Let your CD or DVD automatically open your documents or display a menu when your disk is inserted into the user's computer. Create autorun disks in a few clicks, no design or programming required! All... More...

Microsoft Corporation is offering 6.6 billion NOK (or approximately $1.2 billion USD) for the acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. FAST's board of directors has unanimously recommended that... More...

The solid state drive (SSD) market will grow faster than expected in 2008, with the SATA interface promising to become the mainstream for notebook-use SSDs in the future, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO... More...

While politicians and network providers work out how they can afford to provide the UK with a network capable of delivering super-fast broadband speeds, one company is already doing it - via the sewers. H20... More...

It has been more than a year since NVIDIA released their GeForce 8800 GTX graphics chip for desktop computers - a chip that remains to this day the fastest gaming GPU (if we include the... More...

Are solid state drives becoming a reality? Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech published an article this morning concerning the current state of SSD with a comparison between a Samsung 64GB SATA and a Super Talent... More...

Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those... More...

While AMD prepares its next set of processors--a multicore design code-named Barcelona and due this summer--Intel has already demonstrated samples of its more-advanced Penryn chip. It's manufactured in a 45nm process that uses hafnium-based high-k... More...

Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The... More...

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that... More...

Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies at twice the speed as its predecessor, Windows XP. Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that usage share of the oft-delayed... More...

Fox is running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos. U.K. advertisements for Fox's new drama,... More...

Microsoft is hit with a second lawsuit over their "Windows Genuine Advantage", meanwhile OS X is phoning home too. A new challenger to YouTube arrives on the scene and offers to pay people for their... More...

As a result of not very fast adoption rate of dual-core processors by new software that still does not take much advantage over the dual-core chips, as well as increased complexity of quad-core processors, the... More...

Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new. With Vista, the new client version of Windows due next year, Microsoft... More...

Never thought I'd see this. Today AT&T announced high-speed Internet service for mobile phones. Don't get to excited this service is only available in San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, and Detroit. Though plans are underway to... More...

NT[hel]L is to blow €100m (£66.6m) to upgrade its cable network in Ireland so that its punters can hook up to broadband. By the end of the year NTL Ireland will be able to deliver... More...

Cisco Systems Inc. next week will show off its long-awaited advancement in router technology and make the case that it has returned to networking's cutting edge, a place where Cisco has been challenged of late.... More...

BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had developed a utility technology that will let users check their Outlook data on a notebook computer without needing to boot the machine. The Phoenix FirstWare... More...

KASPERSKY LABS warned it had detected a variant of Mydoom, the worm which wreaked havoc worldwide earlier this week. The anti virus firm said that it believes that Mydoom B is using machines infected by... More...

ALTHOUGH INTEL will only have a small proportion of Socket T LGA 775 chips available when it launches in the second quarter, by the end of this year those chips will account for 40% of... More...

The controversial winner of last year's Esat BT Young Scientist competition, Adnan Osmani, says his 'mega-browser' will be ready for commercialisation soon. Patents for the Xwebs mega browser should be filed... More...

Enlight has released a playable demo of Fast Lanes Bowling, allowing you to try out this recent bowling sim developed by LAB Rats Games. The demo lets you play in 'Open Play' mode with one... More...

Ratified and Wi-Fi-Certified, the Wireless-G Lineup Includes The Only First-Party Solution for Wireless Xbox Gaming Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Wireless-G, an innovative Wi-Fi®-certified 802.11g wireless networking solution. Utilizing powerful security technologies, the... More...

Intel says that its Tri-Gate transistor, a futuristic transistor that will let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. The Tri-Gate transistor, one of the tools that may let Intel continue... More...

The debate over how to define high-speed internet services continues to cause confusion across the industry. NTL, currently advertising a 150Kbps service as 'high speed', is challenging the ruling of the Adverstising Standards Authority (ASA)... More...

LOST CIRCUITS claims it has come up with a five second modification to unlock AMD processors which is absolutely risk free. Well, it says it is absolutely risk free but then there's a disclaimer which... More...

When is a computer with a 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM just not good enough? Apparently, when you're trying to play the latest version of SimCity. PC gamer Nicolai Fuhrman... More...

Quick Info File Name: Q811009_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe - Download Size: 352 KB - Date Published: 2/5/2003 - Version: Q811009 Overview This update resolves the Fast User Switching issue on WindowsXP Media... More...

Ahead Software, the makers of Nero, the technology leader in CD/DVD recording, today announced a powerful plug-in for the Windows Media Player 9.0 Series. This exciting Nero plug-in provides full-speed recording and Nero reliability, all... More...

MONITOR AND peripheral maker Viewsonic said that a €599 17-inch TFT-LCD monitor it has introduced today has a 16ms response time. The VG170m includes dual bezel integrated speakers and it claims could be used as... More...

What's new in this version: Added mixed mode (when authors of songs on disk are different)Now you may edit title of song and artist on the main window by double clickImplemented lame encoder v3.92Small interface... More...

You have a portable digital player, or maybe you have tired to change audio discs every time when you want to listen something special? Try to use our Fast CD Ripper - powerful and easy-to-use... More...

Sources that reckon to know, claim Intel's 2.80GHz Pentium 4 part may not see the light of day because Windows doesn't like it. Reports claimed that the speed of the chip causes Windows... More...

Thanks Kostya V. Vorobyov who tells us, We have released Fast CD Ripper 1.3 today. What's new in this version: Added local CDDB support (you may save disk's info to local CDDB... More...

I know that's a very iffy question, everyone saying "my pipe is bigger than yours!" topic. Well I found this over on Slashdot where Lucent now claim to have one heck of a big... More...

What's new in this version: Player is added Added 'Grab Multi CD's'. It's useful if you want to rip a lot of disks Added generation of new name of output file if... More...

Litexmedia have informed us that they have released Fast CD Ripper 1.15 today. What's new in this version: 'Eject disk after completion' is added Now you may rip to loseless MonkeysAudio format... More...

You have a portable digital player, or maybe you have tired to change audio discs every time when you want to listen something special? Try to use our Fast CD Ripper - powerful and easy-to-use... More...

Fast Launcher is nice replacement for traditional Windows' Quick Launch panel and Start menu. It has several features, which make this program more useful and convenient than Quick Launch. Fast Launcher is easy to use:... More...

Thanks to XPerience from our very own forums here on Neowin :) for this handy util-need-to-know page on Microsoft. Customer research has shown that one of the most frequently requested features that users want from... More...