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Expect the next Windows 10 Mobile build in "a few more days"

Usama Jawad — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:02:25 +0000

Microsoft's Gabe Aul says that Insiders shouldn't expect a new Windows 10 Mobile build to drop for "a few more days", given the focus the company is currently placing on the November update for PCs. Read more...

Reminder: 3 days left to enter our prize give-away

Tom Warren — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:08:44 +0000

Just a quick reminder to all members, our give-away ends on the 18th May at 23:59 GMT. Don't forget to enter and complete our survey. Enter here... Read more...

Neowin Giveaway - 31 days of the dragon - Winners!

Rob Wright — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:35:07 +0000

A huge thank you to all in our community who have taken the time and effort to make some incredible submissions to our 31 days of the dragon competition, in association with HP and Buzzcorps.... Read more...

Neowin Giveaway - 31 days of the dragon - Entries closed!

Rob Wright — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:01 +0000

Neowin Giveaway - 31 days of the dragon - Enter now!

Rob Wright — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:40:57 +0000

digg_url = "https://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/05/20/neowin-giveaway---31-days-of-the-dragon---enter-now"; Following our previous announcement of this exciting competition, Neowin is proud to be setting somewhat of a creative challenge to all our members, for the chance to win the HP... Read more...

Neowin Give-away: 31 Days of the Dragon

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:47:47 +0000

digg_url = "https://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/05/01/neowin-give-away-31-days-of-the-dragon"; Update (May 20) : Neowin's competition starts today! Over the years, Neowin has been in a position to give away some pretty neat... Read more...

Spore, Mass Effect PC to Require Validation Every Ten Days

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:47:55 +0000

BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days in order for the... Read more...

1.1.2 iPhones now unlocked... 3 days too late

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:23:31 +0000

Teenager George Hotz, aka GeoHot, the original iPhone unlocker is back. In a post to his personal blog he states that he has successfully unlocked a 1.1.2 firmware and bootloader 4.6 iPhone. Better yet, he... Read more...

Try Windows Home Server for 120 days

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:57:41 +0000

Microsoft is offering a 4 month trial of Windows Home Server for evaluation purposes. The Windows Home Server 120-Day Evaluation Kit includes a Windows Home Server Installation DVD, a Windows Home Server Connector CD and... Read more...

Windows Vista Ultimate Extras, Less than 3 days and counting

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:38:51 +0000

Microsoft has 2 & 1/2 days left until Summer ends and the first day of fall officially starts. and still no word on what or if anything is happening with Ultimate Extras. The Ultimate Extra... Read more...

Apple Sells 525,000 iPhones in Three Days

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:22:11 +0000

It would appear the marketing powerhouse has done it again. The apparent lack of standard phone features, the fact that AT&T is the only possible service provider as well as a particularly elaborate and steep... Read more...

Gates to Tout First 100 Days of Vista at WinHEC

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:36:55 +0000

The 2,700 attendees at Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here are going to get an earful about Windows Vista, the upcoming Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Home Server—and that's just from the keynote addresses.... Read more...

NeowINDEX 2007, coming in 9 days

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:03:25 +0000

In just 9 short days staff members from all across the United States and Europe will be meeting up in Chicago and Amsterdam for NeowINDEX 2007. NeowINDEX is Neowin's annual staff and member get together.... Read more...

Microsoft: Two exclusives in two days

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:55:08 +0000

Two of the coolest Microsoft announcements since CES are going to be breaking tonight and tomorrow night, and we have exclusive video for both of them. So if you are online at 9:00PM PST tonight... Read more...

Turkey lifts YouTube ban after two days

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:03:22 +0000

Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of... Read more...

Official Way to Use Vista without Activation 120 Days

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:00 +0000

Official Way to Install and Use Windows Vista without Activation for Free for 120 Days By default, Windows Vista can be installed, used and run without any license, product key or the need of activation... Read more...

Yahoo7, ReelTime service live in days

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:40:24 +0000

YAHOO7 and ReelTime have overcome a dispute that has delayed the launch of ReelTime's internet movie service across its portal. ReelTime managing director John Karantzis hosed down speculation that its partnership with Yahoo7 was on... Read more...

IE 'unsafe' for 284 days last year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:54:10 +0000

Using IE6 was "unsafe" 284 days last year even for users who patched their systems as soon as Microsoft released fixes. An analysis by the Washington Post's Stuart Krebs revealed that exploit code for critical... Read more...

Nintendo Wii Sells 600,000 In Eight Days In North America

Todd Tanner — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:57:53 +0000

Built on a foundation of pure fun, Nintendo's new Wii(TM) video game system sold through to more than 600,000 consumers in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. ... Read more...

