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Microsoft helps you go pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Alan Cone — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:29:36 +0000

October, in the United States, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During the month of October, the color pink is shown to support those who are fighting to find a cure for this disease. NFL players... Read more...

Microsoft set to launch a music streaming service this month

Tom Warren — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:57:57 +0000

The Telegraph is exclusively reporting that Microsoft is planning to launch a streaming music service, similar to Spotify, later this month. The service will allow users to stream music for free and also download to... Read more...

Demigod post launch, two month roundup

Spencer Scott — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:18:32 +0000

It's been just two months after the launch of Demigod, and after a bunch of very long workdays, Demigod connectivity is pretty solid and thousands upon thousands of people are currently playing online matches. ... Read more...

Time Warner Cable to expand bandwidth caps, 40GB per month

Brad Sams — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:08:55 +0000

TWC will be expanding its test of bandwidth caps to more cities in the coming weeks. Beaumont, Texas was the testing ground for TWC and has decided that its 40 GB caps for internet... Read more...

Microsoft delays Windows Vista SP2 by a month

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:53:44 +0000

Tech ARP reports that Windows Vista SP2 might be delayed until March. Microsoft will deliver a Release Candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 in March and not in February. Also, Microsoft will send the... Read more...

Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month

Tom Warren — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:24:51 +0000

Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's... Read more...

Teen racks up 14,528 texts in one month

Brad Sams — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:16:22 +0000

In California a 13 year old girl was able to rack up an astounding 14,528 text messages in one month. For those keeping track that's 484 a day which breaks down to 20 an... Read more...

1 month until Belgian game rentals are illegal

Mike Brown — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:49:07 +0000

Following an announcement in June stating that Belgian rental shops will no longer be able to rent out newly released games, another announcement has been made that states from December 1st it will be illegal... Read more...

French lawyer gets 6 month ban over P2P legal threats

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:36:04 +0000

A lawyer working with Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep has received a ban from practicing as a lawyer for six months. Elizabeth Martin sent inappropriately aggressive and deliberately false and misleading letters to thousands of alleged... Read more...

Office 2003 SP3 on Microsoft Update in 1 Month

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:14:22 +0000

Office 2003 SP3, released to customers on September 18, 2007, will become ready for automatic distribution via Microsoft Update (for Vista and XP) starting February 27, 2008. This means that the availability will happen gradually... Read more...

Office for Mac 2008 goes gold, available next month

Simon Andrews — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:09:13 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Mac Office 2008, the Macintosh version of their incredibly popular Windows productivity suite, has gone gold, and is shipping to manufacturers. It's been nearly half a decade since Microsoft updated the... Read more...

Orange iPhone Contract 49 Euros Per Month

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:48:09 +0000

Orange has accidentally leaked the fact that it will provide iPhone contracts in France for 49 euros per month, Reuters reports. The two-year contract will cost a total of 1,176 euros ($US1,754) when it goes... Read more...

Free Xbox LIVE Gold later this month (Europe)

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:14:38 +0000

Microsoft has announced Xtival 07, a European event set to take place from November 23 to 26. During the event all Xbox LIVE members will have access to Gold level functionality for free, making it... Read more...

Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:28:55 +0000

Apple Inc. kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard," OS by reminding users that the beta license for Boot Camp -- the utility that runs... Read more...

Apple gets money every month for iPhones purchased

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:26:51 +0000

AT&T is paying Apple $3 or $11 per month for every iPhone, a business analyst says. According to Gene Munster, Apple gets $3 per month for existing AT&T customers, and an additional $8 per month... Read more...

BBC to launch TV-on-demand software next month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:06:54 +0000

The BBC will launch its iPlayer TV-on-demand service on 27 July, allowing viewers to watch programmes over the internet up to seven days after broadcast. The software has been tested by some 15,000 users already,... Read more...

Month Of ActiveX Bugs Reveals Critical Vulnerabilities

Mon, 07 May 2007 19:59:28 +0000

The latest Month of Bugs project, Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB) started up on May 1 and has already found two critical flaws. First off, Microsoft's ActiveX controls, used to make Web pages richer and... Read more...

Animated Wallpaper: This Month in Dreams (March '07)

Spencer Scott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:46:36 +0000

With the growing popularity of animated wallpapers, or "Dreams" as we call them, I wanted to take the time and produce a monthly feature which visually showcases the animated wallpapers that were some of the... Read more...

Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:48:05 +0000

Two hackers, known as Mondo Armando and MÃ¼staschio, don't want to disclose their real names but promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, every day in April. "The purpose of the exercise is not... Read more...

Month of PHP Bugs Begins

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:18:23 +0000

Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open-source HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. The... Read more...

