Neowin News Feed for: Land

Microsoft purchases 332 acres of land in Loudoun County for $73 million

Ruel Revales — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has closed a deal to buy 332 acres of land in Leesburg, Loudon County from Peterson Cos. valued at nearly $73 million. The Redmond-based giant is expected to build data centers in the area. Read more...

Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:57:14 +0000

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... Read more...

Digital Passports Land in U.S.

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:23:57 +0000

American travelers have begun receiving a new RFID-equipped electronic passport in mid-August, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of State. Right now, the only people receiving the new passports, which are embedded with... Read more...

The Disaster That Was The .EU Land Rush

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:19:59 +0000

The ever insightful owner of Godaddy, Bob Parsons, has summed up excellently the events of the past week or so in the normally peaceful world of domain names. As many readers will be aware, a... Read more...

Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:01:18 +0000

A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 (Â£13,700) on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game (RPG). The Australian gamer, known only by his gaming moniker Deathifier, bought the island... Read more...

Bluetooth headset talks to mobiles and land lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:17:09 +0000

Denmark-based GN Netcom has launched a new line of Bluetooth headsets designed to eliminate some of the office worker's phone-juggling by giving them the ability to connect to either a land line or a mobile... Read more...

Anito: Defend A Land Enraged Demo

Marcel Klum — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:20:55 +0000

Philippine indie game developer Anino Entertainment has sent us a little Chrismas present by means of a demo for their recently released adventure/RPG game "Anito: Defend A Land Enraged." This demo features one of 2... Read more...

No Man's Land demo

Marcel Klum — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:13:54 +0000

A real-time strategy title spanning 300 years of American history, No Man's Land allows players to brave the dangers of the New World, from the Revolutionary War to Westward expansion. "No Man's Land" is scheduled... Read more...

Macintosh in the land behind the 64-bit Looking Glass

Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:22:02 +0000

THE 64-BIT workstation market has been kind of quiet in the past two years. Why? Well, on one side, Pentium/Xeon 32-bit systems took over the bulk of mainstream 3-D workstation market, and on the other... Read more...

Quark Enters the Land of OS X

Sat, 31 May 2003 12:52:57 +0000

An Early Look at the New Features in QuarkXPress 6.0 Quark has moved cautiously down the road to OS X, but its journey will be over when QuarkXPress 6.0 debuts. The company won't comment... Read more...

Internet2 Land Speed Record

Steven Parker — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:00:08 +0000

An international team set new Internet2 Land Speed Records by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometers (more than 6,800 miles) of network in less than one minute. Using a quantity of data equivalent... Read more...

Hammer to land in October

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:22:32 +0000

There's some reasonably detailed snippets about AMD's plans up at AMD Zone, suggesting that the firm could well get its Clawhammer processor out in October, and saying that Barton is likely to be shelved. ... Read more...

How a software bug could land you 10 years in jail

Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:27:09 +0000

Careful coding the order of the day... "It was clear from dealing with the millennium date change issue that manufacturers and suppliers, despite knowing that there was scope for problems with... Read more...