Neowin News Feed for: Lines

Apple would rather you didn't queue at its stores for its new products

Andy Weir — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:11:15 +0000

A leaked Apple memo indicates "a significant change in mindset" for the company, which will now encourage customers to order its new products online, rather than queuing at its stores. Read more...

NY Times: scurry past lines at airport security

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:16:50 +0000

Wouldn't it be great to have more time to saunter through duty-free shops? The question is would you pay a yearly subscription to skip airport security lines. If there were such a service, many would... Read more...

Asustek announces Eee family product lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:59 +0000

With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products while... Read more...

Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:57:14 +0000

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... Read more...

Sony to sell PS3 chip production lines to Toshiba

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:44:59 +0000

Recent rumours, later denied by Sony Corporation, have turned out to be true. According to Reuters, Sony plans to sell its "Cell" microprocessor output facility in Nagasaki prefecture and "RSX" graphic chip production line in... Read more...

Intel rebrands processor lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:17:58 +0000

Intel plans to modify the way it brands its processor offerings in an effort to consolidate and simplify its line-up. A spokesperson told vnunet.com that the chipmaker will be changing its branding from 1 January... Read more...

Intel lines up nine 45nm CPUs for the desktop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:39:10 +0000

Intel recently increased the number of 45nm-based CPUs it plans to launch for desktop PCs to nine, according to sources at motherboard makers. Within the nine CPUs, five will be dual-core processors (Wolfdale) and the... Read more...

DirecTV May Try Broadband on Power Lines

Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:03 +0000

Satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. may test delivering high-speed Internet service through power lines in a major U.S. city in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday. DirecTV and others are talking... Read more...

Oracle Launches Massive Update To All Five App Lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:40:38 +0000

Oracle gathered partners, customers and press on Wednesday to hail major new versions of all five application sets in its software lineup. Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, Siebel CRM 8 and JD Edwards... Read more...

Ubisoft Bringing Driver: Parallel Lines To Wii/PC?

Todd Tanner — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:36:05 +0000

Having bought UK-based studio Reflections and the Driver brand from Atari in 2006, it seems that Ubisoft will shortly be launching the first title in the series to use their logo - a PC and... Read more...

Xbox 360's HD-DVD uses 4.7 million lines of code

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:31:03 +0000

As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7 million lines of code went into the HD DVD software.... Read more...

Broadband Over Gas Lines

Fri, 13 May 2005 22:08:30 +0000

Nethercomm Corporation, the leading innovator of subterranean broadband communications, announces the development of Broadband-in-Gas (BiG) Technology. This technology is designed to effectively multiply the current available bandwidth of cable television and all other broadband systems... Read more...

Broadband by Power Lines Moves Forward

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:17:55 +0000

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week cleared the way for power companies to roll out broadband over power line service by approving a set of rules designed to limit interference to other radio frequency... Read more...

AOL to Debut WB TV Show Over High-Speed Lines

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:19:41 +0000

Monday AOL will broadcast a preview of its new television show "Jack & Bobby" over its Internet service. This is the first time that something like this has been done over the Internet. ... Read more...

Cisco sued over Linksys and Aironet product lines

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:43:06 +0000

CRN has reported that the Canadian's wireless vendor called Wi-Lan will sue Cisco for the unauthorized use of its wireless technology in the Linksys and Aironet product lines. Broadband wireless communications vendor... Read more...

Opera snips phishing lines

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:14:03 +0000

Opera has updated its browser to prevent its software been manipulated by would-be fraudsters to display a fake address to surfers. A flaw in the "Shortcut Icon" feature of versions of Opera prior to version... Read more...

Apple lines up for Toshiba's new 60GB drive

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:40:21 +0000

Toshiba Corp. is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard disk drive in the coming months and has already found a customer in Apple Computer Corp., the company said Wednesday here at... Read more...

Sparkle lines up last FX party before Express takes over.

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:21:31 +0000

SPARKLE Computer Co Ltd, professional manufacturer and supplier of VGA cards and recent winner of the "Neowin Choice" Award for their excellent GeforceFX 5900XT; is delighted to announce two new products imminently arriving into... Read more...

Bluetooth headset talks to mobiles and land lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:17:09 +0000

Denmark-based GN Netcom has launched a new line of Bluetooth headsets designed to eliminate some of the office worker's phone-juggling by giving them the ability to connect to either a land line or a mobile... Read more...

HP merges management software lines

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:50:49 +0000

Hewlett-Packard is merging several management tools into a single product code-named Nimbus--a move that could boost its utility computing effort as well as a strategy that relies on Intel's Itanium processor. Nimbus will present a... Read more...

Internet Via Power Lines Works, but Years Away

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:54:42 +0000

High-speed Internet access via power lines is as close as an electrical outlet in a house north of New York City, but bringing it to the rest of the world may be a long way... Read more...

64-bit battle lines form

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 May 2003 07:55:14 +0000

AMD IS NOW out with Opteron, IBM jas just updated the rest of their RISC line with Power4+ and Intel is closing on the Madison Itanium2 launch. How do the battlelines look for the remainder... Read more...

Dell lines up its first printers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:29:17 +0000

Dell Computer will jump into printers next week as it continues its plan to think out of the box--the PC box, that is. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker intends to launch its first three... Read more...

Broadband over power lines idea alive and well

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:45:27 +0000

Remember the idea of using power cables as a medium to transmit high-speed Internet traffic? The concept was all the rage in the late 1990s but then high-profile suppliers, such as Nortel/Norweb,... Read more...

Intel Lines Up in Favor of HP-Compaq Merger

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:45:05 +0000

Opponents of the merger argue that it would cause HP to lose direction and market share in its core businesses as it struggles to integrate two vastly different corporate cultures. With the March... Read more...

China Develops Technology to Access Internet Via Power Lines

Steven Parker — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:12:58 +0000

Thanks umairsal for this one that was sent in via email. Chinese researchers recently developed a technology to access the Internet via power lines. This technology is expected to rapidly increase Internet usage... Read more...