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Currys stops selling analogue TVs

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:47:55 +0000

Currys, Dixons and PC World are to stop stocking analogue televisions and will instead promote "integrated" sets with built-in digital Freeview tuners. The chains said more than 90% of the TVs they sold were already... Read more...

Samsung Stops Selling Most Products in Japan

Christopher Vendemio — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:15:20 +0000

Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that it will no longer sell consumer electronics in the country of Japan. While Samsung will continue to do business to business sales involving LCD computer monitors, memory, and mobile... Read more...

Apple stops Boot Camp downloads

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:04:14 +0000

Apple Inc. has pulled the beta of Boot Camp, the application that lets Mac users run Windows XP or Vista on their Intel-powered machines, from its servers in preparation for Friday's launch of Leopard. Although... Read more...

PC World stops stocking Floppy Disks

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:31:08 +0000

PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will not reorder any more floppy disks after the current 10,000 are sold. With 155 stores across Britain and nearly 50 more elsewhere in Europe, spokesman Hamish... Read more...

Webroot: Vista's Defender stops 16% of 25 Spyware Samples

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:53:36 +0000

According to the results of a two-week study of Windows Defender by Webroot, a leading antispyware vendor and Microsoft competitor, the product missed 84% of a sample set of 25 spyware, Trojan horse programs and... Read more...

Epson Stops Ink-Makers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:10:38 +0000

Fewer Epson-compatible ink cartridges from third-party manufacturers will be available, because the printer vendor has convinced a number of manufacturers and importers to stop producing and marketing them. Last February, Epson filed a complaint with... Read more...

Music Stops for Mac Windows Media Player

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:39:26 +0000

Microsoft has officially halted development of its Windows Media Player for the Mac and plans no future Apple Computer versions of its music-playing software, CNET News.com has learned. "We have... Read more...

Federal Court Stops 'Legal' P2P Claim

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:34:13 +0000

A Los Angeles based website which claimed to offer legal trading of copyrighted material has been temporarily banned from making such claims by a federal court, the US government said yesterday. Cashier Myricks Jr.,... Read more...

Google Stops Talking to CNet News

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:27:31 +0000

Google is all for googling, as long as you don't google a Google executive. That's the lesson that Jai Singh, CNET News.com founder and top editor, learned the hard way when the company informed him... Read more...

GameStop stops DS preorders

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:44:05 +0000

Major games retailer pre-sold out of Nintendo's new handheld, EB Games continues to take orders; plus, some DS games sneak out early? Gamers looking to pick up a Nintendo DS later this... Read more...

Sony Stops Production of PSX

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:17:26 +0000

According to Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Gendai, Sony's HDD/DVD Recorder and PlayStation 2 media system PSX stopped production in the beginning of April. In response to the magazine, Sony Electronics' public relations spokesman confirmed that... Read more...

Nintendo stops GameCube production

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:59:52 +0000

The Japanese company Nintendo has temporarily halted production of its GameCube consoles until the autumn. The struggling games maker says it needs to clear its warehouses of unsold machines before it makes... Read more...

Game Stops Responding Or Quits Unexpectedly During Intro Video

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:25:16 +0000

Thanks prasanth from our Security Bulletins, Patches and Updates Forum This update addresses the "Game Stops Responding or Quits Unexpectedly When Introductory Video Clip Is Played" issue in Windows XP, and is... Read more...

Yahoo stops offering AOL MapQuest map service

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 02:48:26 +0000

Yahoo! said Thursday that it has stopped offering AOL's popular MapQuest service on its site, and instead has built its own service offering consumers driving directions and street locaters. Yahoo, which is... Read more...

Comcast Stops Spying on Subscribers

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:33:04 +0000

Thanks sedative for sending this into our way. Cable provider Comcast on Wednesday said it would stop tracking its users after coming under fire from subscribers and privacy advocates. "Beginning immediately, we will... Read more...

Microsoft stops new work to fix bugs

Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:46:39 +0000

Thanks neo1980 from our forum for the heads up :D Microsoft Corp. today announced a month-long moratorium on new coding as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, said Richard Purcell, director of the... Read more...

Big Blue stops making PCs - few notice

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:06:41 +0000

There were rumours aplenty last year that IBM was getting out of making desktop PCs and now they've come true, like every story almost inevitably does... Recessions hit IT big bruisers IBM said... Read more...

Piracy stops Xbox in China

Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:42:46 +0000

Microsoft's Xbox gaming console will not be sold in Hong Kong or China for the foreseeable future, due to rampant piracy in the region. The company is selling the actual hardware at... Read more...

Email never stops, even while in the Arabian Sea

Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:23:13 +0000

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea, one of the most heavily protected ships in the U.S. Navy is sending out around 30,000 emails a day as everyone from captain to deck swabber keeps in touch with... Read more...