Neowin News Feed for: Huge

Sins of a Solar Empire Get Huge Update

Spencer Scott — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:43:42 +0000

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment have released a new update for the award-winning PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire. This update brings Sins of a Solar Empire to v1.18 and Sins: Entrechment to... Read more...

Microsoft to Use Solar Power in Huge New Data Center

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:09:38 +0000

Microsoft plans to install solar panels on the roof of its new Internet data center in San Antonio to provide renewable energy for some of the facility's massive power requirements. The $550 million, 470,000 square... Read more...

Nintendo revises earnings forecast on huge Wii sales

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:13:57 +0000

Although it's not the usual time for financial reports, Nintendo announced over the weekend that it is upgrading its profit forecast on the back of massive predicted Wii sales. The Kyoto firm said that the... Read more...

THQ Acquires Big Huge Games

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:14:47 +0000

Without disclosing how much it set them back, THQ is currently in the process of finalizing its latest purchase of Big Huge Games -the development studio which brought us such popular gems as Rise of... Read more...

Viridian Is Huge Draw for Windows Server 2008

Steven Parker — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:24:54 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 RC0 hit the Web earlier this week on the road to its scheduled February 2008 release, toting a new Internet Information Services role for the product's lean and mean Server Core... Read more...

US, China Bust Huge Software Piracy Ring

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:54:02 +0000

Raids in the southern region of China have exposed a 2 billion dollar global software piracy syndicate, believed to be one of the largest in the world. The FBI and China's Public Security Bureau led... Read more...

Swedish Bank Struck by Huge Online Phishing Heist

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:00:28 +0000

Swedish bank Nordea, the target of one of the largest online heists, has lost between 7 to 8 million Swedish kronor (a little over $1.1 million USD) over the course of 15 months. Security officials... Read more...

Arrests Deal Huge Blow to Online Gambling

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:58:23 +0000

NETeller founders John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence were arrested and charged with processing gambling proceeds. The pair illegally handled and processed billions of dollars generated from online gambling. Details for the arrest are unclear but... Read more...

Huge rise in the number of spams sent!

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:57:02 +0000

Last month the amount of spam that was send across the world increased by a whopping 35%, given that more than 90% of e-mail send is spam this is causing serious trouble for regular users... Read more...

Samsung Sees Huge Global Interest in WiBro Technology

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:28:11 +0000

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday "major nations" will use Korea's homegrown WiBro mobile wireless Internet technology from next year. Samsung Electronics president Lee Ki-tae made the remark at a meeting to promote the technology that was... Read more...

Google ordered to remove news items or pay huge fine

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:58:19 +0000

A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site,... Read more...

Live8: Huge Online Success

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:40:32 +0000

Saturday's plethora of Live8 events have been dubbed an online success by critics and non-critics alike. Through America Online's music service, non-AOL customers could access the live coverage of the concerts from... Read more...

Huge Rise in Yahoo! Profits

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:36:29 +0000

Search giant Yahoo! has recorded a massive rise in profits over the past year. The company has announced a total profit of Â£1.2bn, a rise of 80% on the previous 12 months. Revenues also rose... Read more...

Huge Everquest II update

Todd Tanner — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:18:29 +0000

With the holidays now over here comes an absolutely huge update to Sony Online Entertainment's MMORPG Everquest II. Now while I cannot post the entire changelog here, be assured it is a huge list of... Read more...

In '52, Huge Computer Called Univac Changed Election Night

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:10:43 +0000

There was another election season, back in 1952, when a presidential contest seemed too close to call, America worried it was vulnerable to attack, and a single company dominated computing. Those circumstances set... Read more...

Music Publishers Sign Huge Deal On Web Radio

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:34:34 +0000

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced Monday that it has reached a $1.7 billion deal with the Radio Music License Committee to give stations the ability to legally stream their on-air content... Read more...

Fable: Huge movie revealed

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:39:24 +0000

It's a stonking 10 minute gameplay demo... Plus, Lionhead confirm release date. Fable was a much touted title when Xbox first launched and we finally have a release date that appears to... Read more...

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow - Huge Mulitplayer Hands-On!

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:43:17 +0000

This is maybe the most compulsive spy-themed multiplayer fun we've had since GoldenEye on N64; as you'd hope, there are a number of parameters to mess with so you can handicap good players, give yourself... Read more...

IBM lands huge German mainframe contract

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:42:05 +0000

IBM Corp. will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth over €100 million ($127 million), IBM spokesman Hans-JÃ¼rgen Rehm said Friday. Sparkassen Informatik GmbH... Read more...

UK News: Tiny.COM Prices But Huge Value

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:58:01 +0000

Tiny Computers re-establishes itself as the leading consumer PC brand in the UK. Tiny Computers, the UK's best value PC manufacturer, and sister-company of Time Group Ltd. and a member of the successful Granville/Time Group,... Read more...

Xbox makes huge gains as price-cut takes effect

Marcel Klum — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:15:35 +0000

Microsoft's Xbox has had its most successful week to date this year in Japan, capturing almost 7 per cent market share following a price cut to the hardware and the launch of a Project Gotham... Read more...

'DVD Jon' scores huge legal victory

Steven Parker — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:49:52 +0000

Thanks Viktor for this news. A Norwegian teenager who helped crack a code meant to protect the content of DVDs won full backing from an Oslo court on Tuesday. The court acquitted him on all... Read more...

Subcontinent link helps huge bank deal

Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:50:56 +0000

A Sydney software developer has paired up with Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services in a $US100 million ($181 million) deal to supply technology to the State Bank of India. The world's third-largest bank... Read more...

IBM nabs huge supercomputer deal

Steven Parker — Sun, 02 Jun 2002 13:33:35 +0000

Thanks exit for sending in this news.. IBM has signed what it hopes will be its biggest supercomputer deal ever: a contract for up to $224 million to improve the National Weather Service (news -... Read more...

Huge Systems cuts prices on hard drives for video

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:42:55 +0000

Huge Systems, which manufactures Ultra 160 RAID 0/3 Storage Solutions for real-time SDTV and HDTV applications, has sliced prices on its Mac compatible HugeMediaVault MAX and DUALMAX product lines. Most of the... Read more...

HUGE 1,200 AMD Athlon XP Processors Giveaway!

Steven Parker — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:53:14 +0000

Thanks Warp2search for the heads up on this one! The Extreme Performance Project (XPP) has gone nuts? They are giving away AMD XP Cpu's to passer-by's!!! Are we really giving... Read more...