Neowin News Feed for: Asked

Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:47:51 +0000

Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than... Read more...

MySpace asked for names of registered sex offenders

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:18:34 +0000

Attorneys general from eight states want MySpace to turn over the names of potentially thousands of registered sex offenders who may be members of its popular social networking site. In a May 14 letter to... Read more...

Bono asked to back free software group

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:56:43 +0000

U2 CROONER Bono has been asked to support the Free Software Foundation. Thankfully the Irishman has not been asked to sing a duet with Linus Torvalds or lecture Tony Blair. But he has been asked... Read more...

Patent Office asked to review Microsoft FAT patent

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:15:10 +0000

Microsoft's patent for the FAT file system - the basis for the company's first salvo in its licensing offensive - is to be reviewed by the US Patent Office, at the request of a free... Read more...

Feds asked to hang up on FBI's wiretap proposal

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:21:07 +0000

A major cell phone trade group objected to a proposal that would force broadband Internet providers to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police. The proposal, from the U.S. Department... Read more...

Pupil 'suspended' after he Asked f&%king Jeeves

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:34:08 +0000

Here's a quick & funny way to lighten up your "No-school snow day" -ed. An Essex schoolboy is currently under police investigation after he sent an "extremely abusive email" to staff at... Read more...

Windows XP Frequently Asked Questions updated

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:25:09 +0000

Cheers Phillip, NT Compatible has updated their Windows XP Frequently Asked Questions Pages. Here are just a few of the new questions that get answered: How many different versions of Windows XP... Read more...