Neowin News Feed for: Pull

Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:47:51 +0000

Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than... Read more...

Cops pull TV-links, claim facilitation of infringement

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:20:55 +0000

Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under... Read more...

Congress urged to pull back from web regulation

Sat, 12 May 2007 23:18:48 +0000

Scott Cleland, chairman of net neutrality forum NETcompetition.org, believes moves to extend internet regulation in the US will stifle future web video innovation and hence urged the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet to... Read more...

Microsoft Threatens to Pull Windows From South Korea

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:24:23 +0000

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, threatened to pull its Windows operating system from South Korea if antitrust regulators order the company to remove programming for instant message and movie player services. ... Read more...

Sony, IBM Pull Double Punch on Microsoft

Wed, 12 May 2004 16:04:36 +0000

Microsoft took two punches on Tuesday, one from Sony and a double hit from IBM and the consumer giant. Following a similar move by Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has slashed prices on its... 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...

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...

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...

What will Apple and Jobs pull from it's hat at MacWorld 2002?

Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:12:31 +0000

Apple is adding to the speculation swirling around next week's Macworld Expo by promising the show will be better than most. On Tuesday, the front page of Apple's Web site boasted, "Six... Read more...

US websites pull military data

Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:09:32 +0000

BEFORE September 11, you could have visited the Federation of American Scientists' website for diagrams and photos of US intelligence facilities. You could have gone to another website and learned of gatherings... Read more...