Neowin News Feed for: Becomes

You Won't Believe Your Eyes When 3D TV Becomes Reality

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:31:20 +0000

Perfect 3D television and movies without those horrible glasses? They're closer than you think. I'm sitting in Paris and some butterflies are fluttering towards me. Loads of them, perfectly clearly. I could allow one to... Read more...

Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Thu, 17 May 2007 20:39:45 +0000

Google has upped the ante with an upgrade to Google Book Search that allows users to search digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the... Read more...

Wanadoo Becomes Orange

Mon, 08 May 2006 15:52:50 +0000

France Telecom subsidiaries Orange and Wandoo are being merged under a re-branding set to take place later this summer. Under the re-branding Wanadoo will become part of the Orange family. It's part of a strategic... Read more...

Microsoft WGA Becomes Nagware

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:59:18 +0000

Thanks to Aviran for the heads up over in the BPN. Microsoft announced that on Tuesday it will make Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) more bothersome than ever. A new update for WGA is now... Read more...

Apple Becomes Windows PC Platform, Launches Boot Camp

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:10:45 +0000

It doesn't get much more clever. You've flogged consumers an expensive Intel PC, with OS X, and then let them pay for the privilege of running Windows XP on it. Welcome to 21st century Apple,... Read more...

Microsoft AntiSpyware becomes Windows Defender

Howard Thomson — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:53:20 +0000

Thanks to BigBoy for the heads up in Back Page News. Yesterday it was announced on the Microsoft TechNet AntiMalware blog that Microsoft AntiSpyware (currently in beta) will be renamed to Windows Defender.... Read more...

Ten Year old becomes Microsoft Engineer

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:22:44 +0000

Arfa Karim Randhawa meets Bill and is given a tour of Redmond. Arfa Karim Randhawa, aged 10, has become the youngest person to be certified as a Microsoft engineer. Randhawa passed her Microsoft... Read more...

Spam Becomes Accepted Part of the Net

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:24:05 +0000

Net users are becoming more accepting of spam as a way of life, according to a new survey released yesterday. It found that while we're just as annoyed by junk e-mail as ever, more and... Read more...

Copy-Protected CD Becomes Best Seller

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:48:17 +0000

Consumers are warming up to the idea of copy protected CDs, or so reports the Associated Press. Velvet Revolver's "Contraband" sold 380,000 copies since it was first released last week. Even after clearly... Read more...

Aussie anti-spam law becomes damp squib

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:32:07 +0000

SHOWING ALL the acumen for which politicians are renowned, the upper house of Australia's federal parliament has significantly watered down its proposed anti-spam legislation. What was less-than-perfect legislation but generally headed in the right direction... Read more...

Neowin becomes self sufficient

Steven Parker — Sat, 02 Aug 2003 12:21:55 +0000

I'm sure many of our visitors saw the SQL errors, the server slowdowns after some downtime these past 2 or 3 days. This is because we have moved to our own server. We are proud... Read more...

MSN8 becomes more Multilingual

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:47:06 +0000

Microsoft lance le browser de MSN 8 en franÃ§ais... ...und andererseits auf Deutsch. Microsoft says it will begin selling its subscription-based Web browser MSN 8 in German and French language versions... Read more...

Apple becomes largest online music store in the world...

Mon, 05 May 2003 16:39:57 +0000

Steve Jobs announced today that "In less than one week we've broken every record and become the largest online music company in the world." With this announcement, Apple says that its revolutionary iTunes... Read more...

Judge-dread becomes reality

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:08:54 +0000

Ever see judge dread? They had these cools guns which only fired if your finger print was authorised; film just became reality. "Pretoria inventor Nic van Zyl has developed what may be... Read more...

Windows Longhorn slips again, becomes megaproject

Steven Parker — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:07:11 +0000

Thanks neo1980 for this one posted in BPN. Yes folks it's spring in Seattle at last, the moss has gone green, and the Redmond marketing team is busy altering perceptions by dispensing... Read more...

3DSpotlight becomes TechSpot!

Steven Parker — Thu, 02 May 2002 13:13:24 +0000

Thanks Julio for this announcement, we want to welcome a new name for 3DS (3DSpotlight) who have just recently renamed to TechSpot we wish them the very best of luck. Announcement from TS:... Read more...