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Stock prices of Phorm, a controversial targeted advertising company, rose as much as 40% in trading yesterday. Phorm deliver targeted advertising based on user browsing habits by using deep packet inspection. The method has...
Security researchers are warning that popular media players offered by Microsoft and AOL are vulnerable to attacks that can completely compromise a user's PC. Attack code has already been released for the bug, which has...
Nvidia Corporation's latest high-end offering, the GeForce 8800 Ultra, has become available in Japan and the USA, about a week ahead of the original schedule. BFG Technologies and EVGA are offering the card in...
Thanks to a system by Visa and Mastercard starting in September, UK consumers will be able to settle bills of less than £10 by holding up their credit and debit cards against a special secure...
Recent figures from market researcher Nielsen VideoScan are confirming previous reports that Blu-ray is currently beating HD DVD in the high definition war. Sales of Blu-ray movies have accounted for more than 60% of the...
While AMD prepares its next set of processors--a multicore design code-named Barcelona and due this summer--Intel has already demonstrated samples of its more-advanced Penryn chip. It's manufactured in a 45nm process that uses hafnium-based high-k...
Retail stores in New Zealand initiated the worldwide launch of Microsoft Windows Vista. Due to New Zealand's time zone position, local users have access to the operating system a couple of hours before Australians, thirteen...
Retail chain CompUSA will sell Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 Nov. 30 alongside resellers and OEM partners and ahead of the general public release, planned for late January, the software maker announced Nov. 13....
Just a head's up for anyone who missed my news post the other day. Outerlight's MMT (massively mysterious thriller) The Ship has begun the free weekend event on Valve's Steam service. You...
Neowin's own Linux distribution, Shift, is just about to hit version 0.3 and those of you who are that way inclined will be able to grab the ISO download in the next few days. The...
This Tuesday, Sun Microsystems unveiled three new products destined for use in data centers as part of its x86 server platform. Products that will released are a 16-way x64 server, named the Sun Fire X4600...
An Alabama judge has denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Take-Two by the families of two police officers and a dispatcher killed by a Grand Theft Auto-playing teenager. Judge James Moore's decision...
Popular tabloid newspaper, The Sun has announced it is to offer exclusive movie content for the PSP. The exclusive content includes video trailers for upcoming titles and movies. Currently visitors to The Sun's website can...
Any PR, even bad, is good PR it seems with Rockstar. The game publisher has announced another controversial title due to hit the shelves October this year. Rockstar Games describes the upcoming title...
Now that Firefox is firmly establishing itself in the browser market (download graph), we can look forward to subsequent milestone releases by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox 1.1 (Dubbed "Deer Park") is slated for release in...
While 2007 is still a long way off, Microsoft is making headway (at least on slide decks) with Longhorn Server, according to the Redmond software maker's partners. Before the Windows Server team can dedicate itself...
ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and server clusters. It has incorporated 96 separate processing cores on a single chip, the company said at...
Industry analysts at Wedbush Morgan predict a Christmas "disaster" for console publishers off the A-list. Wedbush Morgan Securites, financial analyst has issued that its annual preholiday reports in the console gaming sections....
Microsoft is now one of the three required video codec's for the next-generation DVD format. The Microsoft format that is being required is VC-9 technology which is used in Windows Media Video 9. ...
World's first glimpse of Nintendo's new handheld Further information about the forthcoming Nintendo DS handheld has emerged just hours ahead of its official unveiling in Los Angeles - including what purports to...
Over 100 companies worldwide scratching their heads over dual screen concepts Japanese giant Nintendo has fired the opening salvo of its E3 publicity assault for the forthcoming Nintendo DS handheld, releasing a...
Microsoft's Xbox price cut has appeared to pay off, with the company claiming its first ever weekly sales win against arch rival Sony PlayStation 2. In the week ending April 18, Xbox took 50 per...
Q: What exactly did the European Union say? A: European regulators said that Microsoft broke EU law by abusing its "near monopoly" market power in the workgroup server and media player markets. ...
Legal music downloads outsold some of their physical counterparts for the first time in January 2004, according to figures released today by trade organisation the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Last month, over 150,000 downloads were...
Microsoft sounded a cautionary note with financial analysts on Wednesday, warning that it faces challenges to keep growing its sales at the same rate it has in recent years. In a presentation...
Many local companies have been caught off-guard as Intel is bringing forward its next round of price cuts and positioning the high-end 2.8GHz Pentium 4 chip to enter the mainstream. The chip giant has decided...
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused. Focused on the future. And that future is a 64-bit world in which everything from portable PCs to servers to networking gear is powered by AMD Opteron or Athlon...
Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition is the most comprehensive, versatile CD- and DVD-mastering and packet-writing suite on the market today. In fact, calling it a disc-authoring app is a disservice, because the suite also offers a...
While the technology industry experienced a boom in the late 1990s that is unlikely to be repeated again during his lifetime, there are a number of exciting challenges ahead, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect...
PC buyers awaiting cheaper 3.2GHz Pentium 4 machines rather than splashing out after the chip's launch on 23 June will have to hold off until late October. Intel is not planning to cut the cost...
Opera Software, which makes the browser, has established a foothold in a technology that some analysts see as an emerging force in the next few years: television delivered over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The Opera...
The World Wide Web Consortium has been meeting to develop new standards for Web services, but Microsoft and IBM have chosen not to participate in the meeting, despite then being two of the biggest proponents...
Flat-panel monitors for desktop computers are expected to surpass traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in revenue this year, a sea change for the display industry. Declining prices, combined with aggressive bundling deals from PC...
Microsoft on Monday plans to unveil more details on XDocs, its controversial electronic forms software. The software giant is set to announce at a conference in San Diego that XDocs will officially be...
Sounds fun... one might ask will it be twice as fast? Of course not :) CHIP GIANT INTEL will release a version of the Itanium in 2005 that includes two processors in the...
Thanks username for this post in Back page News on our forums. Everyone's favorite (well maybe not everyone's) CD-R / DVD-R Software Program's Executive Director of Ahead Software, Jim Corbett is interviewed and talks about...
A nice little piece by one of the inventors of the DNS system on ZD|Net news. "The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority,...
IBM on Monday will unveil a new transistor design for wireless chips that promises enough power to build future networks that will change the way people use wireless at work and at home. The...
The computer maker announced after market close on Thursday that it recorded a profit of $501 million, or 19 cents per share, on revenue of $8.46 billion for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Aug....
