Neowin News Feed for: Relief

US wireless carriers are donating thousands of phone chargers to hospitals

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:18:01 +0000

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have partnered with iHeartMedia in an initiative, so patients can have all they need during their lengthy stays in hospitals. Up to 40,000 chargers will be donated. Read more...

Intel provides $6 million for coronavirus relief efforts

Paul Hill — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:30:01 +0000

Intel is to donate a further $6 million to assist coronavirus relief efforts in areas where it operates. The firm has also delivered supplies to healthcare workers and donated $1 million. Read more...

Vonage Awarded Two-Week Sigh of Relief

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:13:43 +0000

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton has slapped Internet telephone provider Vonage with a permanent injunction against using Verizon technology in its VoIP service, but delayed the actual enforcement of the injunction for two weeks. Holmdel,... Read more...

PayPal Blocks Hurricane Relief Funds

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:53:00 +0000

The popular website Something Awful.com took matters into their own hands following the path of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, by setting up a relief fund using PayPal as the middle-man. What happened next was... Read more...

Microsoft Assists Humanitarian Relief Flight to Afghanistan

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:41:34 +0000

Early this week, a Boeing 747 took off from Portland, Oregon, loaded with more than 190,000 pounds (86,000 kilos) of lifesaving humanitarian aid, bound for Kabul, Afghanistan. Reportedly the first non-military flight to receive approval... Read more...