Neowin News Feed for: Caught

Carbonite caught red-handed posting fake product reviews

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:26:30 +0000

Update: Carbonite have now responded to Neowin here. It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those... Read more...

Sony Caught Editing Halo 3 Wikipedia Entry

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:55:18 +0000

The original entry stated: 'Halo 3, the third game in the best-selling Xbox game franchise Halo, is a highly anticipated first-person shooter video game under development by Bungie Studios for the Xbox 360 and is... Read more...

Symantec Caught in Rootkit Controversy

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:50:26 +0000

Symantec has been forced to fix a "flaw" in Norton SystemWorks which could possibly allow malware authors to hide files from users. While the feature is designed to prevent SystemWorks users from accidentally deleting... Read more...

NeoBay Scammer Caught, We Need Your Help!

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:40:47 +0000

As many members have found out, our own buy and sell forum, the uniquely named NeoBay, has done quite well since it's launch. We've had about 7,000 sales, most of them happy. However, recently, a... Read more...

Taiwan mobo makers caught in Intel chipset shortage

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:19:03 +0000

Fourth-quarter motherboard shipments from Taiwan motherboard makers might be affected by a shortage of Intel 865- and 845-series core-logic chipsets, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. Efforts by Intel to force the PC industry... Read more...

Neowin caught by a storm in GMail tea cup?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:38:01 +0000

Well its seems that GMail already has a loyal elegance of fan boys & malicious members. A new rival has appeared called You've Got Post boasting unlimited space and was quickly posted in Neowin's... Read more...

Ati caught cheating ? (Shock, Horror!)

Tue, 18 May 2004 08:18:27 +0000

Computerbase.de is a company in Germany that keeps itself busy watching the IT market. Computerbase.de posted up an article that claims an optimizer can be found in the new driver for the new ATi X800-... Read more...

As the Mac turns 20, has the PC caught up?

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:02:30 +0000

Twenty years ago this week, during the year of Big Brother, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced the Apple Macintosh. Although the seminal advert (which you can view on Apple's Website here) sticks in everyone's... Read more...

Intel caught with hand in 4U Opteron cookie jar

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:06:48 +0000

SOURCES SAID that Intel has bought a number of Opteron based servers from Appro, and that AMD knows about it. The 4U four way servers from Appro, a system builder, are part of AMD's validated... Read more...

File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:48:41 +0000

Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from... Read more...

GPS device thief caught by GPS

Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:12:11 +0000

To track down this alleged thief, all police had to do was flick on a computer. A 40-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing a computerized tracking device that uses a global positioning... Read more...

Nvidia Caught cheating, again?

Tom Warren — Thu, 15 May 2003 02:01:42 +0000

Thanks Kombatant for the heads up In our recent GeforceFX 5900 Ultra story, we noticed the Nvidia board was well ahead of ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro in Futuremark's 3DMark2003 benchmark, but the... Read more...

Texas hacker caught

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:57:09 +0000

A 20-year-old University of Texas student from Houston faced federal charges Friday for hacking into the university's computer system and stealing Social Security numbers of 55,000 students, faculty and staff. Christopher Andrew Phillips, a computer... Read more...

Microsoft; caught rigging a ZDNet UK poll???

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:00:06 +0000

Thanks goes to Slashdot In December, Java was more popular than .Net for building Web services, according to a ZDNet UK poll, but weeks later the position had dramatically reversed; investigation revealed... Read more...