Neowin News Feed for: February

NPD: For Honor the top-selling game in the US for February as PS4 continues its lead

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:04:01 +0000

The multiplayer hack and slash fighting game topped February's game charts as Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and Grand Theft Auto V closed out the top three. PS4 continued its dominant run against Xbox. Read more...

Samsung sheds light on its February security update

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:24:01 +0000

Google recently announced its February security update and now Samsung has followed suit. While announced, Samsung's new update could take close to a month to arrive on your handset. Read more...

Microsoft reportedly confirms that Windows 10 Mobile rollout is delayed until February

Andy Weir — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:22:01 +0000

Days after a European carrier revealed that the Windows 10 Mobile rollout had been pushed back until February - in tweets that have since been deleted - Microsoft has reportedly confirmed the delay. Read more...

Xbox One's February system update brings game hubs, TV updates

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 05:16:01 +0000

Xbox One's February update starts the year off right: for preview members, game hubs are bringing game clips and social content, and a wealth of new TV updates are on deck for everyone else. Read more...

HTC's February revenue down 44% year-over-year

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:36:51 +0000

HTC have announced a 44% year-over-year drop in revenue during February 2013, to just $384 million. Many are predicting that if the new One doesn't sell well, HTC is doomed. Read more...

MacWorld 2010 shifts to February

Sam Symons — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:49:56 +0000

You may remember from last years MacWorld event that Apple announced they are pulling out from any future conventions, and will mainly rely on events hosted by themselves. This change has been dramatic for the... Read more...

Wrath of the Lich King tops PC game sales in February

Joshua Seed — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:34:59 +0000

The NPD Group, the top game-industry research firm released its list of the top 20 PC game titles for the month of February this past week. The month's most popular title was World of Warcraft:... Read more...

Windows 7 RC expected at the end of February

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:31:20 +0000

WinFuture, a German website reports that the one and only RC build of Windows 7 will be ready at the end of February to be sent to select testers. According to WinFuture's sources, the... Read more...

Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009

Tom Warren — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:22:48 +0000

Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February 2009. Microsoft sent invites to testers in mid October asking them to... Read more...

February retail sales charts

Brad Wardell — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:45:12 +0000

NPD has released the top 10 best selling PC games for February. Here are the results: February 2008 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision) Sins Of A Solar Empire (Stardock) World Of... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition for February 7th, 2008

Christopher Vendemio — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:48:54 +0000

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of January 30th, 2008. This week, Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob) discuss the following topics: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! (read) Companies helping customers... Read more...

Rumor: Vista SP1 coming February 18, XP SP3 on March 23

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:49:09 +0000

French tech website PC INpact is reporting that it got its grubby little hands on the exact release dates of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as well as Windows XP Service Pack 3. According to... Read more...

AMD triple-core CPUs to launch in February 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:43:26 +0000

AMD recently notified its partners that it plans to launch two triple-core CPUs (Toliman) in February next year while two dual-core CPUs (Kuma) will appear by the end of the second quarter, according to sources... Read more...

Nintendo Wii Outsells Xbox 360, PS3 During February

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:53:17 +0000

Market research firm NPD Group reports that during February, consumers bought 335,000 Wii consoles, while Xbox 360 sold 228,000 units, followed by PlayStation 3 with 127,000. The Wii is simply the cheapest console and it... Read more...

Spam hits record high in February

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:43:04 +0000

Security firm SoftScan claims that throughout February, its anti-spam systems identified a record-breaking average of e-mail as junk: 90.3%. November 2006 was the last time that spam levels were as high (89.73%). The highest levels... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition for February 23rd, 2007

Christopher Vendemio — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:14:44 +0000

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of February 23rd, 2007. This week our panel consists of Chris (bangbang023), Rob and Todd (LOC). This week, the gang discusses the recent outbreak... Read more...

Windows "Longhorn" Server February CTP Now Available

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:45:35 +0000

The English-only February 2007 Community Technology Preview of Windows Server "Longhorn" (build 6001-16461-070209-1510) has been released. Beta testers are asked to use a key from the key package "Beta 2 Enterprise Server (v.5384). A clean... Read more...

AutoPatcher February 2007

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:22:14 +0000

Thanks to TheBlazingAngel for letting us know about the latest AP release: AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition for February 16th, 2007

Christopher Vendemio — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:22:21 +0000

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of February 16th, 2007. This week our panel consists of Chris (bangbang023) and Rob. The guys spend time discussing a wide variety of topics... Read more...

Microsoft Security Updates for February 2007

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:39:00 +0000

As part of Microsoft's routine, monthly security update cycle, they have released the following security updates for both Windows and Office: · MS07-005 - addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Interactive Training (KB923723) · MS07-006... Read more...

