Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a nostalgic doodle, showcasing its logo's evolution. The tech giant reflects on its journey, innovations, and services, including YouTube and Android.
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Facebook is rolling out new features in order to allow its users to enhance their birthday experience. Well-wishers will be able to send birthday videos and make donations to nonprofits as a gift.
It was 25 years ago that Microsoft released Windows 3.1 and laid the foundation for the future of its operating systems. Today, Neowin pays homage to Microsoft's last 16-bit operating system.
Today, Microsoft's Windows Insider Program has turned two years old. Originally meant to offer dry 'corporate' interactions with a community of testers, this program has vastly changed over time.
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Google is celebrating its 18th birthday today. Though the company was founded on a slightly earlier date, 27th September is what it has chosen to celebrate as the anniversary of its launch.
Facebook's popular Messenger app is getting a big update right now, which includes a new Home page, some redesigned UI elements and extra functionality. This is on top of its recent soccer mini-game.
The Xbox 360 turns ten years old today and in celebration, we take a brief look at the launch of the legendary console, and the events that made the console so special.
Nokia, a company best-known for mobile phones and modern technology, is actually turning 150 today, as it looks back on its past and looks forward towards an uncertain future.
Humble Bundle is celebrating the one year birthday of their Humble Store by giving everyone a free copy of Metro 2033. All you have to do is supply your email address and the game is yours.
It's a day to celebrate for Apple. And we're sure that some of the people that have been involved in the iPhone from day one will be saying many happy returns and toasting its seventh birthday!
Google is celebrating its 15th birthday today with a new interactive logo doodle that lets people hit a pinata. Meanwhile, the company has announced a revamped search algorithm called Hummingbird.
Can you believe it has been a full five years since Google Chrome was announced? The most used browser in the world celebrates its birthday today, while in its 29th version.
We here at Neowin would like to wish many happy returns to Debian, the community driven OS that has been used by many other Linux developers to drive their ideas and get their builds out in the wild.
Google Play turns one today, and to celebrate, the team is throwing freebies your way for a limited time only; what can be better than freebies I ask? Not a lot. Info after the jump.
Microsoft's former CEO, Bill Gates, is celebrating his 57th birthday today. Join us in celebrating and wishing him the best today!
Google is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth with a new interactive doodle that's a virtual version of the Turing Machine that the late mathematician proposed in the 1930s.
Today marks the seventh anniversary of YouTube opening its doors to the Internet and forever changing how we share our video moments, and view streaming media.
The winners from our 11th birthday subscription giveaway have been announced, along with a note about the new style of writing coming to Neowin's news!
Neowin turned eleven years old on October 1st, and to celebrate we'll be giving away twenty tier 2 subscriptions, ten for new members who registered after 1 Oct 2011, and ten for current members.
Today marks Facebook's 7th birthday from when Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University back in 2004. In less than a decade who would have thought that Facebook is now the...
Windows 7 celebrates its first birthday today, a year on from the retail availability of the fastest selling operating system of all time. It has been an incredibly successful year for Windows 7. Microsoft has confirmed...
A day later than planned, but here is Part 3 of the Interview with Admins follow up from the original interview back in 2003. If you missed Parts 1 & 2 you can catch up...
Here is part 2 of the interview with admins following Neowin's tenth birthday. This post will be updated later with Tom & Marcel's input. If you missed part one yesterday, you can read it here. ...
Little did we know ten years ago when Marcel Klum and I registered Neowin, that we'd still be around today, and what a ride it has been! Later today, staff from the UK will journey to...
Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, today celebrates its fifteenth birthday as the Redmond-based giant prepares to unveil the next version, Internet Explorer 9. The web browser, the world's most used (but arguably most hated) according to...
Bing has officially celebrated its first birthday, after it replaced Live search one year ago. Bing has become a staple in Microsoft's search engine war, competing against Yahoo! and Google. The “decision engine”...
Twenty years ago today, one of the most beloved programs of all time was created, Photoshop. Photoshop is a photo manipulation program, loaded with features to create or modify any image to make a...
Twenty years ago today, on March 13, 1989, sparked the revolution of one of the greatest inventions of a life time, that being the World Wide Web. The purposed idea was to help connect...
The original mouse invention which is now in use on every office and home PC turns 40 next week. Looking like something that could take your fingers clean off, the wooden block...
Windows 1.0, the original 16-bit operating system, was released on 20 November 1985 and today marks its 23rd Birthday. 55 programmers developed the system in a year, making the 1st edition a break from the...
Well it's that time again! This month Neowin celebrated its 8th birthday and to celebrate the fact that we are yet another year older Neowin will be giving away some prizes to our readership as...
365 days and 100 million licenses later, enthusiasm for a safe, reliable and engaging Windows Vista experience is high. Since the worldwide release of Windows Vista one year ago today, people are doing more and...
The internet's Domain Name System is 25 years old this week. Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, is credited with inventing the DNS in 1983. Mockapetris shared his thoughts on the technology during...
It is 15 years today since the first commercial text was sent over the Vodafone network by Airwide Solutions engineer Neil Papworth. Today marks the 15th anniversary since the first commercial short message service (SMS)...
Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human...
5 years ago today Windows XP was launched worldwide after it had RTM'd a month earlier. It has been without a doubt the longest running operating system Microsoft has ever produced. Microsoft typically updated the...
There I was using google for my own personal search algorithms, and noticed it's now 8-years old. History Google Inc. is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 7...
On the 12th of August 1981 the first ever personal computer - the IBM 5150 - was announced. It became one of the most important releases in the world of technology, ever. With a fraction...
This weekend saw Mr Bill Gates turn the magic age of 50, half a century. It has been quite a year for Bill and birthdays, with his own Microsoft turning 30 this year. While people...
Microsoft, the worlds largest software company is about to turn 30 years old today. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will congratulate employees for their...
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