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Apple announces its last MacWorld, no Steve Jobs keynote

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:47:20 +0000

Apple today announced that the upcoming 2009 MacWorld Expo is the last year the company will exhibit at the event. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening... Read more...

Second Life on its last life

Marcel Klum — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:51:41 +0000

Lynden Lab's Second Life virtual world was so popular that people were investing in virtual real estate and making significant sums of money off their investments. This was in the glory days last year and... Read more...

World's oldest blogger signs off for the last time, aged 108

Steven Parker — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:04:27 +0000

An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108. Her last post described her ailing health but also how she still sang a happy song every day. Olive... Read more...

Bill Gates last public speech as Microsoft Chairman Overview

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:04:30 +0000

Bill Gates launched Tech-ed Developers in Orlando, Florida today by announcing this was his last public speech as a full time employee (FTE) in his role of Microsoft Chairman. He will now transition to a... Read more...

Nielsen: Sales at 85% Blu-ray and 15% HD DVD for Last Week

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:35:11 +0000

We all knew the Warner announcement would do a lot of damage, and now the statistics to back up those predictions are here. According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales numbers for last week,... Read more...

Microsoft at CES 2008, Bill Gates' Last Keynote

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:04:27 +0000

Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, will deliver the pre-show 2008 International CES keynote address at 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday, January 6 , in the... Read more...

IE7 Open Last Tab Add-on

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:16 +0000

If you've ever accidentally closed a tab in Internet Explorer 7 when you didn't mean to, then you will know how handy this IE7 add-in can be. With the IE7 "Open Last Closed Tab" add-in,... Read more...

PS3 Sales Rise, Still in Last Place

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:07:27 +0000

A price cut in early June seems to have boosted sales of Sony's PlayStation 3, but the floundering console is still trailing its rivals from Microsoft and Nintendo. After dropping the console's 60GB SKU price... Read more...

Dell consumer notebook delay may last into October-November

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:59:38 +0000

Shipment delay problems plaguing Dell may be worse than expected, with a shortage for the company's consumer notebook models likely to last into October or November, according to sources at Taiwan-based retail channels. Retail channels... Read more...

Nvidia took graphics share from AMD last quarter

Steven Parker — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:11:54 +0000

AMD's share of the microprocessor market might be on the rise again, but things don't look too good on the graphics front. Market research firm Jon Peddie Research has published PC graphics market numbers for... Read more...

Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:28:53 +0000

Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and... Read more...

Wireless charging: Here at last

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:52:08 +0000

Imagine if your smartphone was as advanced as your toothbrush -- at least in the charging department. That would be cooler than your peppermint toothpaste. If you've got one of those high-end vibrating toothbrushes or... Read more...

MS denies Rumor: undecided on last 32-bit Windows Client

Thu, 17 May 2007 21:15:44 +0000

Bill Laing, a General Manager in the Microsoft Windows Server Division, has been quoted as saying that Windows Server 2008 will be the last 32-bit operating system. Bill is a server guy and indeed... Read more...

Microsoft: Vista is last version of Windows for 32-bit

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:32:41 +0000

It's the end of the line for 32-bit operating systems, Microsoft has proclaimed at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference After the software giant has gotten over its hangover from partying like it's 1999 with... Read more...

Windows Live OneCare place last in anti-virus evaluation

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:17:13 +0000

Anti-virus researcher Andreas Cleminti, owner of Innsbruck, Austria-based AV Comparatives Web site posts quarterly results of tests that compare the top anti-virus products against a dynamic list of nearly half a million individual pieces of... Read more...

Ballmer Dispels Notion of Vista as Last Client OS

Steven Parker — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:09:57 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today attempted to end rumors that Windows Vista will be the last Windows client operating system, claiming that Microsoft has "plenty more where that came from" at a press event to... Read more...

IE 'unsafe' for 284 days last year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:54:10 +0000

Using IE6 was "unsafe" 284 days last year even for users who patched their systems as soon as Microsoft released fixes. An analysis by the Washington Post's Stuart Krebs revealed that exploit code for critical... Read more...

Wireless USB nears last hurdle before launch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:41:44 +0000

Almost three years after it debuted at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), wireless USB remains one of the most promising implementations of ultra wideband (UWB) short-range radio technology, but it is still waiting for its... Read more...

Mac Marketshare Up 34.6% From Last Year

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:53:17 +0000

Apple's marketshare continues to climb, up 34.6 per cent, year on year, new statistics reveal. According to Net Applications' latest research figures (for October) for platforms used when accessing the web, Mac usage has... Read more...