Messenger Plus! Live for Vista, Coming by end of February

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:10:50 +0000

According to Messenger Plus! Live's official site, the recent availability of Windows Vista means "that there is no more reason for not making sure Messenger Plus! Live runs perfectly with this new operating system". Development... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition for February 9th, 2007

Neowin Staff — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:03:46 +0000

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of February 9th, 2007. This week our panel consists of Chris (bangbang023) and Rob. The guys spend time discussing some more news centered around... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition for February 2nd, 2007

Neowin Staff — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:38:12 +0000

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of February 2nd, 2007. This week our panel consists of Chris (bangbang023) and Rob. The duo dedicates the entire show to Vista, going over... Read more...

AMD 690 series chipsets to launch in February

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:18:27 +0000

AMD will launch its 690 series chipsets by the end of this month, according the sources from Taiwan-based motherboard makers. AMD acquired chipset and graphics processing unit (GPU) company ATI in October 2006, and this... Read more...

Malware Removal Tool - February 2007 Edition

Razvan Serea — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:24:28 +0000

This Malware Removal Tool was designed to take care of malicious software and spyware which are too new, take multiple steps to remove, or are not eliminated by the major anti-spyware companies. For best results,... Read more...

Windows Vista February CTP Due Today

Tom Warren — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:14:57 +0000

According to many industry analysts and rumours posted to our Forums the Feb CTP is due today. With a build tag expected to be 5308.x86fre.winmain_idx01.060217-2200 the CTP is likely... Read more...

February 2006 Security and Critical Releases ISO Image

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:41:23 +0000

This ISO-9660 CD image file contains all security and critical updates for Windows released on Windows Update on February 14th, 2006. This does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This CD image is... Read more...

Microsoft Security Updates: February 2006

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:24:21 +0000

Microsoft has just posted their security patch builletin for the month of February. As usual all required patches for your PC can be found on Microsoft Update. Here's a brief summary of the six major... Read more...

Neowin Focus for week ending February 5th

Steven Parker — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:30:36 +0000

Its that time of the week where its probably a good idea to summarize whats been going on for the past week here on Neowin. Being Sunday and all, theres not too much on the... Read more...

Next Windows Vista CTP Scheduled for February 21st

Steven Parker — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:00:44 +0000

Bink.nu is reporting that a pre beta 2 CTP build will be made available to testers on February 21st. This will be the first 'feature complete' version preceeding Beta 2 which is expected to be... Read more...

Firefox 2 "Bon Ocho" alpha due in February

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:45:14 +0000

Hot on the heels of 1.5, the first alpha version of Mozilla Firefox 2 codenamed "BonOcho" will be released on February 10, 2006 while the final publicrelease of Firefox 2.0 is expected in middle of... Read more...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Manager February CTP

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:33:03 +0000

Thanks Phillip of NTCompatible for this headsup. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Manager is a new, free database management tool designed for ease of use. SQL Server 2005 Express Manager is filled with... Read more...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express February CTP

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:37:42 +0000

Download the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. Unlike beta releases that receive a much higher level of testing and feature work, CTPs are intended to expose the latest working... Read more...

Tekken 5 gets punchy February 25

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:36:50 +0000

Official release date announced by Namco; further details of game's unlockable characters and bonus games revealed. Namco today announced the official North American release date for Tekken 5, the latest edition of... Read more...

Microsoft Releases Bumper Updates Summary for February 2005

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:53:48 +0000

Thanks Drestin for notifying us of this. Microsoft has posted their Feb '05 security updates as promised. A grand total of 11 patches, all but 2 don't affect Windows XP and 3 if... Read more...

Donkey Kong takes over February 4th

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:49:43 +0000

Nintendo has revealed that Game Boy Advance title DK King of Swing (screenshots) - an unconventional Donkey Kong game featuring platform and puzzle elements, but largely based around swinging through trees using the L and... Read more...

Lead Data to begin shipping 8x DVD-R discs in February

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:29:17 +0000

Lead Data, a second-tier producer of optical storage discs in Taiwan, will begin deliveries of blank 8x DVD-R discs to a Japanese client in February. The client is one of the world's top five optical... Read more...

2 February 2004 is Prescott Day

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:17 +0000

Intel's 90nm 'Prescott' Pentium 4 processor will launch on Monday, 2 February, according to Xbit Labs which cites sources said to be close to the company. On the big day, the chip giant will roll... Read more...

Intel has delayed Dothan, new processors now in February

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:39:41 +0000

Sources at Taiwan's notebook makers have confirmed that Intel will debut three models of its next-generation Pentium M processor, codenamed Dothan, on February 4. To accelerate the transition to the new processors, Intel has decided... Read more...

February 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:06:15 +0000

Overview An identified security issue could enable an attacker to read files or run programs on a computer that visited his or her Web site. By installing this update, you can help protect your... Read more...