Neowin News Feed for: Fires

Amazon's solar panels have been going up in flames and the company forgot to mention it

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:28:02 +0000

Amazon has experienced many solar panel fires, according to an internal report. Despite the number of incidents, the company failed to mention the issue in its latest sustainability report. Read more...

FCC fires back at Obama's DTV delay request

Brad Sams — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:36:43 +0000

FCC chief Kevin Martin has fired back at the Obama camp for its recommendation for a delay in the DTV transition. As previously reported on Neowin, the Obama office wants the FCC to delay... Read more...

AT&T to replace batteries after explosions and fires

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:17:08 +0000

AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it will replace 17,000 batteries mostly used to back up power supply for its U-verse television network after two fires and two explosions in a little over a year. The... Read more...

Intel fires up 45nm laptop chip assault

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:38:04 +0000

Intel has kicked an already down AMD by celebrating the arrival of 16 new chips across its laptop, PC and server lines. The fresh chip dump marks the arrival of Intel's first laptop chips manufactured... Read more...

Microsoft Fires Chief Information Officer

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:37:33 +0000

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it had fired its chief information officer due to alleged company policy violations. Unfortunately, a spokesman declined to give the exact reason for the dismissal, so we're as much in... Read more...

Circuit City Fires 3,400 "Overpaid" Employees

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:54:00 +0000

Circuit City is firing 3,400 employees (8% of Circuit City's total work force) and bringing in lower-cost workers to fill their roles. The company says that the move is aimed to help realign its cost... Read more...

AMD fires another antitrust salvo at Intel

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:47:47 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is stepping up the pressure on Intel over alleged anticompetitive practices by filing another complaint, this time with German authorities. The latest complaint was filed last week with Germany's Federal Cartel... Read more...

Sun Fires Up Opteron 8-Way and Linux on SPARC

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:17:22 +0000

Sun Microsystems' Opteron orgy has scaled up to an eight-way with the arrival of the Sun Fire X4600. Elsewhere, Linux has made its way to Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 chips. Sun still won't "officially" discuss... Read more...

WOW Fires up the Burning Crusade

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:17:49 +0000

Blizzard officially announces expansion to World of Warcraft; level cap raised to 70, blood elves confirmed, social lives doomed; first screens inside On the question of expanding World of Warcraft, the question... Read more...

Ask Jeeves Fires The Butler

Howard Thomson — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:54:23 +0000

It has been reported by the BBC that the Ask website will be dropping their leading character, Jeeves. The decision comes after a user survey found that the iconic butler caused confusion (as to what... Read more...

Mozilla fires back at Symantec over security report

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:05:13 +0000

Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The study was conducted over the first six months... Read more...

UC fires back at Microsoft in browser battle

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:17:29 +0000

Everyone favorite one-man company has found a supporter with its lawsuit against Microsoft. Eolas and the University of California have joined forces to get money out of the tech giant. As it stands... Read more...

Sun fires back over Open Source Java accusations

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:46:03 +0000

Sun has offered a frank response to the open letter from Eric S, Raymond, President, Open Source Initiative, in which he called on Sun to make its Java platform Open Source and described the company's... Read more...

Open source advocate fires back at SCO

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:42:14 +0000

Company calls effort "a waste of time" Just days after The SCO Group escalated its legal battle with IBM over alleged violations of the two companies' Unix source code contract, open source... Read more...

Intel's Barrett fires back in IT relevance debate

Sun, 18 May 2003 01:39:33 +0000

Intel Corp has joined the rising chorus of technology companies debunking the "IT Doesn't Matter" debate touched off by Nicholas Carr's article in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. With its... Read more...

Sun Fires Latest Round in Java War

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:13:33 +0000

Sun Microsystems faces "irreparable harm" if an injunction ordering Microsoft to include Sun's Java Runtime Environment with its products is overturned, Sun said in a legal brief filed Friday. The brief is the... Read more...

Kazaa fires back at Hollywood Labels

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:57:23 +0000

Sharman Networks, owner of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software, has launched a legal counterstrike against the major record labels and Hollywood studios, asserting they have "obscenely" abused their copyright powers In a... Read more...

Bell Labs fires researcher after committee finds 'fraudulent work'

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:48:56 +0000

A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at... Read more...

Washington State Fires Six for Racy E-Mails

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:05:36 +0000

Who said government work was boring? At least six Washington state employees who used their e-mail to send raunchy jokes, sexual overtures and even make plans for an orgy will be fired,... Read more...

New technology fires Toshiba screens

Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:05:35 +0000

Toshiba is bringing its low-temperature polysilicon display technology to notebooks in hopes of eventually lowering their price, the company said Monday. Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld... Read more...