Neowin News Feed for: Rival

Reddit acquires Dubsmash

Usama Jawad — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:44:02 +0000

Reddit has acquired TikTok rival and short video-sharing platform, Dubsmash. Dubsmash will retain its brand and platform with the entire team including the three co-founders now working under Reddit. Read more...

Samsung said to be working on a 12-inch Windows 10 tablet

Usama Jawad — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:06:01 +0000

A new rumor claims that Samsung could be looking to launch a 12-inch Windows 10 tablet soon. The device could feature a Super AMOLED display with 3840×2400 resolution and 4 GB of RAM. Read more...

Nokia pokes fun at Apple for Airport directions glitch in Maps app

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:53:34 +0000

Nokia is no stranger to taking pot shots at rivals for their Lumia phones or services when they can, now they've taken the opportunity to take a shot at Apple for their faulty maps service on Twitter. Read more...

Microsoft looking to create new TV service to rival Google TV

Brad Sams — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:06:04 +0000

Microsoft has a long history of working to bring the TV to the computer. With tight integration into its Media Center platform, Microsoft knows that there is value in merging the home PC and live... Read more...

Gates: Microsoft won't launch iPhone Rival

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:27:13 +0000

During an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Chairman Bill Gates revealed that Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's iPhone: "No, we won't do that. In the so-called smart phone... Read more...

Microsoft games exec hints at iPhone rival

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:22:03 +0000

An executive in Microsoft's entertainment and games division Tuesday hinted that Microsoft may be developing its own Windows Mobile OS-based rival to Apple's iPhone. Speaking at Citi's annual Global Technology Conference in New York on... Read more...

Wikia Details Plans for Search Rival to Google

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:35:33 +0000

The ever expanding, and potentially lucrative, market of search engines may soon be welcoming another player into the fray. Last Friday, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his commercial startup,... Read more...

EU Asks Studios About Rival HD Formats

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:39:49 +0000

The European Commission has asked several Hollywood studios to explain why they have chosen either the Blu-ray disc or the HD DVD format for movie discs to see if they are breaking EU rules that... Read more...

Microsoft Supports Rival Office Document Format

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:29:48 +0000

Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval to a national standards board. The company announced yesterday that it voted to add the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.0 to the American... Read more...

Blu-ray Burning Its High-def DVD Rival

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:04:27 +0000

Trade publication Home Media Magazine has released figures, based on studio estimates and Nielsen VideoScan point-of-sale data, which conclude that in the first quarter, 70% of high definition movies were in the Blu-ray Disc format... Read more...

Microsoft's YouTube rival enters beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:54:05 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service, its competitor to Google Inc.'s popular YouTube service. The service, which Microsoft unveiled last September, has been available to beta testers only... Read more...

Xerox works deal with start-up to rival Google

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:58:35 +0000

Xerox Corp. research subsidiary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has struck a licensing deal with Powerset Inc. in San Francisco. The two are developing a search engine based on natural language processing, in hopes that... Read more...

Microsoft mulled Apple partnership, iPod rival in 2003

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:32:31 +0000

As far back as 2003, Microsoft Corp. considered introducing its own rival to the iPod or seeking a partnership with Apple Inc., according to evidence introduced Friday at a Microsoft antitrust trial in Iowa. Microsoft... Read more...

Samsung readies rival digital music service to iTunes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:13:41 +0000

Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce,... Read more...

Gates sees IBM not Google as top Microsoft rival

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:42:12 +0000

If you were to ask Bill Gates who Microsoft's top competitor is, what company would he name? Would it be Apple, Google, or Sony? This question is exactly what a Reuters journalist asked Gates, and... Read more...

Rival says Microsoft unready to obey European order

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:55:15 +0000

Microsoft is failing to comply with a European Commission order to sell an unbundled version of its Windows operating system, competitors that were asked to examine the program said on Tuesday. A... Read more...

Yahoo readies iTunes rival for launch

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:22:12 +0000

Web giant Yahoo is poised to launch a new digital store and music player, aiming to compete more directly with Apple Computer's successful iTunes service, according to sources familiar with the project. ... Read more...

Microsoft to launch Google News rival

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:13:26 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday will begin testing a new online news aggregation service, as part of its growing search rivalry with Google. In conjunction with its own MSNBC news site, the software giant... Read more...

Microsoft hires key rival from SuSE Linux

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:30:37 +0000

Microsoft has hired one of its worst enemies, the SuSE Linux salesman whose efforts led the city of Munich to adopt Linux and open-source software instead of Microsoft's products. Karl Aigner, formerly... Read more...

Microsoft sued by S.Korean instant messaging rival

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:53:03 +0000

Daum Communications Corp, South Korea's top Internet portal, said on Monday it was suing Microsoft Corp and its Korean unit for alleged unfair business practices related to instant messaging software. "Microsoft used its... Read more...

Microsoft to offer rival CDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:39:59 +0000

Microsoft is offering to include CD-ROMs of rival software in an effort to settle its competition case brought by the European Commission. The EC believes Windows Media Player was unfairly bundled with the Windows operating... Read more...

Gateway makes bid for rival eMachines

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:53:24 +0000

Gateway plans to acquire rival eMachines in a bid to regain its footing in the PC game and broaden the distribution of its Gateway-branded consumer-electronics devices at retail. The Poway, Calif., company... Read more...

An Open Source Effort to rival Windows

Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:18:09 +0000

The government, electronics manufacturers and software makers launched a forum Friday to promote the development of a new operating system for next-generation networked appliances and other smart devices. The forum is... Read more...

Palm to acquire rival Handspring

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:50:12 +0000

Palm said on Wednesday that will buy rival Handspring in an effort to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices. Palm, which also announced it has finalized plans to spin off its PalmSource... Read more...

Register.com wins injunction against rival

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:24:53 +0000

Domain name registrar Register.com won a preliminary injunction against a competitor for alleged "domain name slamming," or filching customers without their knowledge. The case pits Register.com against the Domain Registry of America (DROA), which it... Read more...

MPEG-4 rival raises antitrust specter

Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:19:02 +0000

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking a swing at MPEG-4, complaining that companies cooperating to create a digital media standard may run afoul of antitrust laws. New York-based On2 said Tuesday that it has... Read more...

Morpheus woes lift rival from obscurity

Sat, 09 Mar 2002 14:58:00 +0000

Australia-based Sharman Networks came from nowhere to buy the Kazaa Media Desktop and now carries bragging rights as the world's largest file-swapping network. The surprise shutdown of the popular Morpheus file-trading software... Read more...

Ballmer dismisses rival Sun's passport service.

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:54:35 +0000

Steve Ballmer, speaking to an industry group, dismissed rival Sun's efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation" on Wednesday. "I think what we... Read more...