Neowin News Feed for: Times

Watch the Facebook event right here, starting at 10AM PT, 1PM ET and 6PM BST

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:31:49 +0000

Facebook are hosting an event to launch their "new home on Android." The event starts at 10AM PT, 1PM ET and 6PM BST. Facebook is expected to unveil a custom skin for Android running on an HTC device. Read more...

Times announces plans to charge Â£1 per day for website access

Tom Warren — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:06:48 +0000

News International (NI), the owner of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers, has announced plans to charge users for access to their websites from June. Users who wish to access online content from The Times and... Read more...

Windows Server 2008 copies 45 Times Faster Than '03

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:02:02 +0000

It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out... Read more...

Internet2 just got 10 times faster

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:06:41 +0000

Until recently, Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, but now, by sending data using 10 different colors of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100... Read more...

New York Times Sheds Online Subscriptions

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:50:35 +0000

The New York Times has been rather notorious in keeping most content on their website for paying eyes only. While this system did manage to bring in $10 million a year in subscription fees, it... Read more...

Next-gen memory 500 times faster, but slow to take off

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:14:06 +0000

The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to... Read more...

Google cuts data retention times

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:02:01 +0000

Google is to cut the length of time it holds users' personal search data. The move comes in response to a data protection group that wrote to the firm questioning its privacy policies. The European... Read more...

Breakthrough in Blue Lasers Yields 10X Write Times

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:46:39 +0000

Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In... Read more...

New Notebook Battery Offers Fast Recharge Times

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:46:24 +0000

Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The... Read more...

Once, Twice, Three Times an IE Patch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:24:58 +0000

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Sep. 12 brought three bulletins covering a three software flaws, but the day will be remembered most for an Internet Explorer mega-patch that is being re-rereleased to address a 10th vulnerability... Read more...

NY Times Does Redesign

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:36:53 +0000

Following in Neowin's very recent footsteps, one of America's biggest newspapers, The New York Times, has updated its online service. The main features include a re-design of the layout. With a nod to... Read more...

Revolution to be "2.5 Times More Powerful Than Cube"

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:42:59 +0000

Developers speaking to GamesIndustry.biz this week havecommented that the the Revolution console, hardware kits for whichbegan shipping to third parties recently, is shaping up to be around2.5 times more powerful than GameCube. Up until... Read more...

New DSL Standard Promises 10 Times Faster Speeds

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:32:05 +0000

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... Read more...

PSP: Battery life, load times, and build quality

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:20:23 +0000

With the PlayStation Portable now officially available and nearly all of the 200,000-unit Japanese launch allocation already sold, word is getting around about some of the key issues that Sony has been unable or unwilling... Read more...

Tough times for hard-drive companies, report says

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 May 2004 11:53:27 +0000

The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,... Read more...

War Times demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:16:17 +0000

Strategy First sends along the playable demo of War Times, allowing you to try out the imminent World War II 3D real-time strategy game by Legend Studios. This demo includes two single-player missions from the... Read more...

PS3 to sell three times more than Xbox 2 in Europe

Darren Bolton — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:03:05 +0000

That's what a new analysts' report reckons, anyway Sony have already won the next generation of console wars and PlayStation 3 will have sold three times more than Xbox 2 in Europe by... Read more...

Warrant seeks N.Y. Times, Google hacker

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:43:10 +0000

A nationally known computer hacker is being sought on a federal arrest warrant stemming from a sealed complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday. Adrian Lamo, 22, has publicly... Read more...

Printer ink seven times more expensive than Dom Perignon

Sat, 05 Jul 2003 11:41:03 +0000

Printer manufacturers are ripping off consumers by overcharging for printer cartridges, according to a study by the Consumer Association's Which? magazine. Which? slams the cost of printer ink. A Colour HP cartridge,... Read more...

Some times you just need a real man :)

Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:39:25 +0000

US Navy's 'Flipper' goes AWOL! : "AUSTRALIAN military divers yesterday questioned the effectiveness of the US Navy's mine-clearing dolphins, revealing one had disappeared for two days. The polite way to express their scepticism... Read more...

Patch: WinXP SP1 makes some programs ten times slower

Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:29:34 +0000

As reported previously, a bug in Windows XP SP1 may cause some programs to launch 10 times slower because of a change in memory management in SP1 from XP retail. Remember, only download... 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...

Foreigners must pay for Times online

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:37:05 +0000

Foreigners will have to pay to read The Times online (in the UK), with tariffs levied on 10 separate channels. The newspaper, part of the Murdoch empire, says it can identify overseas visitors with "90... Read more...

NY Times Computers Shut Down by Apparent Attack

Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:05:57 +0000

Internet connections at the New York Times were interrupted for at least several hours on Tuesday after the paper's computers were flooded with information in an apparent attack. "We don't know that... Read more...