Neowin News Feed for: Years

Happy Birthday! The SMS turns 20

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:43:47 +0000

Lots can change in 20 years in the technology space. 20 years ago Windows 95 was in its design and planning stages and in December of the same year the first SMS, or text, was born in the UK. Read more...

9 years down the road with Neowin

Steven Parker — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:30:52 +0000

Hi there it's Steve here, otherwise known as Neobond on the forums. It's also weekend, and a perfect day for an "opinion piece". Remember back in 2000 when we started? Many of you will because... Read more...

I am a PC and 7 years old

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:21:49 +0000

Last week we had Kylie, a 4 year old girl using Windows Live Photo Gallery to send pictures to her family, in the new Microsoft Rookies ad campaign. Now we have Alexa, a 7 year... Read more...

I am a PC and I am 4 1/2 years old

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:37:11 +0000

Neowin reported earlier about the new Windows ad which is a part of a new phase in the Ad Campaign called Rookies. The ad will be premiered during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, but, Microsoft... Read more...

Apple Macintosh turns 25

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:55 +0000

Introduced by the now famous "1984" advert, directed by Ridley Scott and aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on 22 January 1984, the first Macintosh is turning 25 this weekend. The Macintosh,... Read more...

25 years ago Bill Gates showed off Windows 1.0

Brad Sams — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:25:23 +0000

Twenty-Five years ago Bill Gates gave the world Windows 1.0. No one knew at the time what would become of Windows but looking back it's quite incredible what it has become. Bill... Read more...

Neowin 8 years today & details on a new design

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:42:18 +0000

Neowin has turned 8 years old today, and to celebrate we will again be giving away some goodies throughout this month to our registered members. We have hosting packages, USB keys and even 2 Neowin... Read more...

Ten years later, a "Third" Google founder is revealed?

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:06:31 +0000

Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the "third" founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself... Read more...

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:36:25 +0000

Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is thought to have been coined by Joel... Read more...

Two years after patch, a new IE5/6 FTP flaw

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:59:52 +0000

A flaw in the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser processes FTP commands could let attackers steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site. The bug, which affects users of IE6 and the unsupported... Read more...

Ten New Years Resolutions for the PC Industry

Brad Wardell — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:27:42 +0000

Happy New Years folks and that means it's time for New Years resolutions. We have some suggested resolutions for the PC Industry that will help them...and us! #1 To the PC Makers: Stop pre-loading... Read more...

Windows Is 22 Years Old

Steven Parker — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:15:17 +0000

Pop the Champaign, its time to celebrate! The Windows operating system has turned 22. That's right, considering the fact that Windows 1.0 was made available on November 20, 1985, the platform is 22 years old... Read more...

Another EliteTorrents Uploader Facing 10 Years in Prison

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:26:10 +0000

It seems that every few months the FBI manages to come up with yet more people to charge in connection with Operation D-Elite, the joint ICE and FBI raids against the US-based BitTorrent tracker EliteTorrents,... Read more...

Xbox Live Collects Eight Million Users in Five Years

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:31 +0000

On November 15, Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with "more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV." To celebrate... Read more...

US spammer gets over two years in jail

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:40:36 +0000

A New York judge has sentenced 28-year-old Todd Moeller to a 27-month term and fined him more than $180,000 after he pleaded guilty earlier this year for his part in a spamming operation that sent... Read more...

Senate extends Internet tax moratorium by 7 years

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:49:51 +0000

With the ban on taxing Internet connections set to expire at the end of October, the Senate has passed a bill that would extend the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act yet again, this time for... Read more...

Gordon Moore Predicts 15 More Years for his Law

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:51:20 +0000

Moore's Law, one of the most widely known laws in the computing world, may not have much longer to live. According to Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and best known for his theory predicting that... Read more...

Prank Starts 25 Years of Security Woes

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:27:38 +0000

What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal... Read more...

Serial eBay fraudster jailed for two years

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:23:17 +0000

A low-rent recidivist con man who targeted eBay customers was jailed for two years on Tuesday. Phillip Shortman, 20, from Cwmbran near Newport in south Wales, was sent to a young offenders' institution following a... Read more...

US identity fraudster jailed for seven years

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:41:53 +0000

US authorities have sentenced a man to seven years in prison for buying stolen identities from cyber-criminals in other countries. Jacob Vincent Green-Bressler was convicted of soliciting information including credit and debit card account numbers,... Read more...

