Neowin News Feed for: Launched

Intel launches redesigned Atom chip for netbooks

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:12:45 +0000

Chip maker Intel has announced the launch of their new Atom processor chips and NM10 chipset for netbooks. In a first for Intel, the new chip Previously referred to as "Pine Trail", sees the graphics... Read more...

Official theme support now integrated in Google Chrome 3.0

Owen Williams — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:22:38 +0000

The latest developer build of Chrome now includes an official option to install themes into Google Chrome. It was reported earlier this week by Neowin that Google is preparing to launch a theme gallery. It... Read more...

Microsoft Wave launched, showcase for 'cool' MS technologies

Tom Warren — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:22:32 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled a new website with the focus on 'cool' technologies that Microsoft has created. According to Microsoft blogger Steve Clayton, Microsoft Wave "is a cool new site from our UK team that... Read more...

Rumor: Palm Pre to be launched on March 15

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:39:26 +0000

Palm is very much confident about releasing their Pre in the first quarter of 2009 as announced in CES '09. February 15 and March 1 are the dates in speculation for the launch of Palm... Read more...

Clear, first 4G network launched

Andrew Lyle — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:02:24 +0000

Clearwire and Intel have teamed up to produce the world's first 4G network that launched on January 6, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. The network called Clear allows consumers and businesses the chance to connect... Read more...

Multi-touch LG KF900 Prada is launched

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:13:01 +0000

The latest phone from LG, the KF900, may be able to steal marketshare from the iPhone. It has been revealed that the phone sports a capacitive display allowing it to achieve multi-touch input. This comes... Read more...

First flip-phone BlackBerry launched

Tom Warren — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:06:41 +0000

Research In Motion is launching a flip version of its popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone, a move that reasserts its push into the consumer market. Like RIM's original Pearl model, the first-ever flip BlackBerry comes loaded... Read more...

GamesAid charity launched

Marcel Klum — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:05:12 +0000

A new videogames industry charity called GamesAid has been set up with the purpose of raising money predominantly to support children's charities in the UK. Founded by seven trustees, including Mastertronic's Andy Payne, Sports Interactive's... Read more...

Text-to-pee service launched

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:22:35 +0000

Finland's residents now face being caught short during car trips if their phones are out of credit, because the country's road management agency has introduced an SMS entry system for public toilets. Called the SMS... Read more...

Phone With Fold-Away Screen Launched

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:18:13 +0000

Polymer Vision, a spin-off of Philips, has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that folds up when not... Read more...

Microsoft Student Experience website launched

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:48:47 +0000

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Student Experience beta website, which has a lot information, targeted at students. It contains information from Microsoft internships, getting discounted software and is conveniently tabbed under Home, Academics, Socialize, Get Involved... Read more...

HTC Touch Cruise Officially Launched

Tom Warren — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:54:30 +0000

HTC has officially unveiled the next Touch phone in their range of touch branded devices. Unlike the Touch Dual the Cruise has WiFi, GPS and a 3MP camera. HTC has also included their own TouchFLO... Read more...

Pirates Online Launched to Public

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:29:45 +0000

Pirates of the Caribbean Online has been released to the public from the beta stage. Set sail on the vast blue waters of the Caribbean in search of adventure, fortune, and fame in the... Read more...

Wi-fi sharing plan launched in UK

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:32:36 +0000

BT has backed a global wireless sharing service called Fon, touting it as the "world's largest wi-fi community" since it lets people share a "small portion" of their home broadband connection by opening up a... Read more...

'Green eye' tech centre launched

Tom Warren — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:52:34 +0000

A new space innovation centre in the UK will lead the development of novel technologies to monitor our planet. Called the Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation, it will pull together university and industry... Read more...

'3D' Screen Launched

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:50:25 +0000

IO2 Technology has released its Heliodisplay that projects a 2-dimensional mid-air display with a maximum resolution of 1024 x 1024. It appears to be convincingly 3-dimensional though, and thanks to an optical tracking system, it... Read more...

MSN Soapbox Public Beta Launched, No Live Branding

Steven Parker — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:39:32 +0000

The Live branding at Microsoft seems to be under-going some drastic changes with the launch of MSN Soapbox, previously branded Live Soapbox, that along with the LiveSide news announcement yesterday on MSN Shopping (previously Windows... Read more...

Swamii, new personalised search service launched

Rob Wright — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:57:28 +0000

Swamii is a new service which scans the web, blogs, television, press, shops (and more) for your interests every day and sends the results by email or on your own personalised start page. Has... Read more...

Attacks Launched Against Unpatched Windows Bug

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:33:54 +0000

For the second time in less than a week, Microsoft has acknowledged that attackers are exploiting a critical, unpatched flaw in Windows to snatch PCs from their owners. The new bug, which is in an... Read more...

Germ Free Mouse Launched

Steven Parker — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:26:56 +0000

When I read things like, "the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat" (from a University of Arizona survey), I just cringe! I hate to think what kinds of germs... Read more...

