Neowin News Feed for: Limits

Microsoft cancels Exchange Online configuration change because no one liked it

Usama Jawad — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:32:01 +0000

After announcing a limit on emails for external recipients back in 2024, Microsoft has now backtracked on a planned Exchange Online configuration change. Read more...

Microsoft adopts new tenure policy for outside members of its board of directors

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:40:01 +0000

The software giant has just unveiled a change to its Corporate Governance Guidelines, targeted at independent directors. Those outside members will now have "an average tenure of 10 years or less". Read more...

TWC delays bandwidth cap rollout after public outcry

Brad Sams — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:01:14 +0000

A few days ago Neowin reported that Time Warner Cable would be expanding bandwidth cap testing to more regions. The extremely limiting bandwidth cap, surprisingly, isn't sitting well with consumers and TWC is having... Read more...

Military puts MySpace, other sites off limits

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:43:37 +0000

Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. It just got tougher... Read more...

Vietnam Limits Online Gaming

giga — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:15:39 +0000

Vietnam will soon impose a play time quota of a maximum five hours daily as well as other restrictions in an effort to deter people, especially children, from playing online computer games. The Ministries of... Read more...

Fujitsu Pushes Hard Drive Limits

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:54:03 +0000

Researchers are working on technology that could offer seven times as much storage. Researchers in Japan have reported success in an advanced data-storage technology that could help yield hard drives with capacities... Read more...

Microsoft's Gates Urges End to Tech Visa Limits

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:28:11 +0000

The United States should remove visa limits to allow more skilled foreign citizens to work at U.S. companies if it wants to remain a leader in technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday.... Read more...

Dell CEO Opposes Internet Limits on Movies

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:54:01 +0000

Congress and federal regulators should avoid imposing restrictions on ways consumers use computers and other devices to listen to digital music and watch movies, the chief executive of the largest U.S. computer-maker said Wednesday. The... Read more...

BT introducing bandwidth limits

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:22:45 +0000

Bandwidth limits are a growing an inevitability with ISPs; NTL introduced them a while ago, and now BT appears to be doing the same thing. BT Broadband, who have seen massive customer growth in the... Read more...

Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio Copying Limits

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:12:15 +0000

Several radio broadcasters that offer CD-quality music over the airwaves could actually be copied if certain precautions are not taken. This warning comes Friday by the record industry. Apparently without copy protections on... Read more...

AOL limits free Netscape Radio listening

Sat, 01 May 2004 23:07:47 +0000

A representative from AOL confirmed my earlier suspicion that the company is dropping Real Audio format for its free Netscape Radio service, and switching instead to Ultravox servers, developed by its Nullsoft subsidiary. Spokeswoman Ann... Read more...

ATI and Nvidia graphics chips pushing at megahertz limits

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:21:29 +0000

WE SPOKE with some folk that that really really know how graphic semiconductor works and how far 0.13Âµ chips can go. Apparently you can get to 600 MHz maximum if you are skilled and lucky... Read more...

Intel Limits Socket 478 Processors' Evolution to 3.40GHz

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:34:36 +0000

While originally Intel planned to offer 3.60GHz processors for PGA478 platforms, some sources now report about absence of such chips in the firm's plans. The last and final play for Socket 478 will be 3.40GHz... Read more...

Amazon limits full-text search

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:06:29 +0000

Amazon.com has disabled the printing feature of its recently introduced "Search inside the book" service after an authors' group voiced concern that it could erode sales of some types of works. The service lets users... Read more...

Microsoft limits support for Office on Linux

Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:32:25 +0000

Users can now run Office XP on Linux, but if they have problems they will get little sympathy from Microsoft technical support Microsoft said on Thursday it would not offer full technical... Read more...

Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:45:22 +0000

A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services. ... Read more...

Senate limits Pentagon 'snooping' plan

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:37:11 +0000

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to slap restrictions on a controversial Pentagon data-mining program that critics say would amount to a domestic spying apparatus. The vote represents an unusual triumph... Read more...

Broadband supplier puts limits on peer-to-peer services

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:48:52 +0000

READERS USING CABLEVISION'S "Optimum" broadband connections have received a message in a bottle from the firm warning them that using a list of peer-to-peer file services could mean the firm might restrict access to its... Read more...

Cable companies considering download limits

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:10:05 +0000

It has been reported that cable companies AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications are considering moves which could see the end of cheap bandwidth as they look towards limiting users and forcing them to... Read more...