Neowin News Feed for: Better

Ballmer says Yahoo deal would be better 'sooner than later'

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:24:30 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again voiced support for purchasing Yahoo or its search business, hinting in a published report that a deal between the two companies may be reached before the end of the year.... Read more...

Windows 7 promises better performance with NAND SSDs

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:14:41 +0000

Microsoft's plans for improving performance of SSD drives in Windows 7 are starting to emerge concrete with some solutions. Manufacturers like Seagate or Sandisk are working to finish their cut of the work as... Read more...

Surgeons 'are better after playing Nintendo Wii'

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:40:02 +0000

Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii. US researchers are designing software that will allow... Read more...

Why Leopard Isn't Better than Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:12:49 +0000

Apple's newest operating system is at best an evolution from predecessor Tiger. Some of the criticisms leveled at Windows Vista apply to Leopard. Seriously. I bought my copy of Leopard on Saturday from the... Read more...

eBay: Phishers getting better organized, using Linux

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:53:39 +0000

When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organized and branching out from the Windows operating system, eBay's security chief said Tuesday. eBay recently did an in-depth analysis of its threat situation,... Read more...

Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:26:50 +0000

A Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP. In total, Microsoft has... Read more...

Google Talk Gadget - Better than Google Talk?

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:03:50 +0000

Google has released the Google Talk Gadget – a web-based module of Google Talk. What better way to communicate than from your home page (assuming it's the Google Personalized Homepage)? Both Gmail and Google Talk... Read more...

Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net

Steven Parker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:27:10 +0000

Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess. Despite a lack of visible progress in catching up with Google,... Read more...

The (Few) Ways Vista Makes Office Work Better

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:04:01 +0000

Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95.... Read more...

WinSnap 1.1.9 - makes screenshots better

Razvan Serea — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:16:36 +0000

WinSnap is a small but powerful utility for taking and editing screenshots. It can easily capture windows of non-rectangular form with the background of your choice, automatically perform simple canvas transformations and coloring effects, add... Read more...

Symantec and McAfee should have prepared better for Vista

Steven Parker — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:09:16 +0000

IT security firm Sophos is recommending that system administrators ask their security vendors if they are capable of properly protecting them on the forthcoming 64-bit version of Vista, as arguments continue regarding access to Microsoft's... Read more...

Better Windows security keeps Apple safer: Gartner

Steven Parker — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:43:12 +0000

Research group Gartner has said that Mac OS X users are now safer from a mass attack -- such as Blaster on Windows -- than they were two years ago, partly because Microsoft has closed... Read more...

EA and Xbox live= you better worry.

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:33:40 +0000

If you sign up to play EA games through Microsoft's Xbox Live Service, Microsoft will provide your Xbox Live user account information to EA so that we can establish an EA Online account for you.... Read more...

Intel: No chipset shortages with better capacity allocation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:41:51 +0000

Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel, admitted that terminating the supply of entry-level chipsets led to Intel missing profit and market share goals. With capacity support from ATI Technologies, Chandrasekher said that the shortage... Read more...

Gaming Google? Better Watch Out...

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:18:38 +0000

In a rather high profile move, Google has once again signalled its lack of tolerance for dissent websites who attempt to game Google search results. Recently, the Germany website of car maker BMW was... Read more...

Microsoft Streamlines to Compete Better

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:30:00 +0000

Microsoft Corp. streamlined its businesses into three divisions on Tuesday to compete more effectively against Google Inc., Oracle Corp. and the Linux operating system. The three divisions are aligned along Microsoft's core Windows product and... Read more...

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:54:44 +0000

Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. The researchers claim... Read more...

Duke Nukem Forever to have better physics than Half Life 2

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:35:03 +0000

Swedish company Meqon, the firm behind the physics for 3D Realms' Duke Nukem Forever, have rekindled interest in the long-delayed game with a stunning demonstration of its latest physics technology. In a short... Read more...

Start-up to use genes to build better chips

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 17:35:57 +0000

If start-up Cambrios is right, semiconductors and other computer parts in the future won't be built. They'll be bred. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is using methods that will allow researchers to... Read more...

Building a better Mozilla

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:17:22 +0000

Wired have a great article on how to get the most out of Firefox or Mozilla; we've written articles like this in-house before. In other news, last week, the group saw a stunning 700,000+ downloads... Read more...

