Neowin News Feed for: Quietly

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows Live Help Community too

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:03:12 +0000

Microsoft has silently removed the Windows Live Help Community service and the link now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is one of the many Windows Live services being dropped in recent times. And... Read more...

Samsung Quietly Drops the Price of Blu-Ray Disc Player

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:33:22 +0000

Samsung Electronics, a leading maker of various equipment, has quietly started to sell its BD-P1400 Blu-ray disc (BD) player for $299 in certain locations. The decision moves Blu-ray format into the same price range as... Read more...

AMD Quietly Returns Athlon 64 Chips to Mobile Lineup

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:11:57 +0000

In a bid to boost sales of its mobile CPUs, Advanced Micro Devices has quietly returned Athlon 64-branded chips into its mobile family. AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK processors are specifically designed for notebooks, as... Read more...

AT&T quietly offers $10 DSL plan

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:43:19 +0000

AT&T Incorporated has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, cheaper than any advertised plan. The DSL plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal Communications... Read more...

Samsung Quietly Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:55:08 +0000

Samsung Electronics has quietly started to ship 1TB storage solutions that use much more advanced media that any other products from competitors. Samsung's SpinPoint F1 HDDs use just three 334GB platters, a record in both... Read more...

AMD Quietly Slashes Desktop Processor Prices

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:22:38 +0000

Under pressure from Intel's Core 2-series, Advanced Micro Devices has quietly slashed prices on its desktop microprocessors for the second time in the last month. The price slash varies from 3% to 45% with the... Read more...

AMD Quietly Intros 3.0GHz Opteron Processors

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:26:41 +0000

More than three years after rival Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices has managed to launch processors that officially work at 3.0GHz clock-speed, a landmark speed-bin. While performance-wise such chips are much faster compared to central... Read more...

Apple quietly bundles anti-scratch case with iPod Nano

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:20:00 +0000

Apple has apparently begun bundling a soft fabric slip-case with its iPod Nano, recent buyers of the diminutive digital-music player have claimed. According to a forum post on iPod fan website iLounge, the new cases... Read more...

Best Buy Quietly Tests Selling Used Games

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:41:09 +0000

Best Buy today confirmed that four stores in Illinois and California have begun selling used video games, a market that major retail chains have kept away from and left to stores such as Gamestop and... Read more...

AMD Quietly Debuts New AMD Sempron Chip

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:14:24 +0000

Without making any official statements, Advanced Micro Devices has updated its lineup of entry-level processors with new AMD Sempron 3400+ chip, which is expected to offer performance superior compared to Intel's recently introduced Celeron D... Read more...

Intel Quietly Releases New Mobile Chips

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:42:03 +0000

Intel Corp. has quietly added three new mobile chips into the family without releasing any statements on the matter and without including them into the official price-list. Three fresh additions to the mobile product lineup... Read more...

Oracle works quietly with Mozilla

Fri, 13 May 2005 22:07:10 +0000

Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation are keeping a joint venture under wraps, leading to speculation that the database giant may by planning to release an open-source product. The Mozilla Foundation revealed in... Read more...

Creative Quietly Releases Audigy 4

Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:21:29 +0000

Creative Labs has just posted information to their American website about the Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro. Branded as a "Limited Edition" offering, the Audigy 4 doesn't really bring anything new to the... Read more...

NV41 to quietly replace 6800 standard

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:23:32 +0000

Even though we've seen some documents that made it very clear that the NV41 will end up with 6700 name, our better informed moles told us that this won't happen. From the beginning, Nvidia wanted... Read more...

Supremes Quietly Change Piracy Debate

Steven Parker — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:52:56 +0000

Thanks 8-n-1 for this submission. The Supreme Court handed Internet services providers and privacy advocates a crucial victory on Wednesday when it decided to pass on an important Internet piracy case. ... Read more...

Intel Quietly Starts to Offer 64-bit Pentium 4 Processors

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:26:43 +0000

Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of computer chips, Monday started to offer its clients Intel Pentium 4 processor with 64-bit extension technology known as EM64T. Intel Gets 64-bit Desktop Parts ... Read more...

Quietly, PalmOne Launches Retail Stores

Fri, 07 May 2004 14:30:42 +0000

PalmOne Inc., faced with slumping sales of what was once a must-have consumer gadget, is taking the story of handheld computers directly to the public with its own retail stores. Following in the footsteps of... Read more...

Is MySQL quietly lowering the odds?

Sat, 31 May 2003 12:50:56 +0000

MySQL, the database darling of the open-source crowd, may be going mainstream. The database, which MySQL AB offers under both the general public license and commercially, is gaining footing in major accounts,... Read more...

Microsoft Continues '.Net' Naming Purge - But Quietly

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:24:19 +0000

Windows Server 2003 isn't the only Microsoft product that no longer sports the .Net brand name. Microsoft seems to have learned a lesson from decision to remove ".Net" from the Windows Server... Read more...

Mozilla 1.3b (Beta) quietly released

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 17:35:00 +0000

Update Thanks Tigerz of Betas.intercom for letting us know that Mozilla 1.3B is released (on 31st Dec) but this has yet to be announced on the official Mozilla website. The official release is still the... Read more...

Intel quietly validates 1066 RDRAM

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:32:29 +0000

SLIGHTLY AHEAD of time, and with no great fanfare, Intel has validated 1066 RDRAM modules for its 850E Rambus platform. When Intel launched its 850E enhanced chipset for Rambus earlier this year, it only supported... Read more...