AOL is to shut down many of its European offices after failing to cut a third of its international workforce through voluntary redundancy. Although 1,100 of the company's staff have taken voluntary redundancy, a further... More...

I am a proud member of Lycos Web Hosting but was a bit shocked today to receive a message through informing me I am being transferred due to the failure of gaining investment for Lycos... More...

Plans by the French government to require Internet service providers to throw persistent pirates off the Internet are now closer to becoming law. The French Senate voted 297 to 15 in favour of the law,... More...

The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system. BT trialled the Phorm system - which monitors web browsing... More...

It'd be absolutely spectacular to actually see one of these admittedly ambitious municipal WiFi projects actually work out every now and then, but instead, we're seeing the nails start to sink into yet another citywide... More...

Version 2.0.0.14 of the Firefox web browser has been released by the Mozilla organisation. The update closes a security hole that developers opened up when patching a previously identified bug. Apple has also released an... More...

Apple is reportedly planning to get into the movie rental business and license its digital rights management technology, and it could announce a deal within the next few weeks. Both the Financial Times and The... More...

CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, announced yesterday that it had been sold to the Gordon Brothers Group, a restructuring and investment firm, for liquidation. The firm will close... More...

Time Inc. is closing high-tech magazine Business 2.0, abandoning efforts to salvage a publication that survived the dot-com bust only to be doomed by the rise of Internet advertising; the publication will release a final... More...

Internet service provider Earthlink announced today that it will cut more than 900 jobs and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs. The company will also repurchase $200 million of its stock... More...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Boston-based open source software lobby group, is planning to petition British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to highlight the role of software giant Microsoft Corp. in the British Broadcasting Corporation's... More...

VMware Inc. is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels Inc.'s software announced last week. VMware said that its Fusion software for Macintosh computers can be pre-ordered... More...

Internet search leader Google is open to new acquisitions and remains hopeful it can close the $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad supplier DoubleClick by end-2007 despite a U.S. federal probe, its CEO said Wednesday.... More...

eBay is reportedly pulling out of the Chinese market, instead opting to replace it with a new site that would be run by Bejing-based Tom Online, sources told the Wall Street Journal Monday. So far,... More...

Popular streaming internet service, ESS.tv (EveryShowSucks.tv) has today emailed all of its subscribers, explaining that due to mouting legal pressures the 50+ channels it provided will no longer be available. ESS.tv streamed popular and niche... More...

Time Warner and Microsoft are reportedly close to hammering out an online advertising alliance to challenge search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, according to a published report. The Wall... More...

After seemingly over the top demands for their hit franchise's big screen debut, Microsoft may have just found a suitor for its Halo movie. Reports now indicate that Universal and Fox are close to... More...

Intel Corp. maybe hours away from releasing its latest and last Pentium 4 processor based on the original Prescott core, according to various reports over the Web. The processor that will be clocked at 3.80GHz... More...

This evening, Blizzard emailed participants of its World of Warcraft beta test program, informing them that the beta period would finally be coming to a close at 3:00pm PDT on Friday, October 29, in preparation... More...

A privately built rocket plane and its mother ship lifted off into clear skies above the Mojave Desert on Monday in a bid to win a $10 million prize for the first commercially viable manned... More...

The judge presiding over the Oracle antitrust trial aggressively questioned the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday as the agency made its final arguments against Oracle's attempt at a hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft. ... More...

Starfleet Command developer halts US operations, opens Korean MMORPG office Earlier this year, publisher Majesco put Black9 on hold and then reports of Taldren closing followed. Internet posts suggesting the US Company... More...

Faced with a new set of lawsuits, prominent DVD and game copying software company 321 Studios may be nearing the end of its short and tumultuous life, Chief Executive Robert Moore said Wednesday. ... More...

Microsoft began taking sign ups for participation in the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 program this week at its Microsoft TechEd show here as the long-awaited test version of the product gets close to availability.... More...

Industry-leading 65nm process to begin sample production in Q1 '04 Trial runs of the advanced semiconductor manufacturing process which will eventually create the much-vaunted Cell microprocessor are set to start at Toshiba's... More...

eBay plans to shut down its Half.com site next year and the head of Half.com will leave the company, closing an independent site for book, music and video sales that eBay once hoped would compete... More...

Microsoft next week plans to give a bevy of close partners, customers and ISVs an in-depth look at Yukon, its next-generation database, the company confirmed Friday. Attendees of the sneak preview will get a detailed... More...

UNREAL 2 is set for release on the 4th of February in the US and the 7th of February in Europe, it has emerged. The long awaited and much hyped game was the first to... More...

This email was just sent out to Windows 2000 SP4 Testers ... We are pleased to inform you that the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) beta is near! ... More...

Thanks prasanth for the heads up on this update. Windows may not respond when you try to open or close a folder by using Windows Explorer. When this occurs, you may be able to restart... More...

New, cheap 'ADSL Lite' products that separate access from content are great for incumbent telcos, but will put internet service providers (ISPs) and portals out of business, according to a report by analyst Forrester. ... More...

Thanks Anonymous who sent me the letter he received from Microsoft regarding the closing of Windows Update v3 Beta.This confidential letter is to inform you that the Windows Update V3 Beta Program is ending and... More...

Thanks to all the people that have pointed me in the general direction of the following statement Redmak being the first, cheers man. It seems yet another sad day in the realm of Tech community... More...

Thanks BJ for sending us news that today is your last chance to pay your respects to the 3dfx.com website. I myself started on the 3d bandwagon with a 3dfx Voodoo1 (4mb) then a 2... More...

Thanks to Darren Bolton for this email Imagine Melissa Perenson's surprise when a Good Samaritan suggested by e-mail last week that she withdraw her recent eBay bid for a notebook because the seller... More...

Thanks David for the heads up on this news. May this never happen to Neowin! :S Really tho, it is sad to see all of the "Prime" sites closing down, if they are not closing... More...

We have been informed today (Monday 10th September) that 3DFILES.COM will be closed down. The current ad situation combined with the very expensive FTP costs makes it impossible for us to survive any longer. ZDNet... More...