Neowin News Feed for: Loses

Microsoft loses ~12 cents on every phone sold

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:16:01 +0000

A filing with the SEC reveals that Microsoft loses 12 cents every time a phone is sold, potentially leading to a write off of its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's Phone Division. Read more...

British hacker loses High Court extradition appeal

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:57:42 +0000

Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon... Read more...

Apple loses exclusive iPhone deal in France

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:13:26 +0000

Apple was forced to end exclusive iPhone contract deals with Orange in France. The immediate effect of the contract, which offers the latest iPhone to all of France via Apple and Telecom SA (Orange)... Read more...

Hacker loses extradition appeal

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:19:35 +0000

A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if... Read more...

Microsoft Loses Patent Appeal

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:13:41 +0000

A federal appeals court has just ruled that Microsoft must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, z4 Technologies. The company had sued Microsoft and Autodesk,... Read more...

Colossus loses code-cracking race

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:50:15 +0000

An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first... Read more...

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal

Steven Parker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:07:48 +0000

Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (Â£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had... Read more...

IMDb Loses Advertisers Over Adult Listings

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:29:59 +0000

Barclaycard and The National Lottery have pulled advertisements from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), one of the most comprehensive movie databases on the web, after their ads were shown next to adult movie listings. The... Read more...

Hong Kong man loses appeal in internet piracy case

Sat, 19 May 2007 05:06:24 +0000

Chan Nai-ming, a 38-year old Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies, has lost his final appeal in the territory's highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence. He... Read more...

TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personal Information

Sun, 06 May 2007 20:16:22 +0000

The Transportation Security Agency has lost an external computer hard drive containing the personal, bank and payroll information of up to 100,000 of its former and current employees who worked for the TSA from January... Read more...

Gigabyte Loses $5 Million in Fraud

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:01:01 +0000

Gigabyte has announced losing roughly $5 million USD due to an internal scandal committed by Chang Chaosong, factory manager at Ningbo Gigabyte Technology in China. Chang allegedly listed Gigabyte as a guarantor for a bank... Read more...

Microsoft's search group loses another executive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:52:24 +0000

Another executive is leaving Microsoft's Internet search group as the company continues to struggle to compete with Web search leader Google. Dane Glasgow, general manager of Windows Live Search, is leaving the company, a spokesman... Read more...

Xbox 360 Loses Two Exclusives to PS3

Joe Cashman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:31:35 +0000

In a turnaround to recent events it is the Xbox 360 that has lost two exclusive titles, which will now be made available on both the 360 and PS3. SCi announced today that Kane &... Read more...

UK hacker loses extradition fight

Joe Cashman — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:01:32 +0000

A London man has lost his High Court Fight against extradition to the US. He allegedly carried out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining... Read more...

Google says it loses $1 billion a year to false ad clicks

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:24:00 +0000

Google Incorporated claims the company loses about $1 billion US a year to "click fraud" and similar scams on its ad service. Special software that can click on an ad repeatedly can be used to... Read more...

Firefox Loses Browser Share, Safari Gains

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:08:37 +0000

According Aliso Viejo, California-based Net Applications' January 2007 report, Mozilla Firefox has lost browser market share (from 14% to 13.7%) while Apple's Safari has grown in browser usage (from 4.2% to 4.7%). For Firefox, this... Read more...

Study: DRM Loses Hearts and Minds

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:56:19 +0000

The majority of music industry executives agree with Apple CEO Steve Jobs that labels should ditch DRM on digital sales. The four major labels now seem increasingly isolated in their desire for rights-managed online music... Read more...

LCD TV Pioneer Sharp Loses Market Lead

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:19:45 +0000

According to market research companies iSuppli and NPD Group's DisplaySearch, Sharp is no longer the world's leading maker of flat-panel TVs since rivals surpassed the Japanese company in unit shipments last year. Both research companies... Read more...

FBI loses Laptops & Weapons at a Smaller Rate

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:37:57 +0000

The good news is that losses are dropping. The bad news is that they're still happening, and the FBI doesn't know if secure information is entering the wild. Completed in 2002, the Office of the... Read more...

Zune Loses to iPod by 1 Point

Steven Parker — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:41:16 +0000

Cnet hosts a show called Prizefight in which two gadgets duke it out head to head for bragging rights of the Universe. It's like Frankenfights with less sources and in video. They break the... Read more...

ATI loses ground in graphics after AMD purchase

Marcel Klum — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:06:13 +0000

ATI Technologies lost ground in every major graphics product category during the third quarter, and its acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices is likely to blame, according to Jon Peddie Research. The purchase put ATI directly... Read more...

