Neowin News Feed for: Months

Windows XP gets another six months

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:33:20 +0000

Given its history of moving deadlines at a moment's notice, it hardly seems surprising that Microsoft is keeping Windows XP alive even longer than expected, but its latest move looks particularly bad for Vista. The... Read more...

Report: Google hosted storage coming in a few months

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:02:34 +0000

Google's much-rumored online storage service should be available in a few months, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal late on Monday that cites unnamed sources. The service would allow people to store... Read more...

PSP "Slim" sells 1 Million in Japan in under 2 months

Todd Tanner — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:49:43 +0000

After only two months on the market, the PSP-2000 has sold a million units in Japan as of Nov. 22, Sony announced. What makes it more impressive is it reached the milestone two weeks faster... Read more...

HTC ships 1 Million HTC Touch Smartphones in Five Months

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:53:35 +0000

Sales of HTC Touch, the touch-controlled smartphone made High Tech Computer (HTC), surpassed one million units at the end of October after the phone was launched in June, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou. Total... Read more...

Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD in U.S. for first 9 months

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:18 +0000

Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, has found that from January 1 through September 30, total U.S. sales of Sony's Blu-ray discs amounted to 2.6 million units compared with Toshiba's 1.4 million... Read more...

Six Months on the Frontlines

Tue, 01 May 2007 21:21:51 +0000

Freelance writer and former Atari public relations manager W. Jayson Hill has subjected himself to six months working video game retail. He sheds some light on the topics of used game sales, the ESRB and... Read more...

Intel's First Quad-Core Processor to Emerge in Two Months

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:13:40 +0000

Intel Corp. may unveil its innovative quad-core microprocessor for desktops in just two months from now, a bit earlier than originally anticipated, according to a media report. Early launch may indicate that the company has... Read more...

Months Before Launch, Partners Say Vista RC1 Not Ready

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:38:58 +0000

Microsoft is making its first Vista release candidate and pricing information available more broadly available to partners and consumers this week. Vista Business, which is the equivalent of Windows XP, will be priced at $299... Read more...

Mac Pro: Apple Completes Intel Transition in Eight Months

Fred Derf — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:41:26 +0000

Mac Pro models using Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors have now replaced the PowerPC-based Power Mac G5 models. With this release, Apple has completed its transition to Intel processors. Previously released Intel-based models included two notebooks... Read more...

RIAA sues LimeWire LLC after months of warnings

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:31:21 +0000

After months of issuing warnings, the music industry finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire. A group of music companies, including Sony BMG, Virgin Records and... Read more...

D-Link Leaves Critical Hole Open for 5 Months, And Counting

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:58:31 +0000

Security vulnerability discoveries were reported last February to D-Link and surprisingly they still have not been fixed yet! The vulnerability allows remote code to be executed through the routersfirmware potentially leaving affected customers vulnerable to... Read more...

Oracle CFO Greg Maffei Resigns After 4 Months

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:36:03 +0000

Oracle Corp. is facing the loss of its second chief financial officer in less than eight months. Having taken the CFO position only four months ago, Gregg Maffei announced earlier this week that he would... Read more...

3 Months of free VOIP calls to UK Landlines

Wed, 25 May 2005 14:59:27 +0000

BT Retail via its BT Communicator service is offering customers who sign-up to the Communicator service between now and 30th June 2005, three months of free UK calls. Also the first 10,000 new customers to... Read more...

Euro PSP "at least a few months away" - Sony

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:09:43 +0000

Sony this week told its internal PlayStation Portable development teams that the handheld system is still "at least a few months away" from release in Europe. According to a source close to the platform holder,... Read more...

GBA2 To Be Shown within 3 Months

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:52:47 +0000

Nintendo is to showcase the GBA2 at the next E3, which takes place in mid-May. Find out the details inside. It has been revealed that Nintendo plan to show off the GBA2 at the next... Read more...

Cisco CEO sees IT recovery within months

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:30:08 +0000

Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, expects the IT market to recover within months, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "In the next two to four months,... Read more...

ATI to release an answer to the NV35 in two months

Steven Parker — Tue, 13 May 2003 10:08:42 +0000

ATI WILL DISTRIBUTE its next generation GPUs, namely R360 for the high-end market and RV360 for the mainstream market, to its partners beginning in July, it has emerged. Thanks ooo for sending us this news.... Read more...

DEA data thief sentenced to 27 months

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:44:51 +0000

14-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who fled to Mexico to avoid federal computer crime charges was sentenced in a federal court in Los Angeles on Monday to 27 months in prison... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft employee sentenced to 7 months for software piracy

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:42:38 +0000

If you have been chatting on IRC warez channels with someone called Warlock and you haven't seen him for the last 4 months, you might have been chatting with a former Microsoft employee who has... Read more...

Win2k out the window in 9 months

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:21:13 +0000

Windows 2000 has been given nine months to live, as far as OEMs are concerned, and Microsoft is pressuring the PC companies to stop offering dual install Win2k/WinXP systems immediately. Microsoft operating... Read more...

Windows XP: Six Months Later

Steven Parker — Tue, 21 May 2002 15:22:05 +0000

Thanks Nemo for the heads up in BPN on our forums for this article he saw on C|Net. Yep I said C|Net and C|Net doing something on Microsoft, well you should know the outcome. (for... Read more...

Melissa virus writer gets 20 months in clink

Wed, 01 May 2002 19:03:39 +0000

The author of the melissa Melissa virus received a sentence of 20 months in federal prison and a $5,000 fine in a federal court today. David Smith (33), apologised for creating the virus... Read more...

Net saboteur faces 41 months

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 03:40:30 +0000

GeekNews had this story of one employee who is gonna be seeing bars and wearing stripes for being a naughty admin at his old job! A long nightmare has come to a close... Read more...