Neowin News Feed for: Ready

Samsung keeps us SAFE from the Unicorn Apocalypse

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:38:49 +0000

With a little help from the impending Unicorn Apocalypse, Samsung show that it is ready for the enterprise with security and workflow features of the Galaxy S III and Note 2 offered out of the box. Read more...

Microsoft getting ready for Windows 7 marketing?

Kevin Weiner — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:32:37 +0000

Microsoft sure has been hitting hard at the competition lately with their latest round of "Laptop Hunters" ads with success, and now as we get closer towards the final version of Windows 7, it looks... Read more...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment - Ready for Action

Spencer Scott — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:39:57 +0000

The micro-expansion to Ironclad's Strategy Game of the Year, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment, is now ready for download on Stardock's digital download platform, Impulse. Fans that have the original Sins of a Solar... Read more...

Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff?

Tom Warren — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:51:45 +0000

Fudzilla is reporting that Microsoft is preparing to lay off 17% of its staff by 15th January. Microsoft currently employs just over 90,000 people across the world and according to an internal source that spoke... Read more...

Is 64-bit Vista ready for take off?

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:43:16 +0000

For many moons, I've been raising the issue of how people get to 64-bit Windows 7, which is a big compatibility shift from 32-bit Windows XP. The obvious answer is via Vista, but is that... Read more...

The Political Machine 2008 Ready for Retail

Spencer Scott — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:33:39 +0000

With candidates now finalized on the major party's tickets, Stardock also throws its hat in the ring in time for the start of election season. Today Stardock Entertainment announced The Political Machine 2008 has gone... Read more...

Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time

Steven Parker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:20:08 +0000

A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer. The program's creators... Read more...

AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:51:09 +0000

For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. But I.S.P.’s may... Read more...

Sirius gets ready for 2008: New Year's Eve Concerts

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:36:44 +0000

Sirius Satellite Radio plans to broadcast 13 exclusive live concerts from across the United States on New Year's Eve 2008. Artists will include Velvet Revolver, 3 Doors Down, Patti Smith, The English Beat, Chubby Checker... Read more...

Nintendo DS redesign done and ready for holiday release?

Todd Tanner — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:29:01 +0000

Nintendo's DS Lite redesign has proved a tremendous success, regularly topping hardware sales charts around the world since it was first released in Japan in March 2006. Despite the system's success, Pacific Crest Securities analyst... Read more...

Fortress Forever mod for Half Life 2 ready for release

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:58:56 +0000

The highly awaited modification for Half-Life 2 called Fortress Forever is finally with us. It's based on the HL1 mod Team Fortress Classic and although not a direct port, has many of the features of... Read more...

PS3 Gets Ready to Rumble With DVR

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:04:25 +0000

Prototypes of the new rumble-enabled PS3 SixAxis controller are already in the hands of numerous Sony developers, according to industry insider site Inner Bits - via Next-Gen.biz. A blog on the site where "game developers... Read more...

AMD gets ready for Barcelona launch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:38:30 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. A successful Barcelona launch, expected to happen during the third quarter, is critical for AMD, which has seen its share... Read more...

Micron 2Gbit DDR3 ready to go, but demand not there

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:09:53 +0000

With Intel's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology is on its way to producing DDR3, and... Read more...

AMD Claims Quad-core Desktop CPUs Ready for Christmas

Fri, 11 May 2007 02:20:28 +0000

This week, AMD announced its quad-core desktop CPU codenamed Agena FX in Sunnyvale, California. The processor was featured in single and dual-socket configurations – the dual-socket configurations mark AMD's first demonstration of an 8-core desktop.... Read more...

Motorola CEO is ready to take on iPhone

Wed, 09 May 2007 22:53:37 +0000

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says his company is ready for competition from Apple's iPhone, due out next month. When asked "How do you deal with that?" by M.R. Rangaswami of Sand Hill Group... Read more...

Calling All Cars! ready to roll to PlayStation Network

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:19:35 +0000

Next week, David Jaffe will push out Calling All Cars, the first of apparently several games he's developing exclusively for the PlayStation Network. Delays have bumped the game's release back several months, but yesterday Jaffe... Read more...

Feds Ready Plan to Fight ID Theft

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:11:46 +0000

The federal government will release its plan to combat identity theft in the U.S. on Monday. After nearly a year's work, the President's Identity Theft Task Force will release its findings Monday at a press... Read more...

HP is ready to play in the gaming market

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:13:42 +0000

In hopes of stealing a piece of the online gaming industry, Hewlett-Packard's gaming unit "Game On" (part of the company's Technology Solutions Group) is currently developing a gaming technology in its research centers. The company... Read more...

Intel, AMD Ready Steep Price Cuts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:43:52 +0000

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices next month plan to unveil significant price cuts on their current fleet of processors as they prepare to go to battle in the quad-core market. On April 22, Intel is... Read more...

Review: Windows Home Server nearly ready for prime time

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:02:39 +0000

A typical household with two adults and three children can easily have three or more computers. Since each of the users wants access to the Internet, their PCs are likely to already be connected to... Read more...

