Neowin News Feed for: Leaves

Need For Speed leaves virtual reality

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:20:54 +0000

EA, the publishers behind the Need For Speed series of games, have announced that fans of the popular series will be able to act out their car fantasies in real life in June 2009. Over... Read more...

First Gates-Seinfeld ad leaves folks scratching their heads!

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:53:30 +0000

The first Windows ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the ad agency that won the big $300 million contract with Microsoft, features Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. It has made its appearance on television, but... Read more...

Debian and Ubuntu flaw leaves private SSL/SSH keys guessable

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:00:47 +0000

The Debian Security Advisory posted up DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator issue today and strongly advised its users to take steps to avoid possible compromising of any systems running on Debian, such as... Read more...

Sony Leaves Rear-Projection TV Market

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:28:52 +0000

Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies - liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday. According to Sony Corp. spokesman Shinji Obana,... Read more...

Salesforce.com President Leaves Company

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:00:30 +0000

John Freeland has announced today that he leaving his position as president of worldwide operations at Salesforce.com, a company which creates on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, to become CEO and president at Information Resources,... Read more...

ATI Driver Flaw Leaves Vista Kernel Open To Attacks

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:08 +0000

An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a security hole to sneak malware past the improved security features in Windows Vista and straight to the Vista Kernel. Microsoft says that they are working with... Read more...

Peter Moore Leaves Microsoft, Joins Electronic Arts

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:45:36 +0000

Peter Moore, the head of Microsoft's gaming business, is leaving to join game maker Electronic Arts. For the past four years Mr Moore has been the public face of Microsoft's Xbox and PC gaming business,... Read more...

PlayStation Inventor Kutaragi Leaves Sony

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:47:40 +0000

As he announced in April, PlayStation inventor Ken Kutaragi has officially left Sony. As planned, Kutaragi retired on June 19 as chairman and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. Kutaragi has already turned over... Read more...

AIM Architect Leaves AOL for Google

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:43:09 +0000

Once again the search giant Google has acquired an employer from "the opponent". Justin Uberti was the lead developer of AOL's Instant Messenger. AIM Triton and Open AIM could not have been without his nine... Read more...

Web Browser Leaves No Footprints

Steven Parker — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:10:44 +0000

The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they've searched. Most Web browsers... Read more...

AOL executive leaves after breach

Steven Parker — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:46:32 +0000

One of AOL's top executives has left the internet firm soon after a privacy breach in which the search queries of 650,000 subscribers were released. AOL apologised for accidentally giving details of 20 million search... Read more...

Senior Security Strategist Jesper Johansson leaves Microsoft

Steven Parker — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:15:46 +0000

Jesper Johansson is well know for his superb sessions at TechED events all over the world, his last session will be at TechED 2006 in Sydney. Jesper's Blog: The sands of time seem finally to... Read more...

D-Link Leaves Critical Hole Open for 5 Months, And Counting

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:58:31 +0000

Security vulnerability discoveries were reported last February to D-Link and surprisingly they still have not been fixed yet! The vulnerability allows remote code to be executed through the routersfirmware potentially leaving affected customers vulnerable to... Read more...

CEO Leaves Infinium Labs

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:06:51 +0000

The company behind the controversial console, the Phantom has announced that CEO Kevin Bachus has left the company and CFO Greg Koler, the European boss has taken over. He has joined the company... Read more...

John Romero leaves Midway

Todd Tanner — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:34:02 +0000

After reports started popping up yesterday on Computer Games Magazine that John Romero had left Midway, John Romero himself responded to the rumors. Originally contacted by Bluesnews about this rumor, The Romero responded in his... Read more...

iPod shuffle leaves eMac, iMac G3 users hanging

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:09:53 +0000

Apple Computer's newly designed iPod shuffle digital music player is not directly compatible with the USB port on some computers, including the company's own line of iMac G3 and eMac computers, AppleInsider has learned. ... Read more...

Driver creator leaves Reflections

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:18:11 +0000

Martin Edmondson, founder of UK development studio Reflections and creator of the Driver series, has announced his departure from the Atari-owned studio, where he was managing and creative director. "As of December... Read more...

Head of Mac hardware leaves Apple

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:17:40 +0000

On Monday, November 8th, the vice president of Apple's Mac support unit left the company. Exactly one week later, Tim Bucher, head of Apple's Mac hardware engineering, did the same. Word of Bucher's departure began... Read more...

Microsoft Patch Leaves Holes Open

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:01:57 +0000

Microsoft's effort last week to fix a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer Web browser and end the latest series of Internet attacks doesn't address another closely related and dangerous vulnerability, according to a security specialist.... Read more...

Flaw Leaves Internet Open to Attacks

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:29:41 +0000

A security researcher has developed a new attack for a well-known flaw in the TCP protocol that allows an attacker to effectively shut down targeted routers and terminate existing TCP sessions at will. The scenario... Read more...

Plug-in flaw leaves RealPlayer users open to attack

Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:58:16 +0000

RealNetworks has issued a patch for a security flaw in one of its plug-ins that could let an attacker gain control of computers running any of several versions of the company's popular media player software.... Read more...

Eats, Shoots and Leaves…

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:50:28 +0000

No, it's not the classic Panda joke but rather a poor leader into a item telling of the massive Christmas as had at Amazon Towers in the UK, ahem, who merely act as distribution agents... Read more...

File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:48:41 +0000

Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from... Read more...

Kirby creator leaves Nintendo

Marcel Klum — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:03:55 +0000

Masahiro Sakurai, the man who created Kirby for Nintendo and directed the successfully and critically acclaimed Smash Bros. series, has resigned from his job at Nintendo first party HAL Laboratory. According to Japanese... Read more...

Channel Exec Nancy Reynolds Leaves Novell

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:13:17 +0000

Novell's top channel executive, Nancy Reynolds, left the company last week, a Novell spokesperson confirmed. Solution providers have credited Reynolds, vice president of North American channel sales and a 14-year company veteran,... Read more...

SF2 Creator Leaves Capcom

Marcel Klum — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:39:32 +0000

Undoubtly one of the most important men in gaming history, Yoshiki Okamoto, has decided to leave Capcom. The man is responsible for some of the most important games of all time including Street Fighter... Read more...

Microsoft leaves IE users 'defenceless' to trojan attack

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 22 May 2003 11:59:12 +0000

KASPERSKY LABS said that the StartPage trojan, which exploits a hole in Internet Explorer, sets a particularly dangerous precedent because Microsoft hasn't issued a patch for it yet. The firm said that the trojan infects... Read more...

Microsoft Leaves Windows Open for Citrix

Darren Bolton — Thu, 16 May 2002 19:10:25 +0000

Citrix Systems Inc. an application serving and portal software giant, today announced that it has sealed a three-year agreement that will provide the company with access to Microsoft Windows Server source code. ... Read more...

XBox Daddy Leaves Home While the Kid is Suffering

Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:40:05 +0000

Thanks to C.C. for the heads up on this. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The co-creator of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console has resigned days after the software giant conceded the unit... Read more...

Linux flaw leaves computers vulnerable

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 03:17:28 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for the heads up. A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to... Read more...

Scripting flaw leaves sites vulnerable

Darren Bolton — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:16:28 +0000

A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web... Read more...