Neowin News Feed for: Competitor

Microsoft: We see PS4 Pro as a competitor to the Xbox One S rather than the Xbox One X

Usama Jawad — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:52:01 +0000

In a detailed interview, Microsoft's Xbox head Phil Spencer has described how he views the PlayStation 4 Pro as a competitor to last year's Xbox One S rather than its latest offering, the Xbox One X. Read more...

Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month

Tom Warren — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:24:51 +0000

Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's... Read more...

HTC Reveals "Touch" as Possible iPhone Competitor

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:09:05 +0000

HTC Corporation has announced the global launch of the HTC Touch: a mobile phone that makes use of touch screen navigation and Windows Mobile 6 Professional. HTC says that its Touch phone represents extensive research... Read more...

Verizon to Reveal iPhone Competitor This Summer

Wed, 23 May 2007 19:45:13 +0000

It appears that when Verizon turned down the iPhone when Apple approached them first, the company had a good reason. The company believes that the exclusivity of the phone won't do much to help AT&T.... Read more...

Google announces StumbleUpon competitor

Todd Tanner — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:08:32 +0000

On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar. Google (along with AOL) were reportedly in... Read more...

News Corp. and NBC: YouTube competitor coming

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:41:13 +0000

News Corporation and NBC have announced a deal to create a new video distribution site, with the content and distribution channels coming from Yahoo!, Microsoft and Time Warner/AOL. The service will launch this summer with... Read more...

Best Buy launches iTunes competitor

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:11:10 +0000

Best Buy, in cooperation with SanDisk and RealNetworks, is the latest company to join the growing list of competitors to Apple Computer's iTunes music service. Best Buy unveiled on Thursday a online music service, called... Read more...

Google's Unlikely Competitor

Joe Cashman — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:34:09 +0000

Hot on the heels of Google in bid to make a free wireless city is the unlikely county council of Norwich. Norwich City located in the East of England has been running a free wireless... Read more...

Microsoft to Launch iPod Competitor by Christmas

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:23:31 +0000

Microsoft will start selling a digital music and video player to compete with Apple's iPod by Christmas, sources say. The company is also said to be planning to have a wireless feature on the new... Read more...

McAfee Reveals 'OneCare' Competitor

Tue, 30 May 2006 22:27:16 +0000

McAfee announced today an all-in-one security subscription service codenamed Falcon. Falcon will contain all major security suite components as well as PC backup and tune-up tools. It's essentially a competitor to Microsoft's Windows OneCare, expected... Read more...

Microsoft Prepares Apple GarageBand Competitor

Simon Andrews — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:15:02 +0000

It seems that the ongoing battle between Apple and Microsoft is about to get a bit bigger. According to Microsoft-Watch, Microsoft is preparing a program code named Monaco to go up against GarageBand, a part... Read more...

Samsung to Launch iTunes Competitor

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:05:23 +0000

Samsung is to follow Apple and Sony and launch its own online content download service to promote its digital music players. The revelation was made on Friday by Choi Ji-Sung, the head of the company's... Read more...

Sony to release iPod nano competitor

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:40:00 +0000

26 years after WALKMAN created a revolutionary music lifestyle, the new Sony WALKMAN will now redefine it. Simply called 'WALKMAN', the new digital music player from Sony features spectacular ergonomic design and an... Read more...

Microsoft Takes Wraps Off SourceForge Competitor

Tom Warren — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:06:41 +0000

Workspaces 1.0 offers .Net developers a place to collaborate. Microsoft officially rolled out version 1.0 of its Workspaces collaborative development environment this week. Workspaces is a lot like the open-source... Read more...