Neowin News Feed for: Hold

Seinfeld-Gates ads on hold (updated)

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:41:16 +0000

Microsoft has decided to dump Jerry Seinfeld in its $300 million dollar ad campaign, with Microsoft saying it was the plan all along. In it's place? A new "I'm a PC" response to the now... Read more...

Hold test

Steven Parker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:16:36 +0000

WHEN will Windows get truly useful features like: undelete support, ability to read+write cross-platform volumes (Linux, MacOS), multiple desktop support, etc.... Read more...

Broadband customers put on hold

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:51:23 +0000

A survey looking at UK broadband services has revealed a downturn in customer satisfaction levels. Customer complaints now outnumber service-related enquiries by 52% to 48%, the study by market research firm JD Power found. According... Read more...

iphoneunlocking.com On Hold After Legal 'Advice'

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:02:28 +0000

After the recent announcements of the abilities to successfully unlocking Apples iphone, iphoneunlocking.com is now hesitating after calls from lawyers representing AT&T. Unlocking the phone for one's own use, for instance to place calls with... Read more...

New strains of malicious trojan hold data hostage

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:52:08 +0000

There's a new breed of ransomware in town, and it raises the stakes compared to previous viruses of this sort. Both Sinowal.FY and Gpcode.ai have been identified by security companies PandaLabs and Kaspersky Lab as... Read more...

Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:44:14 +0000

On its growing Redmond campus, Microsoft is currently excavating a giant pit for an underground parking garage with the capacity for some 5,000 vehicles, which would make it one of the largest underground parking structures... Read more...

Estonian hold suspect over 'cyber-attacks'

Mon, 07 May 2007 01:26:12 +0000

Police have arrested a 19-year-old Tallinn resident suspected of involvement in a wave of attacks against Estonian computer servers. Many government web sites in Estonia have been forced to shut down during the past week... Read more...

Mobile Calls Put Sperm on Hold

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:31:11 +0000

Some men see them as a status symbol, but research has found mobile phones could be destroying that other badge of masculinity - fertility. Men who spent hours talking on their mobile phone had... Read more...

Stanford engineers could hold the key to faster chips

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:53:22 +0000

In what may prove to be a technological breakthrough of immense proportions, Stanford University announced on Thursday that members of it's electrical engineering department have come up with a solution to what has until now... Read more...

Police Hold 18 in Israeli Industrial Spy Probe

Tue, 31 May 2005 21:47:01 +0000

Israeli police are investigating industrial espionage involving leading companies and have detained 18 people, including company executives and private detectives. The probe, started by the Tel Aviv fraud squad began several months ago,... Read more...

AMD Turion 64 to lead as Intel decides to hold 64-bit mobile

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:08:45 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will take a headstart and a chance for the lead in the 64-bit mobile CPU market with its forthcoming Turion 64, as Intel will not launch its 64-bit mobile CPU until... Read more...

New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:34:08 +0000

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer... Read more...

Red Hat's case against SCO put on hold

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:22:50 +0000

Those hoping for a swift outcome in one legal case seeking to clear Linux of the SCO Group's assertions of Unix copyright infringement will have to wait. In a mixed ruling Tuesday,... Read more...

Will Your Hard Drive Hold 600GB?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:17:09 +0000

SINGAPORE -- The standard desktop PC of 2007 will have a hard drive with capacity between 500GB and 600GB, according to Mark Geenen, managing director of research company TrendFocus. Notebook computers will be fitted with... Read more...

Agriculture epidemics may hold clues to Net viruses

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:00:07 +0000

In studying the effects of last summer's MSBlast worm, some security experts turned to an unlikely source in search of clues to the prevention of computer epidemics: plants. Their idea was inspired... Read more...

Internet sales tax effort on hold, for now

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:14:12 +0000

The debate over whether the Internet should remain a huge tax-free marketplace for U.S. shoppers probably will not be resolved in 2004, according to policymakers and experts who cited the upcoming presidential election as a... Read more...

AMD motherboard vendors on hold

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:20:46 +0000

IT IS NOW clear that there are just not enough Athlon 64/FX CPUs around, as we reported from Computex. And that explains why there aren't too many motherboards around for them either. It seems that... Read more...

Windows Longhorn plans put on hold

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:06:19 +0000

Microsoft has told firms to wait until next month for clarification of its roadmap for Windows, after the latest delays to the next release left firms unable to plan for the future. Earlier this month... Read more...

Study: U.S. to hold onto tech lead

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:33:28 +0000

The United States will stay at the helm of the global technology scene for years to come despite the rise of Asia as a tech manufacturing powerhouse, according to a U.S. government-funded study. ... Read more...

Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:12:51 +0000

Thanks youm0nt...Take a look at one of those credit cards in your wallet. That's the exact size and thickness of an upcoming, revolutionary removable storage device called StorCard. Created by a company with the same... Read more...

"Hammer" to hold 100 million transistors

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:38:41 +0000

Thanks [AMD]-SimGuy for the heads up. A chip with that many transistors is currently considered unusual. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly common.... Read more...

Russians hold keyboard throwing contest

Darren Bolton — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:23:21 +0000

Next Olympic sport? Moscow held the world's first computer keyboard throwing tournament this week. Stressed participants frustrated with their PCs had the chance to take their keyboard by the cord and see who could... Read more...

Botched update puts Windows XP updates on hold

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:30:14 +0000

Engineers are working to fix a glitch in a Microsoft Web server (I presume it's the windowsupdate one... Ed.) that has prevented Windows XP users from downloading software updates, including a patch for a... Read more...

50,000 dot-biz names on hold

Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:25:55 +0000

OPERATORS of the new ".biz" internet suffix have placed more than 50,000 domain names on hold after a California court ruled they might be running an illegal lottery. More than 200,000 other names... Read more...