Neowin News Feed for: Unlikely

RIAA finds new unlikely target: Usenet.com

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:18:58 +0000

In the southern district of New York, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit on October 12 saying that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law. Usenet.com,... Read more...

Broadcom: 802.11n unlikely to replace 802.11g

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:27:00 +0000

Broadcom has revised its outlook for 802.11n chips, envisioning that 802.11n is unlikely to replace 802.11g as the mainstream technology standard for the WLAN market, according to Michael Hurlston, vice president and general manager of... Read more...

Russian internet attacks against UK unlikely, analyst says

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:08:04 +0000

Internet attacks originating from Russia against the UK are unlikely to occur as the row between Moscow and London continues, a security expert has said. Eugene Kaspersky, head of research and development at Moscow-based anti-virus... Read more...

Green PC running Vista highly unlikely say Green Party

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:44:17 +0000

Retailer PC World claims that it is working on the world's most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly PC, based partly on recycled components. While this could be easily achieved using Vista Basic and it's superior to... Read more...

Apple Unlikely To Go To Court In iPhone Trademark Dispute

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:56:00 +0000

Apple is more likely to reach a deal with Cisco Systems than to risk losing a trademark suit over the use of the name iPhone, experts say. In going to court, Apple would have to... Read more...

Intel Unlikely Suitor For Nvidia, Analysts Say

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:05:23 +0000

Intel Corp. is an unlikely suitor for chip maker Nvidia Corp., analysts said Thursday, although a source familiar with the situation noted takeover interest in Nvidia from various players in its sector. Nvidia shares climbed... Read more...

Google's Unlikely Competitor

Joe Cashman — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:34:09 +0000

Hot on the heels of Google in bid to make a free wireless city is the unlikely county council of Norwich. Norwich City located in the East of England has been running a free wireless... Read more...

Microsoft Finds Unlikely InfoCard Ally

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:27:41 +0000

Microsoft has found an unlikely backer for its ambitious InfoCard online ID management system. At the RSA Conference here, Verisign dispelled the notion of a rivalry with Microsoft over identity management and announced that its... Read more...

Xbox 2 announcement looks unlikely as CES looms

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:24:38 +0000

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' preconference keynote address is set to open the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tomorrow, but it now looks highly unlikely that the expected Xbox 2 announcement will be made in... Read more...

Linux Unlikely to Unseat Windows Soon

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:13:05 +0000

The fast growing Linux operating system will not dethrone Microsoft Corp's Windows soon because a switch to the freely available Linux is prohibitively expensive for big companies, according to a Yankee Group survey released on... Read more...

Microsoft: Longhorn beta unlikely this year

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:47:47 +0000

Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming operating system until next year, Microsoft's top executives told CNET News.com. ... Read more...

Pentium 4 SSE3 "Prescott" Extreme Edition Unlikely

Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:15:53 +0000

Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor at 3.40GHz will be Intel's only Extreme Edition chip for a while, as the company does not currently have plans to make processors with L3 cache using 90nm technology... Read more...

EU unlikely to follow US ruling on Microsoft

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 09:42:42 +0000

Microsoft Corp., which expressed pleasure with District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's antitrust ruling in the U.S. on Friday, is likely to be disappointed in its hopes that the U.S. ruling will set the tone for... Read more...

HP-Compaq merger unlikely to complete

Steven Parker — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:40:21 +0000

Oh dear @ this after scrapping a possible 16,000 jobs worldwide at HP & Compaq THE PLANNED $25 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer is unlikely to be completed, according to... Read more...