Neowin News Feed for: Mystery

HTC planning mystery launch event on September 15

Tom Warren — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:12:15 +0000

HTC sent out an invite on Friday for a mystery launch event on September 15. Neowin and several other publications received the invite that asked us to "come see what HTC has dreamt up 15 September... Read more...

Opera 'will reinvent the web' on June 16

James Hall — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:52:43 +0000

A mysterious web page, called "Freedom" in its URL, has appeared on Opera's site making the rather bold claim that, "[o]n June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), [the Norwegian company] will reinvent the Web." This... Read more...

'Dell Adamo' - A mystery product from Dell

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:08:29 +0000

After Uptownlife.net published an article about the Dell's mystery product 'Adamo', New York Times and other blogs over the internet speculated the 'Adamo' to be Dell's answer to Apple's Macbook Air. Uptownlife.net later removed the... Read more...

Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:13 +0000

Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is... Read more...

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:51:51 +0000

Quote - Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy... Read more...

Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker

Steven Parker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:11:44 +0000

Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. For more than a month,... Read more...

EA, DICE axe mystery project

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:03:46 +0000

Even with the new consoles, developers are creating games for the current consoles. Further evidence that the focus is already shifting away fromcurrent-gen development came last week. That's when Digital IllusionsCE (DICE), the studio behind... Read more...

Civilization sold off to mystery buyer

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:34:49 +0000

Struggling publisher Infogrames nets $22.3 million by selling its powerhouse strategy franchise to an as-yet-unidentified company. In Paris this morning, Infogrames, owner of Atari and publisher of the top-selling RollerCoaster Tycoon 3... Read more...

Square Enix trademarks mystery title

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:40:59 +0000

Japanese publisher registers "Dawn of Souls" with US patent office, sparking much speculation. Square Enix is speculated to have an all-new RPG in the making! This speculation was noted from the Final... Read more...

Gooka: the Mystery of Janatris demo

Marcel Klum — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:30:07 +0000

Cenega has released a playable demo for Gooka: the Mystery of Janatris, allowing you to try out this third-person role-playing adventure by Centauri Production. Details on the demo's contents are sketchy, but it appears to... Read more...

ATI's power supply enigma only a partial mystery

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:48:36 +0000

YESTERDAY WE [The Inq] reported on a Power Color card without a power connector here. Well, not entirely without one, but without the one we expected it to have. We managed to find an X800XT... Read more...

VU and Monolith working on mystery shooter

Sat, 08 May 2004 15:45:57 +0000

In addition to announcing its E3 lineup, VU Games gave the world a sneak peak at a new shooter it is currently working on with Tron 2.0 developer Monolith Productions. Accompanying VU's weekly newsletter was... Read more...

Eidos seeks to unmask mystery investor

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:23:15 +0000

Tomb Raider publisher wants to know who has amassed 5 percent of its stock. Eidos, publishers of the Tomb Raider, Hitman, and Deus Ex franchises, wants to unmask the mystery person who... Read more...

Patent offers clue in mystery of Xbox hard drive

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:28:05 +0000

Then again, maybe the next Xbox will have a hard drive. The likely fate of the game console's storage medium--the subject of ongoing speculation as Microsoft closely guards details on the planned... Read more...

Mystery Graphics Card Running Unreal 3 Revealed

Tom Warren — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:25:46 +0000

The Game Developer's Conference 2004 has recently concluded. While the tone of the conference is always more low key than E3, there is usually quite the assortment of surprises to be had. One such surprise... Read more...

Mystery patch blots Microsoft's fix-free month

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:00:06 +0000

Microsoft apparently doesn't know when it plans to patch. The company scrambled on Wednesday morning to figure out why a patch had been issued through its Windows Update service, when the software... Read more...

ATI programmer's name in Half Life code no mystery

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:09:19 +0000

PEOPLE WHO HAVE ANALYSED the leaked code of Half Life 2, as reported earlier, say that an ATI programmer's name, Guennada Riguer, is liberally sprinkled throughout the game code. But that, said ATI today, means... Read more...

Mystery Man Revealed in Microsoft Xbox Hack Contest

Steven Parker — Sat, 04 Jan 2003 11:44:15 +0000

Thanks Dave for this (I think) While competition is good for us, the consumers. This news item gives me another reason to dislike Lindows and its front man who IMO do nothing but damage innovation... Read more...