The deal which is meant to see Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices has taken a new turn according to the 20-F document Nokia have filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The PDF shows... More...
Details leaked to a Microsoft enthusiast blog on Monday reveal the software giants immediate plans for Windows 8. Francisco Martin, a Microsoft Enthusiast, posted several confidential pieces of information to his blog on Monday revealing improvements... More...
Microsoft officially confirmed today that it has finished Windows 7 and released the final build to manufacturing (RTM). Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer at Microsoft, confirmed that Microsoft has finalised Windows 7 during his speech... More...
Neowin covered this back in early January, but with all the other Windows 7 news from CES that was coming out at the time, it seems to have been overlooked by other outlets. Now it... More...
Pre Central has posted Palm CEO Ed Colligan's talk with investors, revealing many interesting details. Amongst the most interesting of these is the fact that Palm will not release any more PalmOS devices after the... More...
Stephen Sinofsky, Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft, has written a blog post to everyone testing the Windows 7 Beta giving out details about skipping the Windows 7 Beta 2, and... More...
Chaitanya Sareen, Windows Team at Microsoft, has produced a blog post detailing the new Windows 7 Taskbar. In the post Sareen highlights the following areas of evolution: Refreshed Look Pinning Unification... More...
Microsoft has begun to release some details on the enhancements that they intend to bring with Windows Vista Service Pack 2. As we reported on Neowin last week, Microsoft has released an early beta build... More...
If you receive your broadband through either of the following exchanges, now's a good time to start getting excited. BT have announced that Muswell Hill, London, and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan will be the first two... More...
Neowin has turned 8 years old today, and to celebrate we will again be giving away some goodies throughout this month to our registered members. We have hosting packages, USB keys and even 2 Neowin... More...
Last month, the FCC officially ruled that Comcast acted unlawfully and dishonestly when they decided to throttle peer-to-peer traffic from applications such as BitTorrent. The giant Internet provider was then ordered to amend its network... More...
Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies... More...
Clothing company Cotton Traders has been found to have had 38,000 customer credit card numbers taken from its website in an attack earlier this year. The firm has not directly confirmed the size of this... More...
Microsoft plans to make a key Internet Explorer default change to thwart attackers trying to hack into its Web browser. The software maker will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8... More...
Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known... More...
Let's face it - the BlackBerry line isn't as cool as the iPhone and other multimedia phones. So it's good to know that Research in Motion (RIM) is working to improve the software in the... More...
I noticed over at Long Zhengs website that he has decided to post about the supposedly leaked post install details and analysis of Windows Seven M1 (Mile Stone 1). "Kenipnet", a Neowin member reported... More...
The Xbox 360 firmware sees two major updates a year—in the Spring and the Fall. This year's Fall update is just about upon us. On Tuesday December 4th, Microsoft will unleash a flurry of new... More...
Microsoft released documents on Wednesday that detail changes it will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista that will be included as part of the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) update.... More...
The ever expanding, and potentially lucrative, market of search engines may soon be welcoming another player into the fray. Last Friday, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his commercial startup,... More...
Details of a new Microsoft Web analytics tool, including when the beta version will be released and how the company will get its demographic data, have leaked onto the Internet. Microsoft plans to release a... More...
While details of the Microsoft's media device lack the spotlight given to any media capable product that Apple will release, the Zune does have it's own little gaggle of supporters. To appease their need for... More...
French gaming mag Joypad landed an exclusive interview with Gran Turismo producer Kazunori Yamauchi in their June edition, and with that interview they squeezed out some juicy information regarding the next release of GT, including... More...
Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. Availabile Software and Hardware... More...
AMD's next-generation DirectX 10 graphics products, including benchmarks and specifications, have been rumoured, slandered and discussed for quite some time now. The cards are still not out, but more details about them should stall enthusiasts... More...
The first gameplay details of Rockstar's upcoming epic Grand Theft Auto IV have been unveiled, just a couple of weeks since the first teaser trailer caused a major stir across the world. Game Informer's Andrew... More...
