at the annual Comdex 2003 trade show in Las Vegas to announce plans to make the... More...

IBM Corp. said on Friday that it has built a supercomputer the size of a television based on microchip technology to be used in gaming consoles due out next year. IBM said the... More...

Lindows.com reported Monday that Microsoft proffered legal papers seeking to disavow California class-action settlement claims submitted via the Linux distributor's MSfreePC Web site. In a motion filed with the Superior Court of... More...

The government is planning a scheme to help UK organisations fend off electronic attacks The government plans to roll out an early warning system for digital attacks to all local authorities next... More...

SUMITOMI SAID it has started to mass produce two inch low dislocation gallium nitride (GaN) substrates, an essential component to violet lasers for use in Blu-Ray and Advanced Optical Disc machines. The company said it... More...

Mozillazine (http://www.mozillazine.org) posted this news a little while ago. Minotaur (http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/m...ur-roadmap.html), the Mail/News client branched from Mozilla, has builds released for Win32, MacOSX, and Linux platforms. The Win32 build was just recently... More...

Following the strategy of rivals such as Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft, Red Hat has begun selling higher-level software that works on top of its operating system. The Red Hat Enterprise Applications suite, to be... More...

A seed program for Apple's Safari Web browser has been suspended following numerous widespread leaks to the Internet. Although beta builds of Safari have been publicly released, Apple was also frequently sending developers newer releases... More...

And the neowin bizarro news of the day award goes to.... Ok so i was looking about at some IT hardware sites (as you do) and came across what is perhaps one of... More...

Intel is releasing several "building blocks" to make it easier for business partners to build servers using Intel processors, the company will announce Monday. The new products aim to make it easier... More...

Microsoft is developing new security software it hopes will make Web services and its entire product lineup more appealing to big companies. The software maker will announce plans Thursday for technology code-named... More...

Other carmakers, such as GM and DaimlerChrysler, have invested heavily in collaborative CAD/CAM products and product life-cycle management tools to help manage the production of new cars. Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., long... More...