Neowin News Feed for: Lockdown

Microsoft locks Windows 11 user out, shows how easy losing data from forced encryption is

Sayan Sen — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:18:01 +0000

The forced Microsoft Account requirement and BitLocker auto encryption can lead to catastrophic issues on Windows if you aren't careful, and especially in the case of a lockout. Read more...

Foxconn offers protesting workers 10,000 yuan if they agree to quit and board buses

Fiza Ali — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:28:01 +0000

Foxconn has made an offer to its workers to leave the iPhone city following the protests that erupted at the Zhengzhou facility because of a notice informing them of a delay in payments. Read more...

Foxconn shuts down operations in Shanghai following surge in onsite Covid cases

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:34:02 +0000

Foxconn is ceasing operations of its two factories near Shanghai, China after a rise in onsite Covid-19 cases. It has been more than a month since Shanghai was placed under a strict lockdown. Read more...

Covid-19 lockdown slows down chip manufacturing in China

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:10:01 +0000

Chinese semiconductor industry has slowed down by 4.2% following Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai. The output has shrunk for the first time after Q1 2019 due to low demand and strict preventive measures. Read more...

Vodafone: Lockdown led to 40% jump in network usage

Paul Hill — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:54:01 +0000

Vodafone has revealed that streaming and other network usage jumped by 40% over the last year due to the pandemic forcing people to learn and work from home. It also said more people stream earlier. Read more...

Virgin Media says Call of Duty update caused busiest day on record

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:18:01 +0000

Virgin Media has shared data about its customers' online usage during the third lockdown. It said that upload traffic was busiest in the afternoon generated by video calls and file uploads. Read more...

Sky Mobile reveals how much data was saved due to lockdown

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:54:01 +0000

Sky Mobile has revealed that its customers have each saved up 43 GBs of data on average due to them staying at home over the past year and opting to get online with their broadband connection instead. Read more...

UK: Asda and Vodafone partner to give kids connected laptops

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:24:01 +0000

The supermarket Asda is going to supply 7,000 Dell laptops to schools around the country to help disadvantaged kids get online to access education at home. Vodafone will provide mobile internet. Read more...

Netflix membership passed 200 million in 2020

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:24:01 +0000

Netflix has revealed that it gained 8.5 million new subscribers in 4Q20 and a record 37 million new users over the whole year. It also expects six million new sign-up in the first quarter of 2021. Read more...

Three to offer disadvantaged school kids unlimited data

Paul Hill — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:38:01 +0000

Three is offering disadvantaged school children free unlimited data upgrades to help them engage in remote learning. The data is being provided in partnership with the UK Department for Education. Read more...

U.K.: 20% of businesses used mobile data to stay afloat in 2020

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:56:01 +0000

O2's latest research has found that without mobile connectivity, the U.K. economy would have lost a further £205 billion in economic output because more businesses would have collapsed. Read more...

Windows 7: The information lockdown continues

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:49:52 +0000

When is Microsoft finally going to start sharing information on Windows 7? After all, if the Redmondians stick to their own oft-quoted ship target of 2010 for the operating system, that is just two years... Read more...

Rainbow Six: Lockdown demo released

Todd Tanner — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:51:22 +0000

This demo for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown includes a singleplayer mission (South Africa) and a multiplayer map (Prison). The singleplayer mission will let players play a 'campaign mission' on two different difficulty modes: 'normal'... Read more...

Security Lockdown Wizard Coming to Windows 2003 in SP1

Tom Warren — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:42:14 +0000

The security configuration lockdown wizard for Windows Server 2003 that was supposed to be delivered shortly after the operating system shipped has now apparently been pushed into the first service pack. Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft IIS Lockdown Tool

Steven Parker — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:38:13 +0000

IIS Lockdown Wizard version 2.1 works by turning off unnecessary features, thus reducing attack surface available to attackers. To provide multiple layers of protection against attackers, URLscan, with customized templates for each supported server role,... Read more...

Security: IIS Lockdown Tool (version 2.1)

Steven Parker — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:01:50 +0000

Thanks News Whistler for this one.. IIS Lockdown Wizard version 2.1 works by turning off unnecessary features, thus reducing attack surface available to attackers. To provide multiple layers of protection against attackers, URLscan, with customized... Read more...

Microsoft; all new software, lockdown by default!

Thu, 04 Oct 2001 00:38:20 +0000

Microsoft today announced a new initiative to help customers improve the security of their networks after a string of high-profile viruses targeted Microsoft software used to run Web sites. The initiative, Strategic... Read more...