Chinese cyber-dissident jailed for 4 years

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:15:49 +0000

According to Reporters Without Borders, Chen Shuqing, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate of democratic reforms, has been sentenced to four years in jail after he was convicted of "inciting the government's... Read more...

Dell to Restate More Than 4 Years of Earnings

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:02:41 +0000

Dell Inc., one of the United State's largest computer manufacturers, announced today that it will reduce more than four years worth of earnings by $50 million to $150 million, after an internal probe found the... Read more...

15 Years of the SMS

Steven Parker — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:36:36 +0000

The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC... Read more...

Warez ringleader gets over four years in prison

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:34:11 +0000

After pleading guilty in a US federal court earlier this year, 44-year-old Hew Griffiths, the head of underground piracy group "DrinkOrDie", was sentenced to 51 months in jail last week on one count of conspiracy... Read more...

'Pac-Man' Creator Releases First New Mazes in 26 Years

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:18:29 +0000

The year was 1981: Big hair, high-waisted jeans and popped-up collars were popular fashions, "Bette Davis Eyes" topped the charts, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" hit theaters, and everyone was saving up quarters to play... Read more...

Fujitsu plans to boost HDD capacity by 500% in two years

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:35:03 +0000

Fujitsu is always talking up this or that hard drive technology that's totally going to revolutionize the industry and so on, but at least this time around they've got some "solid" numbers. Based on... Read more...

City of Heroes is 3 years old!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:39:21 +0000

This weekend gaming fans will be celebrating the third birthday of City of Heroes, the massively multiplayer game that continues to be one of the most successful comic book-based PC games on the market. City... Read more...

Blu-ray aims to oust DVDs within three years

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:02:08 +0000

"Within three years it will just be Blu-ray," Frank Simonis, the Blu-ray Disc Association's European chairman, said at the CeBIT technology trade show. Blu-ray, which offers 25GB per layer for storing high-definition films and other... Read more...

Microsoft: Just five years support for Vista Home, Ultimate

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:33:02 +0000

Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it would limit support for three versions of the Windows Vista operating system, including its most expensive, to five years rather than the usual 10 years. The company defended the difference... Read more...

Verizon Said No to Apple's iPhone Two Years Ago

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:38:00 +0000

Verizon Wireless revealed this week that it had been approached by Apple roughly two years ago for a partnership deal with the iPhone but later rejected Apple's proposal because Apple's terms were not mutually beneficial.... Read more...

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years

Steven Parker — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:49:26 +0000

From the Campaign Monitor Blog: As I type this post I still can't believe it. I'm literally stunned. If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month,... Read more...

Windows Mobile Smartphone - 4 Years Old

Tom Warren — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:11:44 +0000

The original Smartphone was launched way back in 2002 on October 22nd! That device was the original Orange SPV launched in combination with Microsoft. Since 2002 Microsoft has seen various changes to its smartphone operating... Read more...

Gartner: Vista antitrust tweaks to take years

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:59:44 +0000

Antitrust related changes to security in Windows Vista 64-bit will take years to complete and will cause compatibility trouble in the interim, according to Gartner. Users of security technologies such as host intrusion-prevention systems, or... Read more...

Neowin Six Years Old Today

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:03:32 +0000

Hi all, Just wanted to make time to let everyone know that Neowin has just entered its 7th year online. As many will know we spent the better part of the last two days offline... Read more...

Intel Promises Teraflop Chips within Five Years

Steven Parker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:45 +0000

Intel today announced that it has produced its first teraflop-on-a-chip. The chip, essentially a prototype, was demonstrated when Intel CEO Paul Otellini showed off the wafer during this week's IDF conference opening keynote. Each of... Read more...

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:51:13 +0000

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several... Read more...

Security Projects Lag Five Years After September 11

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:17:16 +0000

Following the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, the government launched a robust, and oft-criticized, electronic surveillance program, but other IT-related security projects designed to thwart terrorism have seen little advance.... Read more...

Florida Man Gets 6 Years & Pays 4.1M Restitution for Piracy

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:16:23 +0000

Danny Ferrer, of Lakeland, Florida was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison and ordered to pay over 4.1 million dollars in restitution to software authors Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk, and Macromedia Inc. for... Read more...

Mass Market for WiMax Still Years Away

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:07:47 +0000

The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years. "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to... Read more...

Ultima Online getting 3D treatment - 9 years later!

Todd Tanner — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:00:16 +0000

As per this forum post on UO Stratics, news has surfaced of a totally remade Ultima Online, using a new engine, that just so happens to be in 3D. The game will still use the... Read more...