For the world's most valuable company, with cash reserves of $117bn, money seems to be the driving force behind its success. Not so, says Apple's design chief: "Our goal is to make great products." More...
A big headache in tech is the long delay between when that awesome gadget is announced and when you can buy it. As the Galaxy S III launch dawns, Samsung discusses why it's become such a big issue. More...
Liveside has reported some new information about Microsoft's new anti-malware product codenamed "Morro", formally named Windows Live OneCare. According to Liveside, Microsoft considering the following names for it's new anti-malware program: Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft... More...
Update: Carbonite have now responded to Neowin here. It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those... More...
After Uptownlife.net published an article about the Dell's mystery product 'Adamo', New York Times and other blogs over the internet speculated the 'Adamo' to be Dell's answer to Apple's Macbook Air. Uptownlife.net later removed the... More...
With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products while... More...
The MPAA's "University Toolkit" (a piece of monitoring software that universities are being asked to install on their networks to spy on students' communications) has been taken down, due to copyright violations. The Toolkit... More...
Microsoft seems to want to emphasize that Windows Vista SP1, slated for release to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008, is not meant to be about new features, but about already existing components gaining... More...
Symantec Corp. today announced the launch of Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008, industry leading security solutions that have been enhanced to provide computer users with comprehensive protection against new and emerging online... More...
Microsoft Corporation and Intermap Technologies Corporation have launched an enhanced Virtual Earth 3-D viewing platform based on Intermap Technologies' highly accurate and up-to-date elevation data for all of Great Britain. Intermap is also creating similar... More...
VMware Inc. is pricing its upcoming new software to run Windows on a Mac similar to rival Parallels Inc.'s software announced last week. VMware said that its Fusion software for Macintosh computers can be pre-ordered... More...
It is very unusual for Microsoft that there hasn't been a leak yet, if we are to believe Gizmodo's story that Microsoft will announce a new product at 12:01am EST. The new hardware is supposed... More...
Microsoft Popfly, a new service powered by Microsoft's Silverlight that aims to allow non-programmers to create their very own web content, is currently in the alpha stage and is only allowing new users to test... More...
Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing. In May 2006,... More...
Speaking at a technology event near Amsterdam, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Forefront Client Security, Microsoft's antivirus and antispyware product for business desktops that has been in development since 2003, will be available "in... More...
Microsoft has finally pulled it off, the longest product name ever: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition. It was so long, I couldn't fit it in the neowin title box by itself.... More...
Shuttle, whose high-price high-end small form factor (SFF) PCs have been hit by fierce pricing in the PC market, will roll out more entry-level and mid-range systems in hopes of turning its business around in... More...
In apparent response to the great interest shown towards the recently released 4 GB Product Red iPod Nano, Apple today has released an 8 GB version for $249. The Product Red program, which Apple... More...
Led by Intel and its partners, Wireless USB devices or on the road to becoming available products: they are expected in early 2007. Testing plans for Certified Wireless USB and product reference designs were finally... More...
It is increasingly obvious that standards processes are falling hopelessly behind the real time to market needs of vendors. In WiMAX and, particularly, Wi-Fi, markets suppliers are pre-empting ratified standards by ever longer margins. Initially,... More...
A small hitch has cropped up in Microsoft's beta-testing program for Vista: the software giant has temporarily run out of product keys for testers. The following update was posted on the password-protected Microsoft Connect website,... More...
The best and most cost-effective way for customers to acquire Windows software is preinstalled on a new PC. However, more customers are becoming aware that they are running non-genuine Windows on their PCs. The Get... More...
An Australian firm, 22Moo, announced this morning that work is being finished on a new product that provides iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and Forth Generation iPod users with video playback. "It's a three-part... More...
REDMOND, Wash. — June 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a complete performance management (PM) application including business scorecarding, analytics and planning functionality that enables companies to more effectively... More...
RESELLERS have received a missive from Microsoft lovingly gift-wrapped by Volish gnomes. We don't know how much postage it cost Microsoft or which work force was used to scour the beautiful English countryside for the... More...
