Neowin News Feed for: Slams

Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:16:20 +0000

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users. In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody... Read more...

Microsoft slams iPhone as irrelevant

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:31:57 +0000

Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone is "a great music phone, and I'm sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface. However, it's a closed device that you cannot install applications on, and there's no... Read more...

Channel Slams Microsoft For Daylight Savings Time Snafu

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:45:36 +0000

As the IT industry enters the last two days before daylight savings time, many solution providers are scrambling to help customers avert major impacts from computer hardware and software that have yet to be updated... Read more...

Greenpeace Slams Apple's Ecological Standing

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:12:44 +0000

Greenpeace has slammed Apple, Motorola and others over their environmental policies, while offering some praise to Nokia for its proactive approach to environmental protection. Greenpeace, which publishes the Green Electronics Guide every three months,... Read more...

Steve Jobs Slams "Greedy" Record Companies

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:39:37 +0000

Apples chief executive Steve Jobs spoke out ahead of the Apple showcase in Paris stating that record companies are becoming "greedy", pushing for higher prices on music downloads from iTunes music store. Jobs is determined... Read more...

Coppola slams EA's Godfather game

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:37:03 +0000

Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather movie trilogy, has revealed his anger at Paramount's decision allowing Electronic Arts to produce a videogame tie-in. In an interview with US television show Sunday Morning... Read more...

Real Software Slams Microsoft's Patent Effort

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:31:33 +0000

In the wake of Real Software Inc. announcing a new version of its Realbasic application development tool, the company is concerned about a patent application Microsoft Corp. has filed that could affect all BASIC-like programming... Read more...

US retail body slams resurrected violent game legislation

Marcel Klum — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:46:02 +0000

Halpin lashes out at "me-too politics" as Yee promotes reworded bill in California The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association, a US body which represents videogame retailers, has criticised efforts in California to legislate... Read more...

Judge slams SCO's Case

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:06:04 +0000

A federal judge overseeing the SCO case against IBM slammed SCO's case, and said the company's arguments were "puzzling". The announcement came in response to an IBM attempt to defang SCO's claims. Judge... Read more...

MediaWise report slams US industry for over ratings

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:21:29 +0000

A new report into videogames from the US National Institute on Media and the Family has accused the industry of confusing parents with mixed messages over the importance of the ESRB ratings system. ... Read more...

Torvalds Slams EU Patent Proposal

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:36:28 +0000

Linus Torvalds and two other European software luminaries have thrown their weight behind a campaign to block software patents from being legitimized in Europe, ahead of a critical European Competitiveness Council decision later this week.... Read more...

MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:10:14 +0000

A new version of the MyDoom worm has appeared (MyDoom.m/MyDoom.o). This worm has quickly flooded mailboxes, and has slowed down several search engines. Such as Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, and even Google. McAfee... Read more...

Microsoft commentary slams EU ruling

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:30:04 +0000

Aiming to portray itself as the victim of overreaching regulators, Microsoft on Wednesday released a position paper insisting that the European Union's antitrust sanctions amount to "new law" that could hurt others in the technology... Read more...

MyDoom.C Slams Into Microsoft.com

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:21:25 +0000

A new version of the MyDoom worm appears to be circulating on the Internet and may be responsible for some disruptions to Microsoft Corp.'s Web site Sunday night and Monday morning, researchers say. When it's... Read more...

Microsoft slams HP's iTunes move

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:48:28 +0000

HP's move to release an own-branded digital-music player based on Apple's iPod – and to ship iTunes pre-installed on all HP PCs – has angered Microsoft. General manager of Microsoft's Windows digital media division David... Read more...

Israel slams the door on Microsoft

Tom Warren — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:47:52 +0000

In a bold assertion of independence, Israel has thrown the full weight of its antitrust legislation at Microsoft. The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated... Read more...

N-Gage boss slams GBA, reveals business model details

Marcel Klum — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:08:42 +0000

Nokia's head of entertainment and media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow Jones, accusing the system of failing to appeal to adult demographics, and has revealed some details of the development business... Read more...

Gameplay slams online VAT loophole

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:46:07 +0000

Online game retailer Gameplay.com has begun a campaign calling on the government to close a loophole in European tax laws which allows offshore companies to import cheap goods into the UK VAT-free. Under current legislation,... Read more...

Gartner slams MS security after latest flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:53:53 +0000

The latest flaw with a major Microsoft product shows Redmond is unlikely to have anything that approximates to secure software until 2004 at the earliest. That's the damning assessment of analysts Gartner in response to... Read more...

Downing Street slams 'BBC hacking' claims

Darren Bolton — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:52:45 +0000

Top reporter accuses government of underhand tactics Downing Street has angrily denied claims that members of its staff hacked in to the BBC's computer network in a bid to influence news coverage... Read more...