Neowin News Feed for: Holidays

Microsoft Edge is getting new shopping features in time for the holiday season

Usama Jawad — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:00:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced new shopping-related features coming to Edge soon, including informing you about price drops, "ethically sourced" products, and Microsoft Rewards on the tool bar, among others. Read more...

Google Maps adds new features including Area Busyness

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:46:02 +0000

Google Maps is getting several new features to help you out over the holiday season. Two of the features, including Area Busyness, are rolling out globally, while another two features are U.S. only. Read more...

Teams gets a new Starbucks app to let users easily send eGift cards during the holidays

Abhay V — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:58:01 +0000

Microsoft today announced that Starbucks is bringing a new Teams app that helps users send colleagues eGift cards right through a chat. There are also new Starbucks-themed chat backgrounds. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Holiday gaming, a new Windows build, and holiday gift guides

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:02:01 +0000

With Thanksgiving and Black Friday putting the brakes on the usual flow of news, we take a look at some game launches and holiday deals to end this week. Be sure to have a look at our handy overview. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Holiday gaming, a Visual Studio preview, and more

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 08:24:01 +0000

Another week, another set of interesting updates and announcements from the Redmond giant. Games, a preview for Visual Studio 2019, and much, much more awaits you at the link below. Read more...

Surviving the Holidays For Dummies ($0.99 Value) eBook - FREE until Friday

News Staff — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:00:01 +0000

This free to download eBook offers expert tips to help you make it through the holidays in one piece - with your friends and family marveling at how you do it all! Claim it before it's no longer free! Read more...

Google refreshes Hotels search on desktop, making it easier to use

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:04:01 +0000

Google has spruced up its hotels search in order to make booking holidays a bit easier. The firm said users now have more control over searches making it easier to filter out the best hotels. Read more...

Microsoft publishes Windows 10 app submission deadlines for the holiday season

Rich Woods — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:58:35 +0000

If you're a developer and you're looking to update your Windows 10 app before the holidays, Microsoft has published the deadlines for getting your app live in time, starting with November 13. Read more...

Apple App Store saw record-breaking holiday season

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 10:08:01 +0000

Apple says it recorded record-breaking sales over the holiday period with $890 million spent in the App Store from Christmas Eve till New Year. On New Years day alone, it saw $300 million in sales. Read more...

For the holidays, Google adds "donate" button to search results

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:12:01 +0000

In the spirit of the holiday season, Google has now added a "donate" button that appears when users search for their favorite organizations that have enrolled in the Google for Nonprofits program. Read more...

Singing Surface Pro 3 ad starts off holiday season

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:28:01 +0000

Microsoft wants to take you to a winter wonderland with its Surface Pro 3...or something. This is the first holiday themed ad from the company and it features singing, Photoshop and a Macbook Air. Read more...

Discuss: What'd you get and give?

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:01:06 +0000

Now that most of the world is likely through with the gift giving and gift getting process of the holidays, we'd like to know what you got for Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate. Read more...

Happy Holidays from the Neowin team!

Owen Williams — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:08:34 +0000

The festive season is upon is, the lights are up, the stockings are stuffed and Santa is almost here. Thank you for your support during 2011! Read more...

TechSpot: Hottest PC games for the 2010 Holiday Season

Julio Franco — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:42:34 +0000

This year’s holiday shopping season is looking to be a great one for PC gamers as game developers bring out their latest wares and graphics cards manufacturers battle it out to deliver the best performing... Read more...

Palm Pixi makes its debut

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:04:33 +0000

Palm stole the headlines in the smartphone world this year with the introduction of its face-saving handset, the Pre. Now three months later, the little sister named the Pixi is here. The Pixi is due... Read more...

Microsoft Looks to Holidays to Lift Vista's Prospects

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:30:57 +0000

Microsoft and some of its partners are hoping that Vista will be the gift that fills their holiday stocking this year. This is the first year that notebooks and desktop computers loaded with Vista software... Read more...

New Nintendo Wii Model Expected to Arrive for Holidays

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:31:48 +0000

Apparently, Nintendo has applied for a new universal product code in the U.S., meaning that the manufacturer had changed certain features of its highly-successful Wii game console. Speculation is leaning towards either DVD playback functionality,... Read more...

Microsoft Planning Vista Promotions During Holidays

Christopher Vendemio — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:35:48 +0000

When Microsoft announced that it would not release Windows Vista in time for the holiday season, many industry analysts felt the entire PC market may suffer as people put off purchases until the next generation... Read more...

DRAMeXchange: DRAM demand picks up after Christmas holidays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:52:03 +0000

Low prices spurred demand for DDR chips in last week's spot market while prices for low-density SDRAM continued rallying amid chip shortages, said DRAMeXchange. Demand for DDR regains strength after Christmas holidays. DDR chip sales... Read more...

Net Connects Troops at Holidays

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 02:47:15 +0000

It's a far cry from the dancing playmates in Apocalypse Now, or even from Bob Hope and Rita Hayworth, but a number of PC companies are offering technology to provide a little holiday cheer for... Read more...

Tech glitches could bug AT&T for holidays

Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:11:47 +0000

Cell phone services company AT&T Wireless said Tuesday that it was still wrestling with technical glitches in a new software system that have plagued the company for more than three weeks. Company spokesman... Read more...

Notebooks wrapped for the holidays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:30:45 +0000

Notebook computer makers are revving up for battle. Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Sony are readying their holiday 2002 models. Toshiba is preparing faster, more multimedia-savvy models for consumers to compete with expected new... Read more...