Reports of the strike at a Foxconn factory are inaccurate, according to company officials. More employees have been added, and workers have been given overtime for working the holiday. More...

A new report claims that 3,000 to 4,000 workers at an Foxconn iPhone 5 plant in China went on strike today, claiming that the plants were "in a state of paralysis for the entire day." More...

Over 45,000 Verizon workers who went on strike earlier this month will go back to work on Tuesday under its current contract while the workers and Verizon talk about a new contract. More...

Verizon claims that it has had to deal with over 70 acts of sabotage since over 45,000 of its landline and FiOS workers went on strike on Sunday. More...

Over 45,000 Verizon Communications workers are now on strike which could affect the landline and FiOS high speed Internet business. More...

Plans by the French government to require Internet service providers to throw persistent pirates off the Internet are now closer to becoming law. The French Senate voted 297 to 15 in favour of the law,... More...

The People's Liberation Army in China is building up its cyberwarfare capabilities according to a report from the Department of Defense. DoD has found that the PLA, the largest standing army in the world, has... More...

Yahoo has announced a multiyear partnership with Viacom for its new Panama search advertising platform; Yahoo will serve as the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads to all of Viacom's 33 broadband sites... More...

It seems Joost has won the first battle with potential rival YouTube. Viacom, which includes entertainment companies MTV Networks' Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television and Paramount Pictures, has announced a deal to license its programming... More...

As I reported previously, someone at EA made an oopsie and had the information page up for the first booster pack for Battlefield 2142 - Northern Strike. It was since taken down, but now the... More...

Vodafone and Microsoft are collaborating on developing software to help users take their office with them while they travel. The agreement will see the companies co-operate so that applications available to Vodafone users, such as... More...

Tiered archive offering will be sold alongside Windows Server, following a co-marketing agreement announced this week Microsoft is teaming up with IBM to offer email archiving products to help its customers control their spiralling quantities of... 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...

Strike Force: Red Cell, the UT2004 mod offshoot from Vision Studios has now secured a publisher for the game. The game will be released sometime in 2006 (though if you look closely 2007 is mentioned... More...

Mac developer Dan Wood knows what happens when Apple Computer has the same idea he does. A couple of years back, his small firm, Karelia Software, released a set of... More...

After months of threats that the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) would strike if a new deal was not made with game publishers, a settlement was announced... More...

The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title. The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird... More...

Eidos announced today a new World War II first person shooter called Commandos Strike Force, slated for release in spring 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Based on the Commando strategy game franchise, players... More...

The Strike Force modification for Unreal Tourniment 2004 has been released, and is allowing gamers to test two Team Deathmatch maps. The file clocks in at a decent 250MB. Also Vision Studios, the company behind... More...

Yevgeny Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs fame, has raised concerns of a major attack on the internet today. Kaspersky has been widely quoted as saying that there would be a major online attack against Israeli sites... More...

The same day that Microsoft announced its instant messaging service was available for Verizon mobile users, Yahoo said it had done a similar deal with Verizon rival Cingular. On Thursday, Cingular said users of... More...

Don't worry folks, your friendly tech news source Neowin was not affected. *wink* An early morning Internet attack on Tuesday took down the Web sites of Microsoft, Google, Apple Computer and Yahoo,... More...

Sony aims to take on industry leader Apple starting Tuesday with an online music service whose songs will play only on Sony products. Internet analysts are scratching their heads, especially because the digital download service... More...

Thanks OptiPlex. The women challenging the stereotype that professional online gaming is the realm of geeky men alone. Anja Maller lives a double life. By day she is a 26-year-old single mother studying... More...

After the German demo early this month, Data Becker has now released the English playable demo of Castle Strike, offering another opportunity to try out the medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs. As... More...

A German playable demo of Castle Strike is now available, offering the first opportunity to try out this medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs and Data Becker. This single-player demo includes Tutorial 2... More...

Buka has released an updated playable demo of Fair Strike, renewing the opportunity to try out the arcade combat chopper shooter by G5 Software. Apart from a welcome 35 MB reduction in download size, it's... More...

