Neowin News Feed for: Kill

If Egypt can cut off the country's Internet, can the US too?

Brandon Boyce — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:27:27 +0000

During the heights of the protests in Egypt, the Egyptian government cut off Internet in the entire country. This led to companies like Google to offer a voice recognition service for Egyptians to share information... Read more...

Bill to allow for Internet kill switch resurfaces

Brandon Boyce — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:29:17 +0000

A bill created last year by US Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins that would give the President power over the internet in the event of a "cyberemergency" and prohibit any review by the court... Read more...

Google to kill 6 of its failed projects

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:33:06 +0000

Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant. Google Video Google Catalog Search Google Notebook Dodgeball ... Read more...

How Facebook could kill Twitter, and why it won't

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:11:24 +0000

Before I start rambling, I'd like to start off by saying that I never really got into the whole microblogging scene. I tried, time and time again, but it just never kept me interested for... Read more...

Intel Quits OLPC Board Over Pressure to Kill Classmate PC

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:17:19 +0000

Intel resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors after refusing a request to abandon its Classmate PC program, according to a source familiar with the situation. Intel's departure from OLPC's board... Read more...

YouTube could kill internet by 2010

Steven Parker — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:15:23 +0000

A study from Nemertes Research Group suggests the increasing use of video services such as YouTube could see the internet reach breaking point in just three years' time. The research firm says the flood of... Read more...

Intel To Kill Server Blade Line

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:30:28 +0000

Intel is quietly killing its whitebox server blade product line as it prepares to bring out a new architecture more in line with its small and midsize business partners. CRN has learned from channel sources... Read more...

DVD chips 'to kill illegal copying'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:47:42 +0000

DVDs will soon be tracked with embedded radio transmitter chips to prevent copying and piracy, according to the company which makes movie discs for Warner, Disney, Fox and other major studios. The technology, which can... Read more...

How to kill Linux?

Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:31:39 +0000

Could the big guys from redmond kill off Linux? John C. Dvorak thinks so... "While chatting over dinner with the executives of a middleware company during the recent RSA conference for encryption and... Read more...

Piracy 'could kill Mac-gaming'

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:33:48 +0000

Mass piracy is threatening the Mac games industry, meaning some titles may never make it to the platform, industry insiders have warned. This shocking news emerged after MacSoft's introduction of a v.1.3 update for Halo... Read more...

Kill Switch Demo

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:03:34 +0000

Hip Games has released a playable demo of kill.switch, the Namco's military shooter is being adapted to the PC platform by the Bitmap Brothers team. kill.switch will be published and distributed in Europe by L.S.P.... Read more...

Microsoft: A Killer App That Could Kill the Competition

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:24:51 +0000

It's a great time to be in the antivirus business. In August, two separate bugs laid low millions of PCs around the world, causing an estimated $2 billion in damage. Both exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft slashes WinXP price to kill Lindows OS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:41:10 +0000

Thanks fdiaz2day from our BPN forum THE FOUNDER of Lindows, Michael Robertson, has penned a piece on techzone in which he alleges that Microsoft is using its vast financial resources to block... Read more...

Radio ID chips to come with kill switch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 May 2003 13:00:41 +0000

Manufacturers and a key industry group expect to introduce a kill switch for controversial radio frequency identification tags before the inventory-tracking chips are shipped in products to retail shelves. The Auto ID Center, which is... Read more...

Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: The Game!

Marcel Klum — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:32:21 +0000

Black Label Games today inked a deal with Miramax Films to develop PC and console games based on Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Kill Bill. Quentin will also play a pivotal role in developing the games,... Read more...

Will Driver Bugs Kill The 9700 Pro?

Steven Parker — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:43:55 +0000

Thanks Bearded Kirklander for spotting this neat lil article over at 3D GPU. Heres what the guy has to say about ATi's "GeForce 4 Ti Killer" No link here, because this is something... Read more...

Wife hired hitman to kill ex-Apple UK boss

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:11:50 +0000

The wife of former Apple UK boss Jon Molyneux today pleaded guilty to soliciting to murder her husband. Shelley Molyneux, 41, hired a hitman to kill Molyneux for his insurance money. Fortunately... Read more...

Sony to finally kill Betamax

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:08:48 +0000

What VHS couldn't do, digital did. Sony's Betamax video tape recorder, which famously lost the 1980s video format war but held on for decades as a niche product, will finally be laid to rest after... Read more...

Will Deregulating Broadband Kill Choice?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:43:48 +0000

Thanks youm0nt The Federal Communications Commission's proposal to deregulate broadband will stick consumers with high prices and low-quality service, the Consumer Federation of America and the Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel... Read more...

Ten ways to kill your laptop

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:32:43 +0000

This list of 10 top laptop deaths is compiled by Complete Computer Cover, which modestly describes itself as the UK's leading laptop insurer. The company analysed its claims data over the last five year, after... Read more...

Court rejects Microsoft's bid to kill case

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:22:26 +0000

Microsoft's request to dismiss the antitrust case being pursued against it by nine states and the District of Columbia was denied by a federal judge on Wednesday. Microsoft had asked U.S. District... Read more...

Removing IE would kill Win2k, WinXP, MS, says Redmond

Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:26:34 +0000

Both Windows XP and Windows 2000 will be rendered inoperable, and Microsoft will be unable to develop future new operating systems, if it is forced to separate IE from the operating system, according to court... Read more...

Intel to kill floppy drives, serial ports next year

Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:30:39 +0000

Intel is finally inciting the death of the floppy drive and is calling on PC manufacturers big and small to stop supplying the once-capacious 1.44MB removable drive in the latter half of 2002. ... Read more...