File-sharing software firm loses US case

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:51:29 +0000

Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law. The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry,... Read more...

Microsoft Loses in Eolas Patent Ruling

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:28:41 +0000

Striking a blow to Microsoft, the U.S. Patent Office this week reaffirmed a key Web-browsing patent that the software maker is accused of infringing. In a decision made public Wednesday, the patent... Read more...

Google Loses AdWords Lawsuit

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:12:26 +0000

A US district court has ruled against Google in a trade mark action over the sale of the terms "Geico" and "Geico Direct" in AdWords, its keyword advertising service. The judge found that there was... Read more...

Microsoft Loses EU Appeal

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:28:07 +0000

The European Union (EU) have announced that it will uphold anti-trust fines against Microsoft in its on going case against the company. Court of First Instance President, Judge Bo Vesterdorf, dismissed Microsoft's appeal against a... Read more...

Canon loses printer recycling case

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:21:02 +0000

Selling recycled Canon printer cartridges does not constitute an infringement of the company's intellectual property, the Tokyo District Court has ruled. The judgement marks the latest stage in Canon's legal battle against printer cartridge recycler... Read more...

Lexmark loses DMCA ink cartridge case

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:41:20 +0000

Major printer company Lexmark has lost a case in a US court in which it tried to deploy the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent other companies making cartridges that work with its printers.... Read more...

Intel loses, AMD gains market share

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:17:38 +0000

Last quarter chip giant Intel lost some of its market share to its rival AMD (among others such as Via and IBM). Though Intel didn't lose enough to cry about it shows that that... Read more...

Acclaim loses Turok, Baseball licenses

Marcel Klum — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:26:18 +0000

There was further bad news for troubled publisher Acclaim in its latest round of regulatory disclosure documents, as the company admitted that it has lost the rights to the Turok franchise and Major League Baseball.... Read more...

Music biz loses Net royalties fight in Canada

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:59:57 +0000

The music industry's efforts to recoup money lost from Internet piracy were thwarted yet again Wednesday. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Internet service providers don't have to pay royalties to composers... Read more...

Studio loses Doom movie

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:03:51 +0000

[UPDATE] After a year of development hell, Warner Bros. loses rights to the shooter-inspired project. However, who exactly is making the film is unclear. For once, the latest development in game movie... Read more...

Los Alamos Lab Loses More Data

Fri, 21 May 2004 20:30:06 +0000

The Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's most important nuclear weapons lab, lost another hard disk drive filled with classified information, once again throwing a spotlight on lab officials who have been trying to re-emerge... Read more...

Apple Computer loses bid to hear Beatles case in U.S.

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:37:47 +0000

Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday lost a High Court bid to have its legal case brought by the management company for legendary Fab Four rockers, the Beatles, moved from Britain to the United States. The... Read more...

Microsoft loses bid to move RealNetworks trial

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:44:56 +0000

A federal judge on Thursday denied Microsoft's motion for a change of venue in its pending case against RealNetworks, which charged the software giant with anticompetitive business tactics. U.S. District Court Judge... Read more...

Disney's Eisner Loses Chairman Role

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 05:19:53 +0000

Embattled Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was stripped of his role as chairman, but kept his position as chief executive even after 43 percent of shareholders voted against him in an... Read more...

Microsoft loses round in display patent case

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:05:34 +0000

An Arizona judge has ruled that Microsoft infringed on display and printing technology patents, which could result in a jury decision amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, according to court documents obtained by Reuters.... Read more...

NASA loses contact with Mars rover

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:46:39 +0000

Uh oh! "NASA scientists say they have lost contact with the robot rover Spirit on Mars and are unsure what caused the problem. Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told a news briefing that... Read more...

Microsoft loses No. 2 ranking in market value to drug maker

Tom Warren — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:26:54 +0000

Microsoft has lost its status as the world's second-largest corporation to drug maker Pfizer due to slowing sales growth that caused it to miss out on this year's stock-market rally. Pfizer's market... Read more...

Microsoft loses big deal in Munich

Tue, 27 May 2003 12:30:08 +0000

Steve Ballmer, the Vole's whirling, sweat-machine monkey-boy CEO, seems to have struck out in Munich.(ed :O) That is the third-largest cityscape in Germany, gentle readers. As such, it's a major loss for Microsoft. The story... Read more...

UK 3G firm loses £150m loan

Tom Warren — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:58:03 +0000

Britain's only operational 3G mobile network has been dealt a blow after its partner, Dutch phone firm KPN, turned down a request for a Â£150m loan. The 3 network, controlled by Hong... Read more...