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2400+ major sites that IE 8 can't render correctly

Brad Sams — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:35:03 +0000

As Microsoft moves forward with IE 8 it is hoping to introduce new features that will help stop the bleeding of consumers switching to other browsers. While many hope that IE 8 will also... Read more...

Microsoft rolls out major Windows Live Hotmail updates

Sean Bradford — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:45:20 +0000

A few days ago we announced that Microsoft was finishing up Wave 3 of Windows Live. The Windows Live Hotmail team has announced that it is officially rolling out the last of the Wave 3... Read more...

All major Canadian ISPs throttling P2P

Brad Sams — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:20:07 +0000

It seems as if throttling P2P is now the thing to do if you're a major ISP. We first broke wind that Comcast was doing it and that the Australia was putting the lock... Read more...

Major Nelson releases top Xbox 360 games for 2008

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:26:56 +0000

Major Nelson has released a list of 20 games for 2008, in three different categories, Xbox 360 Top Live titles, top Arcade titles, and top Original Xbox titles. The numbers are based on unique users... Read more...

Microsoft signs major deal with Dell for Live Search

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:05:53 +0000

Microsoft has been seeking to land new OEM search deals with various PC makers (like Lenovo) as a way to grow more quickly its lagging search market share. Not to forget their web search deal... Read more...

Microsoft braces for major customer shift

Tom Warren — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:17:12 +0000

Microsoft Corp sees tens of millions of corporate e-mail accounts moving to its data centers over the next five years, shifting to a business model that may thin profit margins but generate more revenue. ... Read more...

Wal-Mart in major solar power push

Mon, 07 May 2007 21:39:26 +0000

Wal-Mart has announced what it called "a pilot" solar power project consisting of solar power arrays installed on 22 of its stores and warehouses in Hawaii and California that will generate up to 20 million... Read more...

Acer: No Major Laptop Battery Improvement Coming

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:58:35 +0000

Jim Wong, president of IT products at Acer Incorporated, believes that notebook battery safety (think overheating Sony fiasco) is the main reason why fuel cells and other advanced technologies that can be used as batteries... Read more...

Games for Windows Live according to Major Nelson

Todd Tanner — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:16:49 +0000

I got my hands on a gold copy of Halo 2 for Windows Vista yesterday (it goes on sale in a few weeks) and after installing it I did a few things that, while geeky,... Read more...

Latest MS Update Causing Major Headaches

Tom Warren — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:39:34 +0000

Broadband Reports is running a story regarding the latest MS update to fix problems with animated cursors. "Users in our Security forum note that the latest critical Microsoft Windows update (KB925902) is causing all kinds... Read more...

Amie Street signs major artists to sell DRM-free music

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:19:32 +0000

Launched last July, Amie Street is a web-based music service that has always offered DRM-free music of independent artists for purchase. Amie Street recently signed a new deal with Nettwerk Music Group (home to well-known... Read more...

Two Major Linux Groups Merge to Fight Microsoft

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:54:30 +0000

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) have merged to form the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin, FSG's executive director, will be in charge of the new company. He announced Tuesday the... Read more...

Major Steam Update Next Week

Todd Tanner — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:15:57 +0000

Valve shot me off an email a couple of hours ago, telling me that a major update was coming for the Steam service sometime next week. According to the email this was a significant update,... Read more...

Major OEMs to enable DEP/NX in Vista PC BIOSs by default

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:06:21 +0000

Activewin reports that Michael Howard mentions on his blog that recently MS had all the major OEMs on campus to discuss SDL (Security Development Lifecycle). MS asked the OEMs to enable DEP/NX in the BIOS... Read more...

Major Xbox 360 Update Tomorrow

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:56:46 +0000

Thanks to Voodoo Extreme for the heads up on this one. Seems Microsoft is going to push a rather large update to Xbox 360 users tomorrow in the form of a... Read more...

Major memory makers accused of price fixing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:59:57 +0000

A group of 34 US states has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of DRam memory chips for alleged price fixing. Infineon Technologies, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Mosel Vitelic, Nanya Technology, Elpida Memory and NEC... Read more...

Day of Defeat to get major update

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:31:29 +0000

Earlier this week, it was reported that Valve would be releasing a major update to its popular online only action game Day of Defeat: Source. In a press release yesterday, Valve announced more detail for... Read more...

AMD Plans Major CPU Price Drops Day After "Conroe"

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:16:05 +0000

Submitted by member oddcrap with thanks to Blackima for first reporting this in BPN. AMD will drastically cut prices on its desktop processors after the July 23rd release of Intel's Core 2... Read more...

Major Ageia PhysX Annoucements

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:11:53 +0000

Ageia, maker of the upcoming PhysX Physics Processing Unit, has announced numerous titles shipping with support for the add-in card to enhance environment physics in PC games. Included in the plethora of press releases... Read more...

