Neowin News Feed for: Causes

TSA causes MacBook Air owner to miss flight

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:13:16 +0000

The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple's thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek... Read more...

Havok Causes Havoc in GPU Physics

Steven Parker — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:39:31 +0000

AMD says GPU physics is dead until DirectX 11 PC gamers have been looking for more than just pretty graphics when it comes to their game titles over the last few years. Not only... Read more...

Password-cracking chip causes security concerns

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:48:07 +0000

A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for... Read more...

Office Trial Causes Channel Conflict

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:51:00 +0000

Microsoft's Office Trial conversion program is so successful, the company now clearly competes with its retail and dealer partners. The signs were there in February, when we said the Office Trial program "could" cause channel... Read more...

AOL 'Screw-up' Causes Search Data Spill

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:14:57 +0000

AOL on Aug. 7 blamed an internal "screw-up" for the embarrassing release of detailed keyword search data for roughly 658,000 anonymized users. Dulles, Va.-based AOL's mea culpa comes in the midst of a firestorm of... Read more...

Fierce competition from AMD causes Intel profit loss of 57%

Fred Derf — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:50:29 +0000

Intel has had a very bad year. Intel's profit of 33 cents per share dropped to a profit of 15 cents per share this year, a drop of 57%. We, in the Community of Neowin,... Read more...

New iTunes Plugin Causes Illuminated Keyboards to Disco

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:44:18 +0000

MacBook Pro and PowerBook owners can use a new iTunes plug-in which makes the illuminated keyboard on their laptops flash in time to the beat of the music played. The software is called iSpazz, and... Read more...

Missing parenthesis causes 'critical' *nix flaw

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:49:31 +0000

An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System which is used in Unix and Linux systems. Coverity, the San Franciso-based... Read more...

Critical Windows Hotfix Causes Problems

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:36:32 +0000

A Microsoft patch meant to fix critical security flaws in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is causing trouble for some users, the company said Friday. The patch was released... Read more...

Faked PlayStation 3 mock-up image causes a stir

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:19:59 +0000

Nice looking console, but a closer look suggests an impressive fake A new picture purporting to be of Sony's next-generation PlayStation has been "leaked" onto the Internet, but a number of elements... Read more...

Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:05:09 +0000

For three hours last week 800 airplanes were left flying in the air with no way to contact air traffic control. This serious problem was a combination of human error and a 'design glitch'... Read more...

'Hardware glitch' causes AIM to twitch

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:40:50 +0000

Thanks xStainDx. AIM, one of the Web's most popular instant messaging (IM) products, started experiencing problems before 2 p.m. PST Friday, a company representative said. Traffic was then rerouted, and the service was restored. As... Read more...

Windows 98's Demise Causes Concern

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:05:39 +0000

Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 98 could pose significant security challenges for many users, Microsoft customers and security experts report. On December 8, Microsoft announced its intention to halt further distribution of Windows... Read more...

Sober worm causes headaches

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:46:43 +0000

A new virus threat called Sober could be causing a few headaches today, according to antivirus researchers. The Sober worm, spotted in the last 12 hours, is a traditional attachment-based piece of malware that uses... Read more...

Bill Gates "dead" rumour causes panic in South Korea

Tom Warren — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:19:37 +0000

An unsubstantiated rumour that Bill Gates had been shot dead in Los Angeles caused share prices on the South Korean stock exchange to slump as panic selling ensued. The rumour, started on a... Read more...

New MS Office causes anti-virus headache

Tom Warren — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:47:37 +0000

Microsoft's latest Office 2003 beta version is set to cause problems for anti-virus (AV) companies because the XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, security experts told ZDNet Australia. The... Read more...

Microsoft donate software to good causes

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:25:41 +0000

Continuing their seemingly endless announcements of software donations Microsoft have today announced that they are to give server and desktop software to two well-known charities. In a show of good will the Redmond... Read more...

Internet causes 10% of marriage counselling & record sales to fall

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:28:43 +0000

Ten percent of people visiting their marriage councillors have been blaming the internet for their marital problems. From online chat to too much porn surfing – the internet has become a compulsive activity for many... Read more...