Reddit are introducing the ability to up vote, or down vote ads depending on their relevancy to you. If an advert is unsuitable, Reddit will hide it if you down vote the ad. More...

The economy in Valve's war-themed hat simulator has been changing drastically in recent months. One community operated site, TF2 Finance, has taken an in-depth look at how it has developed thus far. More...

The Modern UI; its Microsoft's Marmite. Microsoft's current reimaging and rebranding continues onto Microsoft Answers, following the successful reimagining of Hotmail.com and Microsoft.com. More...

HTC has extended an invitation to join a new beta program 'to experience the future of software and services for your Windows Phone today' - but you'll have to hurry... places are limited! More...

Social networks can be a wonderful thing as proven by a concerned citizen who was unable to collar a stray dog that had a jar stuck on its head, so turned to Facebook with a photo and a call for help. More...

The developers of League of Legends have reported that their community recently passed the 32,000,000 player mark. More...

Microsoft and Bill Clinton are teaming up to fight the lack of broadband Internet access to low income families. Their goal is to provide access to students to combat 'digital exclusion'. More...

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts. MySQL delivers enterprise features, including: Partitioning to improve... More...

Contentteller Community Edition 2.0.3 is now available. Starting with this release, Contenteller will be released under the original version numbering again. Contentteller is a powerful content management system written in the PHP scripting language designed... More...

Contentteller Community Edition 1.0.3 is now available. This is another maintenance release that includes all updates from the commercial 2008.2 releases. Contentteller is a powerful open source content management system written in the PHP scripting... More...

... More...

Dell has announced a new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops built for the consumer on the go. The new laptops have an increased battery life, can be customized in a wide... More...

Contentteller is a powerful open source content management system written in the PHP scripting language designed for sites of all sizes and types. The free Community Edition is licensed under the terms of the GPL... More...

The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the... More...

Microsoft has silently removed the Windows Live Help Community service and the link now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is one of the many Windows Live services being dropped in recent times. And... More...

The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people... More...

The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people... More...

Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP introduces several significant features to Windows PowerShell 1.0 that extends its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and managethe Windows environment more easily and comprehensively. Download:... More...

In 2005, we started the Neowin Community Game Awards. Unlike other "Best of Year" awards, every step of the process is voted on by the members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you,... More...

Valve has officially launched The Steam Community after being in a beta testing phase for about a month or so. For those not in the know, The Steam Community (or TSC) offers some nice new... More...

Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries... More...

The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the... More...

Microsoft has sent out invitations for participation in a pre-release program dubbed the "Windows Live Beta Community". The e-mail asks its recipient to head over to the Invitations section at Microsoft Connect and input the... More...

The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the... More...

A DICE team member posted a community update on the EA forums a couple of days ago. More or less he acknowledged the issues players were having with stats and ranks, the constant punkbuster issues,... More...

On Tuesday, database company MySQL announced changes designed to appeal to both developers and corporate customers. It introduced a subscription service, called MySQL Enterprise Server, that includes a new database monitoring service along with regular... More...

The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support through schema extensions... More...

If you signed up for the XPe Feature Pack then you should have gotten your invite via email by now. If you haven't signed up yet, its now a public beta. Just follow the instructions... More...

Gametap announced yesterday that they had finally released the long awaited new version of the Turner Broadcasting System old school gaming service. For those not familiar, Gametap allows you to play tons of older games... More...

bangbang023 writes in letting us know that the NCGA's are ready for your votes! "That time of year has once again come. While others are debating the name of the... More...

Nominations for the second annual Neowin Community Game Awards have started and you can help by nominating your favorite Console or PC game by clicking here. The only way to participate in this annual event... More...

Half-Life 2 developer gathers modders, mappers, and modelers for "how-tos" and online discussion. The tight bond between avid underground game developers and modders has gotten a bit cozier thanks to Valve. The... More...

'The Hive' is Microsoft's attempt to bring some of the community impetus it has generated with Channel 9, The Spoke and other developer-focused efforts to the consumer space. Always on the lookout... More...

House of Sonic opens Sega Link, an online arcade that also functions as a social-networking site. Sega announced today that it has launched its new community-based online game site in Japan named... More...

Fresh from alarming Apple developers with the news it's going Intel, Apple Computer has also re-worked its open source strategy to drive the Safari browser. Following criticism of its rather closed Safari development process, Apple... More...

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) is the next version of MSDE 2000. It is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. To obtain additional information about SQL Server Express,... More...

Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world. But don't expect to see an open-sourced... More...

Members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large. Sam Greenblatt,... More...

Indigo and Avalon are the codenames for two strategic developer technologies that Microsoft plans to ship in 2006 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" operating system. In addition, Microsoft is making these technologies available on... 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...

The last few years has seen tremendous growth in the gaming idustry; it's become a high budget and increasingly realistic escape from the dramas of modern day life. 2004 saw some truely ground breaking titles... More...

"Avalon" is the code name for the presentation subsystem class libraries in WinFX. Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the... More...

After gathering all your suggestions and being fortunate enough to have blackice912 get a survey system up and running, it is now time for everyone to start voting for the best of the best for... More...

This week, Microsoft (Redmond Campus) is hosting a gathering of enthusiasts who publish Web sites supporting the Windows community. The Featured Community Summit is an unprecedented opportunity for product team engagement between teams from Microsoft... More...

If there's one thing you can say about EverQuest, it's that it has a very large community that enjoys being with each other online. Even so, there are undoubtedly things that these players wish they... More...

Going by early feedback, the open-sourcing of IBM's Cloudscape Java database is putting the open-source community on cloud nine. Noel Bergman, chief technology officer at DevTech Inc. and an Apache Software Foundation... More...

The Second volume of Community Bonus Pack for Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for download. Maps: BR-Bahera by Ed Duke-Cox CTF-Bahera by Ed Duke-Cox CTF-Botanic by Dave "Anarkist"... More...

In our continuing efforts to support our membership & help them better engage with Microsoft, we have become an official MS Expertzone community. More about the Community Partnership Program: Microsoft is... More...

The first volume of Community Bonus Pack for Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for download - the second will be released on May 27th. Maps: AS-Thrust by Tynan Sylvester ... 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...