Charter Communications is sending letters to its customers informing them of an "enhanced online experience" that involves Charter monitoring its users' searches and the websites they visit, and inserting targeted third-party ads based on their...
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Only Windows XP SP3 -- that's right, SP3 -- is safe. Hackers are trying to exploit a critical Windows vulnerability just patched on Tuesday, security researchers said this afternoon -- and the only version of...
Intel will begin the phase out of single-core processors for desktops in first quarter of 2008 with the launch of an entry-level dual-core series, the Celeron E1000, according to sources at PC makers. The company...
In 2005, we started the Neowin Community Game Awards. Unlike other "Best of Year" awards, every step of the process is voted on by the members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you,...
They might after a ruling in Belgium, where the local ISP, Scarlet (which was once part of Tiscali) has been given six months to begin filtering out infringing peer-to-peer content on its network. The court...
Quanta Storage, the largest maker of slim-type optical disc drives (for use in notebook PCs) in Taiwan, is planning to start volume production of slim-type Blu-ray Disc (BD) burners in the second half of 2007...
Most of the Admin staff of Neowin.net have arrived in Las Vegas to attend CES. This CES is of particular interest because there are a ton of new announcements about Windows Vista expected to...
TSMC released details earlier this year on its 45nm process, revealing some of the challenges faced with the shrink. The 2008 timeframe set by ATI falls in-line with AMD's plans to move to 45nm for...
Universal Music has revealed plans to sell its back-catalogue CDs at iTunes-matching prices, beginning in September. The company will split its CD offerings into three price and product ranges, The Guardian reports. The basic...
Nominations for the second annual Neowin Community Game Awards have started and you can help by nominating your favorite Console or PC game by clicking here. The only way to participate in this annual event...
Microsoft have recently broken off licensing talks with the four global music companies which has made analysts wonder whether the software giant plans to offer a subscription based music service. The Wall Street...
This morning at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) Microsoft began to lift the veil on many of the goodies it's been working on for the past few years. To industry insiders, much of...
The Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus has launched a new program allowing state residents to listen to weekly podcasts on state issues. The group is hoping the trend will catch with tech savvy users, allowing...
Back when new skinnable programs were coming out seemingly every week from different developers, one popular trend were the programs that let users customize the look and feel of the Windows shell. ...
Just days after the PlayStation 3 was unveiled for the first time at Sony's pre-E3 press conference, Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbum claims the company has offered the first hint as to a price point. According...
The first beta of IE 7.0 isn't expected for a few more months. But information on Microsoft's security, standards and interface plans are trickling out now. Since it first revealed a month ago that it...
Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 processors with Extended Memory 64 Technology begin to emerge for sale in retail and can be purchased by end-users, not computer makers. While the lineup of desktop form-factor EM64T chips can...
Microsoft still isn't ready to talk publicly about Office 12, its next major release of its information-worker family of products. But the company is briefing selected partners and customers about the forthcoming family of Office...
Now that fall is here, PC makers have begun updating their consumer-oriented desktop models for the holiday season. Gateway has introduced three new eMachines desktop models, which will begin appearing in stores this weekend, the...
Microsoft has released the first hotfix for SP2, even before it's long-awaited massive upgrade patch has fully been distributed to all users. The new hotfix is aimed at an IP address connection issue which surfaced...
VU Games starts accepting applications for its PC shooter's closed beta, which kicks off June 14. VU Games announced today it has begun taking applications for all phases of the Tribes: Vengeance...
Microsoft and RSA Security on Wednesday started beta testing a product designed to phase out the use of traditional passwords and replace them with automatically generated passwords from a SecurID token. SecurID...
Representatives at TiVo Inc. on Friday said that the high-definition version of TiVo, sold through The DirecTV Group Inc., has finally begun shipping. In January, TiVo, Santa Clara, said that the DirecTV HD...
Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron chip in server computers, according to people familiar with the matter, adding momentum to AMD's challenge to industry leader Intel Corp. in supplying the lucrative...
Lead Data, a second-tier producer of optical storage discs in Taiwan, will begin deliveries of blank 8x DVD-R discs to a Japanese client in February. The client is one of the world's top five optical...
Lite-On IT, Taiwan's largest producer of optical disc drives, will begin to deliver 8x half-height (H/H) DVD Dual burners to Sony in February, according to the company. Sony, because of uncompetitive costs, stopped own production...
Today Microsoft updated its' 'Internet Security & Acceleration Server' page with details on the upcoming test of ISA Server 2004, Codename 'Stringray'. In his keynote at COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Bill Gates committed to delivering...
Thanks to scoop for letting us know that certain Beta testers are getting access to a survey to complete for SQL Server Yukon. At the moment we're not sure if this is JDP only or...
Dear Esteemed Press Partner, The Windows Product Development Team is pleased to announce the migration of Windows to the next platform Operating System Codenamed "Longhorn". For this event, we are issuing one hundred...
Intel is betting that wireless technology will be the biggest thing since the browser, and new notebooks coming Wednesday will be an early indication of whether the company is right. Learn more about Intel wireless...
Hehe Thanks cpugeni for the heads up on this really funny article "Why I Won't Buy AMD" I couldn't stop laughing. This one is for Intel fans, or anyone that has a bad experience with...
eMachines, the third largest vendor of desktop PCs sold through U.S. retailers, has begun shipping its entire line of affordable, high-value PCs preloaded with the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The PCs start at...
