Neowin News Feed for: Platform

Huawei wants to succeed where Microsoft failed, becoming a real threat to iOS and Android

Martin Hodás — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:34:01 +0000

Huawei has set a plan for HarmonyOS to become the third major mobile operating system and is in the midst of efforts to transfer key Android apps and establish worldwide relevance. Read more...

Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

Martin Hodás — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:24:01 +0000

In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience. Read more...

App Spotlight + Interview: SoundByte

Sharath Ravishankar — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:22:01 +0000

SoundByte is a great-looking app for streaming audio from services like SoundCloud and YouTube among others. Here's a quick review of it, along with an interview with its developer, Dominic Maas. Read more...

Google formally announces Hire, its LinkedIn competitor

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:38:01 +0000

Google has unveiled Hire, an app that provides a recruiting platform aimed towards small- and medium-sized US businesses. Hire appears to be a direct competitor to Microsoft's LinkedIn platform. Read more...

Qualcomm announces new 'cutting-edge' wearable platform; the Snapdragon Wear 1200

Usama Jawad — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:50:01 +0000

Qualcomm has unveiled its new entry in the wearables platform, the Snapdragon Wear 1200, which complements the Wear 1100 and 2100 by improving power efficiency and supporting more LTE IoT categories. Read more...

The Pursuit of ‘Appyness: Which apps are still missing from Windows Phone?

Andy Weir — Sat, 24 May 2014 18:55:14 +0000

With over 250,000 apps now in its Store, Windows Phone has certainly come a long way. But there are still gaps in the ecosystem - so tell us, which apps are you still waiting for on Windows Phone? Read more...

Acer: We won't 'take a risk' on Windows Phone until apps, market share improve

Andy Weir — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:54:10 +0000

Acer says that it cannot justifying 'taking the risk' of launching Windows Phones while consumer demand for the OS remains so low, and while the app situation on the platform "needs fixing". Read more...

Windows Phone: The ‘app-gap' isn't closed yet, Joe

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:19:52 +0000

Following the Instagram launch last week, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore claimed that the end of this year would mark "the ending of the app-gap for Windows Phone". We think he's wrong - and here's why. Read more...

Windows Phone now the third place smartphone ecosystem as BlackBerry sinks further

Andy Weir — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:12:04 +0000

The latest figures from IDC show that growth in Windows Phone helped Microsoft's mobile OS to jump to third place in global smartphone shipments, as BlackBerry market share fell from 6.4% to 2.9%. Read more...

Microsoft's Joe Belfiore still working on upcoming Zune hardware

Brad Sams — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:58:59 +0000

The saga of the Zune hardware has been one for the record books. First it was rumored to be dead, then Microsoft said it wasn't, and then rumors surfaced that the Zune software will live,... Read more...

Microsoft releases fourth and final Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

Darren Tebo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:12:14 +0000

Microsoft is hard at work on the successor to Internet Explorer 8. To date, it has released three IE9 platform previews. Each preview has become progressively better than the last. The previews may have been... Read more...

Live Search QnA moves to MSN platform

Sean Bradford — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:46:33 +0000

Back in 2005 Windows Live was announced and many products were moved from the MSN platform to the Windows Live platform. New products and services were announced including Windows Live QnA. The service name explains... Read more...

The Windows PC is the largest gaming platform in the world

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:58:07 +0000

If you believe Microsoft... Prior to Microsoft's "Big Picture" gaming showcase held today in San Francisco, corporate vice president John Schappert reminded us that, despite what you may have heard, the Windows PC is... Read more...

Stardock launches Impulse digital platform

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:12:19 +0000

Stardock has launched their new digital platform today called Impulse. The new platform is designed to allow users to associate PC games, applications, and utilities with a unified account that users can then update and... Read more...

Microsoft readies new platform, code-named "Echoes"

Tom Warren — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:50:36 +0000

According to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is readying a new platform for telco carriers to offer subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services. Foley had a chance to take a peek at... Read more...

Is Microsoft/Yahoo about Windows' server platform failure?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:57:49 +0000

Before my whiney enemies all get up in arms about yours truly once more beating up on Microsoft, I'd like to point out that the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo being a tacit admission that... Read more...

Facebook opens platform to other social networks

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:25:45 +0000

Online social network site Facebook has opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites, with rival site Bebo the first major rival to implement the platform. The move comes in response to criticism... Read more...

J Allard talks Zune, Zune+Xbox Platform, Zune Phone

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:25:18 +0000

The New York Times' Saul Hansell has interviewed Microsoft's J Allard, an important figure behind the Xbox who is now working on the Zune and a few other secret product efforts. I would strongly recommend... Read more...

Google to announce mobile platform Monday; target: iPhone?

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:22:30 +0000

Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications. Although... Read more...

MySpace Joins Google's Social Network Partner Platform

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:13:39 +0000

For more than a year, Google and MySpace have been working together to give the world's largest social network access to the Internet search leader's platform that allows outside developers to write programs for social... Read more...

