Neowin News Feed for: Strikes

Amazon employees in Germany to go on strike again

Usman Khan Lodhi — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:01 +0000

Verdi has called on workers at an Amazon warehouse in Germany to strike again to disrupt the processing of orders during Black Friday. Roughly 500 workers participated in an earlier strike. Read more...

Apple strikes again to halt iPhone jailbreaking

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:07:03 +0000

Apple's latest update to OSX, 10.5.6, includes an impressive list of performance and bug fixes but hidden amongst the latest and greatest is that 10.5.6 disables the Pwnage tool, making you unable to jailbreak or... Read more...

Last.fm strikes Sony music deal

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:13:27 +0000

Social music site Last.fm, bought in May for $280m (Â£140m) by CBS Corporation, has signed a deal with the Sony BMG record label. The partnership will give the service's 20 million users access to the... Read more...

Crippling malware attack strikes in Italy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:49:18 +0000

Italy is suffering from a barrage of remote attacks launched from hundreds of compromised websites, security experts have warned. Researchers at Symantec reported that attackers have injected 'iframe' tags within the HTML files on compromised... Read more...

Acer Strikes Back at HP Lawsuits

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:30:18 +0000

Acer Incorporated has hired intellectual-property lawyer Chris Ottenweller of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, who helped win a big patent case against Hewlett-Packard Company two years ago, to help fight two HP patent lawsuits. The... Read more...

Court strikes down Internet porn law

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:07:37 +0000

Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. has dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to... Read more...

BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal

Tom Warren — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:18:26 +0000

The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google. Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips... Read more...

Zune 2.0: the Empire Strikes Back

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:38:01 +0000

I've already covered that the Zune is expected in Europe in the end of 2007 along with more Zune variants. What I haven't covered, however, is the juicy speculation and rumours that have charged in... Read more...

Sundance Strikes iTunes Film Deal

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:59:12 +0000

It turns out Apple is not only interested in movies and TV shows but film festivals as well; take the Sundance Film Festival as an example. Festival films, 33 of 71 to be exact, will... Read more...

YouTube Strikes Verizon Deal

Tom Warren — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:46:37 +0000

A deal between YouTube and US mobile firm Verizon Wireless will see the popular video-sharing website extended to mobile phones Users who subscribe to Verizon's Vcast service will be able to view content on... Read more...

Apple Strikes Content Deals With TBS, Warner Bros.

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:32:25 +0000

Apple is on a roll with securing video content agreements to flesh out its iTunes Music Store lineup. The iPod maker has struck several deals recently, including significant agreements with Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and... Read more...

Rag Doll Kung Fu Developer Strikes Out on His Own

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:22:31 +0000

Artist Mark Healey, the man who almost solely created and developed the independently released action game Rag Doll Kung Fu via Steam earlier this year, has announced his plans... Read more...

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat strikes gold

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:21:52 +0000

Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield 2 has gone gold. Modern Combat hit gold for PS2 and Xbox. B2:MC is the first game in the popular PC shooter series to make its way to consoles.... Read more...

ATI Strikes Deal With Intel

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:00:01 +0000

ATI and Nvidia remain focused on their discrete graphics card business, but apparently expand their reach into lower margin areas to increase production volume: While Nvidia is preparing the launch of its C51 integrated graphics... Read more...

Star Wars: Battlefront II strikes back

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:10:09 +0000

Sequel to Pandemic's shooter gives SW fans a new hope and marks the return of Jedi on PS2s, Xboxes, and PCs. The Star Wars frenzy is really beginning to heat up. With... Read more...

Phone Firm Strikes Deal for In-flight Mobile Calls

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:18:49 +0000

"Hello? Hello? Yes, I'm on the plane!" This sound may soon be coming to an aircraft near you. Airbus, the European aeronautics giant, has signed a new deal which will give companies buying its A380... Read more...

Hacker strikes university computer system

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:52:01 +0000

A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by... Read more...

Two strikes for Eolas

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:52:01 +0000

Microsoft was awarded another victory from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today regarding the on going dispute with Eolas and the University of California. While the University of California and Eolas aren't too... Read more...

