As the year comes to an end it's time to look back at the most interesting and relevant tech stories of 2012. Numerous trends consolidated during 2012: Apple's dominance in the sector, mobile growth.. More...

Facebook is giving its users a nice way to see what its biggest trends, stories and music were in 2012, as well as offering the same functionality to your individual user profile. More...

On behalf of everyone here at Neowin, Happy New Year!... More...

By year's end, there will be at least 18 phones on the market worldwide based on the Android operating system, Google disclosed today at the company's I/O conference. According to The New York Times, Andy... More...

With the public Windows 7 release candidate right around the corner, and development towards the RTM on track, people are wondering "When is the final release date for Windows 7?" With many dates flying around,... More...

It looks like the folks at Microsoft just can't get enough of Twitter. There have been many leaks of information over the past few months coming from public tweets by company employees. We recently reported... More...

If you thought that VoIP was already a huge hit, the biggest cell phone manufacturer Nokia, has just announced that Skype will be shipping with its entire lineup of mobile phones. Nokia will begin rolling... More...

To this date, the iPhone has only been offered by mobile service giant AT&T (In the U.S.). That has been the biggest down-side to many people interested in purchasing the device. In most rural areas,... More...

DivFix++ is an AVI Video Repair and Preview Utility. This Program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and... More...

One of the nifty features missing in the Messenger for Mac is Audio/Video (A/V) support. It is not possible to do a video or audio chat using the Messenger for Mac. The recent update, Messenger... More...

GameSpy has announced their list of 'Best of 2008' PC games, and also gave a "State of the PC" address. There have been quite a few discussions over how well PC gaming did this... More...

It's that time of year where leading game sites start publishing their "best of the year" game lists, and IGN has posted their 'Best of 2008' PC Games.  It was quite a list, and it... More...

With the recent price drops from Microsoft for their Xbox 360 console, it would have been a fair bet for anyone that Sony would have followed suit to compete. If you were a betting person,... More...

Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web. According to the blog posting,... More...

Hot on the back of Google getting involved with Virtual Worlds, with their 'Lively' project, figures have been released about the industry in general, and investment into Virtual Worlds. It turns out that over the... More...

Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product. This paper analyzes the... More...

As always, this year's contest started by rounding out the top 100 through community nominations. Public voting was then held to list to the top five games/mods in each of three categories - indie games,... More...

Notebook PCs coming out this year will likely include more colorful screens thanks to LED (light emitting diode) backlights and Blu-ray Disc optical drives this year, an executive from Micro-Star International (MSI) says, as well... More...

Now that Windows Vista has been available to business customers for more than a year, it's a good time to go back and look at how it's holding up from a security perspective. I... More...

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative, established by many of the world's leading computer companies will use the 2008 CeBIT trade show to drive home the green IT message. The Initiative is led by Dell, EDS,... More...

PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the “Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are... More...

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended November 30, 2007. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved record revenue of $911.2 million, compared to... More...

"w00t", an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros... More...

Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft Corp. program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for not following through on browser upgrade promises and... More...

Samsung Electronics next year plans to begin mass production of a new type of graphics memory that both consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips. Called GDDR (Graphics Double Data Rate) 5,... More...

It's been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year. According... More...

A Swedish hacker tells how he infiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the internet. In August, Swedish hacker Dan Egerstad gained access to... More...

Asustek Computer is developing a desktop version Eee PC which it hopes to launch in 2008, according to Jonathan Tseng, president of marketing at Asustek. Tseng noted that the PC will not include a display,... More...

One year ago today, Microsoft released Windows Vista to manufacturing. In the obligatory anniversary post we ask: Was it ready? Will it ever be ready? The answer to the first question is an emphatic "no."... More...

At the time, the news that Novell and Microsoft were becoming partners was shocking. But, a year into the alliance, what has really come from it? The analysts give their two cents on the first,... More...

Stop. I mean, don't stop reading this, but stop thinking what you're about to think. Or, O.K., I'll think it for you: The thing is hard to type on. It's too slow. It's too... More...

Despite months of rumors and innuendo suggesting that sales of Windows Vista were lackluster, Microsoft last week turned in its best first quarter in eight years. And among the products credited with driving that revenue... More...

Upcoming 'Penryn'-based 45nm high-end quad-core CPUs may well attract an even higher price premium than before, it has emerged. Intel has apparently informed customers that next year's Core 2 Extreme processors will cost up to... More...

The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Program conducted a six year study, possibly the largest investigation so far into health risks associated with mobile telephone technology, and concluded that mobile phones will not cause cancer... More...

Google Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer, George Reyes, will retire by the end of the year, creating the highest-ranking job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years... More...

Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that even though its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics chips family has experienced massive delays, the company is still positioned to deliver competitive graphics solutions to the market place.... More...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.1 million units in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of 11.7% on year, according to preliminary results gathered by research firm Gartner. Figures from International Data Corporation (IDC) put... More...

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest manufacturer of x86 central processing units (CPUs) will delay the roll-out of its new enthusiast-class platform to next year, according to sources familiar with the plans of AMD.... More...

In its annual "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook" report covering 2007 through 2011, consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers has concluded that the video gaming industry is poised to overtake the music industry in the US, with... More...

Microsoft quietly previewed plans for its upcoming Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 at its TechEd 2007 conference this week in Orlando, Fla. Although Microsoft focused public attention on the first Community Technology Preview of SQL... More...

Internet search leader Google is open to new acquisitions and remains hopeful it can close the $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad supplier DoubleClick by end-2007 despite a U.S. federal probe, its CEO said Wednesday.... More...

Microsoft is set to release not only Windows Server 2008, but also Windows XP Service Pack 3 later this year, according to a recent press release on Microsoft PressPass. It has been suspected in the... More...

Display technologies consisting of DisplayPort, HDMI and UDI have all been ferociously vying for industry support over the past two years but DisplayPort crossed a major milestone in April when it received approval by VESA... More...

The newly announced Simpsons game may be the 22nd title based on the long-running animated Fox sitcom, but in developer Electronic Arts' opinion, you might as well think of it as the first. Simpsons games... More...

In their annual survey, the Consumer Electronics Association has found that U.S. households are spending an average of $1,200 a year on electronic gadgets; the average home has 25 consumer-electronic devices, with the top five... More...

The European Commission has announced that more than 2.5 million ".eu" Internet addresses have been registered since the European domain name launched just over a year ago. Many worldwide brands now have a web address... More...

Google Incorporated claims the company loses about $1 billion US a year to "click fraud" and similar scams on its ad service. Special software that can click on an ad repeatedly can be used to... More...

Sony's net profits for the three months to 31 December fell to 159.9bn yen ($1.3bn; £669m) from 168.9bn yen the three months before, a drop in 5.3%. The huge losses were down to the gaming... More...

HP is to deliver its MediaSmart Server for homes late this year, offering a potentially attractive way for home workers to secure and back up their systems. First shown off by Bill Gates at the... More...

California-based publisher THQ has had a good year, which it attributes to stronger-than-expected sales of games including WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007, Cars, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. The company behind the surprise... More...