IBM to help better manage computing resources

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:19:48 +0000

IBM has developed an add-on to its WebSphere server software designed to improve the management of back-end computing gear in demanding situations. The new WebSphere Extended Deployment is meant to let corporate customers... Read more...

Merrill Analyst Tells HP: Better To Break Up

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:02:25 +0000

Hewlett-Packard would be better off splitting up its business operations, says Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich. The most valuable and established pieces of HP's portfolio, such as its printing division, should be saved from the... Read more...

Microsoft Promises Better Mobile Gaming

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:56:37 +0000

Better games on your handheld or smartphone – that's what Microsoft is claiming to bring to users of the Windows Mobile operating system that powers these devices. This push to get more... Read more...

Microsoft Says Proposed EU Settlement Would Have Been Better

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:02:19 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today stated that its proposals to settle the European Commission investigation would have provided more choices for European consumers and more opportunity for software companies than the official decision announced today in Brussels,... Read more...

MSN Messenger 6 Just Got Better

Ming Zhang — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:57:19 +0000

Patchou has just posted news on an update on his popular Plus! software addon for MSN Messenger. This new upgrade (version 2.20 Beta), now features Full compatibility with MSN Messenger 6.0. Included are... Read more...

Corporations seek better search results

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:45:24 +0000

When American carmaker Ford announced that it was replacing Firestone tires on all of its vehicles, consumers stampeded the corporate Web site in search of information that went beyond the typical product sheet. Over the... Read more...

Intel's customers make better Canterwoods than Intel

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:43:53 +0000

IT'S NOT AN ERRATUM or it might be an erratum, it's not a problem with a chipset or it might be a problem with a chipset. That's where we stand with the held back Beancountergate... Read more...

Microsoft pushes better web services tools

Tom Warren — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:25:38 +0000

Visual Studio.Net 2003, due out 24 April, played down as a 'fit and finish' release Microsoft has claimed that enhancements to its .Net programming tools will allow developers to build more secure... Read more...

New Gates fund seeks better cures for world's ills

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:21:37 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Saying that medical science has solved the "easy" problems of the rich world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates Sunday announced a $200 million fund aimed at luring researchers into finding original cures for... Read more...

Gates promises better security

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:32:44 +0000

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail Thursday that the software giant has taken great strides to secure its products, but acknowledged that the company still has far to go to achieve its goal... Read more...

Building a better spam trap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:58:41 +0000

Unsolicited e-mail messages, or spam, are on track to make up the majority of traffic on the Internet. But a group of researchers and developers gathered here Friday hopes to halt that by coming up... Read more...

Longhorn, gives antivirus programs access for better protection

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:33:23 +0000

Microsoft is working behind the scenes with leading antivirus software vendors to improve the way desktop security software works with its next major operating system, code-named Longhorn. Under enormous pressure from customers, partners,... Read more...

OASIS mad for a better web

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 20:45:34 +0000

Well, its my first news post of 2003, and a welcome return(?) for cheesy puntastic titles :D An international standards body announced Wednesday that it has taken on the task of... Read more...

Nullsoft SafeSex - The Better OneNote?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 12:58:30 +0000

SafeSex allows you to have some notes that are easily accessible, but relatively secure. It sits on your screen, waiting for a click, and on a click it will activate and give you access to... Read more...

Q810565: Better support for default browsers other than IE

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:44:38 +0000

This update contains several fixes to Windows components to better support default Web browsers other than Internet Explorer, as described in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article 810649. Download now to improve the interaction of certain... Read more...

We've build a better WPA says company!

Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:02:13 +0000

One way to build a better mouse trap is to always take the current crop of mouse traps and take them apart to see what makes them tick. Well, remember that German company,... Read more...

Hi-tech workplace no better than factories

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:32:47 +0000

Staff in technology jobs work in the white collar equivalent of a 19th century factory. suffering from isolation, job insecurity and long hours, research has found. Much needs to be done to... Read more...

OT: You'd better watchout it's Spidergoat

Steven Parker — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:12:15 +0000

LONDON: As comic book hero Spider-Man fills cinemas with his webby adventures, prepare to meet an equally astonishing creation - Spidergoat. Cheers VaxoP for the heads up on this story. Scientists have... Read more...

First-quarter Internet sales better than expected

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:34:12 +0000

The first quarter, usually a sleepy time in the retail business, turned out to be unusually busy for online merchants. The pace of Internet sales, which picked up momentum after Sept. 11, further... Read more...