After several delays, AMD plans to launch its long-awaited DirectX 10 lineup with the flagship ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX. Other models such as the Radeon HD 2900 XT, Radeon HD 2600-series and Radeon HD... More...
The chances of a Zune Scene editor running into a Microsoft Zune employee in the wild are pretty slim, but recently the stars were aligned and I got the inside scoop on the Zune 2.0... More...
Unless you've been living under a rock, possibly because your friend told you on April 1st that you'll get rich if you do, you're probably aware of the recently announced Xbox 360 Elite bundle, which... More...
Gamers on a budget who want to get their massively multiplayer online role-playing game fix will have another option later this year with Mythos. The MMORPG is being developed by Flagship Studios Seattle, the Pacific... More...
Apple has announced some of the details regarding its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is three months away. This year's event is expected to top last year's numbers: developers from 45 countries and more than... More...
Roadmaps reveal the refreshed Conroe with a 1333 MHz front-side-bus arriving in Q3'07, around the same time of Intel's Q3'07 price cuts. The new Core 2 Duo E6x50-series pricing will undercut pricing of current Core... More...
NVIDIA's GeForce 8600GTS and 8600GT are G84-based GPUs while the GeForce 8500GT is G86-based. The budget-priced trio feature full support for DirectX 10 features including pixel and vertex shader model 4.0 as well as support... More...
At CES 2007, ASUS revealed an external graphic card "enclosure" aimed at OEMs - dubbed the XG Station. ASUS plans to bundle the XG Station with ASUS PCIe graphics cards: pricing will therefore vary depending... More...
Last year Konami revealed that work had begun on a Metal Gear Solid movie. "I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled... More...
Details of AMD's next-generation South Bridge chip, the SB700, have leaked out. With them, the chip maker's plans for its latest notebook reference platform, codenamed 'Trevally' - designed, it seems, to take Intel's 'Santa Rosa'... More...
Thanks to Bluesnews for the scoop. The good things in life are best shared with friends! The "Two Worlds" developers have also taken this to heart - and added a fantastically varied ... More...
Intel Corp. has disclosed more details about its 45-nm process, saying it is one of the first chip makers to implement high-k dielectrics and metal gates into the technology. Using an undisclosed thick hafnium-based material... More...
All processors below are under the Stars series and will use AM2+ motherboards, except Agena FX. These processors can plug into existing AM2 motherboards today given the proper BIOS updates, but without the AM2+... More...
Details of the European PS3 launch have been officially unveiled by Sony. The console will only be available in the premium 60GB model at launch, and will retail for 599EUR and 425GBP. Sony expects that... More...
A pre-production unit of Apple's upcoming Xserve RAID enterprise level server has leaked. The new Xserve stays is still an aluminum brushed machine like its predecessors, but it uses Serial ATA (SATA) drives instead of... More...
Ubisoft has today confirmed several details surrounding the fifth instalment of the Rainbow Six experience ahead of its Xbox 360 release next month. Integrating Xbox Live Vision functionality to allow face-mapping, Vegas will also include... More...
DailyTech's hands-on with the GeForce 8800 series continues with more information about the GPU and the retail boards. The new NVIDIA graphics architecture will be fully compatible with Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 10 API with support... More...
Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new... More...
Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest maker of microprocessors, has a long history of being tight-lipped over the upcoming plans or ongoing actions. However, recently two executives at the company released details concerning the... More...
Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed... More...
Details of Microsoft's Zune digital music player have leaked out overnight to a variety of websites hot on the heels of EMI's announcement it will supply music and video content for the software giant to... More...
With Windows Vista nearing its first release candidate in preparation for a final launch early next year, Microsoft is providing more details about possible upgrade paths. Of note: Windows 2000 cannot be upgraded to Vista.... More...
Activision has today confirmed the first details of Call of Duty 3, which is in development by Treyarch for Xbox 360, PlayStation3, Wii, Xbox and PlayStation2. The game, which is set for release in the... More...
Direct X is a platform introduced back in 1995 to persuade DOS programmers to write games that run on Windows. Over the 11 years that have followed, Direct X has evolved along with the massive... More...