Neowin News Feed for: Planning

Microsoft is planning an Office party on Monday

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:16 +0000

Microsoft is planning to announce Office Web Applications and the Office 2010 beta at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next Monday. Neowin hinted at the announcements yesterday but insider sources have... Read more...

Lenovo planning to cut 200 jobs in China

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:14:25 +0000

Chinese computer manufacturer, Lenovo is planning to cut 200 jobs at the company's headquarters in Beijing, Reuters reports. Lenovo is only one of the growing number of companies slashing their work force due to the... Read more...

Microsoft planning for pay-per-use PC model

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:09:54 +0000

A recently filed Microsoft Patent shows that Microsoft is planning for a pay-per-use PC model. The patent is titled as Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience. The current business model requires users to purchase a PC that... Read more...

Microsoft's Social Events Planning Service Goes Live

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:01:28 +0000

Organizing an event? Microsoft is hoping that customers will use its latest free online service, Windows Live Events. This new social events planning service was unveiled Oct. 11 and will be rolled out over the... Read more...

Facebook Planning Targeted Adverts

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:48:34 +0000

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, popular social-networking site Facebook is planning to implement a Google AdWords-style advertising system that will target messages at a user's individual profile; the advertising system is... Read more...

Mozilla updates Fx3 Alpha Scheduling and Planning Options

Tue, 01 May 2007 01:26:57 +0000

Mozilla is planning to release the next alpha versions of their open source web browser on a monthly basis. Firefox 3, the current alphas for which are codenamed Gran Paradiso, is Mozilla's next major version... Read more...

Microsoft: Free tool for planning Office 2007 Conversions

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:41:15 +0000

On Friday, Brian Jones, an Office program manager at Microsoft, quietly announced the release of Office Migration Planning Manager, a free tool kit designed to help corporate users convert their existing Office files to Office... Read more...

Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:03:41 +0000

Microsoft is planning to cut the retail price of its Xbox 360 Pro System from US$399 currently to US$299 in an attempt to compete with the PlayStation 3 (PS3), which will be launched by Sony... Read more...

Microsoft Planning Vista Promotions During Holidays

Christopher Vendemio — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:35:48 +0000

When Microsoft announced that it would not release Windows Vista in time for the holiday season, many industry analysts felt the entire PC market may suffer as people put off purchases until the next generation... Read more...

Microsoft Planning Handheld?

giga — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:31:17 +0000

Speaking at a conference organised by the Wall Street Journal in California yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has made comments implying that the firm may be preparing new initiatives in the portable device space. "We... Read more...

Adobe Planning Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:23:12 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 2 that Adobe is poised to launch an antitrust suit in Europe against Microsoft, following the break-down of four-month-long talks over Microsoft's Office 2007 PDF plans. Microsoft announced... Read more...

Apple planning for Intel iBook debut in January

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:06:50 +0000

Apple is planning to release its first entry-level iBook laptops with Intel processors next January at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret. It is not known... Read more...

Microsoft Planning 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:12:14 +0000

A senior Microsoft executive on Monday confirmed that the upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0 browser upgrade will ship with reduced privilege mode turned on by default to help thwart browser-based hacking attacks. During a... Read more...

SCi planning Highlander game

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:29:43 +0000

For those to whom "Highlander" means very little, it was the first of a series of films that began in the late 80s with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery in central roles, and grew to... Read more...

Climax planning Sudeki sequel?

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:11:15 +0000

Job listing on the developer's site says a follow-up to the long-delayed Xbox RPG--and several other games--are in the works. Even though it took Sudeki XX years to be completed, it... Read more...

Square Enix planning FFVII spin-off?

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:12:43 +0000

A new game featuring Vincent from Final Fantasy VII will join a new mobile title and Advent Children game as part of the Final Fantasy VII Compilation project. Following the announcement of... Read more...

Microsoft Japan planning secret project

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:11:12 +0000

Microsoft's development studio in Japan is recruiting for a top-secret project on its Web site. Microsoft Game Studios in Japan is recruiting for developers to work on a new Xbox project. No... Read more...

Intrepid Games planning Live-enabled B.C. sequel

Marcel Klum — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:31:31 +0000

Ambitious Xbox exclusive title will return, with multiplayer modes Lionhead satellite Intrepid Games has confirmed that it plans to develop a sequel to ambitious Xbox action-adventure title B.C., and that one of the... Read more...

Intel Planning Earlier Price Cuts, Analyst Says

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:10:02 +0000

Intel Corp. will cut prices on its microprocessors by as much as 35 percent on Monday, two weeks earlier than planned, as it prepares to introduce a new chip for desktop computers, an analyst for... Read more...

Microsoft planning non-standard media for Xbox Next?

Marcel Klum — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:17:08 +0000

A job advertisement which has appeared on Microsoft's careers website suggests that the company may be considering moving to a proprietary disc format for its next console, in an effort to make piracy on the... Read more...

Intel planning portable media device

Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:28:16 +0000

Intel aims to boost consumer interest in PCs and its processors by announcing components for a portable personal video player on Monday. Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab will announce hardware and software that... Read more...