Neowin News Feed for: Customers

39% of Nvidia's Q2 revenue comes from just two mystery customers

Usama Jawad — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:56:01 +0000

A new SEC filing indicates that 39% of Nvidia's $46.7 billion revenue in the latest quarter comes from just two unidentified customers. Read more...

GameStop finally closes all storefronts to customers

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 08:38:01 +0000

The retailer will temporarily close all stores to customers, switching to a "delivery only" service as of March 22. The company earlier instructed staff to keep the stores open during the lockdowns. Read more...

Microsoft expands the Mixed Reality Partner Program to include SIs and digital agencies

Usama Jawad — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:34:01 +0000

Microsoft is expanding its Mixed Reality Partner Program, welcoming systems integrators and digital agencies, enabling them to build unique mixed reality solutions for customers around the world. Read more...

Mojang cuts Realms price and offers free trial to new customers

Jack Wilkinson — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 03:58:01 +0000

To kick off the festive season, Mojang has cut the price of Realms, and is now also offering a free trial to all new customers who have not used Realms previously. Read more...

Apple says many users "bought an Android phone by mistake"

Andy Weir — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:48:09 +0000

Apple's Tim Cook spent some time making fun of Android at WWDC, saying that many who owned Android phones had bought them "by mistake", and berating the fragmentation and malware problems of the OS. Read more...

Important message to Windows Live Messenger customers

Sean Bradford — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:56:19 +0000

As some of you have noted on our forum, yesterday an important service announcement accidentally went out to a large audience of Windows Live Messenger users with the following message: "Important service... Read more...

Impulse Exceeds One Million Customers

Spencer Scott — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:15:29 +0000

Stardock announced that its digital download platform, Impulse has exceeded one million customers since its launch last summer. Impulse enables users to purchase and download PC software including games, utilities and applications. The nine-month-old Impulse... Read more...

Netflix announces 20% rate increase for Blu-ray customers

Sean Bradford — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:28:03 +0000

Netflix, one of the largest online DVD rental companies in the United States with over 10 million subscribers, today announced a disappointing 20% rate increase for Blu-ray subscribers. In the announcement Jessie Becker, VP... Read more...

Virgin to launch 50mbps service for UK customers today

Tom Warren — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:09:57 +0000

Update: Virgin has now updated its site with the full details on its 50mbps service here. Virgin Media is expected to unveil its 50Mbps broadband service at a press briefing this morning. It will be... Read more...

Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it: CEO

Tom Warren — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:53:57 +0000

Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. "XP... Read more...

MySQL reserves features for paying customers

Jonathan Cremin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:53 +0000

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its namesake database. Officials... Read more...

AT&T Announces Free Wi-Fi, Faster Speeds for Some Customers

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:43:56 +0000

AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more... Read more...

AT&T ends '07 with about 2 million iPhone customers

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:26:01 +0000

AT&T Inc, the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple Inc's iPhone said on Thursday it ended 2007 with "just at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers." "We had very solid sales results in October and... Read more...

MIPI: Are You and Your Customers Doing the Right Thing?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:28:06 +0000

Music Industry Piracy Investigations has released a guide entitled "Internet CafÃ© Guide – Are You and Your Customers Doing the Right Thing?", which outlines how to get music legally online and the possible consequences for... Read more...

Broadband customers put on hold

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:51:23 +0000

A survey looking at UK broadband services has revealed a downturn in customer satisfaction levels. Customer complaints now outnumber service-related enquiries by 52% to 48%, the study by market research firm JD Power found. According... Read more...

Carphone Warehouse accused of misleading iPhone customers

Steven Parker — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:18:24 +0000

Staff at Carphone Warehouse, the UK-based mobile communications retailer, are alleged to be misleading customers about Apple's iPhone insurance policy, the BBC has claimed. The information being communicated to prospective buyers or customers, who expressed... Read more...

U.S. Withdraws Subpoena Seeking Amazon Customers

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:06:23 +0000

Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. The withdrawal came after a judge ruled the... Read more...

Dell Enlists Celebrities to Beg for Customers

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:05:20 +0000

In a definite "outside the box" move designed to boost holiday sales, computer-maker Dell Inc. has enlisted Burt Reynolds, Ice-T, and other celebrities to help customers raise money to buy products for themselves or others.... Read more...

Apple Activates $100 Offer For Early iPhone Customers

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:05:57 +0000

After announcing a $200 price cut for the iPhone, Apple quickly realized that it needs to take care of its annoyed early adopters. Steve Jobs received tons of angry emails from customers and on September... Read more...