Gartner: Vista Last of its Kind

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:22:57 +0000

Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together... Read more...

China Cost Film Industry '$2.7bn' Last Year

Joe Cashman — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:39:58 +0000

According to a global movie body, movie piracy in China is costing the industry $2.7bn a year. The Motion Pictures Association say that around 93% of all films bought in China are pirated, and 40%... Read more...

Last Week on Neowin (Week ending June 18th)

Steven Parker — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:33:28 +0000

This week saw Neowin updating its design layout to Public Preview 5. Almost everyone appears to have welcomed the changes, we know theres a way to go yet before all the features are completed. Look... Read more...

Why Vista Will Not Be The Last OS Microsoft Makes

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:48:13 +0000

A site boasting to offer irreverent Apple news boasted some frankly irrelevant news yesterday. An opinion piece titled " Will Vista Be the Last Operating System Microsoft Produces?" suggested that after Vista, that's it... Read more...

Pentium M to last for eight hours on single charge by 2008

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:57:24 +0000

The Intel Pentium M 'Yonah' dual-core processor is planned for the first quarter of next year. This 65nm mobile processor's FSB will be clocked at 667MHz and the target clock-rate for launch will likely be... Read more...

HP to showcase last "homemade" chip

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 26 May 2005 15:42:16 +0000

Hewlett-Packard is set to debut as soon as next week its first Unix servers with the last member of the company's PA-RISC processor family, a lineage that's being supplanted by Intel's Itanium. The company is... Read more...

ATI and Nvidia roll out last AGP8X chips before PCI Express

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:28:55 +0000

ATI Technologies and Nvidia will both launch new-generation AGP8X chips in the second quarter aiming to sustain their market shares before they start marketing chips supporting PCI Express standards, according to sources familiar with the... Read more...

China made 23 million+ LCD monitors last year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:48:44 +0000

A REPORT SAID factories in mainland China bashed out over 23 million units in 2003. And the report, by Kevin Wang, display analyst at iSuppli, reckons that manufacturing will grow by 20% this year. If... Read more...

First Doom 3 Xbox details emerge at last

Darren Bolton — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:15:00 +0000

Plus, is the PC version due to be released in April? While Microsoft announced way back at last year's E3 that Doom 3 is Xbox-bound, we've had very little in the way of... Read more...

Sparkle lines up last FX party before Express takes over.

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:21:31 +0000

SPARKLE Computer Co Ltd, professional manufacturer and supplier of VGA cards and recent winner of the "Neowin Choice" Award for their excellent GeforceFX 5900XT; is delighted to announce two new products imminently arriving into... Read more...

MS gets last chance to plead its European antitrust case

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:40:55 +0000

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is listening to Microsoft making oral representations this week before it makes a decision on whether to find against it for antitrust behaviour. Microsoft will, apparently, have to come up with highly... Read more...

At Last, the Web Hits 100 MPH

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:17:37 +0000

The spread of broadband may finally allow the Net to reach its full commercial potential -- and change the way people live Jon Nordmark has been through the e-tail bust, so the... Read more...

Amber Passed Away Last Night

Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:49:36 +0000

Thanks again to Sid for this sad news. "Amber Passed Away Last Night around 11PM. She fought very, very hard; she had to battle for most of her short life.... Read more...

Your Last Chance For @Home Memorabilia

Sat, 25 May 2002 06:29:16 +0000

Hoping to get the last dollar possible for their once-dominant ISP, Excite@Home owners are putting most of the company's tangible assets up for sale during a two-day online auction next week. Wednesday... Read more...

The last thing you want is a blue screen at 200mph...

Tue, 14 May 2002 22:47:14 +0000

Wind River Systems, a maker of software that powers many of the lesser-known types of computing devices hidden in the fabric of the high-tech world, has won approval to have its operating system used in... Read more...

Having the last laugh

Steven Parker — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:47:21 +0000

Thought this would interest you, got this link from my Lockergnome - Bits 'n Bytes email today. Full interview can be read when you click "read more". After what he describes as... Read more...

The last mile, over Barbed wire and other wires...

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 03:51:20 +0000

Thanks Slashdot for this neat story... The biggest problem with getting connectivity has always been the "last mile", but according to Cisco, this will become a dead issue, with the release of information on... Read more...

Creative releases last batch of XP support

Steven Parker — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 23:56:29 +0000

Yesterday saw the final official updates to the Soundblaster line with no announcement made over the future of LiveWare. Creative has released Microsoft Windows XP-compatible drivers to enhance your digital entertainment experience. By leveraging on... Read more...