Neowin News Feed for: Family

Microsoft Family Insiders is a program to help shape family products ahead of launch

Usama Jawad — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has disclosed details about the Family Insiders program, which allows parents and guardians to help shape family products like the Family widget in Windows 11 ahead of launch. Read more...

Instagram adds Live Rooms allowing broadcasts with three guests

Paul Hill — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:30:01 +0000

A new Instagram feature called Live Rooms is rolling out globally and allows live sessions to include three guests. The firm hopes to help content creators and make people more connected. Read more...

Sky Mobile allows customers to share spare data with others

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:30:01 +0000

Sky Mobile customers can now order a free gift SIM which can be loaded up with their spare Sky Piggybank data that has been built up over lockdown. The gift SIM can be shared with others. Read more...

Facebook adds features to donation tool and eliminates fee for personal causes

Paul Hill — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 08:26:02 +0000

Facebook Fundraisers have received several new features from the social media giant. Additional fundraising categories have been added and fundraisers can now pledge to match donations up to $2,500. Read more...

Google working to protect families using YouTube

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:36:06 +0000

Google has set out five measures that it plans to roll out on YouTube in order to make the website for family-friendly. Over the course of the last year, the site has had to adapt due to controversy. Read more...

LastPass Families announced, coming later in the summer

Paul Hill — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:36:01 +0000

LastPass has announced LastPass Families which makes it easier for families to share and manage passwords. The service will be available in early access, with a general release later this summer. Read more...

Microsoft revamps family features on Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Usama Jawad — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:14:02 +0000

Microsoft has revamped its family features on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, allowing parents more access to monitor their child's browsing habits and other online activities. Read more...

Google announces Family Library to share apps, games and more with up to six family members

Usama Jawad — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:12:01 +0000

Google has finally announced Family Library, which will allow users to share apps, games, movies and more with up to six family members. It will roll out in various countries over the next few days. Read more...

Microsoft planning ‘child-friendly' mode for Windows Phone 8?

Andy Weir — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:52:52 +0000

Following last week's Windows Phone 8 SDK leak, registry data appears to reveal evidence of a possible 'KidZone' child-safe operating mode for the mobile OS. Read more...

iPad app removal could leave family unable to communicate with daughter

Paul Ferson — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:14:03 +0000

After a communication app was removed from Apple's iTunes Store due to supposed infringement on copyrights, a family has been left unable to communicate with their four-year-old daughter. Read more...

Family Pack deal coming to Windows 7 Home Premium

Sam Symons — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:49:48 +0000

The pre-ordering deal for Windows 7 has been going on for a little while now, but there was still a few whispers flying around that there would be a family pack type deal coming for... Read more...

'A Family Affair' ad for Microsoft hits the web

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:34:51 +0000

Microsoft has released their latest advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. This one features the duo living with a suburban family to "better connect" to normal people. Only the first part of the commercial... Read more...

Kingston Adds To Elite Pro Memory Card Family

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:38:52 +0000

Kingston Technology Company is adding a 32GB SDHC Flash card to the Elite Pro line of products. "With the growing popularity of digital video and the HD format, consumers continue to look for... Read more...

AMD Phenom X3 processor family performance

Julio Franco — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:16:24 +0000

AMD known for its fighting underdog spirit recently relaunched the Phenom with the B3-stepping, which we looked at just recently. The B3-stepping has not exactly breathed new life into the Phenom processors, but it has... Read more...

Love Family Pack - Free Windows Live Messenger Emoticons

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:04:58 +0000

With Valentines day fast approaching, what could be more fun that chatting up the one you love with a new set of Live Messenger emoticons? I know the Neowin staff will find this to be... Read more...

Intel E8000 CPU family shortage spurs pricing up over 20%

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:09 +0000

Although it is not long since Intel launched its 45nm E8000 series CPUs, shortages have already been observed in the Taiwan channel. The lack of supply has spurred prices to increase by over 20%, prompting... Read more...

Asustek announces Eee family product lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:59 +0000

With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products while... Read more...

AMD Phenom processor family performance

Julio Franco — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:15:12 +0000

TechSpot tests all currently available Phenom processors, from the 9600 Black Edition to the yet unreleased 9700 and 9900 models. While Intel has been quick to regain a lot of the popularity lost during the... Read more...

The Fun Family - 30 New Emoticons For Messenger !

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:24:51 +0000

The Windows Live team has just released 30 new emoticons for Windows Live Messenger, to make chatting with friends more fun. The Fun Family has 30 cool emoticons, from a vomiting fish face to... Read more...

ATI May Be Considering "Multi-Die GPUs" for R700 Family

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:12:55 +0000

After being late to market with high-performance graphics offerings for a number of times, ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, is reportedly considering high-end graphics solutions that utilize more than two or, perhaps,... Read more...