AMD pushing strong lineup for 2007, ready for CPU+GPU in 09

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:49:11 +0000

The lineup for the merged AMD and ATI in 2007 is going strong, according to Taiwan-based industry sources. The company's new AMD 690 chipset platform, with integrated graphics based on technology from the former ATI,... Read more...

Analysis: Vista's Ready Boost is no match for RAM

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:40:19 +0000

There's a new way to enhance your cache in Vista - simply plug in your Flash memory stick. But how much performance gain can you really expect? TG Daily ran an average PC through a... Read more...

802.11n Draft Standard Nearly Ready

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:45:52 +0000

Last week's IEEE meeting in London demonstrated that the move to the next stage of Wi-Fi is nearly ready. At the meeting, 802.11n committee members unanimously approved draft standard version 1.10, and agreed to create... Read more...

Fuel cell technology not ready for rapid commercialization?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:31:47 +0000

Mass adoption of notebook-use direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems may start in 2010-2011, said Kamal Shah, mobility enabling initiative manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, on the sidelines of the Taiwan International Small Fuel... Read more...

Apple and ViewSonic Ready 17-inch Widescreen Monitors

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:11:47 +0000

LCD vendors such as ViewSonic and Apple are set to launch 17-inch widescreen LCD monitors by year-end or the first quarter of 2007, according to industry sources. LCD monitor vendors expect 17-inch widescreen monitors... Read more...

Microsoft: Office 2007 download ready Dec. 1

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:40:13 +0000

Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it has completed work on Office 2007's system code and released it to manufacturing. Customers in Canada and the United States can start downloading Office 2007 on Dec. 1. That... Read more...

Shift Linux 0.3 Gnome Ready for Testing

Todd Tanner — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:59:55 +0000

Today sees the release of Shift Linux 0.3 (Gnome) for testing. This is a Live CD based off of Morphix, is Debian based, and developed in-house here at Neowin. It comes with many packages as... Read more...

iTunes, Amazon Movie Services Not Ready for Prime Time Yet

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:18:41 +0000

With the entry of the Apple iTunes Music Store and Amazon.com into the movie business, film downloads are finally being sold by folks who really know how to sell entertainment. This is a big step... Read more...

Milton Keynes ready for WiMax broadband trial

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:44:39 +0000

Milton Keynes will become the first UK city to use WiMax broadband technology when trials begin in December. The system uses specific bands of radio spectrum to provide long-range wireless access speeds of up to... Read more...

Months Before Launch, Partners Say Vista RC1 Not Ready

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:38:58 +0000

Microsoft is making its first Vista release candidate and pricing information available more broadly available to partners and consumers this week. Vista Business, which is the equivalent of Windows XP, will be priced at $299... Read more...

Wii Will Tell You When Wii Are Ready

Joe Cashman — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:58:22 +0000

Nintendo denied reports this week in British tabloid papers that their Wii console will be released "at the end of November, priced around Â£170". "It's pure speculation on the part of the newspaper - we... Read more...

Are you Ready for Vista RC1?

Steven Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:07:09 +0000

Muhammad Umer pointed me in the direction of the following statement posted quite a while ago on the Windows Vista Team Blog. It's something we haven't covered but pretty important if you downloaded the CPP... Read more...

Wi-Fi Ready Microsoft iPod Killer By Christmas?

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:43:29 +0000

Microsoft's 'iPod-killer' plans appear to promise everything one would expect from a giant company with deep pockets attempting to burst a competitor's bubble. News today indicates the Microsoft media playing device will sport video and... Read more...

Sapphire Ready to Ship HDMI Card

Joe Cashman — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:43:43 +0000

Graphics card maker Sapphire are gloating today after announcing that they will be the first to bring out a PC graphics card with a HDMI output, which is the preferred output for HD media. The... Read more...

Windows Live Messenger Not Ready for 06/16

Steven Parker — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:40:23 +0000

Last week the Bink website announced wide availabilty of the new incarnation of Microsoft's Messenger to be released on June 16th. Today WinFuture has been informed by their source, who is involved in the launch... Read more...

Phantom Still Alive, But Not Quite Ready to Strike

Joe Cashman — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:45:45 +0000

Infinium Labs much touted Phantom games console/service has had analysts, gamers and journalists confused from day one, announced over three years ago it didn't even make an appearance at e3 this year, but according to... Read more...

High-def TV not ready for Net's prime time

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:08:30 +0000

Television and consumer electronics are benefiting from the new high-definition video formats, but there may not be enough room to enable that type of quality on the internet. A high-definition (HD) streaming video can require... Read more...

MTV's Online Music Service Gets Ready To Roll

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:24:48 +0000

Is Sumner Redstone late to the digital music party, or is it just getting started? Redstone's Viacom will find out sometime next year, when his MTV unit will roll out its long-anticipated online music service.... Read more...

Shuttle Launches NVIDIA SLI Ready XPC

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:57:12 +0000

The XPC SN26P is the world's first small form factor system based on the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset. Designed to support GeForce 7 series graphics cards, this award winning barebone is a must-have component of... Read more...