Neowin News Feed for: Toward

Windows 7 moves toward August 2009 RTM

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:42:53 +0000

Cnet has come up with a report saying that Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 by the end of this year's holiday shopping season based on PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S.... Read more...

China heads toward 500 million cell phone subscribers

Tue, 29 May 2007 19:46:12 +0000

China had 487.4 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of April, an increase of 6.7 million over March, China's Ministry of Information Industry said on its Web site. The country added 6.8 million new... Read more...

Gates Foundation pledges $250 million toward world health

Mon, 16 May 2005 19:34:24 +0000

The race to solve the world's most pressing health problems through science and technology received a $250 million pledge yesterday from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The latest amount brings to $450 million the... Read more...

Electronics Firms Take Step Toward Compatible Gadgets

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:06:26 +0000

A consortium of the world's largest computer and electronics companies on Tuesday established ground rules for building compatible electronic devices that can share movies, music and other media. But the group quickly... Read more...

Google moves toward clash with Microsoft

Wed, 19 May 2004 15:57:39 +0000

Edging closer to a direct confrontation with Microsoft, Google is preparing to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers. Google's software, which is... Read more...

Sun inches toward low-cost computing

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:46:45 +0000

Sun Microsystems Inc. demonstrated Oracle Corp.'s new database software running on a cluster of its Intel Corp.-based servers this week, its latest step toward offering customers a low-cost alternative to its proprietary Unix servers. Sun... Read more...

Moving slowly toward light-speed technology

Darren Bolton — Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:07:31 +0000

PHOTONICS PICKS UP WHERE ELECTRONICS LEAVES OFF A major technological transformation -- potentially as significant as the electronics revolution of the 20th century -- is creeping up on a largely unsuspecting world.... Read more...

IBM, Verisign edge toward security pact

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:03:24 +0000

In a major endorsement of security across its wares, IBM is working with VeriSign on a joint product development and sales deal that would marry VeriSign's authentication and payment services technology to Big Blue's hardware... Read more...

Cuts push dot-coms toward profits

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:32:00 +0000

Last week, Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner offered a prediction that seemed unthinkable a year ago: The company's beleaguered Internet operations will be in the black by September. Disney isn't alone. New York Times Digital... Read more...

ATI nudges toward profitability

Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:15:49 +0000

ATI today said it made $2.2 million (one cent a share) in the three months to 31 August, the company's final quarter of its 2001 fiscal year. The quarter's revenues came in at $229.1 million,... Read more...