Neowin News Feed for: Booster

Bad day: Falcon 9 crashes upon landing after a record 23 flights, Polaris Dawn postponed

Martin Hodás — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:36:01 +0000

Today, SpaceX experienced a series of bad luck. Weather stopped a historic crewed mission from launching, and another Falcon 9 rocket crashed upon landing, halting the third planned flight, too. Read more...

SpaceX lost its most iconic Falcon 9 booster on Christmas Day

Martin Hodás — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:08:02 +0000

In a rather unfortunate turn of events, SpaceX has lost the F9 booster B1058 during the ride back home from its record-breaking 19th mission. Only remnants of the workhorse arrived in Florida. Read more...

Meta delays return to the office and will require booster shots

Paul Hill — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:38:01 +0000

Meta has pushed its return to office deadline back to March 28 from January 31. The firm has also said that those who plan to return will need to have had the COVID-19 booster vaccine. Read more...

NetGear announces WiFi Booster for Mobile

John Callaham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:15:44 +0000

NetGear has announced WiFi Booster for Mobile, a product that connects to a electrical socket and proceeds to boost the signal of an existing WiFi home network. It's due out in August for $39.99. Read more...

Battlefield 2142 Booster Pack Announced - By Mistake

Todd Tanner — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:44:30 +0000

Looks like someone at EA has an itchy trigger finger. A page on the Battlefield 2142 website, had information relating to the first booster pack for Battlefield 2142 - Northern Strike. The page is now... Read more...

Red Orchestra: Osfront 41-45 "Fall Booster Pack" Released!

Todd Tanner — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:32:31 +0000

As promised the free "Fall Booster Pack" was released a short while ago - get going soldier! Updates to Red Orchestra have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam... Read more...

Battlefield 2 Booster pack and new patch information

Todd Tanner — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:03:24 +0000

EAGames UK posted some new information today about the upcoming "booster packs" that Battlefield 2 will see. What is most surprising is that the first booster pack, "Euro Force" will be released February 8th! Euro... Read more...

TiVo-like devices to get booster shot

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:19:12 +0000

Having proved their popularity with American couch potatoes, digital video recorders are about to get a boost in features that will allow them to zap several video streams throughout networked homes. Engineers... Read more...

Crypto booster tech for mobile phones

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:21:22 +0000

Discretix, the Israeli embedded-security specialist, yesterday launched an upgraded version of Cryptocell, its encryption technology for mobile phones. The technology includes a co-processor, security software and device drivers designed to optimise the delivery... Read more...

IE Booster 2.13

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:13:26 +0000

Powerful Extensions for Internet Explorer IE Booster is a collection of tools to extend the functionality of Microsoft® Internet Explorer® (Version 5.5 and up, V6 recommended). It's also a great replacement for... Read more...

IE Booster 1.6

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:20:28 +0000

Thanks go to the guys over at Betas.Intercom.Net, who spotted that one of the set of tools that I use on a daily basis recently got updated, Woo Hoo! IE Booster is a... Read more...

IE Booster 1.5

Steven Parker — Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:36:47 +0000

Thanks go to WinOSCentral for this update... This handy extension to Internet Explorer, is a personal fav of mine, and it's been updated to v1.5 a sort while ago. IE Booster is a... Read more...

IE Booster 1.4

Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:40:55 +0000

I found this EXTREMLY handy utility (actually just a bunch of web page and javascript stuff, very much like the IE Web Accessories for IE5 but rev'd up quite considerably!) and I thought I'd post... Read more...

Modem Booster 2.6 for Windows

Steven Parker — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:37:18 +0000

Web Accelerator Speeds Up Web Surfing By Up To 300 Percent! Reno, NV - inKline Global, Inc. today released Modem Booster 2.6, the only Web Accelerator that does a thorough check up... Read more...