Neowin News Feed for: Gift

A happy Linus Torvalds is offering to build a guitar pedal for one lucky Linux dev

Sayan Sen — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:52:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds is quite happy this holiday season with how things have been going in his personal and professional life. As such, he has offered to build a guitar pedal for one lucky developer. Read more...

Pre-ordering the Google Pixel 9 Pro will get you a limited edition collectible

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:38:01 +0000

The Google Store pages of some countries have something exciting in store for those who pre-order the Pixel 9 Pro, which is all set to debut at the Made by Google event scheduled for August 13. Read more...

Free Software Foundation was gifted 91 bitcoin

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:10:02 +0000

The Free Software Foundation has received a generous donation from the Pineapple Fund. The foundation received $1 million worth of bitcoin to help it reach a wider audience and spread free software. Read more...

Bill Gates is once again a Redditor's Secret Santa

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:24:01 +0000

Bill Gates came back to Reddit this holiday season to be someone's Secret Santa. And just like in previous years, the gift recipient was excited and amazed when she came to find out about this. Read more...

Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 users will soon be able to gift money to their friends

Daniel Hull — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:50:01 +0000

Microsoft's Mike Ybarra has recently announced an upcoming feature for Xbox 360 gamers, where users will be able to transfer money to anyone on their friends list. Read more...

iPad is Britain's most desired Valentine's gift for 2014

James Walker — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:10:33 +0000

Apple's iPad has beaten flowers, jewellery and chocolate to become Britain's most wanted Valentine's Day gift for 2014 according to a survey of 1000 British adults. Read more...

Rumor: Microsoft giving away white Xbox Ones to some of its employees

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:06:50 +0000

Microsoft will supposedly be giving away a special edition of its new Xbox One console to some of its employees. This edition features a white and silver casing similar to a dev kit leaked last month. Read more...

Windows Feedback Program participants can get Windows 7 gift

Kevin Weiner — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:39:19 +0000

Are you looking to get a copy of Windows 7 when it's released sometime later this year? Well it looks like Microsoft is giving out a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate to participants of the... Read more...

DivFix++ v0.31 Released as a new year gift

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:49:09 +0000

DivFix++ is an AVI Video Repair and Preview Utility. This Program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and... Read more...

TechSpot Holiday Gift Guide 2008

Julio Franco — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:25:17 +0000

Only a few weeks now stand between you and that fateful morning of December 25th, but there's still plenty of time to purchase and wrap your list of gifts. But perhaps you don't even have... Read more...

Office 2007 SP1 Isn't a Gift

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:14:36 +0000

This holiday season Microsoft has been giving the gift that just keeps on giving, over and over again. Service packs! Today, Microsoft will release yet another: Office 2007 Service Pack 1. Darren Strange, a U.K.... Read more...

NeowinCAST News Edition Holiday 2007 Gift Guide

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:31:08 +0000

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of December 5th, 2007. This week Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob) take a break from the news to briefly discuss the perfect gifts... Read more...

TechSpot Holiday Gift Guide 2007

Julio Franco — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:05:39 +0000

With a few more weeks remaining before Christmas, there should still be plenty of time to buy gifts for your loved ones or significant other as well as for catching good offers on whatever geeky... Read more...

Sony Announce PS3's Free Gift

Joe Cashman — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:55:46 +0000

Sony have announced that up to 500,000 people picking up a PS3 on the 23rd March EU Launch day will eligible for a free Blu-ray movie of Casino Royale. Casino Royale will be one of... Read more...

World of Warcraft Atlas Gift Pack now available

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:20:46 +0000

Blizzard Online Store has released their World of Warcraft Atlas Gift Pack from Brady Games! This Gift Pack is a comprehensive hardcover resource which includes maps ofall regions and major cities as well as... Read more...

TechSpot's Holiday Gift Guide 2005

Julio Franco — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:36:59 +0000

The holidays are creeping up and most of us are probably in agreement; the only thing worse than giving a bad gift is receiving one. Well, to ensure your preferred geek is appropriately gifted with... Read more...

Clinton's gift to Internet age: only 2 e-mails

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:57:56 +0000

The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. "The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the... Read more...

MS Delivers Gift To Small Business Server 2003 Customers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:49:19 +0000

Microsoft on Monday will deliver a belated holiday gift to partners and small business owners. Sources say the Redmond, Wash. software giant will announce that it will give five free client access licenses (CALs) to... Read more...

Retail gift cards often unprotected

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:36:58 +0000

Ahead of the holidays, gift-givers gave away millions of magnetic stripe gift cards charged with billions of dollars in value. By now, the money might already be stolen. It's obvious why gift cards... Read more...