Neowin News Feed for: Unveils

Lenovo unveils ThinkPad designs using AMD chips

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:45:48 +0000

The world's fourth largest PC maker, Lenovo, has announced a new look for it's ThinkPad line of laptop computers, as well as offering new budget laptops using AMD Neo chips. The announcement came ahead of... Read more...

Microsoft unveils Office Web Applications 2010, Mobile 2010

Tom Warren — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:39:41 +0000

Microsoft has officially revealed its Office Web Applications offerings ahead of the announcements at this years Worldwide Partner Conference today. Company officials have posted several "what's new" videos onto the Microsoft Showcase site. The what's... Read more...

Google unveils new and improved Search Options

Sam Symons — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:17:24 +0000

A lot of people have been saying lately that Twitter is the newest, and probably best, way to find real-time search results. Pop in what you want into the search bar and you'll get up... Read more...

HTC unveils Touch Pro2 And Touch Diamond2

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:50:31 +0000

HTC unveiled two of its latest smartphones, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. HTC Touch Diamond2 is targeted towards broad consumer audience... Read more...

Microsoft unveils Windows Phones With Marketplace & My Phone

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:20:56 +0000

Today at the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO along with key mobile partners, HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled new Windows phones featuring new user-friendly software and services. These new Windows phones will be... Read more...

Amazon unveils Kindle 2

Brad Sams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:46:40 +0000

Amazon has finally taken the wrap off the long awaited Kindle 2. The much rumored and leaked Kindle 2 was announced by Amazon today sporting a thinner profile and improved ergonomics; also bundled with... Read more...

Nokia unveils three new cell phones

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:09:15 +0000

Nokia on Thursday released three new cell phone models - Nokia 6700 classic, the Nokia 6303 classic and the Nokia 2700 classic - which are built and designed for ease of functionality and user experience.... Read more...

Dell unveils ultra thin laptop dubbed Adamo

Brad Sams — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:21:18 +0000

Dell has been hard at work to create a notebook that would compete with Apples offering of the MacBook Air. Today dell showed off its hard work with the Adamo branding, think Inspiron, and... Read more...

Microsoft Research Unveils Codex Project

Tom Warren — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:50:51 +0000

Microsoft Research's Ken Hinckley has unveiled a prototype device based on two OQO Model 02s running together. Named "Codex", Hinckley believes it's the future for gadgets as "dual-screen devices have become the subject of increasingly... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils New Tools to Fight Security Threats

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:22:45 +0000

Speaking yesterday at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft has now introduced a new group of security related programs that share advanced information with partners about upcoming security threats. As many in... Read more...

Microsoft unveils new Xbox Live interface

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:51:55 +0000

Microsoft has announced details of its new Xbox Live interface at this morning's E3 press conference. John Schappert unveiled a new GUI - showing video, game, primetime, community and My Xbox channels replacing the current... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils First OS for Portable Navigation Devices

Steven Parker — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:15:31 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its first-ever embedded OS for portable devices that use GPS (global positioning system) and maps to get people where they want to go. Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is aimed at companies... Read more...

Sony US unveils new line-up

Marcel Klum — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:59:35 +0000

Sony America has coloured in the remaining blanks on its release schedule for the rest of 2008 and early 2009. The most newsworthy appearance is the addition of Buzz PS3 and Buzz PSP to the... Read more...

BT unveils "Blackberry for consumers"

Tom Warren — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:46:25 +0000

BT is trying to introduce consumers to the delights of Blackberry-style mobile email and web access. Dubbed BT Total Broadband Anywhere, the service provides the company's broadband customers with a "free" HTC Windows Mobile smartphone... Read more...

Via unveils Isaiah x86 architecture

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:32:14 +0000

Via Technologies has unveiled details of its newest Isaiah processor architecture. The x86 processor is aimed at Via's next generation of 'Small is Beautiful' devices. Via claimed that the range offers the best performance-per-watt on... Read more...

Virgin unveils spaceship designs

Tom Warren — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:31:43 +0000

Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space. It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially... Read more...

Asus unveils terabyte laptop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:12:51 +0000

Asus will unveil a laptop that should satisfy the storage needs of all but the biggest of power users: the M70S comes with 1TB of storage space. The machine, due for release at next week's... Read more...

Yahoo Finally Unveils Its Showcase Vista App

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:46 +0000

They say late is better than never. But is late worth the wait? That's the question for Yahoo, which late last night released a preview of its instant messenger client for Windows Vista. The wait... Read more...

France unveils anti-piracy plan

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:21:56 +0000

French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline. Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body granted the wide-ranging powers.... Read more...

HP unveils Windows Home Server systems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:53:48 +0000

Hewlett-Packard Co. began taking preorders today for its MediaSmart Server, the first system from a major manufacturer powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Home Server (WHS) software. MediaSmart, which won't ship until later this month, is... Read more...

