Neowin News Feed for: Used

Used smartphone demand soars in 2022, expected to continue through 2026

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:26:01 +0000

IDC has said used and refurbished phones grew to 282.6 million in 2022, that's several tens of millions higher than in 2021. In the coming years, it expects demand for second-hand phones to rise more. Read more...

Electronic Arts locks out multiplayer modes on used sales

Joshua Seed — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:03:14 +0000

In a controversial move, Electronic Arts has made the decision to lock out multiplayer modes on used sales of its sports games. Beginning with the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on the Xbox... Read more...

Apple sells used products for less in China

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:34:18 +0000

Apple announced on Tuesday that it has launched its online store to sell quality-tested second-hand Apple products in China, to increase its sales. The available refurbished products in Apple's Chinese store include iPod Shuffles and... Read more...

Canada: Future Shop to enter used video game market

Fred Derf — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:19 +0000

Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133... Read more...

Twitter supposedly used to control house lights

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:13:09 +0000

We'll preface this by saying this whole thing could be one giant hoax, but it's most certainly within the realm of possibility. We're told it's a mixture of Insteon, SMS and Twitter, all of... Read more...

PC makers to adopt chips used in MacBook Air

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:05:23 +0000

Processors specially developed by Intel for Apple's new MacBook Air laptop will soon be used by other PC vendors in systems, possibly creating competition for what Apple calls the world's lightest and thinnest notebook. Two... Read more...

aXXo's Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:10:07 +0000

The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn't been active since November 2007, his rips are still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as... Read more...

MacBook Air SuperDrive can only be used with MacBook Air

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:36:48 +0000

While the value of the MacBook Air might be up for debate, the $99 price of the portable USB SuperDrive that can be purchased as an add-on is not. However, those of us thinking we... Read more...

Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:45:08 +0000

Advanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk... Read more...

NBC's Zucker: Apple used us!

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:18:19 +0000

NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker has some sour grapes over Apple's continued success with iTunes and wants to make sure the whole world knows it. According to Zucker, Apple has "destroyed the music business" and... Read more...

40% of all electricity is used by turned off devices

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:17:10 +0000

The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals... Read more...

Hotmail used to launch extortion scam

Steven Parker — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:03:10 +0000

A Hotmail user logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information,... Read more...

Wikipedia used to spread malicious code

Steven Parker — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:20:10 +0000

A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false... Read more...

Best Buy Quietly Tests Selling Used Games

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:41:09 +0000

Best Buy today confirmed that four stores in Illinois and California have begun selling used video games, a market that major retail chains have kept away from and left to stores such as Gamestop and... Read more...

Website claims XP used pirated software

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:59:59 +0000

A REPORT on German website Tec Channel claimed that pirated software was used to create some audio files in the Windows Media Player tour in XP. Tec Channel said that if a hex editor is... Read more...

O&O Software finds patient files on used hard disks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:12:29 +0000

The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,... Read more...

UK News: Private Credit Data to be used by Govn

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:36:06 +0000

So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is... Read more...

Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:14:19 +0000

Apple Computer should have adopted the Intel Corp. architecture when it had the chance, former chief John Sculley said Tuesday. In the late-1980s, when Apple was using Motorola Inc. 68000 series chips and considering its... Read more...

Teen used phony AOL site in US internet con

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:57:25 +0000

US regulators said on Monday they had charged a 17-year-old boy with using "spam" e-mails and a fake AOL Web page to trick people out of their credit card information and steal thousands of dollars.... Read more...

SQL Slammer Used British code

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:46:17 +0000

Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend. David Litchfield, co-founder of NGS Software, originally wrote the code to demonstrate... Read more...

Face recognition software used to check for criminals on holiday

Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:18:18 +0000

After committing a great crime the stereotypical criminal will then jet away to a foreign or far away place where they couldn't possibly be identified by local law enforcement. If the unwitting lawbreaker chooses to... Read more...

NVIDIA GEFORCE2 GO GPU TO BE USED FOR COMPAQ TABLET PC FROM HP

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:39:47 +0000

Whats that... did you spot the paradox too?! heh - corporate types eh :| "LONDON - November 11, 2002 - Extending its track record for innovation in the mobile space, NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:... Read more...

DivX to be used for GameCube

Steven Parker — Sat, 05 Oct 2002 17:58:54 +0000

Thanks mimeryme who mposted this on BPN from the DivX newsletter: Earlier this year, Blizzard Entertainment released the enormously popular "Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos" game featuring great-looking cinematic scenes encoded in DivX... Read more...

Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales

Sat, 15 Jun 2002 05:47:53 +0000

The industry worries that the expanding used market is cannibalizing new-CD sales, as well as promoting piracy by allowing consumers to buy, record and sell back discs while retaining their own digitally pristine copies. ... Read more...