Neowin News Feed for: Trouble

Hubble in trouble after satellite crash

Brad Sams — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:17:26 +0000

Neowin reported that two satellites had smashed into each other in space and the results are now coming into the light. The space telescope Hubble may be in trouble because of the debris left... Read more...

Botnets Plus Spam Equals Trouble

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:34:42 +0000

Cybercrime is going upscale. Criminals are not just putting together bigger botnets--more than a million computers in some cases--they are also adopting the principles of modern marketing to get their products onto your users' computers.... Read more...

Facebook faces more legal trouble

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:16:07 +0000

Social networking site Facebook has been ordered to turn over information on whether registered sex offenders have set up profiles on its site. The Attorney General's office of New Jersey has supoenaed the popular social... Read more...

Firefox and IE together brew up security trouble

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:02:15 +0000

Users could face a "highly critical" risk if they have both IE and Firefox version 2.0, or later, loaded on their computer. The trouble begins when browsing a malicious site while using IE and it... Read more...

Microsoft patch can cause IE trouble

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:37:12 +0000

On Tuesday, Microsoft reported that after people apply the MS06-042 update, rated "critical" by Microsoft, IE may crash when certain websites are viewed. The problem affects IE6 with Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000 and... Read more...

Mario Item Boxes Get Gamers In Trouble

Marcel Klum — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:31:30 +0000

Gamers in Ohio make life size Mario "Item Boxes", placed them around their town and now may be charged. Games have been in the news for the wrong reasons many times before, but who... Read more...

Trouble in Tablet Land?

Wed, 12 May 2004 03:49:33 +0000

Where will the Tablet PC go tomorrow? It's time for Microsoft's marketing department to provide some solid direction. It doesn't take much tea-leaf reading to see that the Microsoft-championed Tablet PC is... Read more...

Intel's Prescott still in trouble, it appears

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:04:11 +0000

WHILE INTEL'S 90 nano technology is fine and dandy, the next generation Prescott engine is still not ticking over as well as it might, according to my emoles inside the chip giant. The emoles tell... Read more...

More trouble coming for Winamp?

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:00:57 +0000

I was checking the website of Ryan Geiss. Ryan is the creator of such awesome Winamp plugins like Geiss, Monkey, Drempels, Smoke and more. While checking his personal notes, he posted on 7/28/2003... ... Read more...

Windows (XP) patch 811493 trouble

Steven Parker — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 10:37:12 +0000

Thanks malebolgia for this one. WINDOWS UPDATE USERS and prudent sys admins might have installed the latest Windows patch without a thought. That might not have been such a good idea. The patch is meant... Read more...

Ziff Davis in trouble

Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:53:40 +0000

Thanks to JCD for sending in the news, and Byte for his post on BPN. :) ZIFF DAVIS MEDIA, which was a major player in technology publishing with PC magazine and the now-closed... Read more...

Cyber Crime Centre at MI5 Headquarters set to run into trouble

Thu, 06 Jun 2002 10:27:26 +0000

The new UK snooping facility which will be opened at the MI5 Headquarters will, according to news reports, run into significant problems and due to modern encryption techniques it will have trouble even capturing information... Read more...

Double trouble for AMD

Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:43:58 +0000

Struggling PC maker Gateway will part ways with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices once again. AMD separately announced Tuesday that it will lay off 2,300 workers by the end of the second quarter... Read more...