Neowin News Feed for: Blames

Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates

James Hall — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:35:18 +0000

When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band's response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days... Read more...

Microsoft blames human error for WGA glitch

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:48:04 +0000

Microsoft blamed human error for a Windows Genuine Advantage problem that identified legitimate Windows users as pirates last week. According to Alex Kochis, Microsoft senior product manager for WGA, new software was accidentally loaded onto... Read more...

Skype blames Windows Update for 48-hour outage

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:12:54 +0000

Skype is pointing the finger at Windows Update for a critical system crash that wiped out the VoIP service for two days. Previously they had reported that the outage was to do with its own... Read more...

Bank of Scotland blames human error in data screw-up

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:39:28 +0000

Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is telling 62,000 customers they could be at risk of identity theft after it stuck an unencrypted disc in the ordinary post, which was subsequently lost. The disc, containing information on... Read more...

Sony Blames Software for Poor Console Sales

Fri, 18 May 2007 21:29:07 +0000

The PlayStation 3 sales declined by almost 50,000 units between March and April. Dave Karraker, Sony Computer Entertainment America's Sr. Director of Corporate Communications, attributed the poor results "to a lack of new software in... Read more...

Ex-Apple CFO Blames Backdating on Jobs

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:40:11 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs told former Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson to backdate stock options, according to a statement issued Tuesday by Anderson's attorney. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with Anderson... Read more...

Man Struck by Lightning, Blames iPod

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:24:47 +0000

Jason Bunch a Colorado teen was listening to his iPod while mowing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon which was when he got struck by lightning. Next what he knew was that he was in... Read more...

Uwe Boll Blames Game Companies

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:44:39 +0000

Uwe Boll, the butt of many jokes from the gaming and movie communities due to his generally lackluster video game to movie translations, is blaming the game companies for his movies' poor showings at the... Read more...

Dot.tk: Blames System Flaw on downtime

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:29:37 +0000

Thanks to DrEaMiNgWeB for mailing us with this bit of news. For all of you out there with dot.tk domain names...., Dot.tk one of the largest free url redirection... Read more...

Intel blames X-Box for Pentium III erosion

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:57:16 +0000

Chip giant Intel announced its fourth quarter and yearly results and said that while its sales had shifted upward by seven per cent compared to the last financial quarter,Q3, year on year and quarter on... Read more...

Via blames Nvidia for WinXP problems

Wed, 05 Dec 2001 14:27:40 +0000

THE BATTLE BETWEEN ATi and Nvidia over graphics market share has now dragged Via into the fray, with sources at the firm telling the INQUIRER that Nvidia is to blame for the problem. ... Read more...

Microsoft blames laidback sys admins for IIS breaches

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:11:15 +0000

Thanks JimF for this bit of news. A Microsoft security expert claims system administrators do not do enough to shore up IIS web servers from security threats, with the result that the software... Read more...

AMD blames Intel for PR Ratings

Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:42:13 +0000

Chip Firm AMD has now formally announced the existence of its Athlon XP+ family and said that Arthur Andersen will audit the ratings to help re-assure consumers of their authenticity.The so-called "PR Ratings" compare the... Read more...