Neowin News Feed for: Demand

Foxconn revenue plunges due to low electronics demand globally

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 06:14:02 +0000

Foxconn has reported that its revenue fell by 11.65% compared to the same period last year due to low demand of electronic products worldwide, and also due to manufacturing disruptions in China. Read more...

Lenovo is the latest tech firm to feel the pinch, turns to cost cutting

Steve Bennett — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:18:02 +0000

Lenovo, following the second quarterly decline in sales in a row, and with profits falling for the first time since 2020, has had to start cost cutting due to the changing market and loss of demand. Read more...

Apple said to be cutting iPhone production by 10%

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:10:01 +0000

The Cupertino-based iPhone maker is reportedly lowering the production of its star product by as much as 10% for the current quarter, ending in March - a sign of slowing demand for the premium gadget. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One pre-orders 'unprecedented'

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:00:41 +0000

A Microsoft VP explains that, amid 'unprecedented demand', the company is working 'unbelievably hard' to increase supply and honor all orders for the Xbox One before Christmas. Read more...

Virgin Media launches trial web video-on-demand player [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:34:34 +0000

Virgin Media announced today that it will be launching a trial of its first online and mobile TV player: Virgin Media Player. Virgin Media has confirmed 'hundreds of hours' of content for the beta trial including... Read more...

Google and BT in talks over ISP video delivery network

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:01:48 +0000

Web search giant Google and British Telecom are believed to be in talks about creating an ISP based video delivery network that would deliver improvements to the quality of online video by storing popular videos... Read more...

EU set to demand broadband access for all

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:52:23 +0000

If you're living in a part of the EU that has yet to be reached by broadband internet access, then help could be at hand from the European Commission. The European Commission is about to... Read more...

Hackers Turn Off Lights, Demand Cash

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:01:30 +0000

Hackers literally turned out the lights in "several regions outside the United States" after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue told utility engineers at... Read more...

Linspire Updates Desktop Linux, But Demand Is Weak

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:57:12 +0000

Desktop Linux software vendor Linspire released a new version of its operating system this week, the first commercial release in two years from the company trying to position Linux as a mass-market alternative to Microsoft's... Read more...

UK Police Can Now Demand Encryption Keys

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:27:53 +0000

People in the UK who encrypt their data are now obliged by law to give up the encryption keys to law enforcement officials who request it, under part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act... Read more...

Panasonic Reports Steady Demand for Plasma

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:03:23 +0000

Panasonic expects demand for large plasma televisions to slide from 40% in the next two years but to hold steady after that at about 30% of the total market for "TVs of 37 inches and... Read more...

Micron 2Gbit DDR3 ready to go, but demand not there

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:09:53 +0000

With Intel's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology is on its way to producing DDR3, and... Read more...

Best Buy & Circuit City Report Strong Demand for Vista

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:08:10 +0000

Best Buy Company Incorporated and Circuit City Stores Incorporated have both reported high demand for Windows Vista in their retail stores. In separate earnings statements, the two retail companies said that PCs with Vista preinstalled... Read more...

Demand for draft 802.11n devices likely to pick up momentum

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:43:05 +0000

Demand for draft 802.11n (pre-N) devices is expected to start picking up momentum in the second quarter of this year, buoyed by the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system), according to sources at... Read more...

Demand for Nvidia G80 chips weak as market expects G84/86

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:53:33 +0000

Nvidia's launch of its DirectX 10-compliant GeForce 8800 GPU (codenamed G80) earlier this month seems to have failed to significantly stir up demand for high-end graphics cards, although the new chips took a lead in... Read more...

YouTube erases 29,549 clips on Japan media demand

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:53:32 +0000

Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said on Friday. The television, music... Read more...

Apple Struggles to Meet MacBook Demand

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:13:11 +0000

The MacBook is just too popular. Apple appears to be struggling to meet demand. On the Apple UK online store the product is listed as ready to ship in five days. This compares to... Read more...

Demand for Xbox Live Drives Microsoft's Revenue

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:20:29 +0000

Microsoft's revenue rose 13 percent to $10.9 billion in the third quarter to end-March 2006 from the same period a year earlier on the back of a surge in demand for newly released products, especially... Read more...

