Now that most of the world is likely through with the gift giving and gift getting process of the holidays, we'd like to know what you got for Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate. More...

We've all been good boys and girls at Neowin this year, so we're hoping Santa will bring us all sorts of exciting prezzies. But what techie-treats are you hoping to unwrap this Christmas Day? More...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, has released their official Windows 8 Santa tracking app, designed to show where Santa Claus will be on Christmas Eve. More...

The festive season is upon is, the lights are up, the stockings are stuffed and Santa is almost here. Thank you for your support during 2011! More...

It's that time of the year again, where it begins to snow in the Northern Hemisphere, fat men come out to give gifts to small children and the Android team is celebrating by showing off ICS. More...

Today, Google Australia announced that searches from smartphones for shopping related results has increased over 220%, and that retailers are missing out by not preparing themselves. More...

What do we really want for Christmas? One media firm is mining social networks to find out. Yomego, which is based in Glasgow and London, teamed up with Santa himself to create the Santatron 6000, an... More...

Like their paper counterparts, most Christmas E-Cards get a quick glance before ending up in the virtual trash. One British design studio set out to change that with a little help from Google and the result... More...

Apple is reportedly working on a new version of its popular iPad device that will include an integrated SIM card. Apple is understood to be moving ahead with an integrated SIM card for its iPad device... More...

It seems that Microsoft has now raised its sales target for their Xbox 360 motion control device Kinect. Originally the company said that they expected to sell three million devices by Christmas, but now they... More...

Microsoft is planning to unwrap its slate strategy next Monday at a press event in New York City, Neowin has learned. According to sources familiar with the company's plans, Microsoft will hint at its future Slate... More...

When Apple announced at Mac World the new pricing tiers for iTunes and that all songs would be DRM free the users rejoiced. What was not so present was how Apple managed to get... More...

Football game Fifa 09 has knocked Call of Duty: World at War off the top of the video game chart to become the best-selling computer game this Christmas. Call of Duty, which had occupied... More...

MSN Italy has released an emoticon Xmas pack for Windows Live Messenger. They've bundled 10 animated emoticons of Santa and Rudolph into an easy auto-installer. Click on Scarica Gratis Le Emoticon Natalizie to download the... More...

Raise up a Christmas mood! Snow Christmas Tree can countdown days until Christmas or New Year, and notify you about the incoming holiday every half hour or hour by a funny ringing bell (if you... More...

Microsoft was able to sell 4.3 million Xbox 360 units during the fourth calendar quarter 2007 (fiscal Q2 2008). The number is slightly down from 4.4 million units the company sold during the Christmas season... More...

To some music lovers, the fact that Josh Groban's Noel was the highest-selling album of 2007 is all the proof they need that major-label music is dying. To shareholders and label execs, though, the numbers... More...

Mario & Sonic, CoD 4 and FIFA 08 in closely fought battle for top spot. Where's Need For Speed? Sega's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is clinging on to the top spot in... More...

Get your own FREE Glittering Christmas Tree for your Desktop! Choose a christmas tree from the several skins.Countdown the Days Until Christmas. Listen a nice Jingle Bells sound sample at the beginning of the... More...

There's little over four weeks until Christmas and if any of the three platform holders has realised there's money to be made, it's Sony. Guardian Unlimited has revealed details of the Japanese outfit's holiday campaign,... More...

This week, AMD announced its quad-core desktop CPU codenamed Agena FX in Sunnyvale, California. The processor was featured in single and dual-socket configurations – the dual-socket configurations mark AMD's first demonstration of an 8-core desktop.... More...

Related to my recently posted Top 10 of the lead in week to Xmas, here now it the best selling games of the actual holiday itself. These are PC only, I haven't seen a... More...

Market analysts NPD have suggested that Microsoft's one year old console topped the US hardware charts this Christmas. But the Wii only trailed by 200,000 units. Preliminary estimates suggested that the 360 sold 2million units... More...

Deck the halls, jingle some bells, roast some chestnuts and build yourself a snowman, it's Christmas Time! As the snow falls outside your window, the fire roars behind you, you start stressing out over... More...

FM transmitters seem set to be made legal in the UK just in time for Christmas. After years of campaigning, UK regulator, Ofcom, has taken its most significant step yet to legalise the use... More...

