Neowin News Feed for: Heats

USB 3.0 battle heats up

Brad Wardell — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:00:20 +0000

nVidia and AMD are looking to wrest control from Intel over the specification for USB 3.0. USB 3.0 is the next-generation high-speed connection standard due out next year that is expected to offer 10 times... Read more...

Finger-pointing over Leopard blue screens heats up

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:44 +0000

The creators of APE on Saturday denied that their application-enhancement framework is responsible for blue-screening Macs being upgraded to Leopard. Apple Inc., however, blamed the software in a support document advising users to delete APE... Read more...

Physics Acceleration Heats Up: Intel to Purchase Havok

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to purchase software developer Havok Incorporated, a company that provides various software development tools to digital animation and game developers as well as one of the largest providers for... Read more...

Dual-Core Server Market Heats Up

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:30:48 +0000

AMD announced yesterday that they will be releasing 3 new 'dual-core' Opteron processors. Dubbed the 180, 280, and 880, these processors will each contain two 2.4Ghz cores; the first digit in the model number specifying... Read more...

Valve vs. Vivendi Universal dogfight heats up in US District

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:24:33 +0000

The two-year-old dispute playing out in Federal Court revs up as milestones, court date approach. Last week, news of Valve finally shipping the Half-Life 2 release candidate to publisher Vivendi Universal Games... Read more...

Apple vs. Apple Heats Up

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:17:28 +0000

Since it's inception in 1975, Apple Computer Inc. has been one of the driving forces behind the world-wide adoption of the PC. They are currently wrapped up in a legal battle with "Apple Corps", the... Read more...

Debate Over Zip Format Heats Up

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:16:13 +0000

Questions about the splintering of the popular .zip file compression format may soon be resolved by the U.S. Patent Office. Two months into a was standards battle between WinZip Computing and PKWare over the way... Read more...

Clash over Java standard heats up

Sat, 31 May 2003 12:53:59 +0000

Upstart JBoss Group will on Monday debut a new release of its popular open-source application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java standard compliance. The company will release JBoss... Read more...

Yaha virus infection heats up

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:36:34 +0000

A new variant of the Yaha virus that appeared just before Christmas has proved contagious, infecting thousands of computers worldwide. The virus, dubbed W32/Yaha.M by MessageLabs, has seen its numbers explode with over 7,000 copies... Read more...

Microsoft patent dispute heats up

Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:13:34 +0000

InterTrust, which makes software that protects songs and videos from being illegally copied, alleges (jn it's second patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft) that Microsoft infringed on its patent for technology that certifies and authenticates drivers.... Read more...

CPU wars heats up

Steven Parker — Sat, 06 Oct 2001 10:27:48 +0000

While reading an article over at The Inquirer I followed a link they supplied to an online store where I was amazed to see Intels declaration of war on AMD's CPU line Example:... Read more...