Apple Swamped with Demand for New MacBook Pro

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:24:03 +0000

According to a report by Forbes, demand for Apple's new portable is soaring well beyond expectation. Previously thought to a potential problem for Apple, overflowing demand for the MacBook Pro is a very refreshing sight... Read more...

Firms Haggle Over Video On Demand

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:52:15 +0000

Everyone agrees video on demand over the Internet should be a goldmine for telecoms and media firms, but the two converging industries have yet to figure out how both can make money, a conference in... Read more...

DDR2 Demand Expected to Increase

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:06:42 +0000

Demand for DDR2 memory is expected to dramatically increase in the first quarter of 2006 thanks in part to AMD's forthcoming M2 socket processors and Intel's mainstream 945 chipset. AMD's M2 socket processors... Read more...

Flash Memory Chip Demand To Explode

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:27:37 +0000

Roaring demand for flash memory chips, popular in hot-selling music players and digital cameras, will accelerate later this year, but prices will stay weak as industry leader Samsung holds prices down. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.... Read more...

Microsoft to Give Sign of Demand for new Windows

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:45:34 +0000

Microsoft expects to show that it will recover from a recent sales slump when the world's largest software maker reports details of early orders this week for its next Windows version set to launch next... Read more...

BT and Microsoft confirms TV video on demand plans

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:47:24 +0000

BT has selected Microsoft's IPTV - Internet Protocol Television - software platform to deliver TV over broadband connections. The telco will begin trials early next year, with a consumer rollout expected in the summer. ... Read more...

Micron Sees Robust DRAM Memory Chip Demand in 2005

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:33:51 +0000

Computer memory chip maker Micron said on Wednesday it had indications that demand for DRAM memory chips, used mainly in personal computers, would be robust enough to soak up rising supply in 2005. ... Read more...

Too Much Demand for Too Few Patching Servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:43:03 +0000

It sounded like a good idea: Instead of dribbling out a fix here and a patch there, release all your security fixes once a month, in a few, fairly easily digestible bundles. But with more... Read more...

Atari on Demand

Marcel Klum — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:45:40 +0000

Atari, Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment, today announced the launch of the Company's first online software service that delivers its back-catalog titles over the Internet to Atari fans worldwide. The service will distribute the... Read more...

Lindows: Microsoft's Latest Demand Impossible

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:29:36 +0000

Microsoft has filed legal papers in the Netherlands requesting fines of 100,000 euros (US$122,230) per day against Lindows for allowing users within that country to access its Internet site. Lindows says Microsoft's demand that Lindows... Read more...

DRAMeXchange: DRAM demand picks up after Christmas holidays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:52:03 +0000

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales... Read more...

DRAM companies speed up investment to meet DDR2 demand

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:37:46 +0000

Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by... Read more...

Yahoo offers unlimited games on demand

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:42:56 +0000

The portal's online PC-game rental program is extended with an unlimited subscription for $14.95 per month. Yahoo Games has announced that it has expanded its online PC-game rental service to let subscribers... Read more...

Neowin: Demand for Immediate Take-down (taken literally)

Steven Parker — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:13:40 +0000

Yesterday at 12AM (GMT) Neowin was taken offline when our provider received a Demand for Immediate Take-down order from a Microsoft contracted company that investigates illegal activity on the Internet for Microsoft. The email was... Read more...

Demand Low for Broadband in the U.S.

Marcel Klum — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:04:36 +0000

Almost all U.S. families live in areas where a high-speed Internet connection is available, but many see no compelling reason to pay extra for it, the government reports. A Commerce Department study,... Read more...

Media giants demand ISPs block Web sites

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:40:36 +0000

They've sued Napster and Scour into submission; realizing that this is expensive, they've bought numerous Congressional lapdogs to force the DoJ to become their personal 'Copyright 911' so that challenges to their production and distribution... Read more...

By POPULAR DEMAND XP MUSIC

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:04:42 +0000

aaahhhhh! soo soothing! :cheeky: Thanks, Shouts and a general back scratch goes out to Rev0x who has answered the cries of the Neowin community to post the ripped tracks off the WinXP Tour,... Read more...

MSN 7 Video On Demand

Steven Parker — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:38:37 +0000

Thanks Julien of Activewin, Microsoft has posted some interesting videos describing the new features you can expect to see in MSN 7, MSN Explorer 7 and Windows Messenger 4.5 set to be released on... Read more...