Neowin News Feed for: Promises

Cortana coming to more devices throughout 2018, Microsoft claims

Gurkaran Singh — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:46:01 +0000

The company has promised that it remains committed to Cortana and the assistant will be coming to more devices throughout this year. The OEMs investing in the service include Qualcomm and Synaptics. Read more...

Windows 7 promises better performance with NAND SSDs

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:14:41 +0000

Microsoft's plans for improving performance of SSD drives in Windows 7 are starting to emerge concrete with some solutions. Manufacturers like Seagate or Sandisk are working to finish their cut of the work as... Read more...

TeraDisc Promises 1TB+ Optical Media

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:00:31 +0000

Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray's 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it's able... Read more...

AMD Promises "DirectX 10+" Graphics Chips Next Year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:23:20 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that even though its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics chips family has experienced massive delays, the company is still positioned to deliver competitive graphics solutions to the market place.... Read more...

Microsoft Promises Vista SP1 beta before November 12th

Tom Warren — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:04:32 +0000

Microsoft Corp. late today fired off a return legal salvo at Google Inc., and filed a memorandum with a federal judge arguing that its rival should not be allowed to intervene in the antitrust case... Read more...

Sony Promises 1,000 Backwards Compatible PS2 Games

Joe Cashman — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:29:37 +0000

Phil Harrison, President for Sony Worldwide Studios this week revealed that over 1,000 PS2 titles will be backwards compatible with the new spec PS3, which will be released throughout Europe on March 23rd. Speaking with... Read more...

New Software Promises to Unlock iPod, iTunes

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:43:30 +0000

Not even the lure of one million songs could separate Stanford University student Rolf Steier from his iPod. When Stanford partnered with Yahoo to offer students a free subscription to Yahoo Music Unlimited, Steier --... Read more...

Intel Promises Teraflop Chips within Five Years

Steven Parker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:45 +0000

Intel today announced that it has produced its first teraflop-on-a-chip. The chip, essentially a prototype, was demonstrated when Intel CEO Paul Otellini showed off the wafer during this week's IDF conference opening keynote. Each of... Read more...

Intel vPro Promises IT Managers Less Needy Desktops

Steven Parker — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:14:16 +0000

Intel aims to change the corporate desktop landscape with its vPro platform. The business desktop chip platform, which incorporates Intel's recently introduced Core 2 Duo processor and a new supporting chip set that includes its... Read more...

Microsoft promises XenSource support in Longhorn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:49:00 +0000

Microsoft and XenSource are to co-develop technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Windows hypervisor-based Windows Server virtualisation. The software giant claimed that the resulting technology will offer a single virtualisation technology that will... Read more...

New Research Promises 50TB on DVD-size Discs

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:43 +0000

According to professor V Renugopalakrishnanof Harvard's Medical School in Boston, the research he and his team are workingon promises storage capacities of up to 50TB(50,000GB) on a disc the... Read more...

Intel's Napa Wireless Platform Promises More with Less

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:17:20 +0000

Intel Corp. is touting its next mobile platform, dubbed Napa, as another major milestone in notebook PC history. At a session for reporters and business analysts here Tuesday, Erik Reid, product marketing director at Intel's... Read more...

Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:42:37 +0000

For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver some substantial security, reliability and performance improvements. But until the worldwide partner conference in Minneapolis in mid-July, company officials had not quantified... Read more...

Rambus Promises Graphics Memory Speed Increases

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:13:47 +0000

Memory developer Rambus, creators of the ill-fated RDRAM for the Intel desktop platform, are touting their upcoming XDR graphics memory as being five times faster than current graphics memory products such as GDDR3. The... Read more...

New DSL Standard Promises 10 Times Faster Speeds

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:32:05 +0000

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... Read more...

Sony Promises Developers An Easy Ride On PS3

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:08:20 +0000

Game development for Sony's next-generation PlayStation will be made significantly easier by the availability of high-level, familiar tools and interfaces for the platform from the outset, SCEA dev relations manager Mark DeLoura has promised. ... Read more...

