Neowin News Feed for: Gives

Google gives a helping hand to Android developers

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:35:39 +0000

Google plans to pay Android application developers starting in the first quarter of 2009 for each application sold, with 70% of the proceedings to the developer, and to keep 30% for itself, to cover carrier... Read more...

Economic hardship gives rise to more sophisticated scammers

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:37:36 +0000

The money crisis has not only rippled through the offline lives of millions, but those who felt they were safe from losing their homes or retirement funds are now facing new risks each time they... Read more...

Bluetooth gives Spies a Window into your Life

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:39:31 +0000

Worried about your civil liberties and privacy? Then it may come as a shock to discover that you have unwittingly been allowing your phone to signal your every move. Bluetooth, a wireless link built into... Read more...

Dell gives Geek Squad the Thumbs Up

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:55:43 +0000

With the recent announcement of Dell selling its PCs at Best Buy, many began to wonder who would be responsible for the Tech Support. It turns out that Dell has authorized both the Geek Squad... Read more...

Toshiba slashes Prices of HD Laptops, gives away 5 HD Movies

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:23:04 +0000

Toshiba’s Digital Product Division, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems Incorporated, has lowered the starting price on its HD DVD notebook line to $899 (starting with the Satellite A205 notebook). In addition to the... Read more...

HP Gives AMD's Phenom a Boost

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:49:17 +0000

After a bruising month where it had to admit a series of missteps with its quad-core microprocessor strategy, Advanced Micro Devices got a boost Jan. 3 from Hewlett-Packard. On Thursday, HP announced that it would... Read more...

Microsoft Gives WebFives the High Five

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:54:09 +0000

Microsoft's WebFives acquisition should bolster the company's services for sharing digital content and online socializing about it. Like many other Microsoft acquisitions, there was no splashy announcement. There is simply a notice on WebFives' home... Read more...

United Nations agency gives boost to WiMax

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:28:02 +0000

The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson.... Read more...

Microsoft gives CEO Ballmer $1.3 million pay package

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:19:07 +0000

Microsoft Corporation Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a $1.3 million pay cheque ($620,000 in salary and a $650,000 bonus) for fiscal 2007, a year which ended June 30 and in which profit at the... Read more...

QuickTime Bug Gives Hackers New Drive-by Attack

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:23:34 +0000

A year-old bug in QuickTime that, when paired with Firefox allows, hackers to hijack PCs and Macs now has Mozilla Corp. scrambling for a fix, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday. According to Petko... Read more...

Nasdaq Gives Dell 11th-Hour Reprieve From Delisting

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:29:39 +0000

Dell said Monday that the Nasdaq Board of Directors granted it a reprieve, just hours before the company's stock was set to be delisted from the stock exchange. In a statement, Dell provided few specifics... Read more...

New Nintendo game gives beauty tips

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:14:20 +0000

Japanese women may soon be tapping on the hit Nintendo DS handheld game machine for beauty tips: "Dream Skincare" is part of recent efforts by Nintendo to attract newcomers to gaming. Players input their daily... Read more...

Samsung Gives Mobile Phone Memory a Boost

Wed, 30 May 2007 21:38:14 +0000

Samsung has announced that it has developed a new 4GB multi-chip package destined for mobile phones. The electronics giant calls its new chip package "moviMCP" and calls the NAND flash memory included within the package... Read more...

AMD gives boost to software aimed at multicore chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:38:54 +0000

Software developers aiming to tweak their applications for multicore microprocessors have gained a boost from Advanced Micro Devices at a Sunnyvale, California developer center packed with computers running on multicore AMD microprocessors, including the upcoming... Read more...

Google gives UK mobile maps the green light

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:38:26 +0000

Google Mobile Maps is now available to UK users for route planning and local searching. The service, integrated with Google Earth for showing satellite images, has been available as a Java application for a while.... Read more...

Microsoft Gives Peek At Next Version Of SQL Server

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:50:17 +0000

The company shows off Katmai, the next version of its data platform, at its first business intelligence conference. Microsoft is giving a sneak peek at the next version of its SQL Server data... Read more...

Microsoft gives bar codes a splash of color

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:24:11 +0000

Microsoft finds monochromatic stripes dull, and has put its weight behind a colored bar code format. The color bar code is being targeted especially for use on commercial media such as movies, video games and... Read more...

Sony Gives Blu-Ray Discs for Free: Blu-Ray Outsells HD DVD

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:12:34 +0000

According to a study by market tracking agency Nielsen VideoScan, Blu-ray movie sales have surpassed HD DVD movies sales in the USA thanks to Sony bundling some PlayStation 3 game machines with a BD movie... Read more...

New NV44-based GPU gives another chance to GeForce 6200

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:40:00 +0000

Graphics cards featuring Nvidia's new GeForce 7100 GS graphics processor unit (GPU), which was recently added to the company's entry-level product lineup, will hit the market in the middle of September, according to sources at... Read more...

