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Amazon has experienced many solar panel fires, according to an internal report. Despite the number of incidents, the company failed to mention the issue in its latest sustainability report.

Paul Hill · Sep 1, 2022 with 15 comments

FCC chief Kevin Martin has fired back at the Obama camp for its recommendation for a delay in the DTV transition. As previously reported on Neowin, the Obama office wants the FCC to delay...

Brad Sams · Jan 12, 2009 · Hot! with 39 comments

AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it will replace 17,000 batteries mostly used to back up power supply for its U-verse television network after two fires and two explosions in a little over a year. The...

· Jan 17, 2008 · Hot! with 4 comments

Intel has kicked an already down AMD by celebrating the arrival of 16 new chips across its laptop, PC and server lines. The fresh chip dump marks the arrival of Intel's first laptop chips manufactured...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 8, 2008 with 1 comment

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it had fired its chief information officer due to alleged company policy violations. Unfortunately, a spokesman declined to give the exact reason for the dismissal, so we're as much in...

· Nov 6, 2007 · Hot! with 20 comments

Circuit City is firing 3,400 employees (8% of Circuit City's total work force) and bringing in lower-cost workers to fill their roles. The company says that the move is aimed to help realign its cost...

· Mar 29, 2007 · Hot! with 70 comments

Advanced Micro Devices is stepping up the pressure on Intel over alleged anticompetitive practices by filing another complaint, this time with German authorities. The latest complaint was filed last week with Germany's Federal Cartel...

· Jul 17, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Sun Microsystems' Opteron orgy has scaled up to an eight-way with the arrival of the Sun Fire X4600. Elsewhere, Linux has made its way to Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 chips. Sun still won't "officially" discuss...

· May 31, 2006 with -1 comments

Blizzard officially announces expansion to World of Warcraft; level cap raised to 70, blood elves confirmed, social lives doomed; first screens inside On the question of expanding World of Warcraft, the question...

· Oct 28, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

It has been reported by the BBC that the Ask website will be dropping their leading character, Jeeves. The decision comes after a user survey found that the iconic butler caused confusion (as to what...

Howard Thomson · Sep 24, 2005 · Hot! with 1 comment

Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The study was conducted over the first six months...

Michael Stanclift · Sep 20, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

Everyone favorite one-man company has found a supporter with its lawsuit against Microsoft. Eolas and the University of California have joined forces to get money out of the tech giant. As it stands...

· Jul 20, 2004 with -1 comments

Sun has offered a frank response to the open letter from Eric S, Raymond, President, Open Source Initiative, in which he called on Sun to make its Java platform Open Source and described the company's...

· Feb 17, 2004 with -1 comments

Company calls effort "a waste of time" Just days after The SCO Group escalated its legal battle with IBM over alleged violations of the two companies' Unix source code contract, open source...

· Jun 20, 2003 with -1 comments

Intel Corp has joined the rising chorus of technology companies debunking the "IT Doesn't Matter" debate touched off by Nicholas Carr's article in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. With its...

· May 17, 2003 with -1 comments

Sun Microsystems faces "irreparable harm" if an injunction ordering Microsoft to include Sun's Java Runtime Environment with its products is overturned, Sun said in a legal brief filed Friday. The brief is the...

· Mar 10, 2003 with 2 comments

Sharman Networks, owner of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software, has launched a legal counterstrike against the major record labels and Hollywood studios, asserting they have "obscenely" abused their copyright powers In a...

· Jan 28, 2003 with -1 comments

A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at...

· Sep 27, 2002 with -1 comments

Who said government work was boring? At least six Washington state employees who used their e-mail to send raunchy jokes, sexual overtures and even make plans for an orgy will be fired,...

· Apr 28, 2002 with -1 comments

Toshiba is bringing its low-temperature polysilicon display technology to notebooks in hopes of eventually lowering their price, the company said Monday. Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld...

· Oct 9, 2001 with -1 comments