Neowin News Feed for: Competitors

Microsoft to allow competitors into WPC 2015

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:28:01 +0000

Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference used to ban employees from competitive organizations such as Google and Oracle but that has now changed for WPC 2015 with anyone being abled to attend. Read more...

BlackBerry: We're still “a leader in mobile”, despite what everyone else says

Andy Weir — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:54:43 +0000

BlackBerry has accused its rivals of spreading "fear, uncertainty and doubt" about the company, and says the media have "crowded the airwaves" with "sensationalized reports" about its performance. Read more...

Apple's Multi-Touch patent not so strong to sue competitors

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:39:19 +0000

Just a few days after Apple officially secured a patent for its touchscreen technology used in iPhone and iPod touch, Apple's interim CEO Tim Cook warned its iPhone competitors that the company will use any... Read more...

Apple beats all competitors on reliability, support again

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:52:52 +0000

For the second year running, Apple Inc.'s computers are the most reliable, and its support is the most dependable of all computer makers selling in the U.S., according to according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual... Read more...

Time Magazine Warns Apple Competitors Concerning MacBook

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:11:08 +0000

Time Magazine has declared Apple's new MacBook to be a "powerful and affordable" computer. The magazine has published its first review of Apple's consumer notebook, and it's full of praise. It even observes that... Read more...

Competitors are Licensing Microsoft Notebook Patents

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:52:16 +0000

In late 2003, when Microsoft Corp. began offering other companies broader access to its patented technologies, the executives leading the effort said they would consider deals with anyone -- even competitors. Turns out they were... Read more...

IE competitors mull ActiveX alternative

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:25:00 +0000

While Microsoft hangs onto ActiveX everybody else is looking for a better alternative. Every other browser maker except Microsoft is revising the way plug-ins run in their browsers. "There's currently a hole in... Read more...

Moore calls on platform competitors to follow XNA model

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:10:10 +0000

Peter Moore (Microsoft corporate VP) has issued a statement asking for competitors (Sony & Nintendo) to embrace the XNA model. For those who don't know the XNA model is a global software development platform... Read more...

Anonymous file sharing available from Kazaa competitors

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:21:48 +0000

As previously mentioned, traffic on the Kazaa network is now back to normal after a brief fall due to the RIAA's announcement on P2P. Now two companies are offering anonymous filesharing where no user ID... Read more...