Neowin News Feed for: Barrier

Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads Barrier

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:29:31 +0000

Easily one of the most popular publicly available torrent sites, Mininova has over 3 million visitors per day which places them in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet. The site has... Read more...

PS3s help Folding@Home Break PetaFLOP Barrier

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:13:50 +0000

PetaFLOP is such a great word. It perfectly straddles (as few other technical terms can) the borderline between scientifically impressive and downright silly simultaneously. Strictly defined as a quadrillion Floating Point Objects per Second, a... Read more...

Microsoft takes down barrier in Vista firewall

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:18:50 +0000

The Window's release of Vista early next year will have an updated firewall that looks at incoming and outgoing traffic, said the company. This updated firewall checks outgoing traffic in contrast to XP service pack... Read more...

Pocket PC shatters $200 price barrier

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:47:29 +0000

If someone made an automobile that did everything really well, handled beautifully, accelerated quickly, looked great and cost less than half of what similar vehicles sell for, do you think consumers might be interested? Dell... Read more...

Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:45:59 +0000

Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on... Read more...

Corsair break the DDR400 barrier

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:54:58 +0000

While such manufacturers as Kingston are finally able to offer limited quantities of DDR400, as reported earlier today here, American memory experts Corsair, who have had DDR400 product for a few months already are already... Read more...

Hitachi DVD drive leaps language barrier

Tue, 06 Nov 2001 02:06:56 +0000

Hitachi announced on Monday that it has developed a drive that can read and write several formats for recordable and rewritable DVD discs, as well as for recordable and rewritable CDs. The... Read more...