Neowin News Feed for: User

Microsoft granted new patent for 3D task gallery user interface

Denis Wong — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:48:55 +0000

Three-dimensional user interfaces are nothing new - to the crowd that dares to try the first experiments of moving away from the traditional flat desktop metaphor. They haven't gone far, unfortunately. One of the more... Read more...

Impulse Nears It's Millionth User

Spencer Scott — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:32:05 +0000

Stardock's digital distribution platform, Impulse, has grown to close to a million users since its launch last summer. Impulse enables users to purchase and download PC software including games, utilities, and applications. The... Read more...

Spotify hacked, user data stolen

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:19:04 +0000

The increasingly popular music streaming service Spotify has revealed that it was the target of malicious hackers at the end of 2008. The Swedish based company issued a statement on its blog yesterday warning "along... Read more...

Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) overview

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:22:42 +0000

In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we looked into Federated Search. In part two, we look into the much criticized feature of Windows Vista - The User Account Control One of... Read more...

5 User Tips for Configuring Your Hardware in Linux

Barney Tormey — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:14:42 +0000

I have heard lots of complaints about configuring hardware in Linux distributions. This argument has had lots of merit in the past, but with each new distribution or release, managing hardware has become much easier.... Read more...

Viacom, YouTube agree to mask user data

Tom Warren — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:01:13 +0000

YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from records it must turn over to Viacom, Google said in a blog post Monday. "Viacom and the other litigants have backed off their demand for... Read more...

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:54:07 +0000

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to... Read more...

Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner

Steven Parker — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:46:23 +0000

A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months -- a far cry from what most companies currently do. The recommendation arrived in a 29-page... Read more...

First Russian BitTorrent User Sentenced

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:17:51 +0000

With rampant piracy across much of Russia, one could be forgiven for thinking they don’t care about copyright there. That assertion is now up for debate as the first BitTorrent user in Russia is sentenced... Read more...

Cellphone user shocked by charges of $85K

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:53:04 +0000

A Calgary man is disputing a cellphone bill of nearly $85,000, claiming the phone company failed to tell him using his phone to surf the internet would cost so much. The Motorola Krzr model Piotr... Read more...

China Web User Dies After Three Day Online Binge

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:49:07 +0000

A man in southern China collapsed and died after a three-day marathon online session at a cybercafe, state media reported on Monday. The web-user, estimated to be 30 years old, suddenly collapsed in front of... 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...

Yahoo Edges Google in User Satisfaction Survey

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:44:51 +0000

Yahoo Inc may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Google Inc received, according to a... Read more...

Researchers blast TRUSTe on user privacy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:10:46 +0000

Consumer privacy firm TRUSTe is under fire from spyware researchers over its handling of a recent rogue download incident, and the fallout is leading those connected with the case to publicly question the firm's credibility.... Read more...

The Pirate Bay: User data stolen but not unsecured

Sat, 12 May 2007 23:12:50 +0000

The Pirate Bay, arguably the largest torrent tracker and easily the most controversial one, has apologetically notified its users that a group of hackers managed to grab a copy of the user database, including usernames,... Read more...

Xfire surpasses 7 million user mark

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:54:29 +0000

Xfire, one of the fastest growing online gaming communities, announced today it recently crossed seven million registered users and supports over 800 of the most popular PC games worldwide. Xfire's goal is "gaming simplified,"... Read more...

Lawsuit filed against Apple over vague user interface patent

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:02:06 +0000

The patent holding company IP Innovation LLC has filed a lawsuit against Apple Incorporated, blaming the Cupertino-based company for "directly infringing at least claim 21 of the '412 Patent through, among other activities, the manufacture,... Read more...

Google Antiphishing Site Exposes Private User Data

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:56:10 +0000

Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web. The Mountain View, California-based company said it has also implemented a... Read more...

Office 2007: First impressions of an average user

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:31:19 +0000

OK, well perhaps I am not the average user, but I can say with my hand on my heart that I have never installed any of the Office 2007 Betas and, for what it's worth,... Read more...

User paid to uninstall Windows XP

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:14:12 +0000

A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October,... Read more...

