All week long, Neowin is live at PDC09 and we found some interesting demos of the future of multi-touch screens. We found an interesting new multi-touch screen that allows you to paint using a...
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In response to feedback from Dell customers who want Linux on more hardware and in more countries, Dell has announced that starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu...
Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. The website, owned by media mogul Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two...
According to current plans, Nvidia plans to introduce its Geforce 9 series high end part codenamed G100 around march 2008. We don't know many details, but we do know that the chip should end up...
Ofcom, the UK regulator, has decreed that VoIP services are going to have to connect 999 calls to the emergency services, though not until September 2008. VoIP services have been improving in quality and usability...
Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. As the two formats duel...
It's not the first time, nor the last, that people will find porn on (supposedly) new or recycled consumer electronics. This time it happened to a family in Southside Chicago who purchased Microsoft's Zune from...
...and more on Windows Update. Oh thats why its more than 2 Gig - Ed Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in...
Version 5.5 of WindowBlinds has been designed to enable Windows Vista to become skinnable. This is no easy task for a number of reasons. The biggest reason has to do with the new Desktop...
Stop the press! The PS3 is coming to England sooner than we all first expected, albeit only in limited quantities at this years 'The Best of Stuff Show'. Not only will attendees be playing Sony's...
More real-world glimpses of what Intel has been upto lately. This bodes well for Core 2 adopters because of some of the shared tech between the processors.The 'Woodcrest' Xeons we're looking at today are rated...
Just a day after Microsoft released patches for vulnerabilities in some of its software, code designed to take advantage of those weaknesses appeared on the Internet. Most of the patches that Microsoft issued were for...
For the last couple of days there were stories of The Pirate Bay, the worlds largest bittorrent tracker, being taken offline by swedish athorities while they were being investigated for copyright infringement. Even the MPAA...
Skype has released Skype 1.4.0.49 for Mac OS X, bringing native compatibility for Intel-based Macs to the free communication software as a Universal Binary. The software can forward calls to other Skype names or regular...
Sony says it will discontinue distribution of its DRM software, which could pose a "rootkit" security threat to users. But does that include the OS X version? Sony is reportedly pulling its...
Despite being moved back to April 2006, Rockstar's Bully remains one of the most controversial titles of the moment - with the game now the subject of an emotive petition from the mother of a...
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will feature support for uncompressed digital camera images--which could change the way people view and edit photos. The company on Wednesday announced deals with camera...
Monday, September 20 2004 (at about 9 AM PST), the next version of the Windows Command Shell Preview will be made available on the beta web site for your download. You will need to remove...
Sonic Heroes is on its way to PC, Sega announced today. The latest 3D Sonic the Hedgehog adventure (released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube earlier this year) will be available for Windows personal computers...
The author of mass-mailing worm Bagle began distributing its source code and two new variants on Sunday, which could trigger another summer of misery for Windows users. Infected PCs download a Trojan...
Tired of TiVo monthly fees and eager for even more control over their television programs, computer enthusiasts are building TV recording devices out of personal computers and new software packages. The trend is...
A teenage computer whizz from Aberdeen has averted a potential crisis at software giant Microsoft. IT specialist Matt Thompson was barely out of college when he discovered a security glitch in Microsoft's...
GRAPHICS FIRM Nvidia has already introduced its PCI Express but you can still not do anything with those cards since you can not plug it anywhere. Nvidia is using its famous HIS chip, for building...
Microsoft spices up marketing of Xbox in Japan in new pizza-themed promotion. In Japan, pizzas packaged in boxes that resemble Xbox consoles will be delivered to the doorsteps of customers, courtesy of...
The Only Clear Winner in This SCO Versus IBM Case is Microsoft Ashton was a macaw that lived in the lunch room at George Tate's software company, Ashton-Tate, home of dBase...
Meltdown 2003 is an event laid out for Windows game developers but not game developers solely. Meltdown is packed with two days of content for anyone and everyone to do with the Windows gaming business....
The new notebook PC prototype, which has yet to be revealed to the public, shows how a notebook can metamorphose from a tablet for capturing handwritten text to a mobile entertainment or messaging console, all...
Funny this one :) According to Microsoft: "This file has been zipped. You will need an unzipping program, such as WinZip, to open it. WinZip comes with Windows XP. If you are...
Vodafone UK is preparing to extend Microsoft MSN functionality to users of its Vodafone Live service. Vodafone Live users will, from May, be able to access their Hotmail e-mail accounts and have the...
Thanks again to Neowin's crusading gamer jago6498 for this slice of news.. So that's one down and one to go. The April 2003 American release of Final Fantasy Origins, Square's collection of...
We are proud to announce that Neowin is hosting the NeoTweak XP software and support forums as from today. While we endorse this program we do not decide on releases, included content or direction. Visitors...
Windows users have recently been given access to the popular Macintosh music player, iPod, and now Linux users may soon be able to take a bite out of Apple Computer's gadget. Last...
I don't know if this is actually real or not (it's not 1st April is it...) but if it's real, WOW. Saw this over at GeekNews, which points to a story over on Sci-Fighter,...
"The Lord of the Rings: one heck of a movie, and a three-volume encyclopaedia of a novel. Epic is the word we're looking for here. Universal Interactive has picked up the rights to Tolkien's original...
Is DNA the new silicon? News last month that scientists had built the first programmable computer made from the molecule which carries our genes has brought the vision of computing with DNA one step nearer....
Capcom have announced plans to release Genma Onimusha for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Scheduled to release in early 2002, Genma Onimusha is an enhanced version of the award-winning Onimusha...
The chipmaker recently launched a new effort inside its Microprocessor Research Lab aimed at examining a move from using aluminum and copper wires for moving data inside computers to using fiber-optic strands. Fiber could be...
Whoohoo break open the champagne bottles! :right: Thanks Vla for this one seen at Wininfo. Microsoft will offer consumers who wish to buy more than one copy of Windows XP a break, through...
A new Internet worm has emerged in China akin to the "Code Red" worm, which caused $2.4 billion in estimated cleanup costs on Internet-linked computers last month, a computer security expert said on Friday. ...
