Neowin News Feed for: Friday

The Friday Apple rumor round-up

Sam Symons — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:39:02 +0000

Well, it's that time of the week again. Last Friday, Neowin published an Apple rumor collection, and since that time there has been a whole lot of new information, so again, we'll make one article... Read more...

Windows 7 Beta will be available for public on Friday

Tom Warren — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:26:49 +0000

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, announced at CES that Windows 7 will see its public debut on Friday 9th January. Microsoft is currently readying the beta for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and this will be available... Read more...

Xbox 360 claims historic Black Friday sales

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:26:39 +0000

Microsoft certainly is one company not feeling the economic downturn at the moment. During the biggest shopping weekend of the year, they pulled out a huge victory in the shops, and over Sony's rival PlayStation... Read more...

Black Friday and Holiday Sales

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:14:58 +0000

With the holidays comes the spending and receiving of money. More so than normal. The holiday season in general tends to be hectic, but on one day especially; Black Friday. For some, the huge... Read more...

Microsoft Sells 310,000 Xbox 360s During Black Friday Week

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:49:22 +0000

Coming on the heels of Nintendo of America's announcement of its best North American sales week ever -- with 350,000 Wiis and 653,000 Nintendo DSes sold -- a CNBC report states that Microsoft has announced... Read more...

Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:59 +0000

A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macy's and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. But they were far from the exception,... Read more...

GPLv3 upgrade set for Friday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:59:05 +0000

A controversial update to the GNU GPL (General Public License) is set to be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday. GPL version 3 is arriving 16... Read more...

Sony to launch video-sharing network Friday

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:04:15 +0000

Sony Corporation has announced plans to launch a video-sharing site in Japan on Friday; Sony also hopes to introduce its service, called eyeVio, abroad, but said it first wanted to gauge the reception at home... Read more...

Lost Planet 2nd map pack coming this Friday, April 6th

Todd Tanner — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:36:12 +0000

Today Capcom announced the second multiplayer map pack for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be available from the Xbox Live Marketplace on Friday, April 6. The pack will put players back 400 Microsoft points ($5.00)... Read more...

Gamestop & EBGames Taking Wii Pre-Orders Friday October 13th

Todd Tanner — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:54:50 +0000

Retailer GameStop confirmed to The Wiire today that Wii pre-orders for the United States will begin Friday, October 13. While Wii games have been available for pre-order for a few weeks now,... Read more...

Windows Vista RC2 This Friday

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:12:54 +0000

Thanks to Paul Thurrott for the details: Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted... Read more...

Windows Live Messenger: Friday June 16th 2006

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:32:16 +0000

Windows Live Messenger will be made available to the public in 8 days, Friday 16th June 2006. The successor to MSN Messenger 7.5, Windows Live Messenger 8 is the first edition of the Messenger brand... Read more...

Rise of Legends demo rises up Friday

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:13:40 +0000

In 2003, Rise of Nations was released, which allowed gamers to build a civilization based on real history. The game quickly became a success. The lead designer Brian Reynolds has now been inspired to make... Read more...

PCs brave Black Friday

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:57:26 +0000

PC makers have some reasons to be thankful, according to new retail sales results from Thanksgiving week. Overall PC hardware unit sales, which include desktops, notebooks, monitors, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and... Read more...

Love For All XP Screens After a Freaky Friday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:19:03 +0000

Well its nearly Saint Valentine's Day again. [Feb 14th in case you forgot lads -Ed] That time of year men rush to the 24 hour supermarket on [Friday] Feb 13th for that last minute bunch... Read more...

Condition Zero Gold Friday

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:18:56 +0000

Well here's some news from Valve Software that wont make gamers cry quite so much. Condition Zero is going gold this Friday and Gabe Newell was kind enough to pass along this update.Condition Zero is... Read more...

Halo 2 video this Friday

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:16:54 +0000

Microsoft will be releasing a video of the full eight minute Halo 2 E3 demonstration. Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing a high resolution video (complete with 5.1 channel sound)... Read more...

Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ Spearhead Demo Due Friday

Marcel Klum — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:36:49 +0000

EA Games will release a stand-alone demo for Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead, the new expansion pack for the highly acclaimed WWII action PC game, Medal of Honor Allied Assault. The demo will be... Read more...

Microsoft antitrust decision due Friday

Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:44:24 +0000

A federal judge will disclose Friday whether she has accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long-running antitrust case. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she will release her widely-anticipated ruling... Read more...

Friday is SysAdmin Day...

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:21:57 +0000

A thanks go again to GeekNews for this nice reminder... Friday, July 26th, 2002, is System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you... Read more...

Friday Late Night Fragfest!!

Ross Dundas — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:15:09 +0000

If anyone is still allive and breathing at this time of night we're having a little frag fest on the official neowin counterstrike server. If anyone wants to come and play :P Server... Read more...

China Mobile intros 2.5G mobile network Friday

Tue, 14 May 2002 11:11:51 +0000

The people's daily reports today that China Mobile will introduce a nationwide GPRS mobile telecom system this Friday. The state-backed firm has an existing customer base of 161 million mobile phone users and... Read more...

Friday night in with a rented .... game?

Tue, 04 Sep 2001 20:45:36 +0000

BTOpenworld Launch Games-On-Demand BTopenworld today announces a roster of leading global games and software publishers which have agreed to provide games software content for BTopenworld's games on demand' trial called Software To Go.... Read more...