Neowin News Feed for: Fault

iPhone 6s unexpected shutdowns; Apple cites manufacturing issue as cause of battery problem

Michael Firth — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:08:01 +0000

Apple has posted an article to its Chinese support page explaining the cause of recent unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6s devices. The shutdowns stem from of a "controlled ambient air" exposure issue. Read more...

NVIDIA Shield tablet cracking under the strain

Byron Hinson — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:01:18 +0000

The recently released NVIDIA Shield tablet is showing signs of cracking after limited use. Users are complaining that the device. which retails at $299, have noticed hairline cracks on the casing. Read more...

Virgin Media frustrates with nationwide service outage

Andy Weir — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:21:38 +0000

Customers of Virgin Media, one of the UK's leading ISPs, have been frustrated by a nationwide outage, along with the failure of its customer call centres, days after promising to upgrade its service. Read more...

GeForce 8800GTX on track despite resistor fault

Steven Parker — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:43:04 +0000

French hardware site Clubic is reporting that the a faulty resistor has been found on the 8800GTX model making the card unstable at high load and may cause image corruption (or tearing). nVIDIA has said... Read more...

Microsoft Admits Hardware Fault But Refuses to Repair

Joe Cashman — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:45:25 +0000

An interesting conversation with the Xbox technical support was posted on the web yesterday, the sound recording was made after a previous conversation was cut short before a resolution could be found. The recording made... Read more...

Survey finds human at fault for security breaches

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:00:04 +0000

Human error is to blame for 84 per cent of IT security breaches, according to a survey of more than 900 organisations. In its second annual study of IT security and the workforce,... Read more...

Cable fault slows Net access in Asia

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:22:28 +0000

SINGAPORE--Internet traffic from Asia to the US has slowed to a snail's pace due to two impaired undersea cables. "There appears to be a damage to some circuits on the China-US and... Read more...