Neowin News Feed for: Touts

Microsoft touts Windows 7 for Netbooks

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:09:29 +0000

During a recent question and answer session with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, he gave his take on Windows 7 on netbooks, or mini-notebook PC's. ... Read more...

Microsoft Touts Energy-Saving Software

Tom Warren — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:19:30 +0000

Microsoft will release a set of best practices for administrators running data centers, focusing on energy-saving strategies the company is implementing in its own operations, CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday. Those tips will covers... Read more...

Intel touts Tiniest Solid-State Drives in the Industry

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:02:16 +0000

Intel Corporation touts the Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive, the company’s latest product in the SSD market, as being “smaller than a penny” and weighing “less than a drop of water”. The devices are available in... Read more...

Western Digital Touts 3TB Hard Drives in 2010

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:16:48 +0000

Western Digital has achieved record areal density in its Magnetic Head Operation labs in Fremont, California, using its perpendicular magnetic recording/tunneling magneto-resistive head technology, allowing the leading maker of hard disk drives to product 3TB... Read more...

IBM touts middleware for 'info management'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:48:16 +0000

IBM has released a slew of new products intended to underscore its commitment to 'information management'. Big Blue released version 8.4 of its Enterprise Content Management product at the Information on Demand 2007 conference in... Read more...

Indian Firm Touts "Alternative Internet"

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:33:20 +0000

Indian technology firm NetAlter Software has unveiled details of what it claims is a virus and spam-free "internet alternative". According to the company, it has patented a "true P2P" system that offers a domain-less alternative... Read more...

Microsoft's 'Enchanted Office' Comic Touts Ribbon

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:53:49 +0000

Microsoft is using a Web-based comic strip to try to reach a broad set of consumers and convince them that they can benefit from the new Ribbon-based user interface found in Office 2007. While much... Read more...

Siemens Touts New IP Phone Innovations

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:59:27 +0000

Siemens Enterprise Communications on Dec. 11 will introduce a new line of IP phones for its IP PBXes that bring out a number of advances in user interface design. Siemens with the new OpenStage IP... Read more...

AMD Touts "Fusion" Platforms

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:51:38 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled more details concerning its forthcoming chips that will include both central processing and graphics processing capabilities. Apparently, the processors currently referred to as Fusion will still fit into AMD's open... Read more...

Buffalo Touts 1200MHz, 1250MHz DDR2 Memory Modules

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:19:31 +0000

Buffalo Technology, a well-known supplier of memory modules from Austin, Texas, is expected to unveil memory modules at 1200MHz and 1250MHz in the near future, according to reports from Japan. The company already sells 1150MHz... Read more...

Microsoft Touts Vertical Apps

Steven Parker — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:55:26 +0000

At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston July 11-13, the company again is hoping to go vertical via its massive Microsoft Business Solutions partner channel to become a bigger enterprise resource planning player. At the... Read more...

Intel Touts Core Multiplexing Technology

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:05:25 +0000

Intel Corp. may have another trump in its sleeves, which has never been discussed before. Apparently, the company has a feature called central processing unit (CPU) Core Multiplexing Technology, which is already supported by its... Read more...

Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:35:20 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for WindowsVista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts ofthe operating system or applications without having to reboot theentire machine. Microsoft officials have... Read more...

Gates Touts Microsoft's Supercomputing Move

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:03:27 +0000

Speaking at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Gates announced that the company has reached the Beta 2 stage for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product consists of both a cluster-optimized version of Windows... Read more...

NEC touts quantum crypto advances

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:00:02 +0000

Japanese boffins have succeeded in achieving what's touted as the World's fastest continuous quantum cryptography key generation. Researchers from NEC, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency... Read more...

Wal-Mart touts OEM production of DVD recorders in Taiwan

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:07:51 +0000

At the end of 2004, US retail giant Wal-Mart talked with leading manufacturers of optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan concerning OEM production of entry-level DVD recorders, according to some Taiwan-based ODD makers. Wal-Mart wants... Read more...

Microsoft touts 'Sender ID' to fight spam, scams

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:06:53 +0000

Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the E-Mail Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. The... Read more...

Sony touts new PSP publishers, 16-person wireless multiplaye

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:06:26 +0000

Press conference also reveals some new games and an innovative translation program for Sony's portable device. During its press conference today, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed that the number of third-party Japanese publishers... Read more...

Moore touts "long-term strategy" for Xbox success in Japan

Wed, 26 May 2004 19:51:47 +0000

Microsoft is looking at a ten-year strategy for success in Japan for its Xbox platform, key Xbox executive Peter Moore has told the official Xbox Japan website, with new strategies for the market set to... Read more...

