Neowin News Feed for: Boost

TCP Optimizer 4.0.4

Razvan Serea — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:56:01 +0000

The SG TCP Optimizer helps to dramatically boost your Internet speed. It optimizes Internet-related settings on your end of the connection (your PC), allowing for faster throughput. Read more...

TCP Optimizer 4.01

Razvan Serea — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:02:01 +0000

The SG TCP Optimizer helps to dramatically boost your Internet speed. It optimizes Internet-related settings on your end of the connection (your PC), allowing for faster throughput. Read more...

TCP Optimizer 4.00 Beta

Razvan Serea — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:50:01 +0000

The SG TCP Optimizer helps to dramatically boost your Internet speed. It optimizes Internet-related settings on your end of the connection (your PC), allowing for faster throughput. Read more...

Internet Cyclone 2.23

Razvan Serea — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:03:51 +0000

Powerful, easy-to-use, Internet Speed Booster / Internet Accelerator for Windows designed to automatically optimize your Windows settings which will boost your Internet connection speed up to 200%. Read more...

Auslogics BoostSpeed 7.3.2.0

Razvan Serea — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:00:01 +0000

Your one-stop PC maintenance and optimization tool. AusLogics BoostSpeed will clean up, speed up and repair your system to make it run as fast and stable as new. Read more...

Verizon gives its FiOS customers a big (and free!) speed boost

Andy Weir — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:17:51 +0000

If you're on Verizon's FiOS service, the company has some good news for you: from today, it's introducing a huge boost to its upstream speeds, with uploads up to five times faster, free of charge. Read more...

Virgin Media upgrading broadband speeds again, but prices are going up too

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:47:55 +0000

Virgin Media has announced free broadband speed upgrades of "at least 20Mbps" more for everyone, while its top tariff will now max out at 152Mbps - but prices for all of its services are going up too. Read more...

Virgin Media begins free broadband speed upgrades

Andy Weir — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:18:32 +0000

Six weeks after promising to double the speeds of its broadband customers free of charge, Virgin Media's upgrades have begun, with a new website for customers to find out when their upgrade is due. Read more...

Virgin Media doubles broadband speeds free of charge

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:14:15 +0000

Virgin Media customers have been given a New Year treat, with the news that their broadband speeds will be doubled (or even tripled) free of charge, with the fastest connections soon reaching 120Mbps. Read more...

Virgin Media announces broadband speed boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:10 +0000

Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service.... Read more...

HP Gives AMD's Phenom a Boost

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:49:17 +0000

After a bruising month where it had to admit a series of missteps with its quad-core microprocessor strategy, Advanced Micro Devices got a boost Jan. 3 from Hewlett-Packard. On Thursday, HP announced that it would... Read more...

United Nations agency gives boost to WiMax

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:28:02 +0000

The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson.... Read more...

USB 3.0 To Boost Peripherals to Multi-Gigabit Speeds

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:37:02 +0000

The "SuperSpeed" USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope,... Read more...

Intel 2-way servers to get 45nm boost in 4Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:14:04 +0000

The 2-way server market can expect a boost of holiday season cheer in the fourth quarter as Intel is lining up to launch 12 new processors based on its latest 45nm designs, according to sources... Read more...

US agencies boost satellite use

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:44:15 +0000

The US is giving its domestic agencies greater access to images from spy satellites, in a move strongly criticised by civil rights groups. The images will be used to boost national security, disaster response and... Read more...

Nokia and Microsoft agree deal to boost file-sharing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:25:24 +0000

Mobile phone maker Nokia is to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of file sharing between phones in a new move to generate revenue. The world's largest cellphone supplier will build Microsoft's... Read more...

Google acquires ImageAmerica to boost mapping

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:42:40 +0000

Google has acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras and uses them to take aerial photographs. The search engine giant announced the move Friday on its LatLong blog about Google Earth and its other... Read more...

PlayStation 3 sales boost in US

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:41:16 +0000

Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in the US rose by 21% in June, analyst figures show, but the machine still trails the Wii and Xbox 360. Tracking firm NPD Group reported that 98,500... Read more...

Infineon, Hitachi Prepare for Serial ATA Speed Boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:33:28 +0000

Infineon Technologies AG, a leading semiconductor developer, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled their new read/write channel system-on-chip solutions for HDDs that can be combined... Read more...

Dell adds new notebook PCs to boost consumer sales

Tom Warren — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:06:53 +0000

Dell introduced new notebook computers on Tuesday available in eight different colors with advanced features as it tries to grab a bigger slice of the consumer PC market. The world's second-largest personal computer maker also... Read more...

Samsung Gives Mobile Phone Memory a Boost

Wed, 30 May 2007 21:38:14 +0000

Samsung has announced that it has developed a new 4GB multi-chip package destined for mobile phones. The electronics giant calls its new chip package "moviMCP" and calls the NAND flash memory included within the package... Read more...

