Neowin News Feed for: Plug

NeoBytes :) The Apple Plug will instantly transform your old iPhone into an iPhone 7

Justin Luna — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:20:01 +0000

In light of Apple's decision to ditch the widely used headphone jack, an Apple parody company created the Apple Plug. It transforms old iPhones into an iPhone 7 by permanently closing up the port. Read more...

Review: Tonido Plug; cloud in a plug

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:45:18 +0000

The Tonido Plug is a simple, small NAS and server device all wrapped up into one tiny unit. The Plug allows you to access your files and media from anywhere around the world with... Read more...

A Linux PC crammed into a wall plug for $99

Sam Symons — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:03:20 +0000

The company Marvell posted a press release, unveiling their new product design: it's called SheevaPlug, and it fits a Linux OS (Marvell stated that SheevaPlug will support, "multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions.") into a... Read more...

Yahoo Moves Quickly To Plug Phishing Hole

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:31:20 +0000

Security Researcher Aditya K Sood is alleging that Yahoo was at risk from a pair of critical phishing and redirection vulnerabilities. According to Sood, the first vulnerability could have allowed certain specific URLs linked on... Read more...

Dell Pulls Plug On Plans For New York Retail Store

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:05:44 +0000

Dell has decided to halt plans to open up a second retail outlet outside New York City, several months after cautiously saying it would give it a try, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The Round... Read more...

ISP pulls the plug on ISOHUNT

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:23:16 +0000

isoHunt Web Technologies Inc the popular BitTorrent search website has been taken offline by it's Internet Service Provider. In a statement on their website, which is now hosted on a Canadian ISP they have said... Read more...

Wal-Mart Pulls the Plug on X-Box 360 Kiosks

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:25:35 +0000

Gamers looking to be among the first to get their hands on an X-box 360 controller at Wal-Mart demo kiosks can still do it, but they won't actually be controlling anything. Xbox... Read more...

MSI (nearly) pulls the plug on enthusiasts

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:26:45 +0000

MSI, the Taiwan based motherboard maker, threatened to take down its DNS entry for the MSI HQ User Community Forum, a free site supported by MSI and run by enthusiasts. The threat came after a... Read more...

Apple pulls plug on original iMac

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:51:14 +0000

Five years after debuting the original iMac, Apple Computer has stopped selling the gumdrop-shaped machine to the public. The original iMac, which many credit for restoring Apple Computer to fiscal health and profitability,... Read more...

Microsoft Pulls Plug On OfficeLite

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:53:02 +0000

Microsoft has quietly nixed plans for OfficeLite, a subscription-based version of its Office productivity suite designed for the consumer and education markets, according to company documents examined by CRN. In a March 3 memo to... Read more...

Investors plug Linux for phone work

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:40:55 +0000

An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for telecommunications purposes. The three venture capital firms--3i, Mayfield and Worldview Technology... Read more...

NTL pulls plug on warez

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:04:25 +0000

Despite the wording of a small announcement claiming that it's all about performance, NTL seems to have the warez community in its crosshairs. Doubtless some users will be up in arms but NTL has decided... Read more...

ASPFriends threatens to pull the plug over "Bully Microsoft"

Steven Parker — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:39:49 +0000

Thanks Anon for this. The operator of the popular ASPFriends mailing lists is preparing to pull the plug on his service, accusing Microsoft of acting like a "bully" and mistreating the huge ASP.NET community. Charles... Read more...

Linux poised to plug in USB 2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:39:11 +0000

Support for a faster version of USB in Linux is imminent and will become a permanent part of the Linux landscape when the next version of the operating system is introduced. The upcoming 2.4.19 version... Read more...

AMS-IX pulls the plug on KPNQwest

Steven Parker — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:00:59 +0000

Cheers Bink for the heads up.. Job Witteman of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) confirmed this today a few minutes before noon. "Six of the seven ports allocated to KPNQwest are being cut off" That... Read more...

KPNQwest set to pull the plug

Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:14:05 +0000

The liquidators of bankrupt Dutch telecommunications group KPNQwest said Friday that they would be forced to shut down Europe's largest data network in days, after a court ruled against them in a dispute with its... Read more...

Networkers ready to pull the plug on Euro-Internet

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:27:45 +0000

Following the collapse of Dutch telco KPNQwest, an estimated 100 former employees and been maintaining the Ebone network that is reckoned to carry up to a quarter of all European web traffic. Now, the unpaid... Read more...

ISP pulling plug on Pennsylvania's largest online school

Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:11:30 +0000

The company that provides Internet service for the state's largest online charter school is pulling the plug because the school is two months behind in its payments. The Einstein Academy Charter School, a... Read more...

Will Microsoft pull the plug on Apple?

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:21:14 +0000

Is Microsoft going to kill Apple Computer? Some may say it's already happened, at least from looking at the relative dominance of Windows over Apple's Mac OS. But I'm talking about Microsoft pulling the plug... Read more...

WindowsXP Plug and Play Security Flaw

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:46:19 +0000

:O Gasped when i read this during my visit to Slashdot. Excerpt from a /. reader: "Don't know if this is common knowledge at this point or not, but apparently some... Read more...

RealNetworks to plug in MusicNet

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:03:18 +0000

RealNetworks is scheduled to launch its much-anticipated subscription service for online music Tuesday, offering a major test of consumer demand for paid content on the Web. The service, known as RealOne Music, comes... Read more...

UPDATE: Invalid Universal Plug and Play Request

Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:27:50 +0000

Ripped from: MS Security alert notification email :D On November 08, 2001 Microsoft discovered that the Windows ME patch failed to properly register the upnp.dll. On November 13, 2001 Microsoft released a corrected version... Read more...

Patch: Invalid Universal Plug and Play Request

Steven Parker — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 10:09:43 +0000

Cheers configure for this one. :D Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® ME or XP, or who have installed the Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing client on Windows 98 or 98SE. ... Read more...

AOL UK pulls plug on "free" Netscape Online

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:37:52 +0000

Users of the 'free' Netscape Online ISP will be forced to move to a subscription model when AOL pulls the plug AOL UK has announced the closure of its pay-as-you go Internet... Read more...