Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move. More...

When Circuit City announced that it was closing all of its stores it showed the true signs of the economy. Circuit City was a massive corporation employing over 30,000 employees which would all be... More...

In more Massive news, Activision have announced that they will continue their partnership with Massive Inc for a further 18 titles. If you've ever played "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock", or "Tony Hawk's Proving... More...

I know when going to work one of the most annoying things that can happen is traffic jams especially if you have to get somewhere before a certain time well Microsoft may have a wacky... More...

Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for... More...

El_Oscuro brings us a Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million... More...

As companies move to restrict Web surfing at work, more of them are blocking access to MySpace than to Facebook, according to a survey released Wednesday by Web security company Barracuda Networks Inc. While 44%... More...

Microsoft released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing today, hitting the final milestone for software that will power several turnkey home servers that OEMs will put on the market in late September and early October.... More...

So, think porting Halo 2 from the Xbox to Windows Vista was easy? Well, it might have been easy I suppose. But the way this blog post from one of the developers goes, it sounds... More...

The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders. "EFF and others have... More...

Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95.... More...

As many of you have discovered already, the newly released (for 800 Microsoft points no less) Valor map pack for Call of Duty 3 has 5 brand new maps for you to kill each other... More...

Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No." The question and answer might seem strange given that Microsoft released Windows Vista gold code in early November... More...

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on applications for mobile computers that will increase their attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday. Ericsson said the joint effort... More...

People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. "These kids are saying: forget... More...

Thanks Andareed for submitting this in Back page News on our forums. Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such... More...

Apple has quietly introduced a new "Mac at Work" section to its US website. The new zone is available through the navigation buttons at the top of the company's US website. It's UK website still... More...

According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year,... More...

When Mortal Kombat burst onto the arcade scene in the early 1990s, manygamers were taken aback at how the characters looked like real people.Of course, they were real people, digitized and animated. In fact, themajority... More...

Open for Business expansion is...open for business; add-on lets Sims trudge off to work, manage store, hire, and fire employees. With more than 58 million units moved, the... More...

NASA has chosen Texas Tech University computer scientists to help develop software that will aid in the design and building of an abort system for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA engineers will work with... More...

In the interests of helpingentrepreneurs bring their ideas to a larger audience, Microsoft corp. andGoogle Inc. have set aside their differences and will jointly fund a new labdubbed Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or... More...

Redmond, Wash.--For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents... More...

Microsoft and Sun on Friday provided the second update of their yearlong technical cooperation work, with Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer summing up the progress by saying they've moved from the courtroom to the lab... More...

The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. Linus Torvalds, the creator... More...

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand... More...

The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive. The companies' integration project, headed by Microsoft's Bill... More...

Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs has quietly returned to work full time after taking a leave of absence to recover from cancer surgery. Jobs has been participating in high-level staff meetings over the past... More...

Microsoft has denied reports by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) that it's outsourcing core development to Indian contractors. Earlier this week the WashTech reported that Microsoft was planning on outsourcing the core... More...

Microsoft is outsourcing some of the work related to its next-generation operating system to India, according to a labor group. The WashTech organization said Wednesday that it obtained internal Microsoft documents showing... More...

The crew over at The Tech Report has discovered BTX may not work on AMDs Athlon 64 processors. I've spoken with several sources here on the show floor from motherboard and enclosure... More...

Advanced Micro Devices has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. The company's Opteron chip has opened the doors of corporate server rooms for... More...

Good Technology Inc., a developer of mobile corporate data and messaging systems, on Tuesday said its software will now work on handheld devices powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC platform, potentially allowing millions more people... More...

Microsoft Corp. is hard at work on the next generation of its Xbox video game console, even as the current version starts to show its full potential as an entertainment hub, founder and Chairman Bill... More...

Because of unexpected thing about releasing Longhorn Transformation Pack 4.0. There's some people who published Windows X's work before he release it himself which still in testing but news goes around so he have to... More...

BizTalk Integration, Smart Client Interface and Enterprise Class Performance Deliver Efficient, Cost-Effective Application Integration and Support Siebel Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced new deployment options for Universal Application Network (UAN)... More...

More than half of the emails sent from company systems have nothing to do with work, according to exclusive research for vnunet.com's sister title Computing. The study, by email management vendor Waterford... More...

An attack on corporate use of peer-to-peer software is under way, as companies face increasing pressure from record labels and other copyright holders to stop employees from file trading. The latest salvo... More...

An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for telecommunications purposes. The three venture capital firms--3i, Mayfield and Worldview Technology... More...

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft and Sony have competed ferociously over whose technology will dominate digital entertainment in the future, but they've also been quietly working on a partnership that could build a bridge between the... More...

United Admins ("UA") has acquired the client and server popular anti-cheat solution known as Cheating-Death. CDeath himself, wishing to pass on the development of his program, approached UA, which gladly accepted. "This... More...

Microsoft admits in its Newsgroup that DirectX 9 might cause Windows Messenger not to work properly on some setups. They also mentioned that this is being looked into and promising a solution to this issue... More...

Rather than continue to let the thousands of PCs in its stores sit largely unused, Gateway plans to announce Tuesday a project that will let companies tap into those PCs for large computing projects. The... More...

Traditionally IT workers have had good wages and a choice of jobs but this is changing and many are finding it hard to even find work now in most areas of IT. According... More...

Thanks Robert for the email. Peace appears to have broken out between aggressive graphics chip company Nvidia and belligerent graphics chip company Microsoft, if reports in today's Economic News of Taiwan are to be credited.... More...

OK, hands up, who at work has MP3's.... Stash those headphones and trash that file-swapping software: Companies are cracking down on employees who use streaming media and swap MP3s at work. ... More...

Heh, I already had reservations about posting the "patched" DX9 binary on Neowin. It's fun to leak wholesome betas but it gets less interesting for me (and Neowin) when "groups" start hex editing the files.... More...

Security experts have warned that a wave of hack attacks is striking tens of thousands of PCs via instant messenger (IM) or Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients, using nothing more high-tech than old-fashioned social engineering.... More...

Stardocks have just released another customizing tool for windows- object bar. ObjectBar takes the best features from virtually every OS available and brings them to Windows. ObjectBar can do things... More...

Thanks neo1980 from our forum for the heads up :D Microsoft Corp. today announced a month-long moratorium on new coding as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, said Richard Purcell, director of the... More...