Major US Music Labels Charged with Price-fixing

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:09:54 +0000

According to a report by Red Herring, several major US music labels have been slammed with a class action lawsuit filled by San Diego lawyer William Lerach. The labels accused with price-fixing include Sony... Read more...

Viruses Still Major Problem for UK Business

Howard Thomson — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:16:18 +0000

A recent survey from the Department of Trade and Industry has suggested that viruses are the single biggest security threat for UK businesses. Despite the number of business PCs falling victim to viruses falling by... Read more...

Major changes upcoming for Everquest II

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:51:45 +0000

As if the upcoming expansion Kingdom of Sky and the much anticipated PvP enabled Update 19 weren't enough, some pretty major changes are coming very soon to the world of Everquest II. As Everquest II... Read more...

Google Launches Major Video Service

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:17:16 +0000

Today, at CES, Google have announced Google Video Marketplace. The service is described by the company as being the " first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range... Read more...

XForms support for Firefox takes a major blow

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:57:06 +0000

In an effort to reduce costs, Novell has cut it's Copenhagen R&D department and with it put one of the major XForms extention developers out of a job. Allan Beaufour, in his blog, explained how... Read more...

Major Book Publishers Sue Google

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:44:37 +0000

Thanks oddcrap. Google Inc. on Wednesday was sued by a major publishing association for digitizing library books without the permissions of copyright holders, the second such suit filed against the search engine giant. ... Read more...

World of WarCraft Major Content Patch to be released

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:33:19 +0000

The folks over at Blizzard are releasing the first major content patch for their hugely successful MMORPG World of WarCraft. Two new test realms are to go live for the new content to be... Read more...

Are you ready for the next Major Desktop Migration?

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:24:00 +0000

64-bit computing is coming faster in the world of desktop PCs. Intel, AMD and Microsoft are leading the way and this time around it (unlike some years ago when a home dedicated computer system running... Read more...

Symantec Products Hit By Major Security Bug

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:00:52 +0000

A serious flaw in a comment element to Symantec's products has emerged this week; the company reported that the flaw was "high" risk. Symantec, maker of protection software, said the flaw was in the antivirus... Read more...

Internet Explorer Hit by Major XSS Bug

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:18:37 +0000

Security advice firm Secunia has released information concerning a new flaw with Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer. The exploit allows cross site scripting attacks to be performed on users. In the scenario that... Read more...

Google adds major libraries to its database

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:45:31 +0000

Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, to digitize out-of-print and copyrighted works. On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based is expected to... Read more...

Sony warns of Major glitch in Holiday 2004 Demo Disc

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:38:07 +0000

Over the past couple of weeks, members of the Playstation Underground Sony's US fan club, have been getting copies of Holiday 2004 Demo Disc. Unfortunately, gamers eager to sample the cel-shaded beat-'em-up... Read more...

Major Windows XP SP2 bug reveals documents worldwide

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:56:06 +0000

PC welt in Germany said it has discovered a major bug in Windows XP Service Pack 2 which will crack open your PC like a song thrush breaks a snail shell. The magazine said that... Read more...

Internet to see major strike today?

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:38:52 +0000

Yevgeny Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs fame, has raised concerns of a major attack on the internet today. Kaspersky has been widely quoted as saying that there would be a major online attack against Israeli sites... Read more...

Major Restructuring at LucasArts

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:46:41 +0000

LucasArts confirmed today a major restructuring of its development studio. It marks the first change within the company since Jim Ward took over as president in May. "Since joining LucasArts in early May, I've taken... Read more...

Apple signs three major European indie labels to iTunes

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:46:05 +0000

Users of Apples iTunes Music Store overseas now have a larger selection of music to choose from. Today Apple announced that they have signed up three independent music labels for its other Music Stores... Read more...

Net strike brings down major websites

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:27:27 +0000

Don't worry folks, your friendly tech news source Neowin was not affected. *wink* An early morning Internet attack on Tuesday took down the Web sites of Microsoft, Google, Apple Computer and Yahoo,... Read more...

PHP 4.3.6RC1 - Addresses 2 major bugs

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:38:32 +0000

Well this is a shocker as I thought PHP 4.3.5 would be the last of the 4s. :S Maybe 4.3.6 will be the golden release :D In the spirit of release early, release... Read more...

Major Update of Nero 6 now available!

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:34:20 +0000

Major Update of Nero 6 now available including the brand-new PowerPack! Ahead Software has now brought out Nero 6, a new version of a much-loved program. With its many useful features, Nero 6... Read more...

Major Video Games Tournament Heading to Las Vegas

Marcel Klum — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:03:49 +0000

Video gaming's richest tournament has decided to move to Las Vegas and set up show alongside one of the world's largest consumer electronics shows -- and it's adding a women's category too. Cyber... Read more...

Microsoft plans major European Xbox promotions

Marcel Klum — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:59:48 +0000

A report in a marketing magazine suggests that Microsoft is preparing to spend up to Â£3 million on Xbox promotions in Europe over the coming months, including tie-ins with companies such as MTV and Interbrew.... Read more...