Neowin News Feed for: Seek

Google, Yahoo seek to avoid antitrust suit

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:22:43 +0000

Numerous news outlets are reporting that Google and Yahoo are in talks with the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement. Several advertisers and Microsoft... Read more...

Ministers seek curbs on internet suicide sites for teenagers

James Hall — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:33:19 +0000

Websites which encourage vulnerable teenagers to kill themselves are to be blocked under plans by the Government to tackle the dozens of suicides that have been linked to internet chatrooms. Ministers are alarmed that... Read more...

Sympathizers Seek Answers from al-Qaida

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:33:11 +0000

Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri's "on-line interview" before a recent deadline. Among them: Why hasn't al-Qaida attacked the U.S. again, why isn't it attacking the Israelis and when will... Read more...

Privacy groups seek 'do not track' Web list

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:34:48 +0000

Nine privacy and consumer organizations asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to create a "do not track" list for Internet users who don't want their online activities tracked, stored and used by advertising networks.... Read more...

Irked Users Seek Vista Licensing Clarification

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:10:48 +0000

Windows users are raising concerns about Microsoft's new licensing for Windows Vista that will allow them to transfer a Vista license to only one machine other than the computer for which it was purchased. The... Read more...

Researchers seek simpler software debugging

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:15:32 +0000

Software bugs/errors are present in every piece of software. When you get a software error a lot of times it doesn't make any sense. So what's being done to make these software errors... Read more...

Lawyers Seek $258M for Suing Microsoft

Wed, 12 May 2004 21:02:46 +0000

Lawyers who persuaded Microsoft Corp. to settle their class-action lawsuit accusing the company of price-fixing are asking for $258 million in legal fees, the largest amount ever in an antitrust case. The bill comes as... Read more...

Labels seek end to 99c music per song download

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:46:15 +0000

Remember how online music stores were going to route around the music industry? The pigopolists have barely got their feet under the table and already demanding more. The Wall Street Journal reports that the major... Read more...

Norway's Opera to seek listing, battle Microsoft

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:09:41 +0000

Norway's Opera Software said on Monday it plans a stock market listing in March to aid its race against giant rival Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to win customers for its Internet browsers in the... Read more...

Microsoft may seek another settlement over Burst

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:29:11 +0000

For months, executives at Microsoft Corp. and Burst.com Inc. discussed Burst's technology for transmitting movies and sounds over the Internet more quickly. The talks went nowhere, but Microsoft ultimately developed multimedia technology of its own,... Read more...

Games seek to bond with players

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:19:10 +0000

Leading game developer David Braben takes issue with the recent assertion by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, that games are still something for just "geeks and guys". Games... Read more...

Mobo makers seek to bundle Athlon 64 for sale

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:12:12 +0000

In view of the potential short supply of Athlon 64 processors, first-tier Taiwanese motherboard makers are negotiating with Advanced Micro Devices to bundle their motherboards with AMD's new-generation processors for sale in the retail market,... Read more...

Corporations seek better search results

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:45:24 +0000

When American carmaker Ford announced that it was replacing Firestone tires on all of its vehicles, consumers stampeded the corporate Web site in search of information that went beyond the typical product sheet. Over the... Read more...

Bishops seek saint for Internet

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:14:46 +0000

Thanks to hareball82 for submitting this heavenly item ;) Fed up with hackers, a flood of spam and lousy connections, Italian Roman Catholics have launched a search for a patron saint of the... Read more...

HP researchers seek to "throttle" worms

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:14:02 +0000

Researchers at HP laboratories in Bristol have been working on a new technology designed to choke off Internet worms and viruses in an attempt to slow them down and control their spread. The... Read more...

States Say They Can Seek Own Microsoft Sanctions

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:50:47 +0000

The nine states still pursuing the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case told a federal judge on Friday that they have "long and clearly established" authority to seek their own sanctions against the company. ... Read more...

Compaq won't seek second merger if H-P deal sinks

Darren Bolton — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:53:51 +0000

Compaq Computer won't seek another buyer if its $21.3 billion merger with Hewlett-Packard falls through, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas says. H-P is the "only deal for Compaq. I can't see any other combination... Read more...

Neowin News: We seek staff writers.

Steven Parker — Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:42:08 +0000

Serious call-up for those people that are able to write a weekly column (read, not newsposters) for Neowin that will focus on the weeks news. My idea for the column will be an in-sight to... Read more...

U.S. won't seek Microsoft breakup

Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:05:30 +0000

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — The Department of Justice said Thursday that it will not seek to break up Microsoft in the new phase of the landmark antitrust trial, and won't try to prove that it... Read more...