Logitech Gives PC Mice New Moves

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:52:38 +0000

PC peripheral player Logitech has motorized the computer mouse scroll wheel with two new models that ease scanning and scrolling through large computer documents, spreadsheets, pictures, lists and other data. The Fremont, Calif.-based company said... Read more...

Blue Security Gives up the Fight

Wed, 17 May 2006 16:01:04 +0000

"According to The Washington Post, Blue Security has closed its doors, which can be confirmed by the Blue Security application failing to work today and their domain no longer resolving. Blue Security's CEO is quoted... Read more...

Microsoft gives away Introducing Visual Basic 2005 eBook

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:51:10 +0000

Oh yea! Microsoft handing out free stuff, count me in! Although this will only be interesting for people who code in Visual Basic, it's still worth a mention. Get a focused, first look... Read more...

Judge Gives Green Light to Monopolization Suit Against Apple

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:47:21 +0000

With all the hoopla of the video iPod and speculation that Apple was going to release a media center-style PC and switch to Intel chips, it seems that the media last September inadvertently – or... Read more...

Judge gives go Ahead to Grand Theft Auto Lawsuit

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:01:50 +0000

An Alabama judge has denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Take-Two by the families of two police officers and a dispatcher killed by a Grand Theft Auto-playing teenager. Judge James Moore's decision... Read more...

Gates gives Xbox 360 the thumbs up

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:39:15 +0000

Microsoft boss says early launch will give the Xbox 360 an advantage, but concedes PS3 will be "a little faster in a few areas." In a meeting with financial analysts at Microsoft's... Read more...

Unified architecture gives Xbox 360 the graphical edge

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:56:17 +0000

PlayStation 3 may be faster on paper, but Xbox 360's easier to harness, says Huddy Microsoft's Xbox 360 will have better graphics performance than the PlayStation 3 despite the better on-paper specifications... Read more...

Microsoft gives Indigo preview

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:56:21 +0000

Microsoft on Wednesday plans to release the first preview version of Indigo, giving developers a chance to test drive the new communications subsystem for Windows. Set for general availability in 2006, Indigo is intended to... Read more...

Opera Gives Away Educational Licenses

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:17:31 +0000

Opera Software has announced that it will make its popular web browser available free of charge to universities and colleges. Originally, schools had to purchase licenses in bulk at a cost of $1 each. Institutions... Read more...

Gates gives $42.6 million to fight malaria

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:50:25 +0000

Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company's high-tech take on an ancient Chinese... Read more...

Microsoft gives developers a glimpse of Avalon

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:53:04 +0000

Although the next version of Windows is still about two years from release, Microsoft on Friday offered developers an early look at the new graphics engine that will accompany it. The Redmond,... Read more...

Japan Gives OK to Sun Desktop Suite

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:16:29 +0000

The Japanese government has approved Sun Microsystems' open-source desktop software for use within one of its ministries, Sun is expected to announce. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has endorsed Sun's Java... Read more...

Microsoft gives official stance on next gen DirectX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:45:54 +0000

AFTER OUR WGF story that we wrote a few days back, Microsoft decided to react to the article. It didn't want to comment on future naming of DirectX even though we know it will be... Read more...

Longhorn's Demise Gives Linux Its Chance

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:38:10 +0000

Longhorn's delay may be Linux's gain, according to Linux vendors and analysts. With Longhorn shorn of most of its most important features, such as WinFS (Windows File System), Linux supporters are hopeful that the Linux... Read more...

IT company gives workers free beer - wins award

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:20:11 +0000

A US software company that gives its workers free beer on Friday afternoons has been named the "Best Small Company to Work for in America". Analytical Graphics, Inc (AGI) also gives workers access... Read more...

Microsoft gives MSN TV a face-lift

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:15:56 +0000

Microsoft is getting ready to release a new version of its MSN TV set-top box, this one aimed at the Internet-savvy buyer rather than the technology neophyte. Whereas the original WebTV and... Read more...

Microsoft gives Japanese watchdog the brushoff

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:40:12 +0000

Never one to let a government agency push it around, Microsoft has politely declined to follow the Japanese Fair Trade Commission's (JFTC) request that it alter sales practices when dealing with Japanese PC makers. ... Read more...

Google Gives Away Digital Photo App

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:02:55 +0000

Last week Google acquired Picasa which enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs. Now you can download Picasa from Google for free (version 1.6). Before Google acquired Picasa its software was... Read more...

FTC gives games industry mixed report card

Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:35:35 +0000

In its fourth annual report on marketing violent entertainment to children, the Federal Trade Commission applauds and chides publishers. The Federal Trade Commission yesterday released its fourth report on the marketing... Read more...

PayPal gives credit

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:14:22 +0000

Just a short piece of news that I came across and thought that it might interest the Neowinians who use PayPal's services regularly. Appearantly, PayPal is hoping to improve customers' protection standards by introducing a... Read more...

Napster gives away music players with subscription

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:35:04 +0000

If you like Roxio's digital media player and Napster then you're in luck. With a one-year subscription you can get a Rio Chiba Sport or 1.5GB Rio Nitrus. Roxio Inc.'s Napster... Read more...