Internet user admits 'web-rage'

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:49:23 +0000

On the web, nobody can hear you scream. But they might just pop around to your house after a heated exchange in a chat-room and attack you with pickaxe handle! An internet user has been... Read more...

Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:06:18 +0000

Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system. But the TweakVista utility... Read more...

User Pain May Mean Windows Cracks

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:38:23 +0000

Microsoft's attempts to keep the next version of Windows secure could help promote the free software ethic, says technology commentator Bill Thompson. The release of Vista, the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, could... Read more...

Microsoft "super excited" as Office Live passes 100,000 user

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:31:19 +0000

According to Internet statistics company, Ipwalk, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft's web hosting, email and collaboration service for small businesses has accumulated more than 100,000 users since its beta launched in February this year, despite several... Read more...

Gmail Virus Scanning Draws Some User Complaints

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:02:27 +0000

The virus-scanning feature Google Inc. added to its Gmail Web mail service this week has generated concern, bewilderment and disappointment among some users. The three main complaints being aired in Gmail discussion groups are: The... Read more...

Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 2.6.1

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:19:10 +0000

Microsoft® Windows® User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 2.6.1 migrates user files and settings during deployments of Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP. USMT 2.6.1 provides enterprise migration capabilities such as unattended migration, multi-user profile... Read more...

iTunes User Sues Apple Over DRM

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:26:37 +0000

Reuters is reporting that an angry iTunes customer is suing Apple, claiming that he is forced to buy an iPod if he wants to listen to his music on the move. Thomas Slattery, from California,... Read more...

Update for Office: Alternative User Input (KB870774)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:13:58 +0000

The Office 2003 Alternative User Input update: KB870774 updates the framework that is used to support advanced text services in Microsoft Office 2003. Download: Update for Office 2003: Alternative User Input... Read more...

Multilingual User Interface Packs for WMP 10

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:50:32 +0000

Many enterprise customers have deployed the Windows XP Multilingual User Interface Pack in their corporations as a way to ease desktop administration and reduce desktop management costs in multilingual computing environments. The Windows Media Player... Read more...

Multilingual User Interface Packs for WMP 9 Series

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:47:07 +0000

Mozilla User Interface Spoofing Vulnerability

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:57:36 +0000

A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, allowing malicious websites to spoof the user interface. The problem is that Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox don't restrict websites from including arbitrary, remote XUL (XML... Read more...

AOL employee sells off private user information

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:29:28 +0000

If was an AOL user, asides from being majorly angry, this guy would have just made my hit list! * U.S. investigators said on Wednesday they had arrested an America... Read more...

Visio 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack Update: KB833997

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:01:44 +0000

Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. For more information on this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article... Read more...

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (Update)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:56:30 +0000

On Windows 2000 the service deals with application event log event 1000 from source Userenv where the message indicates that the profile is not unloading and the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP... Read more...

Office XP Alternative User Input Update: KB832668

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:08:27 +0000

SUMMARY Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Office XP. The Office XP Alternative User Input Update: KB832668 updates the framework that is used to support advanced text services in Microsoft Office XP. The... Read more...

What next for GNOME's user interface?

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:35:03 +0000

Microsoft's XAML has a lot of people worried. Its advantage is to bring the ease of web page authoring and scripting into writing .NET application user interfaces. This makes immense sense. We have a desperate... Read more...

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:52:30 +0000

Overview On Windows 2000 the service deals with userenv/1000 where the message indicates that the profile is not unloading and the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows 2003 the equivalent... Read more...

Part Four: Introducing User Experiences

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:32:15 +0000

In sharp contrast to competitors such as Apple Computer and the various open source groups working on Linux, Microsoft has worked for years to really think through the whole user experience in Windows, a phrase... Read more...

PlayStation 3 to sense user emotions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:58:41 +0000

Sony will pioneer the concept of letting users interact with computers using hand gestures, eye movements and even emotions, when its next-generation PlayStation lands. Sony is planning to enable future versions of its PlayStation gaming... Read more...

How it works: Inductive user interfaces

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:00:43 +0000

Paul Thurrott writes: The text of this article is derived from an email response I sent a reader, and I thought it was valuable enough that a wider range of users would... Read more...