Neowin News Feed for: Lift

Microsoft Looks to Holidays to Lift Vista's Prospects

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:30:57 +0000

Microsoft and some of its partners are hoping that Vista will be the gift that fills their holiday stocking this year. This is the first year that notebooks and desktop computers loaded with Vista software... Read more...

High-End Chips Help Lift Intel's 4Q Profit

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:42:17 +0000

Intel posted a quarterly profit that beat the average Wall Street estimate. The top computer chip maker owes the success to new high-end processors. Intel's fourth-quarter net profit was $1.5 billion, or 26 cents per... Read more...

XM Satellite subscribers rise, lift stock price

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:32:32 +0000

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said on Wednesday it has signed up more than 360,000 total subscribers to its satellite radio broadcast service, and expect further strong demand in 2003. The announcement,... Read more...

Broadband leaders vow to lift image

Tue, 07 May 2002 15:46:25 +0000

Australia's broadband industry leaders admit the technology has gained a "bad name" and a poor reputation for performance issues. But industry heavyweights have vowed to work together to convince the small to medium-sized... Read more...

Morpheus woes lift rival from obscurity

Sat, 09 Mar 2002 14:58:00 +0000

Australia-based Sharman Networks came from nowhere to buy the Kazaa Media Desktop and now carries bragging rights as the world's largest file-swapping network. The surprise shutdown of the popular Morpheus file-trading software... Read more...

Holiday Lift Seen for Intel, AMD Results

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:09:29 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are expected to report fourth-quarter results this week that will likely top their recently increased guidance as holiday sales of personal computers were not as grim as most... Read more...

XP - Can Jim Allchin lift Microsoft, computer sales?

Steven Parker — Sun, 21 Oct 2001 23:37:31 +0000

Allchin, head of Microsoft's platforms division and part of Chairman Bill Gates' inner circle, is the maestro behind the computer program dubbed XP — the flashiest, most powerful and perhaps the most controversial product in... Read more...

Windows Messenger gets ready for a face lift

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:26:29 +0000

Microsoft is preparing a face lift to it's Instant Messenging software, and it's not even available yet... On Thursday, Microsoft said it would beef up the new Windows Messenger in its upcoming Windows... Read more...