Neowin News Feed for: Closes

Dell closes 140 kiosks in the United States

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:59:33 +0000

As part of its recent retail strategy, Dell has announced plans to close 140 kiosks in the United States. Customers can still, however, purchase laptop and desktop computers in more than 10,000 retail outlets worldwide.... Read more...

FASA Studio Closes its doors

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:04:42 +0000

Game developer FASA Studio, creators of such games as the MechAssault series and Shadowrun will be closing its doors. However the closuer will now affect support for their newest game Shadowrun as long as people... Read more...

Microsoft Closes $6 billion Buyout of aQuantive

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:48:45 +0000

As part of an online advertising push designed to leapfrog Yahoo and present a serious challenge to Google, Microsoft has just closed a $6 billion deal with digital marketing company aQuantive. As the software industry... Read more...

iPhone Update Closes Some Security Holes

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:02:11 +0000

Apple has released an update for the iPhone. The iPhone v1.0.1 update doesn't add any new features, but does serve to plug up a few of the security holes that arose after the release of... Read more...

O2 closes in on exclusive deal to sell iPhone in UK

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:19:44 +0000

O2 is on the verge of wrapping up a deal to exclusively sell the Apple iPhone in the UK with a view to launching the iPod-based handset by Christmas. A number of Europe's largest operators... Read more...

Yahoo Closes Yahoo Auctions

Wed, 09 May 2007 20:40:43 +0000

Yahoo is closing its Yahoo Auctions service in the UK and Ireland on June 28 and in the U.S. and Canada on June 16. The closure of the UK, US and Canada sites will not... Read more...

Microsoft closes Tellme deal

Tom Warren — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:35:46 +0000

Microsoft said Thursday it has closed its deal to buy voice recognition specialist Tellme Networks. Tellme CEO Mike McCue remains at Microsoft as head of that unit, working with Zig Serafin, who is the general... Read more...

Symantec Slips, but Closes In on AV Product Delivery

Thu, 03 May 2007 16:29:32 +0000

Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing. In May 2006,... Read more...

Circuit City closes Stores due to Aggressive TV Price Cuts

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:40:13 +0000

Circuit City is closing stores 62 stores in Canada and seven underachieving stores in U.S. cities as well as reshuffling its corporate ranks. A support center in Barrie, Ontario will also be closed along with... Read more...

Apple Closes Another Wi-Fi Hole

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:01:27 +0000

The update fixes a vulnerability, which was disclosed in November as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs campaign, that affects both the server and client versions of Mac OS X, Apple said in its... Read more...

LGF: Game Tourney Closes Festival

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:39:55 +0000

An audience of 12,000 gathered to watch the final stretch of a three-day game tournament that closed the London Games Festival this weekend. The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) UK Gaming Championship was... Read more...

Firefox Flicks Closes

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:30:14 +0000

Firefox, the open source web browser, has recently closed an online video competition designed to promote the product. The competition, worth $5000 to the winner, involves creating a short video showing off the... Read more...

Smiling Gator closes shop, Twilight War canned

Todd Tanner — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:47:58 +0000

Smiling Gator Productions announced Tuesday that the Source engine based MMO Twilight War that they had been creating for the past 17 months was now cancelled, and the studio itself was shutting down. Apparently even... Read more...

Dell Closes Longtime Customer Message Boards

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:08:25 +0000

The closure of Dell's popular Customer Care message boards last week has some Dell users fuming that the company, once the darling of PC buyers for the quality of its service, is now whittling that... Read more...

MSN Beta Program Closes, Hands Thanks Out To Testers

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:43:25 +0000

Microsoft have drawn to a close on one of the largest and most public beta programs in its history. The final result, MSN Messenger 7, was released officially yesterday, and offers several improvements over previous... Read more...

Ion Storm Austin closes

Marcel Klum — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:49:16 +0000

Hot on the heels of Atari announcing the closing of its Santa Monica, CA, and Beverly, MA, offices, Eidos quietly announced yesterday that it has closed its Ion Storm Austin office and will ramp up... Read more...

Atari closes two studios, announces poor Q3 results

Todd Tanner — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:25:05 +0000

Atari this week reported decreased revenues for its fiscal third quarter and announced its decision to close publishing studios located in Santa Monica, California and Beverly, Massachusetts as part of what President and CEO Jim... Read more...

