We’ve always heard that Google was a great place to work, and CEO Eric Schmidt is putting his money where his mouth is, quite literally. Business Insider reports that to honor the performance and quality... More...
Just about everyone knows that Steve Jobs is the face and lifeblood of Apple, and while some Apple-lovers claim that this is not the case, investors think otherwise. Following the last few keynotes and what... More...
Citigroup said it is likely Microsoft Corp will raise its $31-per-share offer for Yahoo and upgraded Yahoo shares to "buy" from "hold." The brokerage also raised its price target on Yahoo's stock to $34 from... More...
According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets. The... More...
Neowin member ispamforfood (interesting nickname!) has posted an interesting question on our Back Page News forum asking "Raise your hand if you're tired of negative Vista articles". It is true that there are many news... More...
Detroit automaker General Motors Corp. says it is testing a new combustion process that could increase fuel economy in conventional engines by up to 15 percent. The announcement comes as fuel economy has become an... More...
Less than one week after disclosing a $611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional... More...
Just days after posting details of searches made by hundreds of thousands of subscribers, AOL is in hot water again with consumer advocates. This time the issue is with the company's Active Virus Shield anti-virus... More...
Kingmax Semiconductor, ranked as the world's eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, is hoping to increase the proportion of DDR2 products in its unit shipments to, at least, 20% by... More...
Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. has long promised "TV Your Way." But the company's plans for pop-up ads and restrictions on copying have sparked worries that the service may be eroding consumer control in... More...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, got a modest pay raise over the last year, according to a company filing. Gates, who is also the company's chief software architect, received $901,667... More...
The Inquirer reports that AMD is going to raise the prices on its Athlon XP processors. The price change effects Athlon XP models from 2800+ and up. This price change is going in... More...
VIA Technologies will hike its chipset prices by 6-10% starting July 1 to reflect its rising production costs, according to sources at the chipset maker. This will be VIA's second price increase this year, following... More...
Web companies are quietly amassing arsenals of search patents, as they prepare for a high-stakes war over the profitable technology that could one day control how most people get information. The battle lines were drawn... More...
Online auctioneer eBay on Monday said it will soon raise the fee it charges to list the most expensive items on its site by 45 percent as part of its first such fee increases since... More...
US memory company Micron, currently in the deepest of negotiations with Korean Dramurai Hynix, is waiting to see what happens before hiking the price of its own memory modules. That follows a decision by Hynix,... More...