Neowin News Feed for: Backing

Obama gets backing of Google CEO

Tom Warren — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:31:35 +0000

Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama The Wall Street Journal reports. The Google chief said in an interview that "I'm doing this... Read more...

Phorm gets UK government backing

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:49:50 +0000

Phorm has received it's biggest endorsement yet - a statement from the UK government declaring its controversial ad targeting technology legal. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has released a statement to... Read more...

Backing for tool to battle spam

Thu, 24 May 2007 23:25:35 +0000

The DomainKeys Identified Mail system, a tool that could help in the battle against spam and phishing attacks by validating the identity of the sender of an e-mail, has received industry approval. DKIM uses encrypted... Read more...

Are You Backing Up Your Pictures?

Joe Cashman — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:25:09 +0000

About one third of digital camera owners are failing to back-up their pictures, potentially risking the loss of entire albums of photos. Symantec commissioned the poll, and said "Digital photography has continued to grow rapidly... Read more...

HP Considers Backing HD-DVD

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:26:40 +0000

The Blu-ray Disc group, which aims to set the standard for next-generation DVDs, said it would not adopt a proposal from Hewlett-Packard by the launch of the technology, leading the PC maker to say it... Read more...

Intel Bets on WiMax by Backing Clearwire

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:19:23 +0000

Intel and cellular phone billionaire Craig McCaw have joined forces to deliver a new high-speed wireless Internet service. Intel said Monday that it is investing an undisclosed amount of money in McCaw's company,... Read more...

Nintendo Backing GameCube For The Long Haul?

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:10:13 +0000

In an interesting coda to the news of Nintendo's next game console from the company's management policy meeting earlier this week, the Yomiuri Shimbun today passes on another comment on the new hardware from Nintendo... Read more...

Universal address system gets Microsoft backing

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:54:43 +0000

Thanks fdiaz2day for this With backing from Microsoft Corp., a Toronto company's dream of a universal addressing system is taking a step closer to reality. NAC Geographic Products Inc. is... Read more...

Group to start fighting governments backing open source

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:54:00 +0000

Following from the story yesterday that advocates of open source are to march to promote proposed legislation in California that would make state agencies use open source software, there has been a report on a... Read more...