In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The...
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According to Computer World, things are not looking good for European fans of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has decided to remove Internet Explorer from versions of Windows 7 to be sold in Europe,...
iPhones are expensive, and some people want them without paying, and so they steal them. PCPro is reporting on one case in which the new "Find My iPhone" feature helped one man and his...
Some of you have no doubt heard of this offer before, but many out there may not have--or they may have thought it was over. Well, it almost is. UK students who want to get...
There are, of course, many Linux distros based on Ubuntu out there (Shift Linux was, for a time, one of them). Among the religious derivatives, we have seen the Ubuntu Christian Edition, ...
In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (née Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged...
The current European Union moves against Microsoft and Internet Explorer are, of course, nothing new. After an American federal judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft had illegally abused its monopoly by including the web browser...
Unmoved by independent market-analysis company Forrester Research's conclusion that "iPhone users are richer, younger, and perhaps even more productive at work than those who use competing smartphones," Microsoft has taken steps that have left some...
In the past people with slow connections who tried to watch YouTube videos often had their patience tested. Playback often caught up with the buffer, leading to annoying pauses--and leading many to give up entirely...
A mysterious web page, called "Freedom" in its URL, has appeared on Opera's site making the rather bold claim that, "[o]n June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), [the Norwegian company] will reinvent the Web." This...
According to Reuters, Microsoft is getting set to release free anti-virus software for Windows to compete with the likes of Symantec and McAfee. The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao Paulo,...
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon...
Facebook has disabled an anti-Islamic group called "I Hate Muslims in Oz" after the issue was brought to their attention by CNet's Chris Matyszczyk. Facebook's stance toward Holocaust-denying groups is more ambivalent. The company's terms...
The Washington Post is reporting that Google has been trying to paint itself as too small to be a monopoly in order to fend off increasing moves by US government agencies and others to take...
According to CNet, Microsoft will soon be bringing to an end its Money line of personal finance management software. From Microsoft's Money FAQ, the products affected include Microsoft Money Essentials, Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe, Microsoft...
If you have a Facebook account and are tired of having to tell all your friends and strangers you meet on the street to visit you at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=847O63782 or whatever, things are about to change....
Elections for the European Parliament were held in most European countries today, and, as many expected, Sweden's Piratpartiet, or Pirate Party, has won a seat with over 7% of the vote, according to The Local....
Fox News has come forward with criticisms of Microsoft's recently unveiled search engine Bing, claiming that it provides "a cornucopia of pornography" and that it is easy to transform "the search engine into [your] very...
OpenSolaris started life as an open-source version of Sun's venerable and well-respected Unix-based operating system Solaris. Since its first proper release over a year ago, it has moved forward by leaps and bounds, and the...
Why has it taken them so long? A bit of history may help us to understand. When Microsoft released Office 2007, they updated key formats for saving files, including Word DOC, Excel XLS, and...
According to the Wall Street Journal, the European Union, as part of its ongoing antitrust investigations and prosecutions, is now considering forcing Microsoft to provide users of Windows easy access to a range of web...
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition. According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications...
Lars and Jens Rasmussen, brothers whose mapping company was bought by Google in 2004 and formed the basis for Google Maps, have become key figures in the development of Google Wave, a real-time collaboration tool...
According to the BBC, more than seven million people in Britain are illegally downloading copyrighted materials. Given the numbers involved, these cannot be all students. While many of these "criminals" do not know what they...
According to the BBC, General Electric has developed a DVD-sized optical storage disc that holds 500GB of data. Using 3D optics, instead of the "2D" pit method of writing/reading data, the discs, which hold more...
Alkali Media have found that a few software tweaks and a name change are all that are needed to get their software, initially rejected as "objectionable" to accepted as perfectly "acceptable". The software produces sounds...
As reported here last year, in its efforts to stop terrorism and the crimes of fraudsters and paedophiles, the UK government had been floating the idea of devising a central database to contain records of...
The same judge who oversaw the Napster case is now overseeing the ongoing case against RealNetworks and that company's RealDVD software. As previously reported on Neowin, the software allows users to make back-ups of their...
According to the BBC, around 75% of votes cast by Facebook users were in support of the company's new privacy and content-ownership terms, dubbed the "Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities". Although the...
According to the Local, it appears that Tomas Norström, the judge who presided over the case against the Pirate Bay Four, may have had a conflict of interest which could have led to bias and...
Microsoft is looking for new talent to help develop the next version of Windows--version 8: "Are you a talented SDE/T Lead looking for the next technical challenge on a key operating system component? Are you...
In just seven hours following the sentencing of the "Pirate Bay Four" earlier today, more than 3,000 people have joined the Piratpartiet, the "Pirate Party". The influx of new people make Piratpartiet larger in terms...
Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough...
According to the Telegraph, Malcolm Palmer, 62, used two knives to stab his long-term partner Carol Cannom, 46, twenty times in the chest because she had become addicted to playing Grand Theft Auto 4. The...
In a study published by Nature Neuroscience, it was revealed that playing video games can improve a person's sensitivity to visual contrasts. The authors of the study write, "The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) is routinely...
According to the Encarta FAQ page, Microsoft is killing off the encyclopaedia--the 2009 versions, it would seem, will be the last. The MSN Encarta websites will, with the exception of the one serving the Japanese...
According to Reuters, Internet-users in China will be able to download for free approximately 350,000 licensed songs--soon to be more than a million--through Google. Not only will the Chinese be able to search for songs...
Microsoft announced today that the company has settled its lawsuit with TomTom, and on terms that look rather more favourable to Microsoft. As noted here, here, and here on Neowin, Microsoft had sued TomTom...
In what some have called a stubborn refusal to recognise that business models must adapt with the times, Robert Smith of the Cure has repeated a common refrain--one we are well used to hearing from...
According to Silicon Valley Insider, former Microsoft employee and leading light for Windows Vista has turned his hands to matters of a more musical nature. His new record Enigma, released on iTunes this past...
