Neowin News Feed for: Older

NVIDIA 8800GT Option for Older Mac Pros Soon?

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:47:50 +0000

With the release of the Penryn-based Mac Pros only two weeks ago, Apple introduced a new video card option for the Mac Pros -- the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Existing Mac Pro owners saw this is... Read more...

Sony dropping out support for older Walkman owners

Ambroos Vaes — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:11:47 +0000

In August, Sony announced that it will stop providing its own music store service Connect in the United States, Canada and Europe by march 2008, and that all new Walkman players will be useable with... Read more...

Crysis will run on older systems

Todd Tanner — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:41:28 +0000

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli tells Next-Gen that new technology will allow the upcoming Crysis to run on gaming rigs up to three years old; developer also talks about going "Vista-only" and the transition to DX10,... Read more...

MySQL to draw curtain on older databases

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:11:19 +0000

MySQL has published its first "end of life" timetable for its open-source database and will no longer provide free updates for some older versions of the product starting next month, it said this week. The... Read more...

Microsoft extends lifeline for older PCs

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:18:05 +0000

Microsoft on Wednesday revealed software that turns older PCs into more modern and secure systems, but in the process also makes them less than full-fledged computers. The software, known as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs,... Read more...

New Product Provides Older iPods With Video Playback

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:40:42 +0000

An Australian firm, 22Moo, announced this morning that work is being finished on a new product that provides iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and Forth Generation iPod users with video playback. "It's a three-part... Read more...

Nintendo aims for older crowd with DS

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:52:52 +0000

Nintendo is after a new kind of customer, and this time the Japanese game giant doesn't have Pokemon to back it up. The company's new DS, an advanced handheld player meant to... Read more...

Older iTunes versions being shut out, Apple warns

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:11:30 +0000

Apple Computer is warning users of older iTunes software versions that it plans to stop allowing those versions to connect to its music store. Those trying to buy music using versions other... Read more...

Video Gamers Get Older, Get Online - U.S. Survey

Marcel Klum — Sun, 16 May 2004 12:59:22 +0000

Contrary to a popular stereotype, the average video game player is not a teenage skateboarder but a more mature fun-seeker old enough to be his dad, according to a survey released on Wednesday. ... Read more...

Majority of Older Americans Prefer to Send E-Mail

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:18:03 +0000

E-mail is replacing handwritten letters and postcards for the majority of older Americans with Internet access, according to a recent survey conducted by E-Poll for Microsoft Corp.'s MSN® TV service. Seventy-nine percent of Internet users... Read more...

iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:53:10 +0000

Straight from Slashdot: "In our office we've been running an older 5gb iPod with both Macs and PC's (using Xplay), but when we installed iTunes for the PC the iPod stopped working.... Read more...

AMD drops older Athlon XPs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:19:55 +0000

SNEAKY LITTLE Chimpzilla has been playing the stage magician's game of distracting the eye of those watching the show. In this case, the show was the Opteron launch. It provided a neat distraction from AMD... Read more...