Neowin News Feed for: Another

Another exploit targets IE7 bug

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:13:14 +0000

Trend Micro has warned that attackers are already exploiting a bug in IE 7 that was patched by Microsoft in the Security update last week with critical status. Trend Micro researchers have spotted a small-scale... Read more...

Windows XP gets another stay of execution

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:04:37 +0000

Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC makers to obtain licenses for the software... Read more...

Windows XP gets another six months

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:33:20 +0000

Given its history of moving deadlines at a moment's notice, it hardly seems surprising that Microsoft is keeping Windows XP alive even longer than expected, but its latest move looks particularly bad for Vista. The... Read more...

Microsoft to spend another $200m on Windows advertising

Steven Parker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:41:25 +0000

Microsoft may not be willing to let Apple have the last word about Windows Vista, after all. According to a June 20 Fortune Magazine article, Microsoft has earmarked "an additional $200 million for Windows advertising... Read more...

Microsoft Videos BETA: Another attempt to push Silverlight?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:54:25 +0000

Microsoft Videos lets us explore and watch Microsoft's collection of online video. The whole experience is built using Microsoft Silverlight platform. The site is a collection of all types of Microsoft videos which includes demos,... Read more...

Another Intel dual-core Celeron in 2Q08

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:47:23 +0000

Having recently launching its first dual-core Celeron E1000 series CPU, E1200, Intel is ready to launch another family member with a faster core frequency in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard... Read more...

MS releases another Vista SP1 RC refresh to 15,000 testers

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:55:53 +0000

Mary Jo Foley, an online journalist often given the title of “The Microsoft Watcher”, is reporting that the software giant has released a new refresh build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC (build 17128... Read more...

Microsoft: Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:05:01 +0000

Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs. Ever since the features of Vista were finalized, Microsoft tried to tip the... Read more...

Another EliteTorrents Uploader Facing 10 Years in Prison

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:26:10 +0000

It seems that every few months the FBI manages to come up with yet more people to charge in connection with Operation D-Elite, the joint ICE and FBI raids against the US-based BitTorrent tracker EliteTorrents,... Read more...

Another Milestone for Neowin at 7

Steven Parker — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:35:04 +0000

Neowin became seven years old on October 1st. I blogged about it briefly on the 29th and said pretty much all of what I wanted to say on the day so I didn't post about... Read more...

Another CNet Blogger Says No to Vista (SP1)

Steven Parker — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:47:31 +0000

Those guys over at CNet really have it in for Vista, this time it's Robert Vamosi suggesting that users that are waiting for SP1 to make the switch will be disappointed. In all fairness it... Read more...

Microsoft Viridian: Another Day, Another Delay

Thu, 10 May 2007 22:14:29 +0000

Less than a month after pushing back the delivery date for its Windows Server virtualization technology, Microsoft decided Viridian would not arrive in the first half of the 2007 and instead was pushed to the... Read more...

Intel Invests in Another Six Companies

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:57:02 +0000

Intel has invested a total of $31 million in six companies through the company's venture capital arm: Intel Capital. In the first quarter of this year, Intel Capital invested $154 million in 43 deals worldwide,... Read more...

Microsoft's search group loses another executive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:52:24 +0000

Another executive is leaving Microsoft's Internet search group as the company continues to struggle to compete with Web search leader Google. Dane Glasgow, general manager of Windows Live Search, is leaving the company, a spokesman... Read more...

RIM Moves To Prevent Another BlackBerry Outage

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:10:53 +0000

Research In Motion Limited is making internal changes to ensure that a massive outage of its BlackBerry e-mail service like the recent one that hit North American and left business executives, lawyers, politicians and other... Read more...

Cisco buys another social-networking firm

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:32:20 +0000

Cisco Systems bought selected assets of Utah Street Networks, a seven-person San Francisco company founded in 2003, and in this way effectively continues to buy its way into social networking. The San Jose, California-based company... Read more...

Another The Ship free weekend begins now!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:15:53 +0000

Sorry for not posting this a bit sooner. Needless to say some good news for some of you who enjoy The Ship free weekends, which seem to be popping up every month or so now.... Read more...

SiS' Mirage 4 Graphics Core Moves to Another Date

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:42:12 +0000

Once rumoured to see the light of the day in the first quarter of the year to coincisde with the launch of Microsoft Windows Vista, chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-supporting Mirage 4 graphics core from... Read more...

AMD chalks up another win in China

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:54:48 +0000

China's TCL Computer Tech. Co. has begun selling notebooks and desktop computers using Advanced Micro Devices processors. Desktops using AMD 64 processors are currently available while AMD 64 laptops are expected in April. The TCL... Read more...

Apple Closes Another Wi-Fi Hole

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:01:27 +0000

The update fixes a vulnerability, which was disclosed in November as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs campaign, that affects both the server and client versions of Mac OS X, Apple said in its... Read more...

