Neowin News Feed for: Blows

Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:22:40 +0000

A Yahoo company employee mistakenly sent an e-mail to New York Times reporter Brad Stone informing him about his new profile for a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash. After Stone clicked on the link... Read more...

Crackdown demo blows away competition

Todd Tanner — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:16:21 +0000

Microsoft's recent Crackdown demo, a free download available only for Gold Tier members on Marketplace, this week made Microsoft history. That's right, beating out top downloads like Lost Planet and Fight Night... Read more...

Apple Blows Fuse Over ADS

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:49:08 +0000

Apparently there are some new advertisements from a new music channel Fuse that strongly resemble ads used for Apple's iPod. These ads are obvious rip offs of Apple's, which resemble something you'd find on Fox.... Read more...

AOL UK blows £20m on ad campaign

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:59:33 +0000

AOL UK is going on a Â£20m advertising spending spree to plug AOL 9.0 - the latest version of its Internet service. Aimed at both broadband and narrowband punters, AOL UK's biggest ad campaign to... Read more...

SCO's ill wind blows no good for Microsoft

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:53:48 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is not benefiting from The SCO Group Inc.'s intellectual property dispute with IBM Corp. despite the market uncertainty the legal fiasco is creating. Microsoft Australia's platform strategy manager Martin Gregory has rejected claims... Read more...

Mosaic Blows Out 10 Candles

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:01:21 +0000

1993 was a very good year for computer geeks. Grunge was fashionable. Version 1.0 of the Linux kernel was about ready to make its debut. Intel's snappy new 66-MHz Pentium processor had... Read more...

Amnesty blows the horn on MS, Sun, Cisco

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:05:02 +0000

Human rights group Amnesty International has fingered a handful of tech companies that allegedly have sold products used in government censorship of Internet speech in China. In a report released Tuesday, Amnesty... Read more...

States' team blows foot off over modular Windows demo

Fri, 10 May 2002 11:13:04 +0000

The unsettling states' brief triumph over modular Windows evaporated yesterday evening, when their legal team abandoned plans to stage a demonstration by testing consultant James Bach. California assistant attorney general put a brave face on... Read more...

NVChess blows 3DWin's bandwidth away!

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:41:43 +0000

Found this over on Warp2Search, where a german news site, 3DWin.net got a hold of a rather neat demo. The demo in question was supposidly shows at the recent CeBIT show, where nVidia... Read more...