Dreamweaver 8 in Adobe CS Bundle; Acrobat 8 Launched

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:45:22 +0000

Adobe has released Acrobat 8, a new version of its document authoring and reading software, and integrated it with its upgraded Creative Suite 2.3 Premium. The latest Creative Suite bundle also includes Macromedia's flagship... Read more...

Google Finance Launched

Tom Warren — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:12:23 +0000

Googled has launched their long awaited financial news site. Google Finance will compete directly with Yahoo and MSN for the grip hold on the financial news market. ... Read more...

Microsoft's "Origami" Ultra-Mobile PC Launched

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:48:38 +0000

Microsoft has finally unveiled "Origami" as the Ultra-Mobile PC. We exclusively predicted that Microsoft would reveal a device last month with Intel and that it would be called Ultra... Read more...

Google Flight Search Launched

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:22:39 +0000

A new search feature on Google lets people quickly get to airline flight information. Users can type in two different cities, or airport codes, in the Google search box to bring up... Read more...

New Hotmail Beta Launched To Tight Tester Group

Neowin Staff — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:38:53 +0000

July has born witness to an almost continuous stream of new products and betas from Microsoft. Not to be left out the fun, the company's email offering, Hotmail, recently opened up a limited beta program... Read more...

MP3Tunes Launched

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:56:12 +0000

As previously reported here, Michael Robertson of Linspire fame has launched a new music company, MP3Tunes. Users of the service can get content for 88Â¢ per song and $8.88 per CD, slightly cheaper than Apple's... Read more...

MSN Spaces Launched

Tom Warren — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:20:03 +0000

MSN Spaces, Microsoft's blogging service, has opened itself to the public for beta testing. The service, previously only available in Japanese, is now available in English. Like the recently launched search beta, it does appear... Read more...

MSN Search Beta Launched, Google Fights Back

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:42:59 +0000

Today, Microsoft launched a public beta of their search offering, MSN Search. New features include integration with other Microsoft sites (e.g. Encarta, MSN Music), basic questions search (e.g. What is the capital of Turkey? ->... Read more...

Neowin Black & Midnight Styles Launched

Steven Parker — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:05:27 +0000

Neowin is proud to present 2 new themes for the main pages. Neowin Black & Neowin Midnight These darker themes have been based off the 2 new forum styles... Read more...

OpenGL 2.0 launched with built-in shader language

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:19:12 +0000

Today Silicon Graphics and the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced OpenGL 2.0 at the SIGGRAPH 2004 tradeshow. This news isn't just exciting for OpenGL 2.0 developers but also for users. Already OpenGL... Read more...

MSN Web Based Messenger Launched

Tom Warren — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:59:26 +0000

MSN Web Messenger lets you talk online and in real-time with friends and family using just a web browser! Use it on any shared computer - at school, at work, at a friend's house or... Read more...

TotalGaming.net Launched

Brad Wardell — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:42:39 +0000

TotalGaming.net is a new gaming network from Stardock that enables users to purchase and download retail games. Games can be purchased both individually as well as all together as part of a single TotalGaming.net... Read more...

Intel Officially Launched Celeron D Processors

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:20:51 +0000

Today Intel announced its first line of Celeron's built on 90nm technology. Celerons are Intel's lower end lower cost processors. This new breed of Celeron processors called Celeron D has a 256KB of... Read more...

Spaceshipone launched

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:23:56 +0000

Spaceshipone has (according to Reuters) been launched. "SpaceShipOne lifted off early on Monday in the initial stage of the world's first attempted commercial space flight. The privately funded rocket plane was... Read more...

Apple iTunes launched in Europe

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:17:03 +0000

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, has just announced the launch of iTunes for Europeans (UK, France, Germany). iTunes is a online music store, allowing PC and Mac users to download their songs legally. The service... Read more...

'Live Alerts' launched

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:55:00 +0000

It's always the way - unless you're the sort of determined soul who's permanently hooked up to the interweb then you're unlikely to be online at the same time as your Xbox Live buddies and... Read more...

MSN 9.1 BETA program launched

Fri, 21 May 2004 11:30:49 +0000

Our member, apoc_xp has reported that the BETA program for MSN 9.1 has been launched. The BETA tester should have already recieved the e-mail welcoming them to the so-called "MSN® Beta Butterfly Program" by now... Read more...

Need For Speed 2 website launched

Marcel Klum — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:57:10 +0000

Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed™ Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.... Read more...

Mobile Skype launched for PDAs

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:11:57 +0000

Thanks nathanintu. The peer-to-peer phone program Skype, which lets computer users make free calls to each other anywhere in the world, is going mobile, with a version released for PDAs (personal digital assistants). ... Read more...

Driver 3 Site Launched - PC version confirmed

Marcel Klum — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:52:04 +0000

Atari has launched the official Driver 3 website, showcasing this upcoming 3D action driving game in the works at Reflections Interactive. The site offers details about the game, some screenshots, the previously released trailer, and... Read more...