Vista's ReadyBoost flash drives lack significant boost

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:19:13 +0000

Windows Vista's Windows ReadyBoost sounds too good to be true, and based on our extensive lab tests, it is. The technology promises to let you speed up Windows by plugging an inexpensive USB flash drive... Read more...

AMD gives boost to software aimed at multicore chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:38:54 +0000

Software developers aiming to tweak their applications for multicore microprocessors have gained a boost from Advanced Micro Devices at a Sunnyvale, California developer center packed with computers running on multicore AMD microprocessors, including the upcoming... Read more...

Fujitsu plans to boost HDD capacity by 500% in two years

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:35:03 +0000

Fujitsu is always talking up this or that hard drive technology that's totally going to revolutionize the industry and so on, but at least this time around they've got some "solid" numbers. Based on... Read more...

Intel's Centrino Duo Could Boost Custom Systems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:05:17 +0000

System builders take heed: Intel's latest generation of the Centrino mobile architecture includes several developments designed with the custom-systems integration channel in mind. The technologies include an interface that lets solution providers optimize the way... Read more...

Report: Vista to boost PC-TV tuner market

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:31:23 +0000

Microsoft's introduction of Windows Vista for consumers this year is expected to help drive the PC-TV tuner market, a research firm said Monday. Among the Microsoft initiatives positioning the OS for TV programming is the... Read more...

Nintendo plans to boost Wii production

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:51:56 +0000

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has promised that production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month: "We must do our best to fix this abnormal lack of stock. We have not been able to... Read more...

Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:33:13 +0000

According to web metrics firm comScore, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year (0.4% from February to March). One month of progress is nothing to write home about, as... Read more...

Price Drops Boost LCD-TV Sales

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:24:51 +0000

iSuppli has raised its forecast by 3% to 75.2 million LCD-TVs, which is 42.7% higher than the 52.7 million units sold last year. While the growth is impressive, it marks a slowdown compared to 2006,... Read more...

IBM's New eDRAM to Boost Microprocessor's Performance

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:02:47 +0000

IBM has unveiled its new embedded DRAM technology, which, it promises, will help the company to improve performance of its microprocessors by up to two times and may also improve performance of various bandwidth-demanding applications,... Read more...

Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:40:19 +0000

There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a... Read more...

Open Source gets European Boost

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:36:18 +0000

A report funded by the European Commission has concluded that open source software could offer considerable savings to organizations with little effect on their business. In "almost all" cases, long-term costs could be reduced by... Read more...

Mini PCs to get boost from low-power CPUs in 2Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:30:15 +0000

Mini PCs will receive a boost in the second quarter of 2007, when AMD steps up efforts marketing its 35-watt CPUs made using 65nm technology, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. While the power... Read more...

Intel P965, Vista to boost adoption of SATA optical drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:06:07 +0000

Intel's P965 chipset and Microsoft's Vista operating system are expected to speed up adoption of SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) and displace ATAPI (ATA packet interface) as the mainstream interface standard for optical drives in... Read more...

Super-Slim Lasers Promise to Boost Optical Disc Capacity

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:33:57 +0000

Researchers at Japan's Kyoto University have recently announced a breakthrough method for shaping laser beams that could result in optical disc capacities up to ten times higher than what's current available from state-of-the-art HD DVD... Read more...

Bluetooth Standard to Receive Speed Boost in 2007-08

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:57:31 +0000

The industry group behind theBluetooth wireless standard announced on Tuesday that it has received clearancefrom the FCC to increase Blutooth transfer rates by utilizing a version of the new radio technology known as ultra-wideband or... Read more...

ATI Partners Consider X1800 XT Speed Boost

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:24:43 +0000

After NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB effectively stole the title of fastest consumer level graphics card earlier this week, some ATI video card partners are considering a speed boost for ATI's flagship X1800 XT in... Read more...

USB Gets Standards Boost

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:45:29 +0000

The UTMI+ low-pin interface (ULPI) industry specification for Hi-Speed USB and USB On-the-Go transceiver chips has been made public for the first time today. The standard aims to save design development time, simplify verification and... Read more...

Delay of ATI R520 to boost Nvidia 4Q sales

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:16:32 +0000

The delay of the ATI Technologies R520 graphics processing unit (GPU) will benefit sales of the Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX (G70), as more PC vendors including Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have decided to adopt the... Read more...

ASUSTeK to Make Add-In-Cards that Boost Physics Performance

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:49:04 +0000

ASUSTeK Computer said at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) it would launch add-in cards that would feature AGEIA's PhysX processor. The products will boost performance of physics in certain next-generation computer games that support AGEIA's... Read more...