AMD K10 Family Chips Support DDR3 Memory – Documents

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:29:38 +0000

Not only do Advanced Micro Devices' new tenth-generation microprocessors promise to increase performance because of micro-architectural improvements and the increased amount of processing engines, they apparently feature DDR3 memory controller as well. Technical documents that... Read more...

AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:23:57 +0000

AMD schedules to launch its 45nm process socket AM3 family processors in the second half of 2008. The processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and will have a built-in DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. The processors will be... Read more...

Windows Anytime Upgrade & Family Discount Announced

Steven Parker — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:59:57 +0000

Nick White, Product Manager at Microsoft working on the Windows Vista launch team and Featured Communities leader has posted up the pricing for the Anytime Upgrade option available from within Windows when you buy a... Read more...

Family Safe Computing & Microsoft

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:16:24 +0000

Nick White has taken a short break from his Vista Coach Tour to hook up with David George, Director of Trustworthy Computing for Windows Vista. A short blurb from the article and link below: Hi... Read more...

Windows Live OneCare Family Safety public beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:42:32 +0000

A few weeks ago we announced that in addition to the full PC care subscription service you know and love, we were also beginning to make available other free services from Windows Live OneCare, including... Read more...

Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Beta

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:30:41 +0000

After recently announcing that the Windows Live OneCare Beta, Microsoft's all-in-one PC security & maintenance software package, would soon be extended to non-US countries, Microsoft has just announced that a new Beta is about to... Read more...

Intel Core 2 Duo Family review

Julio Franco — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:16:28 +0000

After much hype and anticipation, the new Intel Core 2 Duo processors are now available in stores with prices starting at $180 all through $530. But it's not for nothing that such tremendous hype surrounded... Read more...

Live family gets a new sibling

Dave Legg — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:14:28 +0000

The new 'Live' group of products from Microsoft is set to get a new addition in the near future. Windows Live Spaces will replace the current MSN spaces where users can create personal profiles, blogs... Read more...

RIAA Sues Family Without Computer or Internet

Mon, 01 May 2006 22:17:01 +0000

So, you don't own a computer and don't have internet access. Why should you care who or what the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is? After reading this, you may think twice about that.... Read more...

Chinese-American Engineer & Family Charged With Data Theft

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:46:32 +0000

A grand jury indictment filed on Tuesday alleges that Chi Mak, a lead engineer for Anaheim defense contractor Power Paragon, took computer disks containing sensitive information pertaining to several U.S. Navy projects and conspired with... Read more...

ATI Radeon X1000 Family Previews

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:13:44 +0000

The first waves of next generation ATI previews have hit the web, showing promising results for ATI's newest additions to its graphics card lineup. The X1000 series brings quite a few new features to... Read more...

ATI Delays Next-Gen Graphics Processors Family

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:47:49 +0000

ATI Technologies confirmed during the last quarter's conference call that its forthcoming graphics processor code-named R520 has been delayed, however, reassured investors and analysts that this Fall it would have a lineup of visual processing... Read more...

Intel Discontinues Family of Intel Pentium M, Celeron Chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 May 2005 10:37:37 +0000

Intel Corp. announced intention to cease production of numerous Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M processors with 400MHz processor system bus. The plan includes various processors designed for older generation mobile infrastructure and indicates... Read more...

IBM to round out iSeries Power5 server family

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:45:33 +0000

IBM has announced a new Power5 server aimed at midsize businesses with around 1,000 employees. The eServer i5 550 was created to fill the gap between IBM's other servers, such as the Power5 eServer... Read more...

AMD intros low power Geode family

Mon, 24 May 2004 17:22:31 +0000

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR had tried to dump its Geode processors for years and AMD snapped up the line last year. Now AMD has released a fresh range of Geode X86 compatible chips targeted at products from... Read more...

Nitro Family official demo

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:57:35 +0000

A week after the alpha demo, Delphieye Entertainment has now released the official playable demo for Nitro Family, offering a renewed opportunity to try out their upcoming Serious-engine powered first-person shooter. This demo contains the... Read more...

Nitro Family demo

Marcel Klum — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:28:52 +0000

Delphieye Entertainment has released a playable demo of Nitro Family, allowing you to try out their upcoming Serious-engine powered first-person shooter. This demo includes two levels from the full game, with plenty opportunity to indulge... Read more...

Creative Announces Xtra Addition To Its MP3 Family

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:23:00 +0000

CREATIVE has announced a new addition to is family of high-end MP3 players. With storage for up to 8,000 songs, extra-large LCD and fast USB 2.0 downloads, the Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra 30GB offers a... Read more...

Murder Victim's Family to Sue

Marcel Klum — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:33:43 +0000

The family of a man teenagers killed in Tennessee plans to file lawsuits against Sony and Take Two within a month. Attorney Jack Thompson said his clients will accuse the game publishers of being responsible... Read more...

Athlon64 family to grow

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:55:41 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices will use cache memory in somewhat novel ways to broaden out its desktop chip line, including its upcoming Athlon64 processor, according to sources. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker will launch... Read more...