Dell lets small business customers decline 'crapware' on PCs

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:37:06 +0000

Dell Incorporated has unveiled six Vostro PCs (four laptop and two desktop models) for the small business market that will ship without bundled "trialware", if buyers so choose. These preinstalled applications, search settings, trial editions... Read more...

Customers Slow To Tune Into AT&T And Verizon's TV Over Fiber

Tue, 08 May 2007 20:47:49 +0000

AT&T's U-verse TV system will cost $6.5 billion to deploy by 2008 ($1.4 billion more than anticipated) not to mention that the company has cut the number of homes the service will initially serve by... Read more...

Jobs Says Apple Customers Not into Renting Music

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:51:39 +0000

Apple Incorporated Chief Executive Steve Jobs has indicated he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple's wildly popular iTunes online music store. "Never say... Read more...

Court grants permanent stay;Vonage may sign up new customers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:59:23 +0000

A U.S. appeals court today granted Vonage Holdings Corp. a permanent stay against a lower court ruling barring it from providing service to new customers. On April 6, Judge Claude Hilton of the U.S. District... Read more...

Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:06:31 +0000

A federal judge has ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said it... Read more...

Google Apps Customers Miffed Over Downtime

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:20:52 +0000

Google Incorported is having problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services. Little over a month after introducing Google Apps' Premier version, which includes a 99.99%... Read more...

Pharming Attack Targeted Bank Customers Worldwide

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:21:13 +0000

According to Henry Gonzalez, senior security researcher for Websense, an attack that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific was shut down this week. The pharming attack... Read more...

Xbox 360 Customers Can't Connect To Apple AirPort Extreme

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:22:11 +0000

On the Apple's tech support forum, customers reported that the new AirPort Extreme recognizes the Wii and the PS3 but not the Xbox 360 unless all security, including password protection, is disabled on the AirPort... Read more...

Free Windows Vista & Office 2007 for US Customers

Tom Warren — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:40:27 +0000

Despite recent reports that Microsoft's latest offering is a fake scam site we have received confirmation from the giant software company that US members are able to get a copy of Vista and Office 2007... Read more...

BlackBerry Pearl Available to Cingular Premier Customers

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:16:23 +0000

Apparently today was the agreed upon date to launch (or "prelaunch," anyway) svelte new mobiles that we'd been waiting ever so patiently on, as this discovery comes just hours after Motorola officially released its MOTOFONE... Read more...

Windows Vista RC2 available to CPP Customers

Steven Parker — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:02:46 +0000

This just in from Nick White on the Windows Vista Team Blog, thanks to betax for the heads up. I encourage you to download and install Windows Vista RC2. We're almost finished with Windows Vista... Read more...

Microsoft issues warning to VLK customers over WGA fail

Steven Parker — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:15:07 +0000

Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around. "Just a heads up on an issue related to (Volume) VLK... Read more...

Hackers Steal Credit Card Details of 19,000 AT&T Customers

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:09:16 +0000

Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed... Read more...

Dell to refund laptop customers in China

Steven Parker — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:12:38 +0000

Dell is offering refunds to customers in China who sued the company saying their laptops had different microprocessors than advertised. Dell, the second biggest PC maker in China after Lenovo, was sued by 19 people... Read more...

Apple Denies Customers Education iMac

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:51:13 +0000

In an echo of the furore that met the release of the original eMac, Apple has withdrawn its new education-only iMac from sale to individuals. The new product was available for purchase by individual... Read more...

Intel: Our other customers aren't boring

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:20:08 +0000

Apple's television ads for its new Macs boast that for years, Intel'schips have been "trapped inside PCs--dull little boxes, dutifullyperforming dull little tasks." Now, the voiceover proclaims, the Intel processor will finally be set free.... Read more...

FCC Requirement Could Strand VoIP Customers

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:06:09 +0000

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission plans to begin enforcing its requirement that Net phone services who connect to the public telephone network--known as "interconnected" services--receive acknowledgment from 100 percent of their customers about 911... Read more...

PSP 2.0 Firmware Finally Released to US Customers

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:42:22 +0000

After being promised by August 12th and then the week of August 15th, Sony has finally made good on its promise to release version 2.0 of the Playstation Portable Firmware. The biggest addition to... Read more...

Microsoft Customers Evaluate Sanctions

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:38:04 +0000

Microsoft customers and competitors will tell the European Commission within 10 days if the software giant's latest offer to comply with sanctions is acceptable to them, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. "The Commission will... Read more...

Microsoft offers goodies to lure Novell customers

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:44:24 +0000

Microsoft announced on Tuesday a program that will pay some transition costs for companies that want to move from Novell's NetWare operating system onto servers running Windows. The software titan said it... Read more...

AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:40:32 +0000

America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17. Those customers... Read more...