A few weeks ago during CES we had the opportunity to sit in on a presentation at CNTRSTG by Chief Technology Officer of HP's Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney. Phil spoke to us about several... More...
I'm proud to announce that Neowin will be participating in a live blog of the daily keynote's from next weeks Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Long Zheng arranged a... More...
A few short years ago the browser war seemed dead and buried. After Microsoft's Internet Explorer usurped Netscape's Navigator in the late 1990s, it's domination of the Internet seemed complete, over 95 percent of us... More...
Messenger Group, developed with Windows Live Messenger platform, is a service for a group of Messenger users chatting together in real time. Maybe you think that Windows Live Messenger supports multi-conversation, but this multi-conversation... More...
The Software & Information Industry Association released its annual Anti-Piracy year in review this week, noting that it reached its largest piracy settlement yet in a case against Florida Benchmark – which was found using... More...
A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users. In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody... More...
An anonymous group of hackers, 100,000 strong, fittingly known as "Anonymous," has declared war on the Church of Scientology. This is taking place as of right now. Their websites are down, their phone lines are... More...
Canadian women are being asked to bare their breasts online in a brazenly novel campaign meant to keep them cancer-free. Hundreds of women have already uploaded their images -- including at least 20 breast cancer... More...
HD DVD Group canceled their CES press conference after Time Warner, the last "undecided" studio has announced that they are going the way of the big Blu-ray. Toshiba, a key player in the HD... More...
The staff have put their heads together and come up with a shortlist of forum members we feel best deserve recognition for their contributions over the years. As you can see below, recognition is as... More...
Phone-company AT&T is reportedly talking to internet search giant Google about joining its mobile-phone software alliance. According to an interview on Friday with Ralph de la Vega, chief executive officer of the AT&T's wireless unit,... More...
According to NPD Group Canada, Halo 3 greatly spurred sales of the Xbox 360 in Canada. In September, Microsoft sold nearly twice as many video consoles (51,000) as it did in August (26,700). Even more... More...
The industry group behind UWB (ultrawideband) high-speed wireless has certified the first UWB chipsets, a move that helps usher in technologies including wireless USB and the next generation of Bluetooth. UWB is the radio technology... More...
In a post on its internal Google Code blog, Open Source Programs Manager Zaheda Bhorat said that Google Incorporated agrees with the decision of the International Organization for Standardization not to approve the fast track... More...
The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system. The... More...
Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey that targets IT admins specifically that use Group... More...
A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG),... More...
As Facebook continues to gain popularity as it expands its user base far beyond the college campus, the limitations of the Facebook interface and environment have started to become more apparent. Michael Crassweller lists 8... More...
Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science include whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center. Popular Science has been compiling the list since 2003 and according... More...
Web search leader Google Inc.'s commitment to consumer privacy came under fire from Privacy International, a British activist group that has previously singled out Google for criticism. The London-based group released a report on Saturday... More...
The Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. video game industry's trade association, has announced Michael Gallagher will take over presidential duties at the association later in May. Gallagher was the chief telecommunications and policy adviser to... More...
Wi-Fi overseer the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) will in June begin testing pre-standard next-generation 802.11n wireless networking kit to make sure the products all work with each other, the organisation said today.The WFA announced earlier this... More...
According to the Advanced Access Content System copy protection body, bloggers "crossed the line" when they published a software key, capable of circumventing the digital rights management technology encryption on some HD-DVDs, on thousands of... More...
Another executive is leaving Microsoft's Internet search group as the company continues to struggle to compete with Web search leader Google. Dane Glasgow, general manager of Windows Live Search, is leaving the company, a spokesman... More...
The North American HD DVD Promotional Group has announced that more than 100,000 dedicated HD DVD players have sold in the U.S. in the format's first year on the market. This figure does not include... More...
Norway's liberal party, Venstre, approved a resolution seeking to limit technologies, such as DRM, that limit how consumers can use and distribute legally purchased digital music or software. Venstre demands changes to current copyright legislation... More...
