Neowin News Feed for: Potential

Dell: Windows 7 pricing is a potential obstacle for users

Sam Symons — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:30:40 +0000

We've learned a vast amount about Windows 7 over the last few months, but there's still one thing that's been bothering those in the technology world (and even those not in it): pricing. How much... Read more...

Potential Facebook IPO keeps investors speculating

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:14:24 +0000

Will it, won't it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook, arguably Silicon Valley's hottest Internet company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's... Read more...

Microsoft's Silverlight - Potential Flash Alternative

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:18:19 +0000

Adobe's ubiquitous Flash has never had serious competition, which allowed it to become the dominant technology for Web multimedia, even though its complexity causes some headaches for developers. Yet Microsoft's Silverlight stands to give Flash... Read more...

Symantec: More Patched Systems, Fewer Potential Victims

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:26:20 +0000

Symantec on Monday said that while worm-scanning activity against its corporate antivirus software had increased over the weekend, the number of infected systems had dropped. According to the security company's own DeepSight sensor network, scanning... Read more...

Potential pirates, not Vista, get cracked

Steven Parker — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:01:32 +0000

35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the "devils0wn", began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system. Since then, the key... Read more...

Volume Activation 2.0: Another Potential Vista Gotcha?

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:45:46 +0000

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn't the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who've had a chance to dabble with early... Read more...

Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems

Brad Wardell — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:47:47 +0000

Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how... Read more...

Samsung, Apple Face Potential Antitrust Probe

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:32:30 +0000

Samsung and Apple may be investigated by South Korean anti-trust authorities, a report claims. If it happens, the investigation will focus on the deal reached between the two companies under which Samsung reportedly sold Apple... Read more...

Text file virus - Potential concerns or another paranoia?

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:17:23 +0000

Neowin member jorgeivan2k3 has posted about an Australian programmer, Geoff Vass, who believes that text files are no longer harmless. "So I had an email conversation with the fellas at secure@microsoft.com and they... Read more...

Potential DS Names Trademarked

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:00:52 +0000

Nintendo's been rather busy down at the patent office. Find out what they've been up to inside... FYI...It's been reported that Nintendo submitted nine (yes, nine) different trademark applications concerning the name... Read more...

Apple offers potential fix for iPod Updater problems

Sat, 01 May 2004 23:49:56 +0000

Apple has a possible fix for users experiencing problems using the iPod Updater 2004-04-28, requiring users to delete the "iPodDriver.kext" driver file using the Terminal and reinstall iTunes. "iPod's disk icon appears in the Finder,... Read more...

Be a Microsoft Potential Tester!

Steven Parker — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:21:06 +0000

Thanks ooo for this interesting piece of news. You know how you can fire off an email to betareq@microsoft.com right? the auto-answer service that tells you what details you need to email back in order... Read more...

PDAs pose potential privacy problems

Darren Bolton — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:58:32 +0000

Business users download sensitive data, but ignore security Companies are risking legal action by failing to protect data held on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones, according to a survey. ... Read more...