Neowin News Feed for: Trust

Digital transition creating weaker labor conditions and wrecking social fabric, report says

Paul Hill — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:54:01 +0000

The United Nations has published its World Social Report 2025 which lays out the damaging effects that the digital transition is having on labor rights and the fabric of society. Read more...

Microsoft urges organizations to ensure data privacy instead of relying on state legislature

Usama Jawad — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has encouraged organizations to rebuild trust with customers by ensuring data privacy themselves rather than solely relying on state legislature in the path to economic recovery. Read more...

Shoppers more trusting of pretty websites, study says

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:40:51 +0000

According to a study conducted by the University of Melbourne, users trust prettier websites more than sloppy websites. Dr. Brent Coker, author of the study, believes that the increasingly good looking and well-designed web has... Read more...

Intel confident of appeal win in EU anti-trust case

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:22:36 +0000

Intel President Paul Otellini has said the company is confident of winning its appeal against the record $1.45 billion fine which was imposed by EU anti-trust regulators in May this year. Speaking to the... Read more...

EU to continue anti-trust case, regardless of Windows 7 E

Sam Symons — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:48:43 +0000

The recent shenanigans between the EU and Microsoft have been rather tedious; it's taken a long time for anything to happen, really, and Microsoft has even had to cancel a hearing once. However, with the... Read more...

Microsoft cancels E.U. anti-trust hearing

Sam Symons — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:48:50 +0000

The recent anti-trust case with Microsoft, filed by the European Union, has been canceled by the Redmond software company, due to a dispute over the lacking attendance of European regulators who are serving as advisers.... Read more...

Twitter Apps - Can we trust them?

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:00:09 +0000

Twitter Apps - these are the 3rd party applications which interact with twitter and provide some extra/advanced services that twitter doesn't provide. One such app is Twply which sends your twitter replies to your Inbox.... Read more...

Real targets casual gamers with Game Trust buy

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:47:34 +0000

RealNetworks has entered into an agreement to acquire Game Trust, a casual-gaming company based in New York, with plans to add Game Trust's community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently on offer to... Read more...

Three US chip-makers could be next targets for trust busters

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:23:17 +0000

"The significance of this ruling for the [European] commission is that we have been reinforced and confirmed in our approach in putting consumers before innovation and research and we have been supported in our interpretation... Read more...

Building trust in downloads no simple feat

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:18:25 +0000

The Truste group's goal of creating an online ecosystem through which software makers are held accountable for the functions of their programs and end users are given the power to keep unwanted applications off their... Read more...

5 reasons not to trust Microsoft near Firefox

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:21:14 +0000

Microsoft has never made much secret of the fact that keeping rival browsers down is a key part of its business plan. Way back in 1996, Steve Ballmer (then still only the deputy CEO) cheerfully... Read more...

Microsoft Blogger : How can I trust Firefox?

Tom Warren — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:54:16 +0000

Microsoft employee Peter Torr has started a flame war in his own blog today. Torr claims that the distribution and code signing of Firefox isn't up to scratch. Torr provides screenshots of the latest XPSP2... Read more...

Building Trust in Technology

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:34:46 +0000

For computing to achieve its full potential -- and to enrich the daily lives of people and businesses everywhere -- it must first be made as secure and reliable as it can be, says Bill... Read more...

Why I trust Microsoft more than my bank

Steven Parker — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:33:55 +0000

Just seen this over at Activewin. A new Gartner study comes to the not-so-staggering conclusion that Mr. and Mrs. America don't like online authentication services such as Microsoft's Passport and AOL's Screen Name service. The... Read more...

IBM Microdrives encrypted by Trust Digital's PDASecure

Fri, 05 Apr 2002 02:38:17 +0000

A new encryption software allows users of IBM Corp.'s Microdrive hard drives to use the same drive in different mobile devices without having to reconfigure its security settings. Trust Digital LLC announced that its... Read more...

Trust me, I'm From Microsoft

Steven Parker — Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:54:21 +0000

Thanks Milhouse who sent me this interesting article written by Robert X. Cringely. He touches on the issues surrounding Microsoft, its standards and PR machine that supposedly in one drastic move will support security over... Read more...