Neowin News Feed for: Past

The power of Social Networking

Piers Hausjell — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:48:40 +0000

For quite a few years it was a costly process to find a lost family member, involving investigators and a lot of searching through paperwork, recently, there have been multiple stories of people finding lost... Read more...

NY Times: scurry past lines at airport security

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:16:50 +0000

Wouldn't it be great to have more time to saunter through duty-free shops? The question is would you pay a yearly subscription to skip airport security lines. If there were such a service, many would... Read more...

Windows worm hits 8.9 million PCs in past week

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:25:43 +0000

A windows worm named Conficker or Downadup or Kido (as called by various anti-virus vendors) which targets unpatched networks and poor passwords has been reported to have affected 2.4 million machines to over 8.9 million... Read more...

Regional cell phone carriers, a thing of the past

Brad Sams — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:44:15 +0000

A growing trend for mega-corps is to buy out relative mom and pop companies to expand. Specifically, in the cell phone industry, any company other than Verizon and ATT should fear a buyout. ... Read more...

Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:45:08 +0000

Advanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk... Read more...

River Past DirectShow Detective 1.5

Razvan Serea — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:11:12 +0000

DirectShow Detective helps you to verify your DirectShow installation. It shows you the complete list of your installed DirectShow filters, video compressors and audio compressors, their version and installed file. Ever installed some software or... Read more...

River Past Wave@MP3 v.3.2.0.4572

Razvan Serea — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:22:28 +0000

River Past Wave@MP3 is a simple and FREE software which converts between MP3 audio and WAV file. Select the file to convert from, and click on "Convert". It is that simple. River Past Wave@MP3 is... Read more...

River Past Video Cleaner Pro 7.2.0.4572

Razvan Serea — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:19 +0000

River Past Video Cleaner is a flexible, powerful and fast video converter. River Past Video Cleaner supports a wide range of input video file formats like; .avi, dat, ivt, .mov, .qt, .mp4, mpeg, .mpg, .mp1... Read more...

Intel: Viruses to be a thing of the Past

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:14:13 +0000

Intel believes that malacious codes, viruses and other security threats may become a worry of the past. Inte's R&D team is currently working on Trusted Execution Technlogy, previously known as LaGrande. Trusted Execution Technology or... Read more...

New Super Mario Bros. sells past half million mark

Todd Tanner — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:17:16 +0000

Nintendo announced in a press release this afternoon that the newest Mario Bros. game "New Super Mario Bros." for the DS handheld system has just sold past the 500,000 mark in the United States. This... Read more...

Microsoft Scientists Pushing Keyboard Into the Past

Wed, 03 May 2006 22:23:15 +0000

How can you find information about Condoleezza Rice on the Internet? Type in "2*#7423". That is if you have a copy of a prototype program from Microsoft Research currently named The Wild Thing. The... Read more...

The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:58:47 +0000

Our infatuation with gizmos and gadgets never ceases. Most of us would be lost without our digital music players, cell phones, USB thumb drives, and other gadgets that make our lives more convenient. ... Read more...

Bill Gates on Windows Past, Present, and Future

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:00:52 +0000

It's hard to believe that twenty years ago, Microsoft Windows was the underdog of the industry, now shipped on 95% of PC's worldwide PC Magazine poses the question, Whats beyond Vista? to Bill Gates. MM:... Read more...

TiVo Will No Longer Skip Past Advertisers

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:22:44 +0000

When it debuted in 1999, TiVo revolutionized the TV experience by wresting control of screen time from advertisers, allowing viewers to record shows and skip commercials. TiVo's slogan said it all: "TV your way." Behind... Read more...

Windows XP SP2 - Looking past the headlines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:00:55 +0000

Today as part of Neowin's ongoing coverage of SP2, we have had the chance to speak further to Microsoft personnel about this new release. AU will be live today, but unlike recent... Read more...

Windows Media 9 Moves Past the PC

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:50:40 +0000

Ever since Microsoft released Windows Media 9, Microsoft has been pushing its product trying to get it adopted in the software and consumer electronics market. Today it has been announced that Microsoft has teamed... Read more...

Statement From Microsoft on Past Exploratory Discussions SAP

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:38:09 +0000

Due to certain confidential information obtained from Microsoft Corp. in the pretrial discovery process that Oracle Corp. is expected to raise at the trial concerning the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit to block Oracle's takeover of... Read more...

Intel takes notebook chips past 3GHz

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:50:34 +0000

Notebooks passed the 3GHz mark on Wednesday. The increase in speed comes courtesy of a new 3.06GHz mobile Pentium 4 chip, which was introduced as part of a volley of new processors... Read more...

Radeon 9800 Pro speeds past GeForce FX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:41:03 +0000

ATI's upcoming contender for the graphics chip performance crown is a clear winner over Nvidia's latest offering, according to new tests from ZDNet Labs -- at least where it comes to top-end features. ATI and... Read more...

WorldCom Mulls Name Change to Leave Scandal in Past

Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:16:56 +0000

WorldCom by any other name may still be bankrupt, but the company that's become synonymous with questionable accounting wants to dump its tarnished brand and will likely adopt the name of its MCI residential long-distance... Read more...

Emachines blasts past 1GHz; adds AMD

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 23:46:43 +0000

The budget PC maker launched on Tuesday five new products, priced between $399 and $799 after rebates, all of which use at least 1GHz processors. The latest lineup also includes a twist:... Read more...