Apple may be having problems with the development of iOS and getting it on time for WWDC in June. According to a new report, Apple is "borrowing" engineers from the OS X division to help on iOS. More...
A Branch chat between various high-profile members of the Apple community, including John Gruber and MG Siegler, has revealed that iOS 7 is running behind schedule, but will include a new design. More...
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative to Adobe's Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of... More...
Teenager George Hotz, aka GeoHot, the original iPhone unlocker is back. In a post to his personal blog he states that he has successfully unlocked a 1.1.2 firmware and bootloader 4.6 iPhone. Better yet, he... More...
Despite version 8.5 being in private beta form, Microsoft has reportedly already started on Windows Live Messenger 9.0. Andrew Jenks, a Microsoft employee speaking at the Georgia Institute of Technology revealed that the WLMessenger 9.0... More...
Sony had originally planned to ship 2 million units between North America and Japan by the end of calendar 2006. The company was able to meet its 1 million-unit North American goal by... More...
Even though HD-DVD are titles already trickling on to store shelves, titles on the rival Blu-ray format won't be available until the end of June. The reason for the holdup? Samsung, manufacturer of the first... More...
A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. MIT Media Lab Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at a... More...
On day of its official launch of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp. is finding itself facing some tough questions around its bug fixing policies and plans. According to some bloggers, the much anticipated release of... More...
Thanks neufuse for this piece taken from Paul Thurrott's weekly short takes for the week ending July 4th. As for Longhorn Beta 1, that milestone release is still on track for "this summer,"... More...
Valve's Lombardi confirms console port for "late summer"; Aftermath won't be included. A British Microsoft source has claimed that Half-Life 2 on Xbox is now likely to ship in September in Europe,... More...
While internet news sources today have reported that Microsoft is readying to launch its next generation Xbox hardware in America and Europe in the fourth quarter of this year, Eurogamer has learnt that the specific... More...
Microsoft introduced its Excel spreadsheet program in 1985, but didn't get around to officially registering its trademark until earlier this year. The company filed a trademark application for Excel in April, even... More...
ATI Technologies, a designer of graphics and multimedia chip solutions, is said to prepare the production of two new visual processing units this quarter that are expected to eventually replace the current high-end graphics processors... More...
A new playstation could launch in USA next month. It's actually a modified Sony Playstation 2 called PStwo. Along with PStwo comes with GTA: San Andreas. The new version of the console would be around... More...
The folks who run MSN's Hotmail promised to deliver 250 megabytes of free storage to all users. That promise was made on the 4th of July, in a note that also said, "We will send... More...
Microsoft said Monday that the long-awaited update of Windows XP will be sent to manufacturing in August, a month later than expected. Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will contain a number of... More...
ROADMAPS SEEN by the INQ reveal plans for AMD K9 Opterons to arrive in the first half of 2006, and gradually during that year to shove out the K8s into obscurity. The K9 processors will... More...
Thanks Bink for this. A Microsoft legal document put a late 2004 expected ship date on the next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," putting in black and white what Microsoft officials have been telling... More...
The technical design of a compression technology that promises to stream video over the Internet at DVD-worthy speeds has been completed, according to the international standards team developing it. But the widely anticipated standard, known... More...
It's tempting to include AMD among Gartner Dataquest chief analyst Garry Smith's chip industry "familiar names" who won't be here in six years' time. Smith's comments were reported this week in a Silicon Strategies report.... More...
If anyone is still allive and breathing at this time of night we're having a little frag fest on the official neowin counterstrike server. If anyone wants to come and play :P Server... More...
Thanks Vla for this unsurprising report from Paul Thurrotts fantastic news resource. Anyone hoping to see the next major release of Windows next year will be sorely disappointed, as various representatives from Microsoft revealed Tuesday... More...
A Microsoft representative told [Paul Thurrott] Thursday evening that the company will deliver the first Windows XP service pack in late 2002, some months later than originally planned. The article continues...... More...
Cisco Systems' Chief Executive Officer John Chambers recused himself from voting on the networking giant's largest acquisition because he owned part of the company Cisco was buying, a spokesman said Tuesday. The $7... More...