Neowin News Feed for: Shoots

Wal-Mart Shoots Down Cheap HD DVD Rumor

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:20:53 +0000

Wal-Mart has denied rumors of placing a substantial order with a Taiwan-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Fuh Yuan, and TDK in China to manufacture $250-299 HD DVD players. "The article... was full of inaccuracies and we... Read more...

ICANN shoots down .xxx yet again

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:31:06 +0000

It looks as if the board of ICANN has quickly brought the revival of the .xxx domain idea to a standstill: in a meeting in Lisbon, the board voted down ICM Registry's proposal, 9 to... Read more...

Microsoft Shoots for Photo Search

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:04:30 +0000

Microsoft this week revealed that it is at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras. So rather than typing in an Internet search query, someone can e-mail... Read more...

Microsoft Shoots Down Talk of HD-DVD Equipped Xbox 360

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:28:39 +0000

Microsofthas cleared up speculation regarding possible HD-DVD functionality infuture versions of the Xbox 360, saying that it currently has no plansto release an Xbox 360 equipped with a next-generation DVD player. The unusually direct statement... Read more...

Quake 4 shoots up stores

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:37:21 +0000

Today Activision has announced that Quake 4 has begun its assembly at stores. Quake 4 is the next-gen console version of the fourth game in the franchise, which was recently... Read more...

Real shoots back at Apple, reaffirms commitment to Harmony

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:28:59 +0000

Earlier today Apple released a statement about the recent actions of RealNetorks. Accusing Real of using hacker-like tactics for its Harmony technology. Now RealNetwork's is shooting back saying "Consumers, and not Apple, should... Read more...

Eats, Shoots and Leaves…

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:50:28 +0000

No, it's not the classic Panda joke but rather a poor leader into a item telling of the massive Christmas as had at Amazon Towers in the UK, ahem, who merely act as distribution agents... Read more...

Man shoots computer four times

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:41:19 +0000

A bar owner in the US has been charged after shooting his laptop computer. George Doughty is said to have fired four bullets into the Dell computer in the middle of his bar... Read more...

Nvidia shoots for film with new chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:57:25 +0000

Graphics chip leader Nvidia is unveiling what will be the fastest graphics processor on the market, with visual capabilities the company hopes will one day rival the big screen. As expected, Nvidia will take... Read more...