Neowin News Feed for: System

Facebook now rates trustworthiness of users on a scale from 0 to 1

Sharath Ravishankar — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:50:01 +0000

Facebook has started to assign users a score based on their reputation for trustworthiness, by means of a system it has developed over the past year, in order to assess the credibility of their posts. Read more...

British Airways experiences global system outage, resulting in significant delays to flights

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 27 May 2017 11:26:47 +0000

A global outage of British Airways' IT network is causing massive delays for prospective flyers, with Heathrow being one of the worst affected airports. The airline is working to resolve the problem. Read more...

8Pack OrionX Extreme: Probably one of the fastest PC out there? [UPDATE]

Robbie Khan — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:56:01 +0000

Legendary overclockers 8Pack and Overclockers UK show off their latest ultra high end system with the latest 10-core i7 X6950 CPU. This could be the fastest system you can get your hands on very soon. Read more...

If you find a security flaw, United Airlines will pay you in miles

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 16 May 2015 03:56:01 +0000

In an effort to patch any possible vulnerabilities, United Airlines has launched a program which will reward up to 1 million free miles to anyone who finds a bug or security flaw in their website. Read more...

It's System Administrator Appreciation Day today

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:11:20 +0000

If you happen to come across your System Administrator today, you might want to give that person a hug or something, because today for one day of the year is the day we appreciate these heroes. Read more...

Sysinternals Suite 2012.05.24

Razvan Serea — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:02:31 +0000

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. Read more...

Sysinternals Suite 2012.05.14

Razvan Serea — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:23:17 +0000

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. Read more...

Speccy 1.14.288

Razvan Serea — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:29:41 +0000

Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Read more...

Sysinternals Process Explorer 15.04

Steven Parker — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:06:07 +0000

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including... Read more...

Speccy 1.12.265

Steven Parker — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:48:37 +0000

Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components,... Read more...

Defraggler 2.05.315

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:29:22 +0000

Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the... Read more...

HWiNFO32 3.71

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:51:28 +0000

HWiNFO32 (Hardware Information) is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. It's targeted to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer's hardware which makes... Read more...

AppRemover 2.2.7.1

Steven Parker — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:04:21 +0000

AppRemover is a free utility that enables users to remove antivirus and other applications as well as left over files from incomplete uninstallations. There's no more need to mess around with your registry. Remove computer... Read more...

Sandra Lite 2011 (17.20)

Steven Parker — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:38:55 +0000

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices... Read more...

SpeedFan 4.42

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:36:42 +0000

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can... Read more...

Sandra Lite 2010 SP3 (16.67)

Steven Parker — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:01:16 +0000

HWiNFO32 3.58

Steven Parker — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:13:18 +0000

Speccy 1.04.173

Steven Parker — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:47:21 +0000

From the same people that bring you CCleaner, Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally... Read more...

Google introduces new search indexing system - Caffeine

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:21:56 +0000

Google announced on Tuesday the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Google claims that Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than their last index. "It's the largest collection of web... Read more...

Apple engineering a new App Store ranking system

Sam Symons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:43:51 +0000

Apple has just finished their conference call, regarding their financial performance in the quarter that's just gone by; as usual, they allow a Q&A session afterwards, and Arnold Kim over at MacRumors has the details... Read more...

Microsoft confirms final Windows 7 system requirements

Sam Symons — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:22:17 +0000

When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview, and it seems that they have been updated to match... Read more...

Windows Home Server system announcements at CES

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:40:05 +0000

After Hewlett-Packard announced their new Mediasmart Servers last week, Acer has announced at CES that it is also building a Windows Home Server system - The Acer Aspire EasyStore Home Server - which is powered... Read more...

Office 14 to be named Microsoft Office System 2009?

Tom Warren — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:24:52 +0000

Microsoft is currently developing the successor to Office 2007, Office codenamed "14". There has been little to no information on the upcoming Office version and many have speculated we might not see the product until... Read more...

Apple patent High tactility glove system

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:12:14 +0000

Apple has recently filed a patent titled High tactility glove system - gloves which can keep users' hands warm during cold conditions. During winter and in cold conditions, users wear warm clothing to keep... Read more...

Acer Aspire X1200 SFF system review

Julio Franco — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:15:44 +0000

Acer recently introduced the Aspire X1200 small form factor system, one of their latest desktop additions to the ever expanding Aspire line. Acer describes the X1200 as a stylish, space saving and low-cost option for... Read more...

Yahoo details plans for new online ad sales system

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:17:30 +0000

Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known... Read more...

Web address system faces changes

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:25:06 +0000

The way the internet handles website domains is going to change, following an update to the core "addressing system". If we continue with the current way of allocating web addresses, we will run out of... Read more...

LightScribe System Software 1.12.29.2

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:35:45 +0000

The LightScribe System Software (LSS) is required for proper operation of your LightScribe system. Updates are released regularly to support new hardware or recently introduced LightScribe CDs and DVDs, and will ensure optimal and reliable... Read more...

Official: Assassin's Creed PC System Requirements

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:24:34 +0000

Ubisoft has finally announced the Minimum System Requirements to play Assassin's Creed PC. Like previous posted in the rumor article "Rumor: Assassin's Creed PC System Requirements", you need at least 2GB of memory, plus a... Read more...

Rumor: Assassin's Creed PC System Requirements

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:14:16 +0000

Gamers web site Exophase says they have received the minimum and recommended hardware specifications required to play the game Assassin's Creed (PC version). "A reliable anonymous source has sent along details on the system requirements... Read more...

Auslogics System Information 1.1.7.184

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:28:04 +0000

Auslogics System Information provides comprehensive and easy to understand information about your system configuration. It will show hardware configuration, video-card information, OS details, list of running processes, and other information. This information can be saved... Read more...

System Cleaner 5.56c

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:14:14 +0000

System Cleaner® takes care of all the common PC headaches that slow your system down and puts your data at risk from disk failure. It also takes care of many of the of the PC... Read more...

Nvidia nForce System Tools 6.00 Beta

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:19:08 +0000

Built upon the foundation of NVIDIA’s core motherboard and GPU technologies, the NVIDIA Control Panel and NVIDIA System Monitor software utilities bring consolidated control and reporting to the desktop in seamless fashion. Initially, you will... Read more...

NPD: Apple launch of Leopard system its best ever

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:14:27 +0000

The launch of Apple Inc's latest operating system, Leopard, was its best ever, a research group said on Monday. When comparing the first full month of sales of Apple Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard" (November 2007)... Read more...

LightScribe System Software 1.10.27.1

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:06:35 +0000

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.33

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:59:18 +0000

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being... Read more...

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.32

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:19:16 +0000

Facebook Ad System Puts Business and Butterflies Together

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:26:00 +0000

Facebook has thrown down the gauntlet in front of Google, introducing an online ad platform designed to help businesses reach its social network of 50 million users. With industry pundits predicting that Facebook would usher... Read more...

Nvidia Introduces Enthusiast System Architecture

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:32:25 +0000

Today, with the coming introduction of the NVIDIA 780i chipset, NVIDIA is looking to make serious changes to what is possible with enthusiast systems by launching a new technology platform. The name of the new... Read more...

China's Olympic ticketing system crashes on first day

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:32:19 +0000

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games watched unhappily as their online ticketing system for the games crashed shortly after tickets went on sale to the general public. BOCOG's ticketing site received 8 million... Read more...