Neowin News Feed for: Nations

United Nations agency gives boost to WiMax

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:28:02 +0000

The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson.... Read more...

U.S. Puts 12 Nations on Watch for Piracy

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:10:49 +0000

The Bush administration has placed China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela on a "priority watch list" for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other... Read more...

United Nations Body Backs $100 Laptop

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:54:28 +0000

The United Nations Development Programme will back MIT's NicholasNegroponte and his One Laptop per Child program, according to reports. The partnership is critical to helping the initiative which hopes to get $100 hand-cranked laptop... Read more...

Junk Computers Litter Developing Nations

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:03:53 +0000

According to a report by environmental group the Basel Action Network, much of the used computer equipment sent to developing nations for use in homes, schools, and business is not usable in its current condition... Read more...

Raids in 11 nations target internet piracy

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:01:33 +0000

Authorities in 11 countries, including Canada, carried out raids Wednesday that were aimed at stopping the illegal distribution of first-run movies and other copyrighted material over the internet. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation,... Read more...

Rise of Nations Gold Edition Sighted

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:13:51 +0000

Microsoft Game Studios has sent word that Rise of Nations Gold Edition is now in stores across North America. The compilation contains Rise of Nations and the Thrones & Patriots expansion pack. Players explore over... Read more...

Rise of Nations demo

Marcel Klum — Wed, 14 May 2003 18:29:51 +0000

A playable demo for Rise of Nations has been released, offering the opportunity to try out the imminent real-time strategy game with 3D units by Big Huge Games. This demo contains four of the 18... Read more...

34 Nations 3D screensaver

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:48:58 +0000

Thanks oDD who has replied to the ton of emails he got requesting flags per nation, heres what he had to say: When Microsoft released their latest 3D screensaver I was dissapointed they didnt allow... Read more...