Facebook are hosting an event to launch their "new home on Android." The event starts at 10AM PT, 1PM ET and 6PM BST. Facebook is expected to unveil a custom skin for Android running on an HTC device. More...
News International (NI), the owner of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers, has announced plans to charge users for access to their websites from June. Users who wish to access online content from The Times and... More...
It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out... More...
Until recently, Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, but now, by sending data using 10 different colors of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100... More...
The New York Times has been rather notorious in keeping most content on their website for paying eyes only. While this system did manage to bring in $10 million a year in subscription fees, it... More...
The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to... More...
Google is to cut the length of time it holds users' personal search data. The move comes in response to a data protection group that wrote to the firm questioning its privacy policies. The European... More...
Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In... More...
Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The... More...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Sep. 12 brought three bulletins covering a three software flaws, but the day will be remembered most for an Internet Explorer mega-patch that is being re-rereleased to address a 10th vulnerability... More...
Following in Neowin's very recent footsteps, one of America's biggest newspapers, The New York Times, has updated its online service. The main features include a re-design of the layout. With a nod to... More...
Developers speaking to GamesIndustry.biz this week havecommented that the the Revolution console, hardware kits for whichbegan shipping to third parties recently, is shaping up to be around2.5 times more powerful than GameCube. Up until... More...
An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... More...
With the PlayStation Portable now officially available and nearly all of the 200,000-unit Japanese launch allocation already sold, word is getting around about some of the key issues that Sony has been unable or unwilling... More...
The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,... More...
Strategy First sends along the playable demo of War Times, allowing you to try out the imminent World War II 3D real-time strategy game by Legend Studios. This demo includes two single-player missions from the... More...
That's what a new analysts' report reckons, anyway Sony have already won the next generation of console wars and PlayStation 3 will have sold three times more than Xbox 2 in Europe by... More...
A nationally known computer hacker is being sought on a federal arrest warrant stemming from a sealed complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday. Adrian Lamo, 22, has publicly... More...
Printer manufacturers are ripping off consumers by overcharging for printer cartridges, according to a study by the Consumer Association's Which? magazine. Which? slams the cost of printer ink. A Colour HP cartridge,... More...
US Navy's 'Flipper' goes AWOL! : "AUSTRALIAN military divers yesterday questioned the effectiveness of the US Navy's mine-clearing dolphins, revealing one had disappeared for two days. The polite way to express their scepticism... More...
As reported previously, a bug in Windows XP SP1 may cause some programs to launch 10 times slower because of a change in memory management in SP1 from XP retail. Remember, only download... More...
A bar owner in the US has been charged after shooting his laptop computer. George Doughty is said to have fired four bullets into the Dell computer in the middle of his bar... More...
Foreigners will have to pay to read The Times online (in the UK), with tariffs levied on 10 separate channels. The newspaper, part of the Murdoch empire, says it can identify overseas visitors with "90... More...
Internet connections at the New York Times were interrupted for at least several hours on Tuesday after the paper's computers were flooded with information in an apparent attack. "We don't know that... More...