AMD Preps Integrated DirectX 10 Platform for Early 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:48:45 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices plans to update its family of chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-compliant graphics cores in January, 2008, sources with knowledge of the matter revealed. The new products will help AMD to offer more... Read more...

Intel's Dual-Processor Enthusiast Platform Q1 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:24:45 +0000

The dual-processor enthusiast-class code-named Skulltrail platform from Intel, which the company demonstrated at Intel Developer Forum, will be available in Q1 2008. But while the new extreme gaming machines will offer outstanding performance, they will... Read more...

Google acquires Zingku social networking platform

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:11:26 +0000

Mobile social networking and communication platform Zingku announced it had entered into an agreement to have Google acquire its service, but Google remained silent of the move. The service, launched in the United States in... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils New Version Of IPTV Platform

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:53:32 +0000

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) unveiled the latest version of its Internet television software platform, which it promises will offer features that will set the telecommunications companies apart from the cable providers. The Redmond, Wash., software titan... Read more...

MS to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:04:10 +0000

Microsoft Corporation has unveiled Ignition, a cross-platform soapbox for the world's musical talent. The company has previously proposed a huge network of media, music and gaming that would span multiple devices: Windows computers, Xbox game... Read more...

Yahoo Opens Panama Search Advertising Platform to Developers

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:34:14 +0000

Yahoo has announced that its Panama search advertising platform is open to third-party developers via the new Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program, giving businesses and individual developers access to a series of application program... Read more...

Microsoft Popfly & Facebook Platform

Tom Warren — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:13:39 +0000

23 year old Harvard Student Mark Zuckerberg launched the highly anticipated Facebook Platform yesterday at a developer event held in San Francisco. The platform API would allow, for example, a third party to recreate Facebook... Read more...

Canonical announces Ubuntu UMPC platform, help from Intel

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:37:57 +0000

Hot on the heels of Dell's recent announcement to begin shipping laptops preloaded with the Ubuntu Linux operating system, Canonical (corporate backer of the Ubuntu project) announced today the development of a Ubuntu Mobile operating... Read more...

Intel Announces "Moorestown" UMPC Platform

Sat, 05 May 2007 00:08:00 +0000

At IDF Beijing, Intel recently introduced its 2007 ultra-mobile computing platform Menlow. Targeted for 2008, Menlow contains a new 64-bit processor with near 2 GHz clock frequencies, DDR2 memory running at 400MHz or 533MHz, solid-state... Read more...

Microsoft updates MSN Video Platform Beta

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:26:37 +0000

Microsoft refreshed its video platform today with a new beta version of MSN Video. The updated site reflects the design, layout and features of Soapbox, Microsoft's answer to Google's user-generated video site YouTube.com. The new... Read more...

Intel Readies MID Platform as Alternative to UMPCs

Tom Warren — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:16:11 +0000

Intel offers up cheaper, simpler mobile platform for consumers Just over a year ago, Microsoft and Intel announced the Origami platform which would lay the foundation for Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs). UMPCs were supposed... Read more...

Intel Outlines Latest vPro Platform

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:31:14 +0000

By the second half of this year, Intel plans to launch "Weybridge", its new vPro platform, a business desktop platform which officially launched in April and began to ship to OEMs in September. This updated... Read more...

IBM, Cisco launch joint Unified Communications platform

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:22:31 +0000

IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform,... Read more...

Yahoo rolls out new ad search platform

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:45:43 +0000

As previously announced, Yahoo launched its Project Panama ad-ranking platform in the United States in an effort to compete with Google. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said the project would be constantly evolving based on user... Read more...

Sony, Toshiba, NEC Develop Chip Platform

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:00:14 +0000

Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp., said on Thursday they had jointly developed technology to mass produce cutting-edge chips. The platform developed by the three Japanese companies will be used to make system... Read more...

AMD releases Quad FX platform

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:12:31 +0000

AMD today announced its dual-socket Quad FX platform featuring AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 series dual-core processors, the newest additions to the Athlon 64 FX processor family. The platform currently supports up to four CPU cores... Read more...

Vodafone and MS strike mobile platform deal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:43:37 +0000

Vodafone and Microsoft are collaborating on developing software to help users take their office with them while they travel. The agreement will see the companies co-operate so that applications available to Vodafone users, such as... Read more...

AMD-ATI to launch Yokohama notebook platform in 4Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:57:58 +0000

By the fourth quarter of this year, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ATI Technologies will jointly launch a new notebook platform, currently codenamed Yokohama, that utilizes AMD's Turion 64 X2 processors and ATI's future chipsets,... Read more...

Cross Platform Virus Created

Simon Andrews — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:05:29 +0000

CNET News.com is reporting that a cross-platform virus for Windows and Linux has been created, a scary thought for users of all computers. The virus (which a Russian antivirus company under the name of Kaspersky... Read more...

Apple Becomes Windows PC Platform, Launches Boot Camp

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:10:45 +0000

It doesn't get much more clever. You've flogged consumers an expensive Intel PC, with OS X, and then let them pay for the privilege of running Windows XP on it. Welcome to 21st century Apple,... Read more...