Neowin News Feed for: Kills

Pioneer kills HDTVs, RIP Kuro

Brad Sams — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:58:08 +0000

When Pioneer last year announced that it was shutting down its plasma panel production line HDTV enthusiasts hearts skipped a beat. Today we have learned from the HD Guru that Pioneer has pulled the... Read more...

Microsoft kills Santa Claus

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:47:03 +0000

Microsoft has killed Santa Claus today, after an unsatisfactory attempt to restrain the North Pole-based jolly old elf from instant messaging children about oral sex. Although Redmond has been challenged by compassion in the past,... Read more...

Boeing kills 'Dreamliner' Wireless Network Plans

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:31:18 +0000

Boeing Co. has announced that it has cancelled wireless network plans for in-flight entertainment on its 787 "Dreamliner" airplane (planned for August 2007). A wireless network would add 200 pounds per plane as opposed to... Read more...

Blue Jean Dye Kills Cancer Cells

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:20:05 +0000

The dye in your blue jeans could soon be used to kill cancer cells, say scientists. UK researchers are employing tiny gold "nanoparticles", 1/5000th the thickness of a human hair, to deliver the chemical compound... Read more...

Intel kills plans for 4GHz Pentium

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:20:19 +0000

Intel is dumping plans to release a Pentium 4 processor that runs at 4GHz, saying it will boost performance on next year's chips using other means than clock speed. The Santa Clara,... Read more...

New Trojan Kills Adware

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:44:42 +0000

A new Trojan horse program that attacks and removes troublesome advertising software, known as "adware," is circulating on the Internet, according to antivirus company Symantec. The program, called Downloader.Lunii, was discovered earlier this week. When... Read more...

Open source kills jobs, says Gates

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:50:36 +0000

In muted tones, Microsoft's chairman warned governments and companies that open source software is not the way to go if they are in the business of creating jobs and intellectual property. Bill Gates was on... Read more...

Sun kills UltraSparc V, Gemini chips

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:24:02 +0000

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers, a company spokeswoman confirmed.... Read more...

Mother Kills Computer Game-Playing Adult Son

Marcel Klum — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:56:20 +0000

Thanks RazerBack for posting this in our gamers forum. A lot of weird videogames-related stories have been popping up lately. Today's weird story is unbelievable and quite tragic. Apparently, a mother in Israel... Read more...

Capcom Kills Rumour

Marcel Klum — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:10:26 +0000

Capcom has announced it is not merging with video game rivals. Capcom doesn't plan to merge with other game developers, Chief Financial Officer Heiji Oshima said, denying reports the company may be... Read more...

Beijing cyber cafe fire kills 24

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:16:12 +0000

The mayor of Beijing has ordered the closure of all Internet cafes in the city following a fire in which 24 people were killed and 13 injured. The blaze broke out on Sunday morning at... Read more...

iTunes installer kills extra partitions!

Sun, 04 Nov 2001 15:42:40 +0000

Oops... looks like apple didn't do their homework, with the initial release of their iTunes installer! Apple has this notice on their iTunes site...An important note for those who have downloaded iTunes... Read more...