Neowin News Feed for: Records

38 million records exposed because companies used default configs in Microsoft Power Apps portals

Usama Jawad — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:36:01 +0000

38 million records from multiple companies including Ford, J.B. Hunt, and American Airlines were left exposed to the public internet due to a default configuration in Microsoft Power Apps portals. Read more...

Badly configured database reveals data of 191 million US voters, authorities shut it down

Paul Hill — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:01 +0000

Security researcher, Chris Vickery, managed to find a publicly available server which held the details of all US voters. Luckily, public access to the database has now been cut off. Read more...

Classic Apple I computer sells for whopping $630,000

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:47:13 +0000

A classic Apple I computer, Apple's first production PC built by Steve Wozniak's hands in 1976, has sold for a record breaking $630,000 to an anonymous internet bidder at a recent auction Read more...

Google maps car hits a deer, records it all. Oh deer

Brad Sams — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:07 +0000

Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived". It's a sad fact that deer get hit by cars everyday... Read more...

UK government forces ISPs to keep email records

James Hall — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:23:07 +0000

With what is being considered yet another attack on the right to privacy, all ISPs in the UK will be obliged to store information about emails, including spam, that people in the country receive and... Read more...

Records shattered by GTA IV

Steven Parker — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:28:40 +0000

Nearly 1 million copies sold in first week... Grand Theft Auto IV seizes the top spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats chart, outselling former No.1 Wii Fit by over 9 to 1. Sales for... Read more...

Google Unveils Health Service

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:37:07 +0000

Search-engine Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. The company's... Read more...

Video Game Sales Break Records

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:03:22 +0000

NPD Group reports a record-breaking year in video game sales. Video game sales topped $17 billion last year, according to the NPD Group, making 2007 by far the biggest year in gaming history. These numbers... Read more...

Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:29:46 +0000

At the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting in Arlington, Virginia, it was publically announced that a group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo had broken Internet speed records – twice in two days. On... Read more...

Guinness World Records to produce videogame edition

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:13:38 +0000

Guinness World Records has announced plans to debut a new videogame series of the famous annual book, starting by unveiling the Videogame Edition 2008 on stand D505 at the London Book Fair (April 16 –... Read more...

PS3 Breaks UK Records

Joe Cashman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:25:21 +0000

It took a while, but the PS3 finally arrived in the UK last week, and already it has raked in some impressive stats, selling an estimated 165,000 in the first two days of sale, an... Read more...

Device records smells to play back later

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:46:41 +0000

Imagine being able to record a smell and play it back later, just as you can with sounds or images.Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan are building an odour recorder capable of... Read more...

EMI records 150% increase in legal music downloads

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:59:28 +0000

One of the world's most commercial record labels has today given the digital downloads market a friendly jolt by announcing that the surge in demand will account for a 12% rise in its annual profit... Read more...

Google Moving Search Records Out of China

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:15:59 +0000

In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the United States, a company executive said this week. Google.cn is a version... Read more...

Nintendo DS Smashes First Weekend Sales Records

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:21:51 +0000

The Nintendo DS got off to a flying start last weekend in the UK, becoming the fastest-selling console ever with sales topping some 87,000 units in the first two days at retail, according to Chart-Track... Read more...

TiVo records new DVR patents

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:37:21 +0000

TiVo is revving its patent engine to get a jump on the growing number of competitors in the market it pioneered. The Alviso, Calif.-based digital video recorder company announced Tuesday it has... Read more...

World of Warcraft Shatters Day-One Sales Records for PC

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:54:58 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment today confirmed that World of Warcraft has broken day-one sales records in North America, making it the most successful PC game launch ever. The subscription-based MMORPG sold through to over 240,000 customers at... Read more...

San Andreas smashes UK first week sales records

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:34:00 +0000

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has comprehensively smashed the all-time UK sales record for a videogame's first weekend, selling an estimated 677,000 units according to UK research body Chart-Track. That figure is more... Read more...

From gold records to gold MP3s

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:17:34 +0000

It might not be the same as having a big gold record on the wall, but the Recording Industry Association of America has issued its first gold, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digital downloads. ... Read more...

Microsoft Records 106 Million SP2 Downloads

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:46:46 +0000

The tally is in: Just two months after Windows XP Service Pack 2 was publicly distributed, users worldwide have downloaded in excess of 106 million copies of the update. According to Microsoft, approximately 90 million... Read more...

The Sims 2 sells a million, smashes EA records

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:23:32 +0000

The hugely anticipated sequel to the biggest selling PC game of all time, The Sims 2, has made its mark as Electronic Arts' biggest ever PC launch, selling through a million units worldwide in just... Read more...

Madden NFL 2005 smashes EA sales records

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:16:03 +0000

Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 2005 has broken the company's own sales records, with the title selling some 1.35 million units across five platforms in its first week on sale in North America. That's the fastest... Read more...

Guinness World Records Recognizes Cisco Router

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:37:31 +0000

The same book that boasts the world records for most glasses balanced on a chin, the tallest snowman and longest continuous clapping session, now includes Cisco Systems Inc.'s new machine that directs Internet traffic. ... Read more...

Hospitals to deploy electronic health records

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:07:07 +0000

More than 60% of top hospital IT executives responding a survey said they plan to deploy computerized electronic health records over the next year, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS), which... Read more...

Nasa breaks Linux records

Darren Bolton — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:29:02 +0000

Fast results on ocean simulation system Nasa has completed its fastest simulation of ocean circulation using the Linux operating system running on a 256-processor Silicon Graphics Altix system. The simulation model, called... Read more...

Accident records database breaks down

Darren Bolton — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:11:04 +0000

Three years' accident data not added to database because of IT problems IT problems have delayed updates to the government's database of accidents that happen within the home. The Home Accident Surveillance... Read more...

PS2 breaks sales records

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:04:31 +0000

PlayStation 2 sold more than 6.5 million units worldwide during the month spanning Thanksgiving and Christmas, compared to five million units during the same period the previous year, Sony says. Once again Sony has rewritten... Read more...

Online spending busts records

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:15:22 +0000

Buoyed by an increase in the population of online shoppers and more liberal spending by online shopping veterans, e-commerce in the United States blew away old spending records with a nearly 40 percent leap over... Read more...

Splinter Cell Breaks U.K. Sales Records

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:07:02 +0000

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for the Xbox is the fastest selling game for Microsoft's console in the United Kingdom. In this launch week 40,000 copies of the game were sold. Due to this achievement, record... Read more...

Tower Records site exposes data

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:36:39 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...A security hole on Tower Records' Web site exposed data on millions of U.S. and U.K. customers until it was closed late Wednesday. The glitch allowed anyone to peruse Tower Records' Web site to... Read more...

VeriSign tidies records after ICANN rebuke

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 08:06:20 +0000

VERISIGN SAID THIS week that it has corrected database inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this month, after the regulatory body threatened to strip the leading U.S. registrar... Read more...

Identity crisis: Birth records online

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:01:52 +0000

People-search and family history Web sites have come under fire from California lawmakers, residents and privacy advocates concerned that personal data available online can be used to aid identity theft. Genealogical Web... Read more...