Neowin News Feed for: Looks

MSNBC looks at the effect of Demigod piracy

Spencer Scott — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:26:31 +0000

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the past couple of weeks about piracy, Demigod, and the possible effect on the industry as a whole. In reading various blogs, community forums, and... Read more...

Sky looks into 3D broadcasts

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:16:12 +0000

Sky television have started to look into the possibility of broadcasting programs in 3D, they have initially tested it delivering programs to users via the HD set top box. Sky demonstrated that they can make... Read more...

Microsoft looks to cash in on the iPhone

Tom Warren — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:06:03 +0000

Don't think for a minute that Microsoft is ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the software giant is probing the gadget for profit opportunities. For a little more than a week, a team of the company's... Read more...

It looks to be an all out price war

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:08:18 +0000

Folks, it looks like for once consumers may actually begin to start seeing some saving on their wireless phone bills. From an article (source to follow) it looks like a war is brewing with the... Read more...

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...

Sun looks to steal Linux thunder with Project Indiana

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:17:09 +0000

Looking to steal thunder from the Linux juggernaut or at least catch the same wave, Sun plans to release binaries in Spring 2008 for its OpenSolaris Unix platform, similar to how Linux is offered, as... Read more...

India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:41:02 +0000

Forget the one hundred dollar laptop. India has bigger, but cheaper, plans. Ten times cheaper to be exact: India's Ministry of Human Resource Development is spearheading the project, with help from Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored... Read more...

AMD looks to raise $2.2 billion through debt sale

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:26:30 +0000

Less than one week after disclosing a $611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional... Read more...

Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net

Steven Parker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:27:10 +0000

Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess. Despite a lack of visible progress in catching up with Google,... Read more...

N.C. Looks to Court Google with $4.7 Million USD Grant

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:15:45 +0000

After successfully bringing Dell Computer over to North Carolina, the state is looking to make a deal with Google. If the search giant accepts the $4.7 million USD grant, the tech company would provide as... Read more...

September looks quiet with three Microsoft patches

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:46:23 +0000

After handling 19 sets of patches in July and August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows... Read more...

Linux lab looks to bridge dueling interfaces

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:19:58 +0000

This week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo showed the first software tools in the effort, called Project Portland. Using them, a software company can write a single software package that works using either of the prevailing... Read more...

Disney Looks Beyond iTunes

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:32:46 +0000

Walt Disney Co. has already sold more than 1.5 million digital downloads of television shows such as "Lost," "Desperate Housewives, and "Kim Possible" through Apple's iTunes, but the company is also looking to target iTunes... Read more...

Xbox360's A/C Adaptor Looks Set to be a Monster

Joe Cashman — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:00 +0000

Photos have been emerging around the web showing the external A/C adaptor that will come with the Xbox360, and it looks to be slightly on the large side. In fact, in some photos it could... Read more...

Mozilla Scraps Firefox 1.1, Looks to 1.5

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:08:18 +0000

Mozilla has just updated the Firefox development roadmap to reflect a decision on the next major release of the popular open-source browser. The non-profit foundation has decided to increase the version number of the next... Read more...

Microsoft Looks to Extinguish LAMP

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:45:05 +0000

Microsoft engineers have toiled for years to make the company's software industrial strength and worthy of large corporations' dollars. Now the software giant faces a different challenge: fending off open-source alternatives that... Read more...

Microsoft Looks to Build Up the Windows Community

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:47:33 +0000

'The Hive' is Microsoft's attempt to bring some of the community impetus it has generated with Channel 9, The Spoke and other developer-focused efforts to the consumer space. Always on the lookout... Read more...

Music Industry Looks East to Tackle Piracy

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:33:42 +0000

Music firms are launching their first lawsuits in Asia as the crackdown on net piracy continues. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced this morning it had filed 963 lawsuits, with some of them... Read more...

IBM Looks to 'Nocona' to Cool Off Blade Servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:23:18 +0000

IBM next month will start powering its blade servers with Intel Corp.'s low-voltage version of its "Nocona" processor, a move designed to reduce the energy consumption and heat generated by the dense-form-factor systems. Using the... Read more...

Xbox 2 announcement looks unlikely as CES looms

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:24:38 +0000

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' preconference keynote address is set to open the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tomorrow, but it now looks highly unlikely that the expected Xbox 2 announcement will be made in... Read more...

Microsoft Looks to Broaden Tablet PC Appeal With Games

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:25:38 +0000

Redmond is co-developing a new Tablet game software development kit, as well as new Tablet-specific games. Microsoft is readying a Tablet PC game software development kit (SDK) and a new Tablet-PC-specific game,... Read more...