Nvidia's PureVideo promises home theater video quality

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:34:24 +0000

Nvidia today announced the availability of PureVideo. The technology is designed to accelerate MPEG 2 and high-definition content on computer systems equipped with an Nvidia graphics card carrying a GeForce 6-series processor. ... Read more...

Valve admits Half-Life 2 stuttering issue, promises patch

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:35:51 +0000

Developer acknowledges frame-rate problems experienced by many players of the shooter, says a fix is on the way. Since its release last week, Half-Life 2 has been scooped up many-a-PC gamer. However,... Read more...

Nintendo promises to fix any DS dead pixels

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:11:21 +0000

Sometimes, when you buy an expensive piece of consumer electronics, something happens to take the shine off it. Dead pixels certainly come under that heading. Ostensibly a difficult-to-avoid manufacturing risk specific to LCD screens, dead... Read more...

Novell Promises Continued Support for SuSE Linux

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:25:24 +0000

As Novell Inc. moves closer to shipping its Linux Desktop, the company wants to make sure that its SuSE Linux Desktop customers understand that it will continue to be fully support that product. ... Read more...

Austin Game Conference promises detailed PSP discussion

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:23:18 +0000

The coming PSP will be given more detailed information, which is expected to air at the Austin Game Conference this September. The conference will run from September 9th to September 10th in Austin, Texas and... Read more...

Gates dishes out security promises

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:12:18 +0000

Bill Gates' security message is taking a page out of Robert Frost: Good firewalls make good neighbors. At a news conference here Monday, Microsoft's chairman said computer systems must become more secure... Read more...

Gates Promises Longhorn Beta In 2005 Despite Security

Tue, 04 May 2004 23:50:46 +0000

Microsoft has recommitted to releasing Longhorn, its next-generation Windows client and server, into beta testing in 2005 even though its chairman acknowledged that security concerns threaten his dream of enabling seamless connectivity and Web services.... Read more...

Microsoft Promises Better Mobile Gaming

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:56:37 +0000

Better games on your handheld or smartphone – that's what Microsoft is claiming to bring to users of the Windows Mobile operating system that powers these devices. This push to get more... Read more...

Google co-founder promises Safari compatibility with GMail

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:27:45 +0000

When Internet search engine giant Google launched its free 1GB email service, Gmail on April 1, 2004, they did so without support for Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari Web browser. The browser requirement page on the... Read more...

New protocol promises to smash Gigabit wireless impasse

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 03:07:23 +0000

UWB, the future wireless standard that could see half-a-Gigabit wireless links replacing USB and Bluetooth, could at last break out of its standards purgatory. A new proposal by PulseLink suggests any number of... Read more...

Microsoft's Longhorn platform promises to remove middleware

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:54:25 +0000

Microsoft's chief software architect Bill Gates took centre stage at last week's software developer day in London in a bid to convince UK software developers to stick with Microsoft's roadmap, even though Longhorn, its next... Read more...

New video compression promises smaller files at DVD quality

Tom Warren — Tue, 20 May 2003 01:24:06 +0000

Thanks to kowcop for the heads up A new video compression to be released soon promises smaller file sizes and full screen DVD quality video with stereo sound, all onto a 700mb... Read more...

Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell'

Steven Parker — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:54:32 +0000

What? Again?? But nevertheless a good item for those unaware of Microsoft's upcoming solution. Microsoft is hoping to end when has become known as DLL Hell by building into Windows Server 2003... Read more...

Gates promises better security

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:32:44 +0000

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail Thursday that the software giant has taken great strides to secure its products, but acknowledged that the company still has far to go to achieve its goal... Read more...

New system promises disaster proof e-mail

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:47:33 +0000

E-MAIL systems have increasingly proved themselves vulnerable to incapacitation by viruses and destruction by natural or human-made disaster, but MessageOne Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new "hot standby" technology meant to let businesses route messages... Read more...

Apple Promises New Products Will Best Rumors

Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:25:00 +0000

Tight-lipped Apple Computer Inc. has stirred up a storm of speculation about new products ahead of its major trade show next week by promising to top the best that Internet rumor sites have dreamed up.... Read more...