Microsoft started shipping the Surface, for users that placed pre-orders, last week. But users in the UK and Europe have got mixed signals and a lack of the Surface landing on their doorsteps. More...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices went on sale across Europe, Australia and New Zealand today. Despite the hoopla and launch events, readers have contacted Neowin expressing frustration and anger at the lack of available devices. One... More...

Tech ARP reports that Windows Vista SP2 might be delayed until March. Microsoft will deliver a Release Candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 in March and not in February. Also, Microsoft will send the... More...

Ambitious plans for an online video on demand service offering more than 10,000 hours of classic TV shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 were hit yesterday by a decision to refer them to... More...

Responding to the temporary stoppage of 8GB Eee PC shipments in the Taiwan market, Asustek Computer executives have pointed to tight supply of single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips and batteries as the major cause,... More...

AMD publicly stated late last year that it would be able to offer quad-core AMD Phenom 9700 and 9900 CPUs with fixed erratum as well as at higher clock-speeds in Q1 2008. However, the chipmaker... More...

Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing, a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the Internet services ambitions of the world's... More...

Red Hat Inc. has postponed until January the launch of a new Linux software product for personal computers that would directly compete with Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system. Introduction of the software, which would also... More...

Samsung has thrown its weight entirely behind its dual-format Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player and will de-emphasis its BD-only offerings, online reports suggest. However, the two-format machine, the BD-U5000, may have been delayed. Separate... More...

Microsoft revealed today that it will not release Windows Server 2008, the successor to Windows Server 2003, on time. In a posting to the company's TechNet site, a Microsoft spokesman confessed that "Windows Server 2008,... More...

Symantec has delayed the launch of its Virtual Security Appliance for Intel's vPro enterprise desktop platform. Originally intending to ship the application next month, the security vendor has pushed back the launch date to mid-2008,... More...

Two months after game maker Electronic Arts promised to increase its development efforts for OS X, Mac users are still waiting to get in the game. Appearing on stage at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference last... More...

Apple's iPhone launch has been marred by delays in AT&T's phone activation system, leaving some people unable to use their new toy throughout the weekend. People who buy the iPhone, which went on sale in... More...

Regulatory delays are hampering Mobile TV spectrum availability in the Europe market and these delays will only delay DVB-H adoption over the next two to three years, according to Strategy Analytics. These regulatory delays,... More...

Chinese local media are reporting that mobile handset makers hoping to sell 3G phones in China will have to wait until 2008. A recent survey estimates that 80 million of China's 455 million mobile phone... More...

With Tuesday's elections giving the U.S. Congress a Democratic bent from its previous slant to the Republican side, that means the shift will probably end the prospects for passage of a telecom reform bill. The... More...

The next version of Microsoft Office for Mac won't ship until the second half of 2007, the company has confirmed. The Courier Mail reports Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU) product manager Mary Starman revealed the... More...

Dell, on Monday, said in a statement it will delay the 10-Q filing for the quarter ended Aug. 4 because of questions raised by the "informal" SEC investigation "into certain accounting and financial reporting matters"... More...

Microsoft said on Thursday that it is making another slight delay tothe planned arrival time for Office 2007. The update had been expectedto arrive for volume license customers in October and have a mainstreamlaunch in... More...

Millions of AOL users encountered delays sending and receiving e-mail Thursday as the company worked to identify and fix a software glitch. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said the company was investigating the cause of the... More...

Scheduled for a late March/early April release, the Universal Binary release of Aperture (compatible for both Intel and PPC Macs) was delayed today to a mid to late April release. Aperture is Apple's new... More...

Toshiba have announced the delay of their HD-DVD players in the US. They said that the players will now be released in April so that it can synchronise the release with film releases from Hollywood... More...

Today THQ announced its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2005. The results surpassed its expectations. The company had projected $320 million in revenue for the 2005holidays, and actually pulled in a little... More...

Bink has an interesting article up on his site concerningWindows XP SP3. Microsoft has apparently pushed back the scheduled release dateof SP3 to the second half of 2007. Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer hadoriginally announced that... More...

Toshiba said Tuesday it has abandoned its initial plan to launch High-Definition DVD players in Japan by the end of this year, due to a delay in implementing copy-protection measures. Toshiba is not able to... More...