Gateway closes AOL chapter with stock buyback

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:31:56 +0000

Gateway on Tuesday said it plans to buy back just over $315 million in its shares owned by Time Warner, closing the book on a tumultuous chapter in its 19-year history as a PC maker.... Read more...

Acclaim Closes Offices

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:31:49 +0000

Bankruptcy almost certain as several studios close and employees told to go home. Following Monday's announcement of a waning loan extension and a possible bankruptcy filing, IGN has learned that Acclaim Entertainment... Read more...

Gateway closes stores, future strong for Apple retail

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:44:26 +0000

Gateway Inc. plans to close its entire network of 188 retail stores next week and lay off about 2,500 staff, the PC maker announced Thursday. Despite the downturn for Gateway, analysts believe the problems are... Read more...

Gateway closes retail stores

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:15:55 +0000

Gateway Inc. Thursday said it would close its 188 stores and eliminate about 2,500 retail positions, the biggest move the personal computer and consumer electronics maker has made since it bought eMachines Inc. last month.... Read more...

Capcom closes old studio, opens new one

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:03:50 +0000

Japanese publisher shutters its internal Tokyo developer, establishes new Osaka subsidiary. Capcom announced today that it will be establishing a new studio by splitting a part of its current research and development... Read more...

Atari closes Legend Entertainment

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:37:35 +0000

[UPDATE] Unreal II: Special Edition is the final edition from the Virginia-based developer. Most workers look forward to Friday. Unfortunately, that's also the day most firings happen, as was the case at... Read more...

Dell Closes Overseas Call Centers

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:22:06 +0000

After an onslaught of complaints, direct sales computer king Dell Inc. has stopped routing corporate customers to a technical support call center in Bangalore, India. Tech support for Optiplex desktop and Latitude notebook computers will... Read more...

AOL closes a Windows service

Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:19:06 +0000

America Online's gated Internet community may just have gotten a bit more secure. On Friday, the company said it had turned off Microsoft's flawed Windows Messenger service--a data exchange mechanism for networked... Read more...

MSN Chat Closes, Subscription Only

Tom Warren — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:55:57 +0000

MSN's Free chatrooms are shutting down today in the UK & Europe and other countries across the world. Microsoft made it clear in September that these changes would begin on October the 14th.... Read more...

RealNetworks Closes Listen.com Deal

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:35:21 +0000

Internet media software and services provider RealNetworks Inc. said on Tuesday that it had completed its acquisition of Listen.com and that the number of subscribers for its on-demand songs jumped 13 percent from June. RealNetworks,... Read more...

DeskMod Temporarily Closes

Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:20:17 +0000

Due to financial difficulties, DeskMod has closed it's doors for a temporary, but indefinite amount of time. Read on for more. At midnight central daylight time, DeskMod closed its doors to the public... Read more...

Safari Builds Leak, Apple Closes Seed Program

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:30:32 +0000

A seed program for Apple's Safari Web browser has been suspended following numerous widespread leaks to the Internet. Although beta builds of Safari have been publicly released, Apple was also frequently sending developers newer releases... Read more...

Rage officially closes

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:46:03 +0000

Reports around the net, ones later confirmed by Rage themselves, over the last few weeks have said that Rage could soon be closing down. This morning, Rage issued a statement that revealed... Read more...

Genuity Closes Bids, $242M Deal Nearly Done

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:20:48 +0000

Genuity said today that Level 3 Communications's $242 million acquisition bid is the only qualified offer. The declaration effectively eliminates the possibility of another buyer swooping in. The companies, which provide wholesale Internet access,... Read more...

China closes over 3,300 cyber cafes

Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:18:32 +0000

China has closed down over 3,300 Internet cafes nation-wide during the past six months for safety reasons, a senior Chinese official has said. The massive overhaul of China's Internet cafes in the last six months... Read more...

EBay closes password security hole

Fri, 05 Apr 2002 02:37:02 +0000

Online auction powerhouse eBay Inc. closed a security hole in a password-maintenance feature late Tuesday that could have allowed attackers to take over a user's account and commit fraud. The vulnerability existed in the... Read more...