Here's a world first, kids: on June 4th, Microsoft will give its first ever keynote at Sun's annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco. This is quite surprising as Sun and Microsoft have had a relatively...
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In a move reminiscent of South Park's "Canada On Strike" episode in which the boys decide to upload a video onto Youtube in hopes of earning money, a popular YouTube user has decided to sue...
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...
Google will eventually provide an open application programming interface for its Trends analysis tool, allowing users to embed the tool in their applications, or download data from the application for personal use, a company official...
Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey that targets IT admins specifically that use Group...
The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as...
Microsoft has revealed it is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight cross-browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web. Chief Software Architect and CTO Ray Ozzie made the announcement in a keynote...
In Intel's vision of the future, the processor becomes the system architecture instead of a component. "You're going to have a hard time knowing where the processor ends and where the system-on-chip begins. You're going...
US consumers have a "significant preference" for WiMax mobile wide area broadband over mobile cellular data and Wi-Fi services, research has revealed. An In-Stat survey conducted earlier this year with over 1,200 respondents suggests that...
Mathematics, science and video games? A U.S. university professor is urging schools to consider using video games as tools to better prepare children for the work force. For although many educators scoff at the idea...
Once P-Rating is a very successful marketing tactic for AMD, making consumers to compare the PR of AMD's processors to the clock speed of Intel's processors. Until now, most of AMD's processors still adopted the...
A guy named paperghost over at Vital Security has written a scathing editorial on Patchous recent MVP award status. I'd like to point out that the opinion expressed herein is not that of Neowin, so...
Symantec has accused Microsoft of withholding key information about its upcoming Vista operating system in an attempt to gain an advantage in the security market. The security specialist said this week that Microsoft is refusing...
Napster UK is giving away free MP3 players to all new subscribers of its portable music service. Anyone taking out a three-month Napster to Go subscription from 14 September will receive a 512MB Sandisk Sansa...
Asustek Computer is currently in talks with US-based Agere to dispose of its 65.25%-owned subsidiary, Attansic Technology, which has suffered losses for two years, the Chinese-language Apple Daily cited sources in the Taiwan network-equipment industry...
Thanks slimy for this submission in Back Page news. Apple is teaming up with Coca-Cola in Europe for a huge iTunes giveaway, in which 70 million codes for free songs will be distributed inside packages...
TiVo Inc., the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, on Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers. Chief Executive Tom Rogers said...
So you didn't win anything huh? Well, this year we have a prize for everyone, winners included. Our own in-house DJ Chris Allen aka [NFC]Wave] has done a full 74 minute...
As promised, one week after the draw here are all the winners that our script randomly generated. 5107 members took part and the script selected 83 from that amount. Members were paired with a prize...
Alienware, a maker of high-performance personal computers and workstations, announced that it would give its top-performing ALX system to a computer enthusiasts, whose PC would be the fastest among the benchmarked computers at QuakeCon game...
Music lovers who paid extra for their iPods because of a levy will soon be able to get their money back, Apple Canada announced Monday. "Apple is pleased that the Supreme Court of Canada let...
Microsoft expects to show that it will recover from a recent sales slump when the world's largest software maker reports details of early orders this week for its next Windows version set to launch next...
Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2005, Microsoft Corp. and Pepsi-Cola North America announced a U.S. promotion to put the Xbox 360 (TM) next-generation video game and entertainment system from Microsoft into the hands...
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy will host an event in mid-May to detail progress the companies have made since the signing of a 10-year...
IBM, Sony and Toshiba on Monday unveiled some key details on the powerful new "Cell" processor the three are jointly producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and TVs. Cloaked in secrecy...
Oracle Relevant Products/Services from Oracle, backed by what the company views as a favorable response from PeopleSoft Latest News about PeopleSoft stockholders, is applying more pressure in an effort to complete its proposed US$9.2 billion...
After dreaming up big plans for its network of retail stores, Apple Computer is starting to think small. The Mac maker plans to expand its network of retail outlets by creating a...
Over the weekend, Pepsi Canada launched a new iPod promotion that will givewaway a "truckload of iPods." The company said that it would offer a free iPod an hour, every hour, of every day, for...
In preparing to release Zoo Tycoon 2 for the PC, Microsoft Game Studios today announced that it is searching for "America's Favorite Zoo," and will give $25,000 to the zoo that gets the most votes...
One of the industry's biggest-ever mergers is on track for October As we announced in our previous Sega post, we said that Sega would announce today what their plans will be. Sammy's...
New details of Infinium Labs' plans for the Phantom Game Service have emerged, with company president Kevin Bachus revealing that the Phantom console will effectively be free, and providing the first pictures of the hardware...
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had developed a utility technology that will let users check their Outlook data on a notebook computer without needing to boot the machine. The Phoenix FirstWare...
It's 2004; do you know where your computer dollars are going? One can learn a lot about the computer industry by looking at the breakdown of manufacturing costs in an average desktop PC, as compiled...
The European Commission plans to let Microsoft choose how to solve E.U. competition concerns to avoid breaching the company's intellectual property rights, a source familiar with the case said Tuesday. This would...
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for "services to global enterprise". The recommendation that he receive the honour was made by the Chancellor,...
NVIDIA Corporation, today announced that they have decided to give away thousands of NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX family cards, presumably in an attempt to win market share over ATI. "It's clear that the...
Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customize desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office. The software development kit will be...
Seagate Technology announced Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Scotts Valley, Calif.-based hard drive maker had been a publicly traded company...
Worth a peek guys- especially if your mobo is getting a bit saggy round the edges... "Shuttle AK35GTR Motherboard Giveaway - 2 Weeks till Drawing! This month Tweakers Australia is giving...
The company announced this week a new storage technology, called iBoot, that lets PCs and servers use computer networking to designate remote disk drives as their primary repository for data, instead of relying on internal...
