With a little help from the impending Unicorn Apocalypse, Samsung show that it is ready for the enterprise with security and workflow features of the Galaxy S III and Note 2 offered out of the box. More...
Microsoft sure has been hitting hard at the competition lately with their latest round of "Laptop Hunters" ads with success, and now as we get closer towards the final version of Windows 7, it looks... More...
The micro-expansion to Ironclad's Strategy Game of the Year, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment, is now ready for download on Stardock's digital download platform, Impulse. Fans that have the original Sins of a Solar... More...
Fudzilla is reporting that Microsoft is preparing to lay off 17% of its staff by 15th January. Microsoft currently employs just over 90,000 people across the world and according to an internal source that spoke... More...
For many moons, I've been raising the issue of how people get to 64-bit Windows 7, which is a big compatibility shift from 32-bit Windows XP. The obvious answer is via Vista, but is that... More...
With candidates now finalized on the major party's tickets, Stardock also throws its hat in the ring in time for the start of election season. Today Stardock Entertainment announced The Political Machine 2008 has gone... More...
A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer. The program's creators... More...
For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. But I.S.P.’s may... More...
Sirius Satellite Radio plans to broadcast 13 exclusive live concerts from across the United States on New Year's Eve 2008. Artists will include Velvet Revolver, 3 Doors Down, Patti Smith, The English Beat, Chubby Checker... More...
Nintendo's DS Lite redesign has proved a tremendous success, regularly topping hardware sales charts around the world since it was first released in Japan in March 2006. Despite the system's success, Pacific Crest Securities analyst... More...
The highly awaited modification for Half-Life 2 called Fortress Forever is finally with us. It's based on the HL1 mod Team Fortress Classic and although not a direct port, has many of the features of... More...
Prototypes of the new rumble-enabled PS3 SixAxis controller are already in the hands of numerous Sony developers, according to industry insider site Inner Bits - via Next-Gen.biz. A blog on the site where "game developers... More...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. A successful Barcelona launch, expected to happen during the third quarter, is critical for AMD, which has seen its share... More...
With Intel's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology is on its way to producing DDR3, and... More...
This week, AMD announced its quad-core desktop CPU codenamed Agena FX in Sunnyvale, California. The processor was featured in single and dual-socket configurations – the dual-socket configurations mark AMD's first demonstration of an 8-core desktop.... More...
Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says his company is ready for competition from Apple's iPhone, due out next month. When asked "How do you deal with that?" by M.R. Rangaswami of Sand Hill Group... More...
Next week, David Jaffe will push out Calling All Cars, the first of apparently several games he's developing exclusively for the PlayStation Network. Delays have bumped the game's release back several months, but yesterday Jaffe... More...
The federal government will release its plan to combat identity theft in the U.S. on Monday. After nearly a year's work, the President's Identity Theft Task Force will release its findings Monday at a press... More...
In hopes of stealing a piece of the online gaming industry, Hewlett-Packard's gaming unit "Game On" (part of the company's Technology Solutions Group) is currently developing a gaming technology in its research centers. The company... More...
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices next month plan to unveil significant price cuts on their current fleet of processors as they prepare to go to battle in the quad-core market. On April 22, Intel is... More...
A typical household with two adults and three children can easily have three or more computers. Since each of the users wants access to the Internet, their PCs are likely to already be connected to... More...
The lineup for the merged AMD and ATI in 2007 is going strong, according to Taiwan-based industry sources. The company's new AMD 690 chipset platform, with integrated graphics based on technology from the former ATI,... More...
There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a... More...
Last week's IEEE meeting in London demonstrated that the move to the next stage of Wi-Fi is nearly ready. At the meeting, 802.11n committee members unanimously approved draft standard version 1.10, and agreed to create... More...
Mass adoption of notebook-use direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems may start in 2010-2011, said Kamal Shah, mobility enabling initiative manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, on the sidelines of the Taiwan International Small Fuel... More...
LCD vendors such as ViewSonic and Apple are set to launch 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors by year-end or the first quarter of 2007, according to industry sources. LCD monitor vendors expect 17-inch widescreen monitors... More...