AOL looks to its parent to outwit Google

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:43:28 +0000

America Online is tapping the vast media assets of parent company Time Warner to outdo rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the search wars. Unlike competitors that are investing heavily in new... Read more...

Digital Bridge looks east with new hire

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:02:55 +0000

Mobile entertainment publisher Digital Bridges has announced the appointment of Shigeru Ota as vice president of business development, with a view to expanding the firm's presence in the key Japanese market. Ota, who... Read more...

Microsoft Looks to Expand Windows at Home

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:11:32 +0000

Efforts by Microsoft Corp. and the PC industry to expand into to the living room will get a boost next week as they show off technologies that try to balance Hollywood's piracy fears with the... Read more...

Microsoft looks beyond Windows

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:12:47 +0000

Microsoft is looking beyond Windows for technologies to fuel the future growth of the company. Talking to financial analysts Bill Gates said search software, games, consumer goodies and lab research would all... Read more...

Viacom Looks to Advertise in Video Games

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:02:22 +0000

Viacom Inc., which has sold off parts of its video game business, is now taking another look at the potential for advertising in video games, a top executive said on Thursday. Chief Financial... Read more...

IBM looks to High-end Windows solutions

Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:46:47 +0000

IBM this week relaxed stringent requirements for running the highest-end version of its Windows server software, effectively lowering the overall price 30 percent in some cases and potentially expanding the pool of interested customers. To... Read more...

Start-up looks to add pluck to browsers

Mon, 24 May 2004 18:03:18 +0000

Start-up Pluck on Monday launched its first product, a set of tools designed to help people add capabilities to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsing software. Pluck's self-titled package of browser add-ons promises... Read more...

MSN Looks to Subscription Gaming for New Revenues

Tom Warren — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:36:16 +0000

MSN rolls out a minor upgrade to MSN Messenger and introduces four new online games as part of the launch. MSN is looking to grow revenues in areas beyond online advertising by... Read more...

Microsoft sees Judge, looks busy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:25:12 +0000

Microsoft has offered to extend the duration of its protocol licenses for an extra two years. The licensing program, MCPP, was set up two years ago as a requirement of the Antitrust settlement, and a... Read more...

Roxio Looks to Slice Apple Pie

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:15:46 +0000

With the computer maker in the unusual position as market leader, competitors are rushing to close the gap in the field of digital music. But no one has yet introduced a product that is as... Read more...

Microsoft Research Looks to Extend C#

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:08:00 +0000

'Xen' programming language unites C#, XML and SQL programming languages. Microsoft Research has been dabbling with a number of new programming languages and paradigms. Last year, the F# language was big news.... Read more...

Longhorn Looks Promising

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:29:50 +0000

Back when Windows XP was still known by the code name Whistler, the most exciting thing about Microsoft Corp.'s client OS-in-progress was that it wasn't Windows 9x. But now that Windows users can take for... Read more...

AMD CEO Looks Ahead

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:29:39 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused. Focused on the future. And that future is a 64-bit world in which everything from portable PCs to servers to networking gear is powered by AMD Opteron or Athlon... Read more...

Microsoft looks beyond PC products

Tom Warren — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:14:12 +0000

Microsoft is still king of personal-computer software, which propelled it to legendary success since its founding 28 years ago. But to maintain the growth that made its stock attractive for years, Microsoft increasingly needs to... Read more...

Intel looks back on 35 years of chips with everything

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 23:16:55 +0000

President Paul Otellini has performed many tasks during his 25 years at the company, including helping to drive a forklift. "We had to make the end-of-quarter shipments," he said. "The warehouse was... Read more...

New Linux desktop looks just like Windows

Tom Warren — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:59:15 +0000

The latest version of XPde has hit the web and is causing something of a stir. The small upstart project to make Linux look just like Windows 2000 is starting to look, well, just like... Read more...

China looks through the Windows

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:08:16 +0000

Software giant Microsoft has agreed to show China's government the underlying source code for its Windows software in an attempt to assuage official concerns about the integrity of its computer operating systems. The... Read more...

Roxio Looks to Buy Napster Assets

Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:39:24 +0000

Thanks to Lee Whittaker and creamhackered for letting us know of this news. Software maker Roxio is poised to snap up the remaining assets of the now defunct song-swapping company Napster (news -... Read more...

HP looks to keep systems cool

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:12:45 +0000

Addressing the growing problem of heat dissipation in chips and systems, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced it is working on a suite of technologies to address heat generation and energy use in increasingly powerful microprocessors and... Read more...