Neowin News Feed for: Award

uSwitch awards O2 with ‘Best Network Coverage' award for the third year running

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:18:01 +0000

The comparison website, uSwitch, has rated O2 as offering the best network coverage when compared to other major operators in the UK. This is the third award that the company has received this year. Read more...

Revolutionary Opera Touch browser wins Red Dot Design Award

Paul Hill — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:12:01 +0000

Opera has received the Red Dot Design Award for its work on Opera Touch, a browser with a revolutionary UI that makes browsing the web more comfortable on increasingly bigger smartphones. Read more...

Apple wins Twitter's customer service award

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:44:01 +0000

Apple's Twitter support account has been crowned the winner of the Twitter Awards #Customer category. The social media firm revealed @AppleSupport was active for a massive 17 hours a day. Read more...

Windows 10's Start Menu wins the IDSA Design Award

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:48:01 +0000

The return of the Start Menu in Windows 10 was not only greeted with open arms by users, but also the critical community, which was thoroughly impressed by Microsoft's new design. Read more...

Apple and Nokia top wireless smartphone satisfaction survey

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:02:20 +0000

Apple has beaten Nokia, Samsung, HTC and LG to win the J.D. Power smartphone customer satisfaction award for the 9th consecutive survey. The iPhone scored 855, beating Nokia by a sound region. Read more...

Nokia Lumia 800 wins Editors Choice at What Mobile awards

Brad Sams — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:40:02 +0000

If Nokia needed any more confidence in its new Windows Phone lineup, it just won the Editors Choice Award at the What Mobile Awards for 2011. Read more...

iPhone 4 wins 'Best Mobile Device' award at MWC

Brad Sams — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:40:03 +0000

As Mobile World Congress 2011 begins to wrap up, the awards for best in class are being announced. This year's winner of the "Best Mobile Device" is Apple's iPhone 4. Despite the design flaw with the... Read more...

Neowin announces June MVC awards

Brad Sams — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:55:49 +0000

Twice a year Neowin highlights valuable contributors to our forums and this year is no exception. After a vigorous nomination and voting process, Neowin is proud to welcome three new members to the Most... Read more...

Microsoft wins great place to work award

Brandon Boyce — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:58:23 +0000

The Great Place to Work Institute has named Microsoft the best place to work in Europe. The findings are based on the '100 Best Workplaces in Europe' annual survey that the institute sends out. The... Read more...

Webware 100 Award Winners For 2008 Announced

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:47:35 +0000

The 100 top Web apps for 2008 have been announced ! These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast... Read more...

Symantec Earns Unprecedented 35th Consecutive VB100 Award

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:46:31 +0000

Symantec Corporation has earned an unprecedented 35th consecutive VB100 Award from Virus Bulletin. Symantec was one of only two vendors to receive a perfect detection score for all the December 2007 tests, while many security... Read more...

Ig Nobel Award Winners Announced

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:09:09 +0000

Every year, we salute a select and elite group of scientists, artists, writers, and peace activists who, through extraordinary accomplishment, have bettered humanity. These...are not those people. Instead, the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of... Read more...

OneCare Receives VB100 Award

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:07:54 +0000

We're pleased to report that Windows Live OneCare just received the VB100 award from Virus Bulletin. This award comes on the heels of OneCare's recent re-certification from West Coast Labs and the ICSA Labs.... Read more...

And the YouTube award goes to...

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:08:31 +0000

Google-owned, San Bruno, California-based YouTube Incoporated has announced that it will hold the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary and... Read more...

First Woman named Winner of Prestigious Computing Award

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:01:45 +0000

For the first time since its debut in 1966, the A.M. Turing Award, which is granted by the Association for Computer Machinery, has been awarded to a woman. Frances Allen, a 74-year-old IBM Fellow Emerita... Read more...

Robotic Baby Seal Wins Top Award

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:20:14 +0000

The Japanese government sponsored the Robot Awards 2006 in order to promote research and development in the robotics industry. They winner? A robotic seal. The furry sea mammal is used for therapy with the elderly... Read more...

Microsoft give MVP Award to Adware Pusher

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:10:53 +0000

A guy named paperghost over at Vital Security has written a scathing editorial on Patchous recent MVP award status. I'd like to point out that the opinion expressed herein is not that of Neowin, so... Read more...

Opera wins PC World award

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:30:51 +0000

Opera Software today announced that for the second year running it has received PC World's World Class 2005 award for its Opera Web browser. This accolade of excellence is based on Opera's attractive and feature-rich... Read more...

BioWare named in key Canadian business award lists

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:43:52 +0000

Developer BioWare has been named as one of the top 100 employers in Canada by Mediacorp Canada and Macleans magazine, and has also been placed in Deloitte's Canadian Technology Fast 50 listing. This... Read more...

IT company gives workers free beer - wins award

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:20:11 +0000

A US software company that gives its workers free beer on Friday afternoons has been named the "Best Small Company to Work for in America". Analytical Graphics, Inc (AGI) also gives workers access... Read more...

BAFTA Interactive calls for entries for New Talent award

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:11:08 +0000

BAFTA Interactive are seeking nominations for there New Talent Award which is designed to recognize rising stars in the UK games industry. This award will be presented at the EIGF 04 event this August. Sponsored... Read more...

Microsoft Wins Gold 2003 Industrial Design Excellence Award

Tom Warren — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:18:24 +0000

Co-Sponsored by Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek, Award Illustrates Innovation in Software Design for Information Workers Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a Gold 2003 Industrial Design... Read more...

Microsoft wins Linux award

Steven Parker — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:30:29 +0000

Thanks Bink of bink.nu for this one. Yea.. you read it right. Microsoft wins Linux award :cheeky: Microsoft was a surprise winner in the open source awards announced at LinuxWorld last week. ... Read more...

Xbox Linux Award deadline reached: Name of Donor-Lindows!

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 09:40:18 +0000

Thanks kairon! for this news! In an effort to speed up the work needed to bring Linux to the Microsoft Xbox, an anonymous donor offered two prizes (part A and part B ) of... Read more...

Video game industry gets TV award show

Marcel Klum — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:46:58 +0000

Thanks Josh for this one. It's a hit-driven business given to flashy premieres and high-profile talent and now the video games business has gone fully Hollywood: it has its own red-carpet awards show.... Read more...

And the Award Goes to...

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:34:49 +0000

Decorations up, tinsel everywhere... so it must be the time of the year for the awards to be dished out. I'm no expert when it comes to hardware, but over at the Inq.... Read more...

CDV'S Nomads wins best in show award

Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:01:08 +0000

Project Nomads acclaimed as best PC game at ECTS ECTS 2001 - LONDON, CDV Software Entertainment is celebrating at ECTS following the accolade awarded its title Project Nomads. The game, currently being... Read more...