Pixar strikes multi-game deal with THQ

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:10:53 +0000

The publisher inks an agreement to make games based on four more computer-animated films from the computer-animation studio. Finding Nemo the amazing movie has now striked a deal with THQ and... Read more...

Intel strikes back with Nocona

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:59:56 +0000

Infatuated with Itanium, Intel has long resisted the obvious: creating a 64-bit chip that simply extends the x86 architecture on which the company built its fortune. Instead, Intel has ceded that ground to AMD, whose... Read more...

Judge strikes down ban on selling violent games to minors

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:59:44 +0000

A federal judge on Thursday struck down Washington state's ban on selling some violent video games to minors, calling it a violation of free speech. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik wrote that depictions of violence... Read more...

Eolas strikes back; Microsoft prepares appeal

Tue, 11 May 2004 22:09:49 +0000

The patent battle between Microsoft and the University of California's Eolas spin-off is heating up again, with each side pressing its case before the government. UC and Eolas filed a response to... Read more...

VeriSign strikes Microsoft authentication deal

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:23:42 +0000

Security and billing applications maker VeriSign said Wednesday that it established a new partnership with Microsoft to build authentication services based on the software giant's Windows Server 2003 product line. VeriSign says... Read more...

RealNetworks strikes out in baseball deal

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:35:04 +0000

RealNetworks ended negotiations to extend its exclusive deal to power Major League Baseball's Web business, the company confirmed Wednesday. The breakdown comes as no surprise, since RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has prepared... Read more...

Microsoft Strikes Up Orchestration

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:20:43 +0000

The next version of Microsoft's Windows Server operating system will include business process orchestration features to allow users to link together Web services, among other tasks, without the need for additional middleware. The technology will... Read more...

Sun Strikes Software Deal With United Kingdom

Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:00:25 +0000

Sun Microsystems's software strategy will pick up more steam Monday when the company plans to unveil an agreement with the U.K. government to distribute its Java enterprise software and Linux-based desktop operating system. ... Read more...

Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:16:45 +0000

Adobe Systems Inc. will include the cross-platform rendering engine from niche browser maker Opera Software ASA of Norway in its future products using the Macintosh and Windows operating systems, Opera announced Tuesday. "Our SSR (small-screen... Read more...

Office 2000 SR-1 registration bug strikes corporates

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:02:24 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed reports received by The Register that Windows 2000 PCs running a specific version of Office 2000 have been hit by sudden, unexpected requests to continually register the software with Microsoft. The glitch... Read more...

Court strikes down anti-porn law

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:56:45 +0000

A federal appeals court has ruled that a law meant to safeguard children against Internet pornography is riddled with problems that make it "constitutionally infirm." A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit... Read more...

Kazaa strikes back at labels

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:40:29 +0000

Thanks to Nathan for emailing us. The Australian company behind the world's most popular online music swapping site has accused the music and movie industries of conspiring against it to crush competition. ... Read more...

Via strikes deal over quad band memory

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:54:30 +0000

Chip firm VIA said it has licensed QBM (quad band memory) technology from Kentron. The firm claimed that using QBM technology with its chipsets will effectively double the speed of double data rate (DDR) memories.... Read more...

Hybrid DDoS worm strikes MS servers

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:40:09 +0000

A known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL server systems is being targeted by a hybrid worm that combines a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) with the automated propagation techniques used by worms such as Code... Read more...

AOL Denies 'Three Strikes And Out' Policy For XP Users

Steven Parker — Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:23:07 +0000

Saw this one doing the rounds, so I thought, why not post! thanks WinOSCentral for the heads up. America Online yesterday denied that it is forcing members with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system to upgrade... Read more...

Nintendo Strikes Back with GameCube

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:26:31 +0000

One is a purple, toy-like cube. The other two are bulky, black, computer-like boxes. All three are powerful 128-bit videogame systems. Nintendo Co Ltd will launch its long-awaited GameCube system on Friday... Read more...