Neowin News Feed for: Draft

Camcorder pirates in India could face up to three years in prison and $14,000 in fines

Usama Jawad — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:54:01 +0000

A proposed amendment to India's Cinematograph Act suggests that camcorder pirates in India should face up to three years in prison and pay fines up to $14,000 if they distribute copyrighted content. Read more...

macOS malware freezes your computer by opening multiple email drafts

Justin Luna — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:08:01 +0000

A malicious code is targeting macOS, exploiting a vulnerability within Safari as well as the Mail app. It will open multiple email draft windows, which will slow down and freeze the system. Read more...

Microsoft providing feedback on HTML 5 editor's draft

Sam Symons — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:44:12 +0000

Though the creation of the new HTML standard, HTML 5, has been mostly up to four of the big players in the browser world (Apple, Mozilla, Opera and Google), it appears that Microsoft has become... Read more...

New Wi-Fi Draft Ensures Compatibility

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:05:31 +0000

More than a year after the first products based on an initial draft of the superfast 802.11n Wi-Fi standard arrived, a second draft--reinforced by Wi-Fi Alliance certification--appears to have solved the interoperability and stability problems... Read more...

First Large-Scale Draft 802.11n Wireless LAN Successful

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:27:53 +0000

The IT staff at Morrisville State College, where the first large-scale Draft 802.11n wireless LAN is being designed, says the prototype gear exceeds expectations. The New York college, near the state's rural center, is in... Read more...

New certification process to ignite sales of 802.11n Draft 2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:22:36 +0000

The Wi-Fi Alliance's recent announcement that it will begin certifying products using the 802.11n Draft 2.0 specification starting in June is expected to help enhance customer confidence over pre-N products and therefore boost sales of... Read more...

802.11n Draft Standard Nearly Ready

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:45:52 +0000

Last week's IEEE meeting in London demonstrated that the move to the next stage of Wi-Fi is nearly ready. At the meeting, 802.11n committee members unanimously approved draft standard version 1.10, and agreed to create... 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...

Microsoft Shares Draft of Vista Security Hooks

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:11:00 +0000

In response to earlier Symantec and McAfee complaints and 2 months after a promise to deliver, Microsoft has issued a first draft of programming interfaces for kernel protection features in the 64-bit version of Windows... Read more...

Draft 802.11n Standard Fails to Pass

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 May 2006 12:05:13 +0000

A draft version of the 802.11n standard failed to pass a first ballot on May 2, leading existing 802.11n vendor Airgo to criticize existing "pre-802.11n" products that have already shipped. Although the 802.11n working group... Read more...

Debate Looms for GPL 3 Draft

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:03:11 +0000

The first draft of GNU General Public License Version 3 will be unveiled next week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., but that milestone is likely to be more of a beginning... Read more...