The Free Software Foundation is considering banning Linux software distributor Novell Incorporated from using new versions of a group of programs known as the GNU operating system, to punish the company for signing a patent... More...
At a press conference at CeBIT 2007, Studio Canal, Universal, Toshiba and Microsoft announced the formation of a new trade organization, the European HD DVD Promotional Group. The new organization will include movie studios, distributors,... More...
YouTube will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their... More...
The LSB (Linux Standard Base) project and its parent organization, the FSG (Free Standards Group), plan to ease the process, for both users and developers, to install an application on Linux. According to Ian Murdock,... More...
An open-source group mocked Microsoft on a newly launched Web site dubbed BadVista.org and claimed the Windows operating system is a "power grab" to steal control over users' computers. The Free Software Foundation's campaign will... More...
Calling itself the Entertainment Consumer Association (ECA), the new non-profit advocacy group is forging itself a place in gaming history. Based in Connecticut, the ECA's mission is to give a political voice to gamers in... More...
I search, therefore I am. That was the rude lesson AOL subscribers learned last month when the Internet giant thoughtlessly released reams of data on searches that its users conducted. Sure, the users' identities were... More...
Hackers are taking a page from the open-source playbook, using the same techniques that made Linux and Apache successes to improve their malicious software, according to McAfee. Nowhere is this more apparent than within the... More...
A group of operators have formed an alliance, which will determine the future mobile networks, e.g., decide, which features and capabilities are required by the 4th generation of mobile networks, which will be deployed after... More...
U2 CROONER Bono has been asked to support the Free Software Foundation. Thankfully the Irishman has not been asked to sing a duet with Linus Torvalds or lecture Tony Blair. But he has been asked... More...
Monday, technology research firm Yankee Group released a report claiming that "Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux." Fair enough, I'm open minded enough to give the assessment a fair... More...
In an effort to better track digital music sales, several big-name record companies, digital music services and music rights agencies have founded a consortium called Digital Data Exchange. The purpose of DDEX (pronounced "dee-dex") is... More...
A media rights group has identified a third dissident that the Chinese government arrested based on information seemingly supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary. On Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders announced that it has obtained a copy... More...
Microsoft Research Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a seriesof group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts ineach shot of the series and Group Shot will... More...
July has born witness to an almost continuous stream of new products and betas from Microsoft. Not to be left out the fun, the company's email offering, Hotmail, recently opened up a limited beta program... More...
eWeek is reporting that the Free Standards Group (FSF) have announced plans to split Linux specifications in two. The FSF is a body that certifies Linux OS distributions. It has decided to change its current... More...
A prominent Internet safety organization and leading computer-maker Dell Inc. launched a campaign Friday to help consumers fend off "spyware," software that can cause sluggish computer performance or popup ads and secretly monitor the activities... More...
Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into the increasingly crowded market for online music, with a "Digital Megastore" offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents. The move pits the British magnate's company... More...
Apple's British iTunes customers are paying 17 percent more per song than other iTunes users. This is according to a statement made on Wednesday by a European consumer watch group - The Consumers' Association.... More...
Dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of Serial ATA technology, 40 leading computer component and peripheral companies announced today the formation of the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO). The new organization... More...
Firewire overseer the 1394 Trade Association (TA) has given the thumbs-up to the WiMedia Alliance's (WMA) technology to allow Firewire devices to communicate wirelessly across UWB links. The move also gives tacit approval... More...
This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files that shipped with Windows XP SP2. This includes all policy settings supported on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows... More...
Windows XP SP2 provides more than 600 new Group Policy settings to help administrators manage policy settings related to Windows Firewall, Internet Explorer, Internet Communication Management, Automatic Updates, security, Terminal Services, user profiles, and other... More...
Electronic Arts today announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group Ltd. from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA assumes Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two globally recognized intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the... More...