Just Another Jabber Client 0.0.8.118

Razvan Serea — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:18:25 +0000

Just Another Jabber Client (JAJC) is a ICQ-like Jabber client designed to run in any Windows (32 bit) environment. Jabber is an open source instant messaging architechture being built on top of XML. Jabber... Read more...

Another Vista Activation Crack Appears

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:34:18 +0000

Buzz about a Windows Vista zero-day vulnerability is troubling enough (although probably overblown). Now, there appears to be a second product activation hack, this one designed to fool the activation timer into not counting down.... Read more...

Microsoft Confirms Another Word Zero-Day Flaw

Steven Parker — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:44:55 +0000

There is a second confirmed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word software program that is being targeted by unknown attackers. According to a US-CERT advisory, the latest bug is a memory corruption issue that occurs when... Read more...

Stock options scandal claims another victim

Steven Parker — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:21:59 +0000

The stock options scandal that has affected Apple, McAfee and CNet has claimed another victim, and this time it's one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley's chip business. The San Jose Mercury News reports: ... Read more...

Blizzard nukes another 76,000 morons from World of Warcraft

Todd Tanner — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:30:58 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment announced earlier today that they had laid the smack down on more than 76,000 hacking idiots in that little known MMORPG World of Warcraft. In addition to the bans, Blizzard also nuked 11... Read more...

Volume Activation 2.0: Another Potential Vista Gotcha?

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:45:46 +0000

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn't the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who've had a chance to dabble with early... Read more...

Wait another year to buy high def DVD player

Fred Derf — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:09:18 +0000

Digital Home is advising readers to purchase neither a HD-DVD player nor a blue-ray player based on the existing sales of both players. Early adopters have only purchased 25,000 HD-DVD players in the last 150... Read more...

New NV44-based GPU gives another chance to GeForce 6200

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:40:00 +0000

Graphics cards featuring Nvidia's new GeForce 7100 GS graphics processor unit (GPU), which was recently added to the company's entry-level product lineup, will hit the market in the middle of September, according to sources at... Read more...

Another Vista Wrinkle: Latest Database Required

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:05:23 +0000

When the Windows Vista client finally ships, VARs will have to make sure database customers are running the latest-and-greatest SQL Server bits as well. Though it's not widely known, Vista and the even more... Read more...

AMD fires another antitrust salvo at Intel

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:47:47 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is stepping up the pressure on Intel over alleged anticompetitive practices by filing another complaint, this time with German authorities. The latest complaint was filed last week with Germany's Federal Cartel... Read more...

Intel Set to Go Another Round With AMD

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:41:00 +0000

The summer is heating up for Intel as it prepares to propel three new products into the market in upcoming weeks. Intel's latest offerings include the Core 2 Duo chip for desktopPCs, Montecito chip... Read more...

Another Windows Vista Feature Bites the Dust

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:22:20 +0000

Will there be anything left when Vista finally ships? Microsoft seems to be cutting 'features' from Vista left and right. Would you rather wait longer and have a full featured OS, or would you rather... Read more...

Another quiet Apple release: iPod U2 is "Back for an Encore"

Simon Andrews — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:13:53 +0000

Thanks -tom for pointing this out on the forum! In yet another silent release by Apple, the U2 iPod has been rereleased. It silently appeared on Apple's site today, with the slogan "Back for... Read more...

Would Another Vista Delay Matter?

Wed, 03 May 2006 14:27:07 +0000

If yet another Windows release date falls by the wayside, would anyone care? That's the question that Microsoft watchers are asking, as Microsoft comes into the home stretch with its Windows Vista release. Researchers with... Read more...

Group Says Yahoo's Help Led to Another Dissident's Arrest

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:20:44 +0000

A media rights group has identified a third dissident that the Chinese government arrested based on information seemingly supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary. On Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders announced that it has obtained a copy... Read more...

Another security hole found in IE

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:13:15 +0000

Secunia published an advisory on Tuesday stating that an error could be exploited to fake the address bar in a browser window. This tactic could be used in phishing scams that attempt to trick people... Read more...

Starforce DRM, Another Sony Rootkit?

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:12:46 +0000

After the Sony rootkit fiasco, you'd think that companieswould have learned their lesson involving dangerous copy protection methods.Well according to some rather alarming news from cdfreaks.com, it appears thatStarforce is following in the footsteps of... Read more...

Sony's Blu-Ray Gains Another Ally

Howard Thomson — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:09:59 +0000

It has been reported today that Sony's next generation optical media, Blu-Ray, has gained another ally in the ever changing format battle. The newest supporter of Sony's format is Warner Bros, one of the largest... Read more...

Apple Schedules Another Press Conference

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:46:42 +0000

Apple Computer is once again gathering the press together as it rolls out new innovations. The latest invitation-only event will be held in New York City on October 19, 2005 on the eve of PhotoPlus... Read more...

ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client] v3.1

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:56:00 +0000

ABC is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution. CHANGELOG: Single port core Several improvements to reduce cpu usage, display flicker, and otherwise cut... Read more...