Neowin News Feed for: Making

Braid Making it's PC Debut in March

Spencer Scott — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:09:59 +0000

Braid, the game that took the Xbox Live Arcade by storm will make its debut on the PC sometime in March. Braid uses beautiful visuals, haunting music and a really unique time control mechanic... Read more...

NDA still making lives difficult for iPhone developers

Simon Andrews — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:03:13 +0000

Ars Technica has an interesting piece today about the iPhone SDK, and the NDA that continues to withhold information about it from reaching the masses. While the problem isn't that there's a lack of documentation... Read more...

Stressed Out Windows: Making Windows Robust

Steven Parker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:42:27 +0000

What happens within Microsoft when a Windows Vista or Longhorn Server daily build is ready? Thousands of machines spin up an insane stress test that sucks up all available memory and handles and then pushes... Read more...

Intel pressures Via to stop making CPUs

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:48:42 +0000

CPU maker Intel is pressuring smaller rival Via Technologies to exit the CPU market, industry sources in Taiwan claim. In exchange, Intel will allow Via to continue making PC chipsets which use Intel's patented technology,... Read more...

PC Manufacturers Making Mother Nature Smile

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:27:38 +0000

Going green is becoming an increasingly important initiative to many companies these days, but some are going above and beyond to please Mother Nature. In July, the Green Electronics Council recognized more... Read more...

The Pirate Bay making over €20,000 a day

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:11:50 +0000

The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are set to be making over $25328 a day, with single day advertisements costing €20,000. The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for... Read more...

Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:13:55 +0000

Even as Microsoft readies a host of new ad-supported online services to battle rivals, the software maker has been mulling a plan to offer free, ad-supported versions of some of its desktop products, CNET News.com... Read more...

Making Xbox Live a Friendlier Place

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:17:29 +0000

If you're anything like me, you can only stomach so many immature racial slurs and homophobic comments when it comes to playing lengthy matches on Xbox Live. Sure, we all dish out our fair... Read more...

Microsoft is making wireless e-mails an everyday function

Thu, 12 May 2005 17:36:55 +0000

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, has announced that the "next stage" of the server software Exchange is to allow for the "pushing" of e-mails with the new version of the Windows Mobile operating system,... Read more...

Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood making next-gen consoles' day

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:18:20 +0000

Confirming rumors, Warner Bros. announces it is developing a game based on the classic 1971 crime film--featuring the original star's voice and likeness. When Electronic Arts first announced it was making a... Read more...

New WINS Exploits Making Rounds

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:10:02 +0000

Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue to haunt tardy network administrators. According to an alert from the... Read more...

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection TVs in 2005

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:08:26 +0000

Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc. said on Tuesday it would start producing rear projection televisions later this year, aiming to secure a chunk of the rapidly growing market for big screen TVs.... Read more...

The Making Of GoldenEye 007 Debuts at EDF

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:55:20 +0000

Martin Hollis, Director and Producer of Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64, will give a presentation on the creation of the game and his experiences since leaving Rare. The... Read more...

Videogames making strides to step beyond the gaming platform

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:46:31 +0000

Little surprise at the recent Comic-Con Convention in San Diego that several game publishers were in attendance. After all, they were there to show off licensed products and to hopefully lure in another wave of... Read more...

Intel Twin Castle – Intel's New Approach of Chipset Making

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:29:53 +0000

The first chipset for x86 multiprocessor servers from Intel code-named Twin Castle will change the market of core-logic devices for multiprocessor servers and will also modify Intel's approach for core-logic development, according to sources close... Read more...

Making a video screen out of thin air

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:19:14 +0000

In a museum in Tampere, Finland, Ismo Rakkolainen's fog machine conjures up the Mona Lisa on an invisible sheet of water particles. Thousands of miles away in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate... Read more...

MS making Passport XML enabled .NET service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:18:44 +0000

Thanks OrangeSoul...As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer, officials said. The forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web Service, which will support... Read more...

Making senders pay for spam

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:52:13 +0000

Companies and consumers alike have been looking to two primary aids in the battle to stem the flood of spam. On the practical side, they're turning to a seemingly endless parade of filters and other... Read more...

Nvidia to stop making GeForce4 Ti's?

Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:49:05 +0000

Thanks to ooo. "Our sources with knowledge of the matter told me that NVIDIA had stopped producing the GeForce4 Ti4600 graphics processors at TSMC fabs and the company's closest partners confirmed the information.... Read more...

IBM making 64 bit chip for Apple

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:38:44 +0000

Thanks neo1980 from our BPN Forum According to sources, IBM Microelectronics, a division of IBM, is working with Apple on a 64-bit PowerPC processor for use in the latter's high-end desktops and... Read more...

Nintendo to focus on making games

Marcel Klum — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:27:32 +0000

In a meeting with analysts on Thursday, newly appointed Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed the company's new direction. Nintendo plans to expand its share of the video game market by focusing on making better games... Read more...

Spam Making You Sick?

Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:37:26 +0000

I'm tired of spam. It's number two behind AOL for things I despise about the Internet. This morning I opened Outlook Express to find about 50 new messages, two of which were from someone I... Read more...

"My Party" virus/mass mailer making the rounds

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:29:47 +0000

Thought I'd pass this along... A new "medium" risk virus/mass mailer is making the rounds, as being reported by most of the major virus systems. W32/Myparty@MM or W32.Myparty@MM arrives in an email... Read more...

Big Blue stops making PCs - few notice

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:06:41 +0000

There were rumours aplenty last year that IBM was getting out of making desktop PCs and now they've come true, like every story almost inevitably does... Recessions hit IT big bruisers IBM said... Read more...

New virus making the rounds - Gokar

Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:27:08 +0000

The Gokar worm -- full name: "W32.Gokar.A@mm" -- spreads as an attachment to an e-mail. The subject line and text of the message can be any combination of more than two dozen options, according to... Read more...

New worm DDoS tool making the rounds

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:10:00 +0000

SecurityFocus has identified a new hybrid tool that combines distributed denial of service (DDoS) tools, with the automated propagation techniques previously seen only in worms. SecurityFocus ARIS Incident Analysts identified a rapidly... Read more...