Online merchants should plan now to ensure they can cope with high volumes of traffic and maximise sales during the busy Christmas shopping period this year, warned e-commerce specialist ATG last week. Industry body the... More...

Rob Fahey posted a great read on Gamesindustry.biz this week looking at the PS3 this Christmas and how many (or not) are going to be available. Depending on who you choose to believe, the... More...

Microsoft will start selling a digital music and video player to compete with Apple's iPod by Christmas, sources say. The company is also said to be planning to have a wireless feature on the new... More...

While we enjoy our turkey dinner this Sunday, pop artistswill be hoping for that coveted UK Christmas Number 1, and with theintroduction of downloads into the official chart it looks as though they couldplay a... More...

Ray Maguire, boss of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, has commented in an interview with the BBC that prices for the PS2 will not drop before Christmas. This came after rumours swept the Leipzig Game Conference... More...

French publisher Ubisoft has announced details of its third quarter sales performance, revealing that despite good performance from all of its titles, a reduced line-up meant that overall revenues fell year on year. ... More...

To our many readers worldwide, Neowin would like to wish you all a very merry time over the festive period. Neowin has seen tremendous growth over the last twelve months and we've got... More...

Newspost by Enan Hawk Fantastic Christmas Emoticon installer adds the highest quality of MSN emoticons ( also called emotions and smiles ) into your MSN Messenger account, to use in your... More...

JUST WHEN DDR 667 is still a very rare memory bird, aggressive memory company OCZ is preparing a speed bump with DDR 2 800 memory. We learned that OCZ is already evaluating this memory and... More...

Over the weekend, Pepsi Canada launched a new iPod promotion that will givewaway a "truckload of iPods." The company said that it would offer a free iPod an hour, every hour, of every day, for... More...

Metroid Prime 2 will form the backbone of Nintendo's Christmas Cube offering in Europe, while Pokémon Leaf Green/Fire Red and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap stand tall in a diverse list of first... More...

Metroid Prime 2 will form the backbone of Nintendo's Christmas Cube offering in Europe, while Pokemon Leaf Green/Fire Red and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap stand tall in a diverse list of first... More...

Oogie's Revenge, the PlayStation 2 sequel to 1993's claymation movie, has been delayed to 2005. Capcom and Disney's The Nightmare Before Christmas game has been delayed to 2005. While online retailers are... More...

If anyone out there (like us) thinks that there is room and enthusiasm for film download services like Movielink and CinemaNow, but ones which are properly run and which actually want to grow, they could... More...

Internal schedules at Microsoft as recently as last November called for the Xbox 2 to be launched in time for Christmas 2004, sources close to the company have revealed - and the firm is still... More...

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales... More...

It seems that bits and bytes are replacing Bedknobs and Broomsticks, with Britons flocking online in record numbers on Christmas day. Britons went online in unprecedented numbers this Christmas, with Internet traffic 50 percent up... More...

To all our many readers worldwide, Neowin would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas. We have had an eventful year, and are very grateful to you all for sticking with us. Enjoy... More...

The long awaited patch for this old mod for half-life is almost here and it will be released today on christmas eve if all things go as planned. The amount of changes in this patch... More...

The Bat! is a powerful, highly configurable, yet easy to use email client. We've designed it especially to help you deal with your growing volume of email as quickly and efficiently as possible, saving much... More...

Apparently Nintendo are giving a Zelda bonus disc away with Cubes this Xmas. If you buy a GC this Xmas you allegedly will receive a Zelda bonus disc including: Legend of Zelda ... More...

Napster is to relaunch before Christmas offering both subscription and free services. Napster 2.0 will allow users access to up to 500,000 tracks by paying for individual downloads or a monthly subscription. Napster has signed... More...

Thanks to our own dazzling moderator, Dazzla, for the heads up on this in BPN. Christmas 2002 was an unsurprisingly buoyant period for the console market, with Sony's PlayStation2 continuing to... More...

From this Crazy Irishman in Boston (who's about to get dumped with unpteen inches of snow on Christmas Day), I wish all of our Neowin readers all the seasons best wishes and hopes for this... More...

Yeah, I doubt many people would be out buying memory on Christmas day... With the distraction, that is Christmas upon us, floggers of memory chips are shutting up shop as the markets... More...