Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind the Wikipedia website, set themselves a target in 2008 for donations and announced today they reached it. Running a website like Wikipedia costs a lot of money and asking... More...
Facebook has recently hit a milestone when they reached 140 million signed up users. The statistics are quite astounding when you look at them, over 600 thousand users are signing up a day which has... More...
No sooner had the news that Microsoft and Yahoo! were no longer talking hit the web, the follow-up emerged. The much rumoured deal between Yahoo! and Google has been announced and sealed. Expanding on the... More...
Bidding has reached $18.55 billion in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's record-setting auction of government-owned wireless airwaves, covering five separate blocks of spectrum in the auction. The FCC is keeping bidders' identities secret until the... More...
The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and... More...
Microsoft has announced that its Halo 3 has sold an estimated $170 million in its first day, making it "the biggest entertainment launch in history," noting that it has now beat out opening day theatrical... More...
Over the course of the 2006 year, the Chinese online consumer market grew a whopping 47%, in comparison to 2005. Compared to 150 yuan in 2005, Chinese web surfers are spending an average of 170... More...
Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after releasing Firefox 2.0 (reported by Neowin here) to the public on 24th October, 2 million people downloaded it - that is 30 downloads a second. To compare... More...
Apple is working hard to deliver the next Mac OS X system update for Tiger. Developers report that an initial pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.4.8 has begun circulating. The release is described... More...
May of 2006 gave us not one, but two new email records. The first record may surprise you a bit. Emails containing malicious programs (viruses) reached an all time low, accounting for a minute 0.73%... More...
Mozilla Corp. announced yesterday that its Firefox browser had surpassed 100 million downloads since its release roughly one year ago. The company stated that the figures have exceeded expectations since the release last November.... More...
Twice the Speed and No Speedos: Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days More than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the two days since Opera announced it... More...
Other milestones are close to be reached aswell, as Mozilla's open-source mail client ThunderBird is nearing on its 10 millionth download, and Minimo, the browser for small devices had its first prerelease version with tabs,... More...
A security flaw that could let an attacker remotely crash computers running Windows exists in several versions of the operating system, not just Windows XP. Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server... More...
Citing the rapid adoption of Linux in the enterprise, security software company McAfee Inc. is broadening the reach of its Entercept host intrusion prevention technology to the Linux platform. The company's Entercept for Linux release... More...
Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike for Xbox; August release will include new missions, multiplayer maps, and weapons. Fresh off of being part of one of the center stage games for... More...
Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world. But don't expect to see an open-sourced... More...
Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In... More...
Abit Computer has reached a tentative agreement with its creditor banks, allowing it to use its funds deposited at the banks as well as access to banks' credit lines available to the company, sources at... More...
As expected, Intel has introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor in what could represent the end of an era for the chip maker. The Pentium 4 570 processor at 3.8GHz will have the fastest clock... More...
US publisher THQ has almost completed negotiations to sign Juice Games' street racing title Juiced, reuniting the Fund 4 Games owned title with the Acclaim-owned name - while legal clouds gather over Exclaim's involvement. According... More...
Spam--unsolicited, usually dubious commercial e-mail messages--accounted for 82 percent of all the inbound e-mail processed during August, and made up 90 percent of all mail sent during one spam-filled day last month, according to e-mail... More...
Apple Computer Corp. agreed Friday to a revised deal that will place laptop computers in roughly one-third of Maine´s public high schools this fall, Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said. "I´m absolutely delighted," said Gendron, who... More...
NCsoft has announced that City of Heroes has reached 180,000 users in North America after being on retailer shelves for three months. "It's an amazing run by City of Heroes," says Brian Woods Executive Vice... More...
After a long journey, America Online has landed at "Tahiti." Code-name for an updated version of the AOL 9 Optimized client software, Tahiti is being distributed to customers through AOL's worldwide network of marketing... More...
Afghanistan is being rebuilt with the help of the Linux operating system. The United Nations is training civil servants in the intricacies of the software to help them get government computer systems... More...
Dutch PC maker Tulip has withdrawn its patent infringement law suit against Dell following an out-of-court settlement from which the Texan hardware giant emerges as the de facto winner. The two companies last... More...
Well it had to happen eventually, Neowin is proud to announce that our Forum now has 1 million forum posts in 85020 topics. As you can imagine we are very proud of... More...
A Russian cargo craft has docked successfully at the International Space Station. It delivered vital fuel and food to an outpost and crew cut off from a major supply line following the loss of the... More...
Thanks to our own youm0nt for this piece of news. Western Digital today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 GB-per-platter technology, which will produce PC hard drives that can store up to 250... More...
The Web is more vulnerable to attack now than at any time previously. That's the stark conclusion of Netcraft's latest monthly survey of Web servers, which expresses concerns over the emergence of... More...