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Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap to add a plethora of features that are being implemented for Teams customers and are scheduled to roll out within the coming weeks and months.

Usama Jawad · Mar 23, 2023 · Hot! with 17 comments

Konami's eFootball, which is the free-to-play successor to Pro Evolution Soccer, was released yesterday, and it's already the worst-rated Steam game in history, according to Steam 250.

Usman Khan Lodhi · Oct 1, 2021 with 11 comments

Apple is finally allowing users to rate and review apps made by the company itself. While some apps are hovering over the 4/5-mark, others like Apple News has an abysmal 2.3/5 rating currently.

Usama Jawad · Sep 30, 2021 with 26 comments

Google is trying to make search results, particularly those that feature inline reviews, more helpful. Algorithmic updates will be addressing misleading implementations flagged by webmasters.

Hamza Jawad · Sep 16, 2019 with 2 comments

In a surprise move, the rating agency has given the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey game a rating that describes it as too mature for children under the age of ten, which is a first for the franchise.

Dreyer Smit · Aug 4, 2017 · Hot! with 38 comments

A letter has been approved by head teachers in the UK threatening parents that they will be reported to the authorities if they let their children play adult games such as GTA and Call of Duty.

Usama Jawad · Mar 29, 2015 · Hot! with 75 comments

This year's US consumer satisfaction scores are in, and apparently American's aren't happy with their internet service providers. Although you're probably happier if you're a Samsung smartphone user.

Andrew Stevenson · May 20, 2014 · Hot! with 23 comments

After many years of deliberation, the Australian government and its ministers have finally warmed to the idea of giving Australia an adult, R18+ video game classification. At the Standing Committee of Attorney-General meeting (SCAG) in...

Tim Schiesser · Jul 22, 2011 · Hot! with 12 comments

After the suggestion was made by one of our members, CelticWhisper, the Neowin staff agreed on adding a new subforum: "Game Ratings". As with Movie Ratings, the idea behind the subforum is that you share...

· Jan 14, 2008 · Hot! with 15 comments

A study by Carnegie Mellon University, where the researchers took roughly 100,000 hard drives from a variety of manufacturers, concluded that hard drive manufacturers were exaggerating their mean-time before failure (MTBF) ratings on hard drives...

· Mar 11, 2007 · Hot! with 12 comments

Anti-virus security specialist McAfee has wasted no time gobbling up SiteAdvisor, a 1-year-old startup that rates the Web to determine if a site's content includes spyware, spam, viruses, browser-based exploits or online scams. McAfee announced...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 6, 2006 with -1 comments

This week the team introduces Joel Hulsey of QuarterToThree.com who gives PowerUser.tv a trial run and brings us his segment "What Game is Kicking Joel's Butt This Week", but first we discuss Apple's announcement about...

· Mar 7, 2006 with -1 comments

British videogame publisher association ELSPA has confirmed that it is developing a number of proposals to improve consumer awareness and understanding of the games rating system, following a meeting with the UK government. ...

· Dec 13, 2004 with -1 comments

A new report into videogames from the US National Institute on Media and the Family has accused the industry of confusing parents with mixed messages over the importance of the ESRB ratings system. ...

· Nov 24, 2004 with -1 comments

New legislation which would require video game retailers to clearly display signs notifying purchasers of game ratings has been voted in by the senate in California, and is set to be signed by Governor Arnold...

· Aug 18, 2004 with -1 comments

Thanks to xstaindx for posting this here. The ratings, although to the "untrained" eye initially somewhat confusing, will ultimatly make it easier for non-techies to understand why a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz is say faster...

· Mar 19, 2004 with -1 comments

Intel plans to assign a new numbering system to its Pentium and Celeron processors in order to better illustrate their performance to consumers, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Intel rival AMD...

· Mar 13, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Regal Entertainment will reexamine arcade games using Parental Advisory System and six-prong test. Regal Entertainment Group--which owns and operates one of the country's largest theater groups, composed of Regal Cinemas, United Artists...

· Sep 21, 2003 with -1 comments

The ESRB's game rating system will be expanded with new content descriptors and more-prominent labels. The Entertainment Software Rating Board has announced several upcoming changes to the rating system it uses for...

· Jun 27, 2003 with 1 comment

Intel has launched a new broadside against AMD's policy of downplaying chip clock speed in favor of model numbers -- and this time it has drawn analyst firm Aberdeen Group into the fray. ...

· Mar 28, 2002 with -1 comments

Chip Firm AMD has now formally announced the existence of its Athlon XP+ family and said that Arthur Andersen will audit the ratings to help re-assure consumers of their authenticity.The so-called "PR Ratings" compare the...

· Oct 9, 2001 with -1 comments