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it has completed work on Office 2007's system code and released it to manufacturing. Customers in Canada and the United States can start downloading Office 2007 on Dec. 1. That... More...
Today sees the release of Shift Linux 0.3 (Gnome) for testing. This is a Live CD based off of Morphix, is Debian based, and developed in-house here at Neowin. It comes with many packages as... More...
With the entry of the Apple iTunes Music Store and Amazon.com into the movie business, film downloads are finally being sold by folks who really know how to sell entertainment. This is a big step... More...
Milton Keynes will become the first UK city to use WiMax broadband technology when trials begin in December. The system uses specific bands of radio spectrum to provide long-range wireless access speeds of up to... More...
Microsoft is making its first Vista release candidate and pricing information available more broadly available to partners and consumers this week. Vista Business, which is the equivalent of Windows XP, will be priced at $299... More...
Nintendo denied reports this week in British tabloid papers that their Wii console will be released "at the end of November, priced around £170". "It's pure speculation on the part of the newspaper - we... More...
Muhammad Umer pointed me in the direction of the following statement posted quite a while ago on the Windows Vista Team Blog. It's something we haven't covered but pretty important if you downloaded the CPP... More...
Microsoft's 'iPod-killer' plans appear to promise everything one would expect from a giant company with deep pockets attempting to burst a competitor's bubble. News today indicates the Microsoft media playing device will sport video and... More...
Graphics card maker Sapphire are gloating today after announcing that they will be the first to bring out a PC graphics card with a HDMI output, which is the preferred output for HD media. The... More...
Last week the Bink website announced wide availabilty of the new incarnation of Microsoft's Messenger to be released on June 16th. Today WinFuture has been informed by their source, who is involved in the launch... More...
Infinium Labs much touted Phantom games console/service has had analysts, gamers and journalists confused from day one, announced over three years ago it didn't even make an appearance at e3 this year, but according to... More...
Television and consumer electronics are benefiting from the new high-definition video formats, but there may not be enough room to enable that type of quality on the internet. A high-definition (HD) streaming video can require... More...
Is Sumner Redstone late to the digital music party, or is it just getting started? Redstone's Viacom will find out sometime next year, when his MTV unit will roll out its long-anticipated online music service.... More...
The XPC SN26P is the world's first small form factor system based on the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset. Designed to support GeForce 7 series graphics cards, this award winning barebone is a must-have component of... More...
A consortium of manufacturers has announced its readiness to begin volume production of high definition recordable DVDs (HD DVDs). The first HD DVDR discs will go on sale next year, at around the same time... More...
Quite regularly we see articles that talk about Linux as a desktop OS. Most of the time, they're entitled "Linux not quite ready for desktop use.." or something like that. That's because they're written... More...
Thanks yannis for this submission in the Back Page News section of the forums. Microsoft will launch the next version of its Office spreadsheet, e-mail and word processing programs during the second half of 2006,... More...
Newly-released Mandriva Linux LE2005 is now available for download on a number of FTP mirrors worldwide. ISO images are available for burning CDs or a DVD for both i586 and PPC architectures. ISO... More...
After several delays, Microsoft is set to deliver in June the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) patching tool and the Microsoft Update (MU) software patching service, a company executive says. Both MU and WSUS were... More...
Since first becoming a Web standard nearly four years ago, SVG has lagged in adoption as developers waited for broader support for next-generation Web graphics. But upcoming plans from two Web browser makers to natively... More...
64-bit computing is coming faster in the world of desktop PCs. Intel, AMD and Microsoft are leading the way and this time around it (unlike some years ago when a home dedicated computer system running... More...
America Online is testing a Web-based e-mail service that will compete with Yahoo Mail, Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail. Right now, the beta service is available to AOL subscribers only, but it... More...
Apple Computer and Motorola could soon show us the mobile phone they are developing to play music purchased from Apple's iTunes online music store. "We've said we have something coming on this in the first... More...
Apple Computer has missed its self-imposed deadline for launching a Canadian version of its online music store. The company had promised a November launch of iTunes in the country. But as of... More...