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Queen visits Google and receives a doodle

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:39:21 +0000

The Queen of the United Kingdom will visit Google's Westminster offices today and Google have marked the occasion with a special "Google doodle". Normally reserved for holidays and anniversaries, the doodle will feature on the... Read more...

Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:34:55 +0000

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows... Read more...

Manhunt 2 Receives "M" Rating, Release Set for Halloween

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:05:00 +0000

Originally slated for release on the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP on July 10, Rockstar Games' Manhunt 2 was temporarily suspended from release following ESRB rating the game AO (for adults only). Developer Rockstar Games... Read more...

OneCare Receives VB100 Award

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:07:54 +0000

We're pleased to report that Windows Live OneCare just received the VB100 award from Virus Bulletin. This award comes on the heels of OneCare's recent re-certification from West Coast Labs and the ICSA Labs.... Read more...

Apple iPhone receives FCC approval

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:09:41 +0000

Apple Inc. on Thursday received the official go-ahead on its first ever mobile handset, with the Federal Communications Commission giving the iPod maker the green light to commence sales of the device in the United... Read more...

AT&T Receives 1 Million Inquiries regarding iPhone

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:11:55 +0000

The mobile unit of AT&T Incorporated, which is being rebranded from Cingular Wireless, has received about 1 million requests for information on Apple Incorporated's new iPhone, AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said during a... Read more...

Teen receives $100,000 science scholarship from Intel

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:06:49 +0000

17-year-old Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the Intel Science Talent Search and received a $100,000 scholarship for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of... Read more...

New York Receives Its First Robotic Parking Garage

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:40:13 +0000

AutoMotion Parking Systems has introduced its first New York robotic parking garage that can hold up to 67 vehicles. Although the system consumes very little space since customers need not physically retrieve their car, the... Read more...

Yahoo Mail Beta Receives Update

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:01:49 +0000

Yahoo Mail Beta is now faster, bug-ridden and has a few new features. Support for Windows Vista has been added as well as Mexican, Argentinean, American Spanish Indonesian and Malay translations of the client. The... Read more...

AMD receives subpoena from DOJ over GPU market

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:46:04 +0000

AMD announced it has received a subpoena from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust division in connection with the DOJ's investigation into potential antitrust violations related to graphics processors (GPU) and cards. AMD entered... Read more...

Nintendo Wii Receives Top Honors

giga — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:28:08 +0000

Video game critics on Wednesday honored Nintendo's Wii console and Electronic Arts' upcoming "Spore" video game for bringing fresh ideas to the $28.5 billion industry that has been criticized for relying on films for inspiration... Read more...

Google receives 'voice search' patent

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:23:32 +0000

Google is back in the news again after it emerged that the firm recently filed a patent for technology which could lead to voice-assisted search. Patent no 7027987, which was published on the US Patent... Read more...

XBox Live Receives an Emmy

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:05:01 +0000

Microsoft's Xbox Live game service is being given an Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Advanced New Media. At... Read more...

Intel withdraws open source license, receives applause

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:22:07 +0000

In a message posted to the OSI license-discuss email list on March 29, Intel attorney McCoy Smith wrote, "Intel has been studying internally the issue of license proliferation. One step Intel would like to take... Read more...

WWW Inventor Receives Technology Prize

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:30:27 +0000

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest... Read more...

ATI receives NTT DoCoMo orders for mobile phone chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:43:49 +0000

ATI Technologies has received orders for chips to be used in NTT DoCoMo's FOMA F900i series handsets, according to sources. The orders come on top of recent chip orders from Motorola for use in its... Read more...

AMD receives $683M in aid for Dresden fab

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:39:48 +0000

Germany and the state of Saxony will give Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) approximately €545 million ($683 million) in grants and allowances toward the construction of its new manufacturing plant in Dresden after the European... Read more...

Metroid Prime receives GameSpot's Game of the Year

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:08:53 +0000

Thanks username for posting this in the forum. GameSpot's entire editorial staff unanimously agrees that Metroid Prime for the GameCube is the single greatest video game of 2002. Considering how diverse our... Read more...

OS X Receives New AOL with Gecko

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:00:19 +0000

A freshly retooled AOL client has arrived exclusively for Mac OS X users in a release AOL bills as its "best version for Apple Macintosh computers yet." America Online announced Tuesday a... Read more...

WMI AccessCheck Receives Local Administrator's SID [Q320678]

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:21:06 +0000

Thanks Jason & byte This update addresses the "WMI AccessCheck Receives Local Administrator's SID" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q320678. Download now to avoid... Read more...