Neowin News Feed for: Lets

London's 'SatLav' Lets You Text For a Bathroom Location

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:26:21 +0000

If you've ever found yourself in London, unable to find a toilet and furiously hopping around to contain the yellow flood whose release feels imminent, I have good news: Westminster City Council, which covers London's... Read more...

New eBay site lets people finance the world's poor

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:03:35 +0000

EBay Inc, the world's largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched on Wednesday a Web site allowing ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world's poorest countries. MicroPlace, located at https://www.microplace.com,... Read more...

New Web site lets techies trade beta-test invites

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:04:36 +0000

With the July launch of InviteShare, users can sign up for free and trade invites to online beta testing programs. Once one submits their e-mail address to lists kept at the site for particular start-ups,... Read more...

Dell lets small business customers decline 'crapware' on PCs

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:37:06 +0000

Dell Incorporated has unveiled six Vostro PCs (four laptop and two desktop models) for the small business market that will ship without bundled "trialware", if buyers so choose. These preinstalled applications, search settings, trial editions... Read more...

New bill lets colleges use federal funds to fight P2P

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:09:39 +0000

Representative Ric Keller feels that colleges in America are places where students learn to steal "billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs hang in the balance" and his new bill (HR... Read more...

Web-based service lets iTunes users share DRM-free music

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:52:24 +0000

new online music service lets people share music stored on their PCs with other computer users or those with Web-enabled mobile phones. Using the free Avvenu Music Player launching this week, users can select tracks... Read more...

Google Lets Businesses Create Coupons

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:58:30 +0000

Google enhanced its Google Maps application to include coupons that businesses can create and display free of charge. The new service, announced yesterday, allows a business to fill out a form on Google's Web site... Read more...

ATI Lets Developers Create DirectX 10 Effects

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:30:14 +0000

ATI Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of graphics processors, has unveiled its first DirectX 10 software development kit that provides programmers examples of DirectX 10 code and samples to allow them to start... Read more...

Microsoft accidentally lets the public in on WLM8

Steven Parker — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:31:33 +0000

Oops! Microsoft A new version of MSN Messenger is one of the projects currently being worked on by the Windows Live team. The beta version, ostensibly called MSN Messenger 8... Read more...

IE Design Flaw Lets Hacker Crack Google Desktop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:27:29 +0000

An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the undefined undefined Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information. Matan Gillon,... Read more...

Google Service Lets Users do the Publishing

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:40:00 +0000

An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload almost anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising. The venture,... Read more...

HP Technology Lets Future Chips Live With Mistakes

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:39:51 +0000

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard believe they have developed a manufacturing technique that will allow chip makers to push the performance envelope after conventional transistors reach the atomic level, the company is expected to announce Thursday. ... Read more...

Window of exposure lets viruses run rampant

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:43:18 +0000

More than 295,000 virus-infected emails were sent to companies in the UK in May before anti-virus vendors could issue signature updates, according to email filtering firm BlackSpider Technologies. It's long been known that there is... Read more...

Microsoft plan lets subscribers download away

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:53:02 +0000

Chris Gorog is convinced people won't continue to pay $1 a song for online music. That is despite Apple's record string of recent achievements, including 200 million songs sold at its iTunes Music Store, and... Read more...

Peeping Tom filter lets phones see through bikinis

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:45:01 +0000

A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on for Vodafone handsets that's meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark. Unfortunately,... Read more...

Cherry OS lets PCs emulate Macs

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:54:56 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s Virtual PC software has been lauded by critics as a convenient way for Mac users to run Windows applications on their Macs, but what if you need to do the opposite? Maui, Hawaii-based... Read more...

IBM Technology Lets Processors Heal Themselves

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:01:06 +0000

IBM is creating technology that will enable microprocessors to monitor, regulate and heal themselves. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Friday unveiled its eFuse chip-morphing technology, designed to enable processors to dynamically adjust themselves in response... Read more...

AOL Lets IM Users Log On From Multiple Locations

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:12:21 +0000

Thanks to nathanintu for posting this in the BPN. "America Online has quietly flipped a switch in its instant-messaging service that lets users log on concurrently from multiple locations. Like other... Read more...

Lets All Laugh At Michael Robertson

Tom Warren — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:01:43 +0000

One of the most insane things I've ever read in my entire life just made me laugh and cry. Stop the press, don't install Microsoft Office 2003 guys, it's the world's most dangerous virus according... Read more...

Microsoft lets Morgan sell 'worthless' options

Tom Warren — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:27 +0000

Microsoft Corp. yesterday gave more details of its plan to let employees sell their otherwise worthless stock options to an investment bank. The plan, announced in July, is an outgrowth of the... Read more...

RIAA to file swappers: Lets chat

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:01:44 +0000

The recording industry is turning file-swappers' own tools against them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are offering copyrighted materials online. Tapping into the chat functions... Read more...

Orange Lets Developers In

Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:12:43 +0000

"As previously reported in The INQ, network operator Orange had originally taken steps to prevent anyone unlocking their SPV smartphone in order to allow 'unsigned' applications to be run on the handset. This incensed a... Read more...

Bill Gates lets slip about Xbox 2

Marcel Klum — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:39:09 +0000

Talking to leading French financial newspaper, Les Echos, Microsoft boss Bill Gates let slip some of the features to be included in the Xbox 2 and how it will launch its assault on the living... Read more...

Smart alarm clock lets you lie in

Sat, 21 Sep 2002 05:27:07 +0000

Mommy.. I want this for Christmas! A smart alarm clock that will allow you a lie-in or wake you up early depending on traffic conditions has been invented by researchers at Brunel University in southern... Read more...

AMD lets loose with new flash memory

Mon, 13 May 2002 19:08:04 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is sampling a new flash memory chip that promises to double storage capacity and give Intel a run for its money in the market for cellular phones and other consumer electronics devices.... Read more...

3D Ultrasound Lets Parents 'Touch' Unborn Child

Darren Bolton — Mon, 13 May 2002 08:30:21 +0000

Chubby cheeks. A cute button nose. Tiny fingers and toes. A newborn can melt hearts and turn sane adults into cooing, babbling fools. Expectant parents who can't wait to... Read more...

Steve Gibson lets rip with UnPlug n'Pray

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:14:54 +0000

It looks like our good old friend Steve Gibson has decided to get into the mix, with the recent UPnP fiasco for Windows XP (and below) by releasing a program "UnPlug n'Pray", which as Steve... Read more...

Lets Get Retro: Windows 1.01

Ross Dundas — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:02:19 +0000

Prepare yourself for the l337ness of what longhorn really looks like :P, i always knew we would go back to this someday ;) Longhorn Screenshots :evil: lol Edit: For those... Read more...