Turn off the TV. And let the games begin. The fall-off in viewership is unprecedented, and among no group is this more the case that young males between 18 and 24, a... More...

After a false start with the E3 demo this Spring, Buka has now released the official playable demo of Fair Strike, offering an opportunity to try out this arcade combat chopper shooter by G5 Software.... More...

Sierra has released a brand new trailer for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, offering a bit more than one minute of in-game footage for this upcoming tactical game in the works at Ritual Entertainment. CZ: Condition Zero... More...

LucasArts will be packaging in a special bonus disc with the latest game in the Rogue Squadron series. LucasArts has informed GameSpot of the contents of a bonus disc that will be... More...

Codemasters has released a new multiplayer map for IGI 2: Covert Strike, once again expanding the tactical first-person shooter by Innerloop Studios. This map is titled Area27, but it's not clear whether it's still considered... More...

Working your way to the coast you and your team have located a Conspiracy base set up at the docks. Your mission objectives are to plant a virus in the dockyard's security system, Find the... More...

The latest IGI 2 addition is now available for download. The new Libyan Village Beta map is available to those wishing to get their hands on the new Map that has been in development for... More...

Codemasters has released new patches for IGI 2: Covert Strike, updating the UK and Nordic editions of the stealthy first-person shooter by Innerloop Studios to v1. This release adds a new Jungle multiplayer map along... More...

A hugely popular mod for the original Unreal Tournament has been updated! It seems that you will have to have 1.80 as there is only a patch released (4.4MB) Strike Force... More...

Get ready to experience covert action IGI style with launch of the single-player demo of Codemasters' stunning stealth-based shooter. This standalone PC demo will be available to download from 2pm (GMT) Thursday 16th January 2003.... More...

Bits taken from the IGI2: Covert Strike newsletter. Public Beta Test In January we will be opening the beta test to the public. This will obviously mean a lot more players... More...

LONDON (Reuters) - Media giant AOL Time Warner has quietly won a U.S. patent for instant messaging, a potential goldmine as the online activity rivals mobile phone text-messaging as the most popular new communication tool.... More...

Another large batch of single- and multi-player screenshots for IGI 2: Covert Strike, the stealthy first-person shooter that is nearing completion at Innerloop Studios, is now available for download in medium and high resolutions. ... More...

When Deborah Fraser's credit card number was stolen, the thief didn't use it to buy a new car or a high-end laptop. Instead, the number was used to buy something potentially much more valuable--a domain... More...

Just noticed this over Shacknews. There is a Counter-Strike Q&A on ComputerGames.ro, which has Valve's Erik Johnson answer some questions about the ever popular Half-Life modification. One of the things mentioned, is that CS 1.6... More...

New screens of IGI2: Covert Strike appeared in a measured blaze of silenced bullets today, giving a good indication that final code of the Inner Loop-developed shooter will improve greatly over the original. Following the... More...

Codemasters on Thursday announced IGI 2: Covert Strike - its stealth-based first-person shooter coming this fall - will contain over 30 authentic firearms featuring realistic gun ballistics. The ballistics system will use special physics... More...

Valve's Eric Smith has sent word along the HLDS mailing list that the Valve has updated server security modules again. Security module update *** This only affects Counter-Strike servers. *** ... More...

Proving the motto "My enemy's enemy is my friend," Microsoft foes Sun Microsystems and Lindows announced an alliance to put Sun's StarOffice software on Lindows.com's operating system. The deal will make StarOffice... More...

CS Realism Update is a pack (Like the bloodpack) that will replace models, sounds, sprites ect. with more realistic/detailed) ones. News source: CS Realism webpage Download: ... More...

Codemasters confirms that IGI 2: Covert Strike will launch in September for PC. The superb stealth-based first-person shooter will continue its development through the summer to ensure the Beta Test process is... More...

Thanks FAT('.')BOY for posting this on our forums. Strike Force is a realistic team combat simulation in which players take the roles of either the infamous Terrorists or covert Strike Force operatives, in... More...

Antivirus vendors urge updates to guard against file-destroying Klez. Antivirus firms F-Secure and Central Command are warning that the Klez.e worm, which can delete files, halt the work of security programs, and... More...