South Korea's anti-trust agency said on Wednesday it was delaying a long-awaited ruling on Microsoft Corp.'s business practices to next week, after the review committee failed to reach an agreement. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC)... More...

ATI has denied rumors that portions of its recently introduced X1000 product line are experiencing delays, according to X-bit labs. Currently, a majority of stores only have the X1800 XL in stock, which has... More...

THQ has announced that their titles expected for the launch of the Xbox360 have had to be postponed till next year, these include racing game MotoGP 2006 and The Outfit. News of this will be... More...

AMD opened its new chip making foundry, Fab 36, in Dresden, Germany yesterday with much fanfare. The new facility is intended to be a centerpiece of the company's growth and expansion. The foundry... More...

When Xbox 360 was officially announced, there has been great excitement into what games will be available for its launch. A couple of companies to work with Xbox 360 games are Take-Two Interative and Activision.... More...

A plan to appoint extra judges in the EU's Microsoft case may delay and weaken European Commission sanctions against the software giant, critics of the company said on Monday. Microsoft and the European Commission had... More...

ATI Technologies confirmed during the last quarter's conference call that its forthcoming graphics processor code-named R520 has been delayed, however, reassured investors and analysts that this Fall it would have a lineup of visual processing... More...

NASA has delayed by a week the earliest possible launch date for the first space shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster, to allow more time to review safety assessments and design changes, program managers... More...

NEC has succeeded in reducing the size of a prototype direct methanol fuel cell for use with notebook PCs but says it is unlikely to see commercialization until at least two years later than previously... More...

Chip giant Intel announced that its inexpensive chips for televisions won't be coming out this year as previously planned. Instead Intel is reworking the chip to make it cheaper and to improve the overall... More...

After delays caused by potential patent and licensing issues, several European nations are moving ahead with Linux as a client operating system. Erwin Gillich, head of Vienna's IT department, released reports stating that... More...

UK publisher/developer pushes back Wartime Command, Operation Flashpoint 2 as UK trades report it may be bought out by the French game giant. Over the weekend, British publisher and developer Codemasters pushed... More...

This just in from the "What?! Microsoft delays software releases? Can't be!" Department: Microsoft has said the forthcoming release of its SQL Server database and Visual Studio.NET development tool will be delayed--again.... More...

Faithful Windows users waiting for the release of Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows 2003 64-bit edition will have to wait some more. This comes as yet another delay from the software giant Microsoft... More...

Apple Computer Inc. announced on Thursday plans for a next-generation iMac desktop computer, but said it won't ship until September, missing its original internal schedule. The company also said it has stopped taking... More...

Microsoft has delayed until later this year the release of Virtual PC 7, the latest version of a program that allows Windows software to run on the Macintosh. The software maker said... More...

Apple Computer Inc. will delay global sales of its new iPod mini digital music player until July due to stronger-than-expected U.S. demand, Apple said on Thursday. Tight supplies of the hard drive, which is at... More...

Amid a new and bold plan to build a 300-mm wafer fab, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. disclosed that it has delayed the volume deployment of its 90-nm process technology by two to three months. AMD... More...

After watching Microsoft cast AMD's 64-bit processor line to the backwoods of the Windows release cycle, you have to ask - did Jerry Sanders do enough? Two weeks ago Microsoft dropped a bomb. It pushed... More...

A PLAN TO allow Intel Itanium based systems to work better on running 32-bit software has been delayed until the second half of next year, according to reports. The IA-32 execution layer was supposed to... More...

A vote on the European Union's proposed directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, which has been compared to a controversial U.S. law, has been pushed back to November. A U.K.... More...

WITH LONGHORN apparently now delayed indefinitely - after slipping its 2004 and 2005 launch dates - Microsoft has to be wondering what major products it'll release to fill the OS gap, as well as how... More...

Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Friday that it has pushed back the introduction of its Athlon 64 processor for desktop PCs. AMD, which had originally been expected to introduce the chip in March or April,... More...

Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to delay until next year the release of its new customer relationship management software, which it had slated for release by the end of the year. ... More...

Seems sister sledge aint working to well - guess we'll just have to use Intels inferior chips :D. "Advanced Micro Devices has pushed out the release of its highly anticipated Hammer chip for... More...