Neowin News Feed for: Holds

New Li-Ion Battery Holds 10x the Charge of Current Batteries

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:44:21 +0000

Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new version, developed through research led... Read more...

Google holds its line as mobile rumours increase

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:57:55 +0000

After Apple's iPhone, what about the Googlephone? The search engine company has been secretly developing prototype mobile phones and testing a host of new software and mobile services, with some estimates putting its investment in... Read more...

Worldwide Software Piracy Rate Holds Steady at 35%

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:12:10 +0000

According to the fourth annual global PC software piracy study by the Business Software Alliance, 35% of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers worldwide was obtained illegally, amounting to nearly $40 billion in... Read more...

Fifa '07 Holds on at the Top

Joe Cashman — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:09:47 +0000

Despite an abysmal performance from England at the weekend FIFA fans weren't put off and continued to buy FIFA 07 making it number 1 in the UK charts this week. Sales of the title did... Read more...

Hacker Holds Computer Files Hostage

Tue, 24 May 2005 16:54:57 +0000

Thanks to Inertia for sending this in. Computer users anxious about viruses and identity theft have a new reason to worry: hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your... Read more...

AMD holds off on DDR-2 support

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:18:43 +0000

AMD HAS BEEN RUMOURED to be coming out with DDR2 in Q2, and documents floating around the i915/925 launch said as much. AMD basically said 'we could do it now, but why', and followed it... Read more...

AMD Holds Athlon 64 2600+ Chip in the Pockets

Thu, 27 May 2004 14:58:37 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices may have a yet another trump in its hands to fight low-cost Intel's Pentium 4 "Prescott" microprocessors – an extremely affordable 64-bit Athlon 64 chip that still delivers respectable performance as well... Read more...

Mozilla holds 'fire' in naming fight

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:13:34 +0000

Ten months after landing in a fierce trademark dispute with a fellow open-source organization, the Mozilla Foundation has changed the name of its standalone browser from Firebird to Firefox. The new browser--meant... Read more...

Microsoft holds steady on BizTalk pricing

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:50:51 +0000

Microsoft on Wednesday said it won't raise prices for its upcoming BizTalk 2004 integration software, as the company looks to attract new customers. BizTalk 2004, which is server software that transports data... Read more...

Microsoft holds illegal UK personal data

Steven Parker — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:46:32 +0000

Saw this over at IEXBETA. Remember that time that MICROSOFT forgot to pay $35 for their passport.com domain, and Hotmail completely broke until a Linux coder phoned up NetSol and paid it for them and... Read more...

New cell-phone Java holds promise

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:23:53 +0000

Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the... Read more...

A mobile future is on the cards... but who holds the deck?

Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:00:38 +0000

Many thanks to C. C. for this interesting post: :) The Ovum View: Future wireless devices - why Microsoft won't clean up Jessica Figueras, analyst at Ovum, asks... Read more...