Neowin News Feed for: 2014

Reddit had a big year in 2014, stats show 71 billion page views and counting

Adrian Potoroaca — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 16:58:01 +0000

Reddit has chosen to offer some of its stats from 2014, showing that they are a step closer to becoming the "front page of the internet," with a nice infographic for your pleasure. Read more...

Samsung pulls ahead of Apple in consumer satisfaction

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:44:01 +0000

For the first time in years, consumers are more satisfied with Samsung's smartphones than they are with Apple's iDevices - adding another layer to the already heated smartphone war. Read more...

Steam's 2014 holiday sale begins now [Update]

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:06:01 +0000

It looks like Christmas has come a little early this year as Steam has begun its annual holiday sales. The first day has some incredible titles at incredible prices. Read more...

Bing predicts the trends for 2015

Usama Jawad — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:36:01 +0000

Bing was pretty good at making predictions in 2014 with Cortana correctly predicting almost all the results of the football World Cup and more. What's in store for 2015? The Bing team explores. Read more...

iPhone 6, Ebola top this year's most searched Google terms

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:44:01 +0000

Google has released an in-depth list of its top search trends for 2014, including a country-by-country breakdown. Terms topping the global list include 'iPhone 6,' 'Ebola,' and even 'Flappy Bird.' Read more...

Twitter looks back at 2014

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:24:01 +0000

With the year nearly over the social network is looking back at some of the biggest events of 2014 and how those were shared by millions of people around the world on its platform. Read more...

YouTube celebrates the moments, memes, and people that made 2014

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:38:01 +0000

While we get ready to close out the year, YouTube has unveiled a video that hopes to encapsulate some of the best moments, memes, and people that made 2014. Read more...

Microsoft showcases top web searches of 2014 with Bing Trends

Andy Weir — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:00:01 +0000

Microsoft's new Bing Trends 2014 site reveals some of the year's top web searches in various categories, with popular searches from several parts of the world, including the US, UK, India and Japan. Read more...

WWDC 2014: What to expect

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 31 May 2014 13:11:25 +0000

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference starts on Monday, June 2nd with a keynote introducing new Apple products. The event is about software so we'll likely see new version of iOS and OS X. Read more...

Google ousts Apple as world's most valuable brand, Microsoft rises to fourth

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 21 May 2014 18:03:39 +0000

Google has ousted Apple as the most valuable brand, according to a survey. Apple's brand value fell by $148 billion, a drop of 20%, while Google's grew to $159 billion, a 40% increase over 2014. Read more...

Americans: unhappy with their ISPs, but love Apple and Samsung smartphones

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:32:18 +0000

This year's US consumer satisfaction scores are in, and apparently American's aren't happy with their internet service providers. Although you're probably happier if you're a Samsung smartphone user. Read more...

2014 MacBook Air Benchmarks: Slower flash speeds than 2013 model but faster CPUs

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 04 May 2014 19:56:38 +0000

Apple's freshly released MacBook Airs have been benchmarked and the results are mixed. Processor speed has increased due to Intel's lastest Haswell chips while memeory performance has decreased. Read more...

2014: Top 10 tech things we're looking forward to

Andy Weir — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:59:19 +0000

It looks like 2014 will be another awesome year for tech fans, with new devices galore and major OS updates on the horizon. Here's our top-10 pick of what to look forward to in the year ahead. Read more...

Microsoft 2014: Another exciting year ahead

Andy Weir — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:28:43 +0000

From Windows Phone 8.1 and the Surface Mini, to the return of the Start menu and a new CEO, 2014 promises to be another exciting year at Microsoft. We take an in-depth look at what's on the way. Read more...