Sony unveils cheaper PS3 and slashes pricing on all (Non US)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:23:40 +0000

A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month. The Â£299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be... Read more...

Palm unveils $100 smart-phone

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:36:52 +0000

Palm unveiled a new smart-phone, dubbed the Centro, that will be available next month for about $100 – not only is that the lowest introductory price yet for a Palm handset, it will be... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils First Windows Home Server Update

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:25:15 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday issued its first update for Windows Home Server, which addresses several minor glitches that have arisen since the software was released to manufacturing. Launched last month, Windows Server is on its way... Read more...

Bose Unveils High-End Desktop Speakers

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:21:27 +0000

Audio company Bose Inc. introduced new speakers as part of its new $399 Computer MusicMonitor package yesterday, designed to provide top-quality sound from a desktop and capitalize on the emergence of the computer as a... Read more...

Salesforce.com unveils user interface as a service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:14:53 +0000

Next Monday, Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, "extend the value proposition of software as a service" when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco. The Visualforce layer introduces... Read more...

Sony unveils new Blu-ray recorders

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:58:10 +0000

Sony Corporation has announced plans to launch four new models of its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in Japan. The new models, capable of storing up to 16 hours of high-definition programs on a dual-layer... Read more...

DTS Unveils HD with DDR-RAM Cache

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:55:13 +0000

Japanese electronics firm DTS has put a slight twist on the hybrid hard drive concept. Instead of putting NAND flash memory into the drives, the company has instead opted to use DDR-SDRAM sticks, claiming the... Read more...

Intel Unveils Extreme X7900 Mobile CPU

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:55:21 +0000

At the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, CPU-maker Intel unveiled its newest gamer-oriented mobile processor for notebook PCs, the Core 2 Extreme X7900. Built on 65nm, the X7900 features a 800MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache,... Read more...

Toshiba Unveils First 32GB High-Density Flash Card

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:57:32 +0000

Toshiba revealed Aug. 22 that it will soon add three new high-density flash memory cards to its product lineup—including one it touts as the world's first 32GB flash card. The Tokyo-based company, which partners with... Read more...

Microsoft unveils Tafiti, the animated search engine

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:57:45 +0000

Microsoft Corporation has launched Tafiti (which means "do research" in Swahili), a test search engine powered by the software giant's Live Search and Silverlight technologies. The whole "search experience" is animated and although more intuitive,... Read more...

Sharp Unveils Plans to Market 20mm Thick LCD HDTV

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:43:44 +0000

Sharp has announced its new slim LCD TV: 29mm thick at its widest point and 20mm at its thinnest point. For my American friends, that's between 1.14 inches and 0.78 inches thick. Sharp claims the... Read more...

AMD unveils strategy to 'Bulldoze' the competition

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:14:33 +0000

Executives at AMD are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones. At a meeting of industry analysts... Read more...

Western Digital Unveils "GreenPower" Energy-Efficient HDD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:18:10 +0000

Western Digital on Monday revealed a new lineup of its hard disk drives (HDDs) that feature reduced power consumption, which lowers their cost of ownership and preserves energy, thus helping to protect the environment. "With... Read more...

LG Unveils Second-Generation Super Multi Blue Drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:40:30 +0000

LG Electronics, a leading maker of consumer electronics, has reportedly announced its second-generation hybrid optical disk drives for personal computers (PCs). The novelties can read all four disk formats currently sold, including Blu-ray discs (BDs),... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils New Version Of IPTV Platform

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:53:32 +0000

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) unveiled the latest version of its Internet television software platform, which it promises will offer features that will set the telecommunications companies apart from the cable providers. The Redmond, Wash., software titan... Read more...

IBM Unveils Record-Breaking POWER6 Processor

Mon, 21 May 2007 18:16:54 +0000

IBM today simultaneously launched the fastest microprocessor ever built and an ultra-powerful new computer server that leverages the chip's many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The new server is the first ever to... Read more...

Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Math 3.0

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:22:43 +0000

According to an independent survey commissioned by Microsoft Corporation, 77% of teachers and 73% of parents claim math and science are the most difficult homework subjects for students, yet only 36% of parents feel capable... Read more...

Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push

Tom Warren — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:47:16 +0000

Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet. Microsoft,... Read more...

Nasa unveils Hubble's successor

Tom Warren — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:03:31 +0000

The US space agency Nasa has unveiled a model of a space telescope that scientists say will be able to see to the farthest reaches of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)... Read more...

Red Hat unveils online software marketplace

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:23:41 +0000

Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange online market place for business applications. The service offers 14 open source business applications including MySQL, SugarCRM and Zimbra. They are sold as a subscription service and... Read more...