Virgin Media announced today that it will be launching a trial of its first online and mobile TV player: Virgin Media Player. Virgin Media has confirmed 'hundreds of hours' of content for the beta trial including... More...

Web search giant Google and British Telecom are believed to be in talks about creating an ISP based video delivery network that would deliver improvements to the quality of online video by storing popular videos... More...

If you're living in a part of the EU that has yet to be reached by broadband internet access, then help could be at hand from the European Commission. The European Commission is about to... More...

Hackers literally turned out the lights in "several regions outside the United States" after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue told utility engineers at... More...

Desktop Linux software vendor Linspire released a new version of its operating system this week, the first commercial release in two years from the company trying to position Linux as a mass-market alternative to Microsoft's... More...

People in the UK who encrypt their data are now obliged by law to give up the encryption keys to law enforcement officials who request it, under part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act... More...

Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide from 40% in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30% of the total market for "TVs of 37 inches and... More...

With Intel's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology is on its way to producing DDR3, and... More...

Best Buy Company Incorporated and Circuit City Stores Incorporated have both reported high demand for Windows Vista in their retail stores. In separate earnings statements, the two retail companies said that PCs with Vista preinstalled... More...

Demand for draft 802.11n (pre-N) devices is expected to start picking up momentum in the second quarter of this year, buoyed by the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system), according to sources at... More...

Nvidia's launch of its DirectX 10-compliant GeForce 8800 GPU (codenamed G80) earlier this month seems to have failed to significantly stir up demand for high-end graphics cards, although the new chips took a lead in... More...

Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said on Friday. The television, music... More...

The MacBook is just too popular. Apple appears to be struggling to meet demand. On the Apple UK online store the product is listed as ready to ship in five days. This compares to... More...

Microsoft's revenue rose 13 percent to $10.9 billion in the third quarter to end-March 2006 from the same period a year earlier on the back of a surge in demand for newly released products, especially... More...

According to a report by Forbes, demand for Apple's new portable is soaring well beyond expectation. Previously thought to a potential problem for Apple, overflowing demand for the MacBook Pro is a very refreshing sight... More...

Everyone agrees video on demand over the Internet should be a goldmine for telecoms and media firms, but the two converging industries have yet to figure out how both can make money, a conference in... More...

Demand for DDR2 memory is expected to dramatically increase in the first quarter of 2006 thanks in part to AMD's forthcoming M2 socket processors and Intel's mainstream 945 chipset. AMD's M2 socket processors... More...

Roaring demand for flash memory chips, popular in hot-selling music players and digital cameras, will accelerate later this year, but prices will stay weak as industry leader Samsung holds prices down. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.... More...

Microsoft expects to show that it will recover from a recent sales slump when the world's largest software maker reports details of early orders this week for its next Windows version set to launch next... More...

BT has selected Microsoft's IPTV - Internet Protocol Television - software platform to deliver TV over broadband connections. The telco will begin trials early next year, with a consumer rollout expected in the summer. ... More...

Computer memory chip maker Micron said on Wednesday it had indications that demand for DRAM memory chips, used mainly in personal computers, would be robust enough to soak up rising supply in 2005. ... More...

It sounded like a good idea: Instead of dribbling out a fix here and a patch there, release all your security fixes once a month, in a few, fairly easily digestible bundles. But with more... More...

Atari, Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment, today announced the launch of the Company's first online software service that delivers its back-catalog titles over the Internet to Atari fans worldwide. The service will distribute the... More...

Microsoft has filed legal papers in the Netherlands requesting fines of 100,000 euros (US$122,230) per day against Lindows for allowing users within that country to access its Internet site. Lindows says Microsoft's demand that Lindows... 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...

Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by... More...

The portal's online PC-game rental program is extended with an unlimited subscription for $14.95 per month. Yahoo Games has announced that it has expanded its online PC-game rental service to let subscribers... More...

Yesterday at 12AM (GMT) Neowin was taken offline when our provider received a Demand for Immediate Take-down order from a Microsoft contracted company that investigates illegal activity on the Internet for Microsoft. The email was... More...

Almost all U.S. families live in areas where a high-speed Internet connection is available, but many see no compelling reason to pay extra for it, the government reports. A Commerce Department study,... More...

They've sued Napster and Scour into submission; realizing that this is expensive, they've bought numerous Congressional lapdogs to force the DoJ to become their personal 'Copyright 911' so that challenges to their production and distribution... More...

aaahhhhh! soo soothing! :cheeky: Thanks, Shouts and a general back scratch goes out to Rev0x who has answered the cries of the Neowin community to post the ripped tracks off the WinXP Tour,... More...

Thanks Julien of Activewin, Microsoft has posted some interesting videos describing the new features you can expect to see in MSN 7, MSN Explorer 7 and Windows Messenger 4.5 set to be released on... More...