Neowin News Feed for: Fights

Google Fights Domain Name Tasting

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:34:54 +0000

Google Inc. announced yesterday that it would begin to take increasing measures against domain name tasting, a practice which exploits a grace period originally designed to rectify legitimate mistakes, such as registrants mistyping the domain... Read more...

Community fights back for AutoPatcher

Dave Legg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:02:09 +0000

Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries... Read more...

Intel Fights Back Workstation Market from AMD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:18:21 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices' positions in the market of workstations have never been really strong primarily due to the fact that not a lot of system builders used AMD's chips in business-oriented personal computers. While along... Read more...

RIAA Fights to Keep Wholesale Pricing Secret

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:32:07 +0000

UMG vs. Marie Lindor is one of few cases where the defendant is fighting, instead of settling with the RIAA. The record labels consider pricing information (believed to be ~70Â¢ per track) as a trade... Read more...

Microsoft fights Gmail: 2GB+ Exchange mailboxes

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:12:52 +0000

Microsoft is battling trend for frazzled office workers to give up on Outlook and switch to Gmail: it is promising 2GB+ mailboxes in Exchange 2007 rather than the piffling 50MB mailboxes most workplaces have now.... Read more...

William Hill fights back against the hackers

Steven Parker — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:11:30 +0000

The entire online betting industry faces an ongoing battle in the fight against hackers and extortionists, according to William Hill's IT chief. In the latest of the silicon.com CIO Vision video interview series, Victor Kemeny,... Read more...

Fox Fights Back at DVR Fast Forwarding

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:57:10 +0000

Fox is running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos. U.K. advertisements for Fox's new drama,... Read more...

Mom Fights RIAA Without Attorney

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:08:06 +0000

A woman from New York sued by the RIAA for illegal downloading is taking on the music industry group without the assistance of an attorney. Patricia Santangelo contends she has never downloaded a single... Read more...

Cisco Fights Shareholders on Human Rights

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:04:29 +0000

Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems is fighting a shareholder action that urges the company to adopt a comprehensive human rights policy for its dealings with the Chinese government, and with other states practicing political censorship... Read more...

AOL Fights Phishing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:17:55 +0000

America Online has begun a campaign to identify and block fraudulent Web sites that attempt to solicit personal information from visitors, it says. The crackdown against so-called "phishing" sites is being conducted in partnership with... Read more...

Linux fights off hackers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:53:37 +0000

Linux systems are getting tougher for hackers to crack, security experts have reported today. A study by not-for-profit IT security testing organisation Honeynet Project has shown that, on average, Linux systems today take three months... Read more...

Apple fights RealNetworks' 'hacker tactics'

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:18:37 +0000

Apple Computer has quietly updated its iPod software so that songs purchased from RealNetworks' online music store will no longer play on some of the Mac maker's popular MP3 players. The move... Read more...

MSN Search Beta Launched, Google Fights Back

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:42:59 +0000

Today, Microsoft launched a public beta of their search offering, MSN Search. New features include integration with other Microsoft sites (e.g. Encarta, MSN Music), basic questions search (e.g. What is the capital of Turkey? ->... Read more...

Games maker fights for survival

Tom Warren — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:56:18 +0000

Thanks to a|KK|y for the heads up One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale. The London-based company behind the... Read more...

DNA Sequencing Technique Fights Spam Email

Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:36:41 +0000

What's impressive is that an algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam. What's even more surprising is it wasn't developed... Read more...

Microsoft Fights Spam at the Source

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 03:12:52 +0000

In its continuing fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Microsoft plans to filter outgoing messages on its consumer mail services and is busy developing new "proofing" technologies, the software maker's chief spam fighter says. The fight... Read more...

Encrypted File Sharing: P2P Fights Back

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:02:22 +0000

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online security experts, on which... Read more...

Cinema trailer fights film piracy

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:56:57 +0000

Teenagers are being targeted in an anti-piracy drive to reduce the number of films downloaded from the internet. A trailer comparing downloading from the internet and buying a bootleg DVD to stealing... Read more...

SBC Communications Inc. Fights Back Against RIAA

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:04:10 +0000

SBC Communications Inc. fired a shot Wednesday in the acrimonious battle between file-swapping consumers and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In a suit filed with the U.S. District Court in... Read more...

Hormel fights to defend Spam name

Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:57:11 +0000

Hormel Foods has filed two legal challenges with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking to prevent Spam Arrest, a Seattle software company, from using the Spam name Hormel has used for decades on its... Read more...

Hotmail fights spam but ignores CRM and opt-in marketing

Sun, 11 May 2003 20:13:27 +0000

Two thumb rules in avoiding spam (in your Hotmail inbox) are: 1. Do not open suspicious mails. 2. Do not unsubscribe. Opening (eg. included images, hence loading them from tracking servers)... Read more...

AOL fights IM fade-out

Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:37:45 +0000

America Online is warming up to instant messaging video features that it once dismissed as irrelevant, in the latest sign that the company is playing catch-up to rivals in a key communications technology that it... Read more...

DVD Forum fights back against Blu-Ray incursions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:00:45 +0000

A NEW DVD FORMAT will be unveiled by the DVD consortium this year in a bid to fight back against the Blu-Ray formats being promoted by Sony. Toshiba and NEC will take the lead on... Read more...

EMC fights back with new architecture

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:43:21 +0000

EMC is expected to announce next week a long-awaited overhaul of its high-end products as it moves to narrow the performance gap with rivals in the storage market. Monday's launch of EMC's Symmetrix... Read more...

Google fights search-fixing charges

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:05:49 +0000

Good ol' google :) "The search engine is fighting claims by online advertising network Search King that it was deliberately demoted in Google's all-important PageRank. Google has moved to quash a lawsuit that... Read more...

IBM Fights Oracle with Database Software Update

Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:44:48 +0000

International Business Machines Corp., taking aim at rival database giant Oracle Corp. , on Monday unveiled a new version of its DB2 database software that it says will make it easier for companies to manage... Read more...