A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional... More...
Today at 10:00 AM PST, Steve Jobs announced the release of three "fun new products" as mentioned in the invitation given out to certain press outlets earlier last week. ... More...
VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce next week that it will begin giving away one of its key products for free, CNET... More...
A post at Tim Sneath's blog confirms it, and after checking that this is publically available information we can now provide the information to rectify any problems PDC attendees might have activating their build. ... More...
It has been reported by well known and trusted Microsoft author, Paul Thurrott, that Windows Vista (previously codename Longhorn) will ship in no less than 7 different versions. The most basic, Vista Starter Edition, will... More...
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. Direct OEMs of Microsoft (large... More...
Sophos, provider of computer security for businesses, announced today it has acquired an award-winning client firewall technology and expertise in a non-exclusive transfer deal with Agnitum Ltd Sophos will use Agnitum's Outpost Pro... 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...
Microsoft is alpha-testing its upcoming antivirus product, according to industry sources. They claim the antivirus software works as a "behavior blocker" that monitors different events and actions on computers. If the event or action is... More...
CRN has reported that the Canadian's wireless vendor called Wi-Lan will sue Cisco for the unauthorized use of its wireless technology in the Linksys and Aironet product lines. Broadband wireless communications vendor... More...
Not too long ago it was AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft gearing up to see who would win the IM enterprise market. Now the only one left in the game is Microsoft. Last week... More...
The company that has been known mainly in lawsuits now a day's has released some new UNIX products. SCO announced version 7.1.4 of UnixWare. Along with new versions for embedded devices and small... More...
Internet media company Yahoo Inc. on Sunday announced a major relaunch of Yahoo Messenger, its messaging product that allows people to communicate in real-time via the Internet. The Sunnyvale, California-based company dubbed this latest update... More...
Intel plans to assign a new numbering system to its Pentium and Celeron processors in order to better illustrate their performance to consumers, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Intel rival AMD... More...
Until Microsoft's Smart Watch, I'd never seen a product start digging its own grave at its unveiling. It happened at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago. As a presenter modeled a chunky prototype (bravely... More...
Red Hat yesterday unveiled its answer to the vexed question of what it should do about its consumer line - dump it. This is not quite how CEO Matthew Szulik put it to The Register... More...
Microsoft Corp. senior executive Paul Flessner gave attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference here Friday a taste of the future by laying out a product roadmap that included Yukon and Longhorn. Yukon, the next... More...
Adobe Systems Inc. has completed tests on product activation, and plans to roll out the technology soon. Microsoft quietly introduced product activation — a method of registering software so that it cannot be installed on... More...
Game Boy creator Nintendo said on Thursday it will reveal details of a new game product next year but was coy on details, only saying it will be a surprise. "We are... More...
A while ago the telephone-based product activation process of Windows XP was independently analyzed by tecCHANNELSince then the information that is revealed by the installation ID, which users are required to supply to Microsoft during... More...
Leading Hardware, VOD, Software, Content and Chip Providers Collaborate With Microsoft On Digital TV Software Solutions, Support New Microsoft TV Foundation Edition And Future Products Microsoft Corp. today announced broad support... More...
Software giant Microsoft is planning to set up a global product support services centre in India's technology hub of Bangalore. The centre, which will employ 100 software professionals initially, is part of... More...
Found this whilst browsing Microsoft's site... The Microsoft Platform Support Reporting Utility facilitates the gathering of critical system and logging information used in troubleshooting support issues. Windows 2000, Windows NT,... More...
UK telecoms provider, BT, unveiled plans this week for it's 'BT Midband' service which launches on 1st June. 'BT Midband' is a 64/128K ISDN based Internet Access solution aimed at people who are out of... More...
Breakthrough Technology, Comfort and Style Redefine Customer Experience Where were you in 1983? Ronald Reagan was president; every child wanted a Cabbage Patch doll; the final episode of "M*A*S*H" aired; compact discs... More...