Neowin News Feed for: Idea

Outlook is getting a redesign on Mac, Play My Email on mobile, and a whole lot more

Rich Woods — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:00:32 +0000

Microsoft announced a ton of Office 365 improvements across the board at its Ignite 2019 conference, including a bunch of new features for Outlook, such as a new design and experience for macOS. Read more...

VU Games' Radical Idea

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:30:38 +0000

Vivendi Universal Games announced today that it has inked an exclusive deal with development studio Radical Entertainment that gives VU Games the rights to six multi-platform game titles - and could see VU Games possibly... Read more...

Computer consultant sues over alleged GTA idea theft

Marcel Klum — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:57:57 +0000

A Scottish computer consultant has filed a legal action against Rockstar North, alleging that the company's massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is based on a concept he showed to the company in the early... Read more...

Computer-in-a-computer idea gains ground

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:06:27 +0000

Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer. The technology, called virtualization, is a layer of software that... Read more...

Broadband by blimp idea floated

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 May 2003 21:20:08 +0000

York-based telecoms outfit SkyLINC wants to build a network of base stations in balloons, tethered 1.5km high, as a platform for delivering broadband to rural communities. SkyLINC's LIBRA (Low-Cost Integrated Broadband Radio... Read more...

Intel borrows unified driver idea from Nvidia, Via

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:09:20 +0000

ONE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT Intel will make when it rolls out its "Springdale" and "Canterwood" chipsets next year is a unified driver approach which it will call Stable Image Technology. The shrewd plan is part of... Read more...

Broadband over power lines idea alive and well

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:45:27 +0000

Remember the idea of using power cables as a medium to transmit high-speed Internet traffic? The concept was all the rage in the late 1990s but then high-profile suppliers, such as Nortel/Norweb,... Read more...