Neowin News Feed for: Numbers

Apple unwraps a single subscription to give you all of its creative apps

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:38:01 +0000

Apple is launching a new subscription that bundles all of its creative applications into a single package. Read more...

Get a coaching portfolio, connect with peers across US, and more with Apple Learning Coach

Fiza Ali — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:52:02 +0000

Along with new features and enhancements to its education apps, Apple has launched the second cohort of Learning Coach across the US. The program is accepting applications until November 16, 2022. Read more...

Apple adds new features to iWork suite of productivity apps for its users

Fiza Ali — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:40:01 +0000

Keynote, Pages, and Numbers get new features with Apple's latest update to enhance the productivity of its users. Live video, screen view, pivot tables, and radar charts are among the new features. Read more...

Microsoft finally updates its 'By the Numbers' website, offering insights about the company

Usama Jawad — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has updated its "By the Numbers" website, providing interesting tidbits of information about the company and its products, such as Cortana being asked 18 billion questions since its launch. Read more...

Microsoft shares some interesting stats regarding Windows 10

Usama Jawad — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:46:01 +0000

With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer set to expire in almost a day, Microsoft has released some pretty interesting statistics about Cortana usage, gaming and Microsoft Edge on its latest OS. Read more...

Beats Music, reportedly acquired by Apple, has just 110,000 paying subscribers

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 13 May 2014 19:10:32 +0000

A royalty report leaked to music blog Trichordist shows that Beats Music, the streaming service linked to Beats headphones, has just 110,000 subscribers as of March, 49k of those being single-user. Read more...

Windows Phone entrenches itself in third place in the US, grows faster than Android

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:06:57 +0000

According to the latest data, Microsoft's mobile operating system is growing quite rapidly in the US, even faster than Android. The OS now stands firmly in third place above Blackberry. Read more...

Microsoft's Imagine Cup by the numbers, awesomeness

Brad Sams — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:16:35 +0000

Microsoft's Imagine Cup is a global competition that fosters innovation and creative thinking to solve some of the most complex challenges that we face everyday. Read more...

PSN database with 2.2 million credit card details up for sale?

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:57:24 +0000

The folks over at the PSX-Scene forums are reporting that over 2.2 million customers' names, addresses, phone numbers and credit/debit card information is up for grabs to the highest bidder, including the crucial three digit... Read more...

Kindle update to add real page numbers

Alan Cone — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:08:46 +0000

When Amazon first introduced the Kindle, in addition to changing the way the eBook market worked, they also added a new way to mark your location in a book using something called "locations." Locations were... Read more...

Crunching the digits: The scale of Microsoft

Brian Donohue — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:59:10 +0000

Sometimes, a name or brand becomes such a large part of your life that you start to forget it is there. Microsoft is one of those brands. From your living room, to your desk, and... Read more...

Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:35:14 +0000

I've been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn't until today, when I learned... Read more...

U.S. Government had 100K Social Security numbers Online

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:53:06 +0000

It has recently been discovered that since 1996 the United States government had the Social Security numbers of up to 150,000 recipients of Agriculture Department grants on the Web – a problem which was only... Read more...

Microsoft's WDP vs. Standard JPG, in Numbers

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:20:00 +0000

I heard you. Many users commented on my previous news post saying that they weren’t happy with the tests I performed. I understand where you were coming from, and I plan to address what I... Read more...

Numbers Behind Windows 95, Vista

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:43:59 +0000

Here is a rundown of some quick statistics comparing Windows 95 and Windows Vista. All prices are in USD. All figures for Windows 95 seem to be verified and although there are sources for the... Read more...

Threats, Adware and Phising, Growing in Numbers

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:24:53 +0000

The number of phishing sites increased and beat a new record. Adware and spyware are increasing at an exponential rate. Web users are poorly informed about threats. They happily go out, purchase a copy of... Read more...

Second look: Apple's dual 2-GHz G5 by the numbers

Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:04:28 +0000

It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced. And while you can debate benchmarks until eternity, it certainly... Read more...

AMD paints Opteron chips by the numbers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:49:19 +0000

The chipmaker on Thursday announced a new matrix of model numbers for its forthcoming 64-bit chips for workstations and servers. Instead of using a four-digit model number, similar to the scheme for its Athlon XP... Read more...

Intel Prescott Chipsets get numbers and more info

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:10:23 +0000

Intel is moving so far ahead on the 800MHz dual 400 DDR chipsets it will introduce next year they've already got numbers rather than codenames. These chipsets will support the Prescott 90 nanometer microprocessor "seamlessly"... Read more...

Big Blue cuts its numbers

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:50:11 +0000

It seems that in these lean times for both manufacturers and the tech industry in general, even the biggest are not immune... IBM plans to cut more than 15,600 jobs in its... Read more...

Japanese protest at government Net numbers scheme

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:46:54 +0000

Sounds like something Jack Straw wants to implement... thank god he's gone eh.... "Demonstrators dressed as prisoners and cows symbolically tore up their 11-digit Internet identifcation numbers in Tokyo earlier today, in protest... Read more...

Palm numbers suggest dire quarter for handhelds

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 31 May 2002 11:05:22 +0000

The PDA industry looks set for another quarter of bloody retreat, if an earnings warning by Palm Inc holds true. Santa Clara, California-based Palm warned yesterday that its fourth quarter fiscal figures... Read more...