88,400 PS3's Sold In Two Days During Japanese Launch

Todd Tanner — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:30:01 +0000

Thanks to Andy07 for the head's up on this story. Sony... Read more...

Three million of IE7 in first 4 days

Steven Parker — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:56:03 +0000

IEBLOG: In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release. Thank you! (If you're not one of those three million, you can get it here.) We expect... Read more...

Britons Online '50 Days a Year'

Joe Cashman — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:18:52 +0000

Britain's 10 million broadband users spend an average of 23.5 hours online each week, equivalent to 50 days of the year, a survey suggests. Service comparison firm USwitch.com said the survey of 15,323 people revealed... Read more...

Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:20:45 +0000

Twice the Speed and No Speedos: Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two Days More than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the two days since Opera announced it... Read more...

iTunes Japan Shifts 1m Songs in Four Days

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:39:05 +0000

Apple Japan has sold more than one million songs to Japanese consumers since it opened its own iTunes Music Store last Thursday, the company said today. "iTunes has sold twice as many songs in just... Read more...

Firefox breaks 25 million downloads in less than 100 days

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:34:12 +0000

On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone. "Thank you." says Blake on spreadfirefox.com "Thank you for helping us take this product... Read more...

Flash-based iPod days away

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:13:33 +0000

Thanks to jerry for the heads up in BPN. Apple's long-rumored flash-based iPod will be introduced at Macworld Expo in 1GB and likely 2GB versions, Apple enthusiast website Think Secret has confirmed.... Read more...

Dragon Quest VIII sells 2.2 million in two days at retail

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:38:42 +0000

Square Enix' latest RPG title, Dragon Quest VIII, has quickly become one of the company's fastest selling games ever, with over 2.2 million units sold out of the initial 3 million unit shipment in just... Read more...

Intel Reportedly Plans to Release New Itanium 2 in Days

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:03:33 +0000

Intel Corp. will update its Itanium 2 family of multiprocessing units next Monday with the release of a number of new Itanium 2 processors with boosted clock-speeds and enlarged cache sizes accelerating the computing speed... Read more...

These Days, Microsoft Isn't So Scary

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:51:22 +0000

Rivals still fear Redmond and its deep pockets, but its clout is diminishing. The decision to unveil Office's source code is the proof. A few years ago, few analysts would have predicted... Read more...

EVE Online 14 Days FREE trial

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:19:24 +0000

GamersHell.com has proudly teamed up with CCP Games to offer our readers a 14 days FREE test-drive of EVE Online. Make sure to have some free time as the learning curve is rather steep but... Read more...

Windows Media Player 10 - 4 issues in 2 days

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:40:20 +0000

Windows Media Player 10 was only released on the 2nd September, and already we have seen 4 possible problems. Find out more information below. Error message when you try to synchronize video... Read more...

321 Studios is calling for fair use with '5 days of protest'

Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:13:46 +0000

321 Studios has complied with a Friday deadline and are now offering their software online without a descrambling tool. A California judge ruled on February 20 that the DVD X Copy software was in violation... Read more...

200 days to fix a broken Windows

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:27:15 +0000

Security researchers are both criticizing and empathizing with Microsoft for the 200 days the company needed to create its latest critical software patch. The six-plus months is the longest the software giant... Read more...

Horizons NDA lifted - Release days away!

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:53:54 +0000

With just over 4 days left till the release of Horizons, beta servers are closed and the NDA has been lifted. Now I can finally talk about how boring this game is! ... Read more...

Are the Days of 32-Bit Chips Numbered?

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:59:31 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices will probably stop producing 32-bit processors by the end of 2005, a senior AMD executive predicts. "I think it will be in the '05 timetable. Late '05," said Marty Seyer, the vice... Read more...

The Lazy Days of Summer Case Review

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:06:14 +0000

While this might be the lazy days of summertime, it certainly has not been a lazy time at THG, with sixteen new cases lined up and waiting to be reviewed. New trends, new designs and... Read more...

Internet Explorers days aren't numbered!

Steven Parker — Sat, 31 May 2003 14:02:40 +0000

Thats to say, we won't be seeing (a stand-alone) version 7 Thanks neostyle for the heads up on this story. This from Wininfo: If there are truly people still working on IE... Read more...

Microsoft told to ship Java in 120 days

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:19:09 +0000

Thanks David for emailing us. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun Microsystems' Java with the Windows operating system within 120 days, after the companies fought over implementing... Read more...

The days of boring cases are over!

Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:58:27 +0000

These cases are really really really nice- if i had the cash id defo buy one. "The days of plain square and boring old beige cases has come and gone. Now everyone is... Read more...

RC5-64 broken in 1,757 days

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:35:07 +0000

Slashdot has just announced that RC5-64, RSA's 64 bit encryption challenge has been broken. On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03... Read more...