Neowin News Feed for: 2021

Citymapper struggles to find profit despite popularity: Losses reach £7.4 million in 2021

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:56:02 +0000

Citymapper has released some financial information concerning 2021 and it looks like it made a loss of £7.4 million, in part due to the pandemic restrictions that were in place during that year. Read more...

Garmin report finds users logged a record-breaking number of activities last year

Paul Hill — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:40:01 +0000

Garmin has released a new report showing the growth of activities it recorded on its smartwatches. Indoor activities saw the most growth with Pilates being the most popular activity overall. Read more...

Plex announces 25% end-of-year Lifetime Plex Pass discount

Paul Hill — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 23:30:01 +0000

Plex has announced another 25% discount for its Lifetime Plex Pass. The discount is to celebrate the end of the year. It offered a similar discount just a month ago for Cyber Monday. Read more...

Uber earnings down in 2Q21 despite growth of rides and deliveries

Paul Hill — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 22:00:01 +0000

Uber has reported higher than expected losses at its second-quarter earnings call but has tried to reassure investors that it will decrease losses in Q3 and reach profitability in Q4. Read more...

Samsung has just released the latest iteration of The Wall, its giant screen offering

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:12:01 +0000

Samsung has launched the 2021 edition of The Wall. It supports resolutions up to 16K and can play 8K content at 120Hz. Customers can also play four videos from different sources in 4K. Read more...

Smartphone market to see 39% of models use AMOLED displays

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:44:01 +0000

The analyst firm TrendForce has said 39% of smartphone models this year will feature AMOLED displays. This is an increase from 31% in 2019 and 33% in 2020 and comes at the expense of LTPS LCD. Read more...

TrendForce: Smartphone production to increase 9% in 2021

Paul Hill — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:20:02 +0000

TrendForce expects smartphone production to be 9% higher this year compared to last year. The firm also said that sales are expected to begin recovering as more and more people get vaccinated. Read more...

Google promises 100 games coming to Stadia in 2021

Usama Jawad — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:04:01 +0000

Google has announced that over 100 games will be making their way to Stadia in 2021. It has also revealed the names and release dates of nine titles coming soon, which include FIFA 21 and Judgment. Read more...

Global smartphone sales to grow 11.4% in 2021, says Gartner

Paul Hill — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 23:38:01 +0000

5G smartphones will account for 35% of all smartphone sold in 2021 according to the analyst firm Gartner. In China, it's expected that 59.5% of smartphones will be equipped with 5G this year. Read more...

Global foundry market saw highest growth in a decade

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:02:01 +0000

TrendForce has revealed that the global foundry market is expected to have its best year of the last ten years in 2020 thanks to a number of factors including the pandemic which has boosted demand. Read more...

The year ahead: What's next for the Nintendo Switch in 2021

João Carrasqueira — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:00:01 +0000

As the current year comes to a close, it's often a good time to think about what we can expect in 2021. Here's what we know - and what we don't - about Nintendo's plans for next year. Read more...

Microsoft: 2021 is the year passwords die

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:18:02 +0000

Microsoft has shared some statistics about the usage of passwordless technologies such as Windows Hello and Microsoft Authenticator, and has vowed to make passwords a thing of the past in 2021. Read more...

Google to allow employees to work from home through summer 2021

Rajesh Pandey — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:50:01 +0000

Google is going to allow its employees to work from home through the summer of 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic. The extension is applicable to all full-time & contractual Google employees worldwide. Read more...

Skype for Business Online to be retired in mid-2021

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:08:01 +0000

As it wants to migrate folks to Teams, Microsoft has announced that it will be retiring Skype for Business Online at the end of July, 2021. Skype for Business Server and Skype consumer are unaffected. Read more...