UPDATE: Ballmer touts new developer tools

Mon, 24 May 2004 22:13:31 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference here Monday. Delivering... Read more...

Via Technologies touts low-power chip

Fri, 21 May 2004 18:03:34 +0000

Via Technologies this week revealed details on a new processor core. Via's C5J core, often referred to by the code-name Esther, will be capable of producing chips that run at 2GHz or higher. Despite being... Read more...

Intel touts 'MP3 for 3D' universal graphics format

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:06:49 +0000

Intel, Adobe, Microsoft and more than 30 other companies have said they will co-operate to conjure up a standard for 3D graphics. Dubbed the Universal 3D (U3D) format, the intention is to create a way... Read more...

Novell touts Linux as force for innovation

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:28:44 +0000

Open-source technology will force software vendors to create better products, but will not be its downfall, according to a Novell executive. Matt Asay, Novell's director of Linux business office, said Tuesday at the... Read more...

Nvidia touts second-gen mobile GeForce FX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:45:20 +0000

Nvidia today began shipping its latest mobile graphics chip, the GeForce FX Go 5700, to notebook manufacturers, who expect to offer product based on the part to punters early next year. The 130nm 5700 builds... Read more...

Microsoft's Raikes Touts Office 2003; Takes Swing at Linux

Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:54 +0000

Information worker productivity is at a tipping point, becoming a workspace for innovation, integration and teams, with Microsoft itself making a major transition and working with its partners to make this happen, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's... Read more...

PalmSource touts OS 6 features

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:15:06 +0000

PalmSource said the next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will offer improved multitasking and graphics capabilities. Version 6.0, code-named Sahara, will be launched Dec. 29, PalmSource said Monday at... Read more...

Samsung touts dual-die 1Gb DDR chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:27:17 +0000

Samsung yesterday unveiled a 1Gb DDR SDRAM chip that beats the size problems common in parts of that capacity by combining two 512Mb dies in a single package. The chip should pave the way for... Read more...

Gates Touts New Secure Computing System

Wed, 07 May 2003 18:41:44 +0000

Consumers shouldn't be worried that Microsoft Corp.'s new security technology will wrest control of their PCs and give it to media companies, Bill Gates said on Tuesday. They can always choose not to use it,... Read more...

Red Hat touts content management, portal apps

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 01:38:33 +0000

Linux software vendor Red Hat Inc. plans to officially announce Monday two enterprise applications it has been developing and selling for the past year: a content management system and a portal server. Red... Read more...

Cisco touts fibre-based Ethernet at 20xDSL speeds

Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:52:41 +0000

Cisco used this week's Broadband DSL Forum in Berlin to promote fibre-based Ethernet access as an alternative, far faster broadband technology for homes and businesses. It lined up telcos and ISPs from... Read more...

HP's Mosberger touts Linux for Itanic

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:41:29 +0000

A PDF circulating amongst those HP partners that Carly's Thought Police have failed to stamp out, has senior research scientist David Mosberger going ecstatic over the performance of IA-64 Linux on the company's boxes. ... Read more...

Nildram touts ISDN to ADSL migration

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:06:11 +0000

Nildram the UK ISP has set up a migration service for BT ISDN users to upgrade to wires-only ADSL. The conversion process from Highway ISDN to Nildram Home, or Office, ADSL service... Read more...

Touts hack World Cup computers

Darren Bolton — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:29:51 +0000

Scalpers jump the queue to score tickets Touts have hacked into the World Cup ticketing computers to jump phone queuing systems and order seats, according to reports in Japan. The Yomiuri... Read more...

Ericsson touts optical fibre as local broadband alternative

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:13:26 +0000

Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home... Read more...

Infineon touts 1GB DDR part

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:47:21 +0000

Infineon today announced the release of engineering samples of 1GB DDR SDRAM modules. The company also says it has demonstrated working 2GB DIMMS last month at the Intel Developer's Forum. And it's giving another showing... Read more...

Sony touts a big-screen notebook

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:20:26 +0000

Sony claims it has developed the biggest notebook display in the land. The company on Monday introduced a new Vaio GRX notebook that sports a 16.1-inch display. Sony says it's the first... Read more...

Microsoft touts tightened security of web services

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:15:12 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s new Web services software will allow developers to create secure applications more easily and screen out the kind of unauthorized commands that are commonly used by malicious hackers, according to a review commissioned... Read more...

IBM touts new PC/laptops with enhanced security

Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:35:33 +0000

IBM is making security and wireless communications key design elements in its PC fall fashions. On Tuesday, Big Blue will officially announce three new lines in the Netvista family, A, M and X... Read more...