Opera 9 Released
Opera, has now finalized it's Opera 9 Web Browser and has officially released it for everyone for free of use. After weeks of releasing weekly public beta builds, many new features have been introduced in this version along with a lot of improvements with the Opera rendering Engine itself; It... Read on »
Windows Live Messenger Build 683
According to Mess.be a new build of Windows Live Messenger has leaked. The build labelled as "branches" sees significant improvements in speed, UI and features. Microsoft is rumoured to release a new build to testers soon with great improvements. Screenshot: >> Click here ... Read on »
Siemens Says U.S. Mobile Could Shift to GSM
Siemens believes North American telecoms operators could shift to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system, a senior company executive said in an interview published on Thursday. "Latin America is already moving from CDMA technologies to GSM," Christoph Catselitz, the head of Siemens AG's mobile networks business told... Read on »
Ipevo launches Mac driver for its Skype phones
Ipevo Inc., a Taiwanese startup based in California, has launched the beta version of a software driver that allows its Skype phones... Read on »
Microsoft Raises Quarterly Dividend
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, late Wednesday said its board raised its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent to 9 cents, citing... Read on »
Opera 9.0 Preview 1 Available for Download
Opera has released the future version of their popular desktop browser, which was set free in September, available for public consumption. The browser showcases some of the planned new features and improved standards compliancy. Opera 9 is codenamed Merlin. One of the major changes is the new advanced configuration interface... Read on »
Opera 8.50: Now completely free of charge
In what could be considered a very surprising move, and one that easily could shake the browser market, Opera has made it's award winning browser available to the masses for free, void of it's built in Advertisement Banner, giving people the choice of one of the most powerful, flexible and... Read on »
F.E.A.R. Single player demo announced
Thanks to our very own <b>Simon</b> for this. Vivendi Universal Games announced today that the single player demo for the eagerly anticipated, award-winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault and Recon) will be released globally on "F.E.A.R. Friday," August 5, 2005. Developed by Monolith Productions, F.E.A.R. is an intense first... Read on »
Opera 8.10 Preview 2 for Windows
Opera has released a Preview release of their upcoming 8.1 version of it's web browser. This version brings back the built in BitTorrent support (which has been implemented in a very subtle manner), which was removed from the Final release of Opera 8.02. The build number is currently at 7685.... Read on »
Nintendo DS Wifi Bounty Set
A site has been put up by a community of Nintendo DS modders has set up a cash bounty for the first person (and group?) to release an open-source tcp/ip implementation for Nintendo's latest handheld gaming console, the Nintendo Dual Screen's built in WiFi capabilities. The built in WiFi feature... Read on »
MSN Messenger 7.5 Beta started
Microsoft has now started the Beta testing the next sub-version 7.5 of their popular instant messaging client, MSN Messenger. All those who were recently received an invitation to join the Beta testing program should already have access to the latest Beta which is currently at build <b>160</b>. The latest Beta... Read on »
House OKs tougher spyware penalties
<b>Bills call for jail sentences of up to 2 years, millions in fines</b> The House Monday voted to establish new penalties for purveyors of Internet "spyware" that disables users' computers and secretly monitors their activities. By overwhelming majorities, the House passed two bills that stiffen jail sentences and establish multimillion-dollar... Read on »
Opera visits Universities in the US
Opera Watch, the insider blog run by Opera users, is reporting that Opera representatives visited the four largest Universities in the United States that have signed up with Opera. Opera Introduced free site licences for primary, secondary and higher education schools earlier this year. Schools now can get free licences... Read on »
Update: Opera 8 Final Officially Released
After two Preview Releases and 3 public Betas, it has finally arrived! Opera 8 Final - undoubtedly, the worlds fastest and the most standards compliant web browser suite, has been released. Opera has not yet officially announced the new release, but it is already made available via Opera's FTP. So... Read on »
ZDNet Interview with Opera Softwares CEO
David Berlind, Editor of ZDNet discusses the potential stance of Opera in the near future on ZDNet's Between the Lines Blog with Jon S. von Tetzchner, Opera Software's CEO. With Firefox gaining a lot of publicity as of late with all the promo's by the firefox community, the upcoming Internet... Read on »
Neowin Review: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB Hard Drive
After our very own Tom Graham reviewed some <a href="http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=27461&category=main" target="_Blank">portable</a> <a href="http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=27605&category=main" target="_Blank">hard</a> <a href="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=296533" target="_Blank">drives</a>, today we'll have a look at a Desktop counterpart by Maxtor. The massive <b>250GB DiamondMax 10</b>. As large hard drives are becoming of an increased importance, we will also cover a small guide... Read on »
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