Disney.com to Relaunch This Month

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:13:17 +0000

Although CEO Bob Iger plans to give details about the redesigned Disney site at his CES speech next week, the Wall Street Journal already has a broad outline of the new site. The site will... Read more...

After month, no rush to adopt Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:35:33 +0000

Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP. The problem... Read more...

Month of security bugs set to bite Apple

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:16:22 +0000

Apple Computer will soon be a member of the "month of bugs" club. On Jan. 1, two security researchers will begin publishing details of a flood of security vulnerabilities in Apple's products. Their plan is... Read more...

NTL Speed Upgrades Next Month

Joe Cashman — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:53:48 +0000

Good news for everyone, well nearly everyone signed up to NTL Broadband. From the 1st June NTL will be upgrading 2Mb subscribers to a 4Mb connection for free and will be removing any bandwidth caps... Read more...

Jeeves to retire this month

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:22:33 +0000

The iconic mascot of Ask.com, Jeeves the butler, will be retired from the site at the end of the month. The decision was taken in September of last year,... Read more...

DDR2 Prices Soar This Month

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:42:07 +0000

According to DRAMeXchange, a research company which tracks prices of DRAM modules and flash memory, increases in contract rates from major RAM manufacturers have sent up DDR2 prices 18 percent from the second half of... Read more...

Blu-ray Drives Due Next Month

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:42:46 +0000

Taiwanese firm AOpen has plans to introduce its first line of internal and external PC-based Blu-ray optical drives to the Middle East by the end of November. Compared to present dual-layer DVD writers,... Read more...

24meg Broadband for £24 a Month

Joe Cashman — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:36:40 +0000

Broadband company Be have just launched a new broadband package, and has become the UK's fastest broadband service available to home users. The service boasts the bandwidth to be able to stream high two definition... Read more...

Intel dual-core 840 CPU and 955X chipset due this month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:46:31 +0000

Intel will move up the launch date of its dual-core series Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU and 955X chipset to the middle of this month, according to Taiwan motherboard makers. The dual-core products, which are... Read more...

Wireless USB 1.0 spec to be finalized next month

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:38:23 +0000

Version 1.0 of the Wireless USB (Universal Serial Bus) specification, which is being promoted as the successor to the USB data transfer method between electronics devices, should be approved by mid-May, Intel (Profile, Products, Articles)... Read more...

AMD's dual-core Opteron due this month

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:12:33 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon, CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at... Read more...

Unlimited Music Downloads for $15 per Month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:02:17 +0000

When they envision the future of online music, music industry types still talk about "the celestial jukebox," dreaming of the day when music fans everywhere can access any song they want whenever they want it.... Read more...

Mario Kart and Pokémon Cube next month

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:09:58 +0000

Nintendo is planning to launch a couple of new GameCube bundles next month to try and capture the Christmas bonus, as the platform holder gets closer to launching its festive hopes Paper Mario 2, Metroid... Read more...

Apple Plans EU Expansion of iTunes Next Month

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:29:01 +0000

Apple Computer is planning the next wave of expansion for its popular iTunes online music store with a multi-country European launch in October, the services chief architect said on Wednesday. "We are well on pace... Read more...

ATI to launch RX480 AMD K8 chipset by the end of this month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:25:55 +0000

At the end of this month, ATI Technologies plans to unveil its RX480 north bridge, which will be the company's first discrete chipset to support Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) K8 platform, said Reuven Soraya, director... Read more...

Tekken 5 hits US arcades next month

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 05:09:50 +0000

Namco narrows release window and announces new tournaments. In an announcement that went out to arcade owners this week, Namco narrowed down the US release window for the latest game in its... Read more...

Two Tribes: Vengeance demos due next month

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:58:40 +0000

Irrational Games plans to ship two demo versions of Tribes: Vengeance next month, in the form of an open beta multiplayer test and a separate single-player demo, producer Chris Mahnken has revealed in an interview... Read more...

PSX Firmware Upgrade Coming Next Month

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:36:46 +0000

Owners of the first-generation model of Sony's PSX multipurpose entertainment console will be able to download the features of the second-generation version next month, Sony announced today. The new interface and video recording features added... Read more...

Lite-On IT to launch 12x DVD Dual this month

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:42:10 +0000

Despite an expected short life cycle, Lite-On IT will offer 12x DVD Dual burners later this month because the new 12x models can command higher OEM prices, according to the company's Optical Disc Drive Business... Read more...

MSN Messenger 6.2 to be expected next month

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:36:50 +0000

Only minutes ago Microsoft changed the layout to its internal MSN Messenger homepage, which seems to be related to the release of MSN Messenger 6.2! The exact date of arrival can be found on the... Read more...