Apple today announced that the upcoming 2009 MacWorld Expo is the last year the company will exhibit at the event. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening...
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Lynden Lab's Second Life virtual world was so popular that people were investing in virtual real estate and making significant sums of money off their investments. This was in the glory days last year and...
An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108. Her last post described her ailing health but also how she still sang a happy song every day. Olive...
Bill Gates launched Tech-ed Developers in Orlando, Florida today by announcing this was his last public speech as a full time employee (FTE) in his role of Microsoft Chairman. He will now transition to a...
We all knew the Warner announcement would do a lot of damage, and now the statistics to back up those predictions are here. According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales numbers for last week,...
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, will deliver the pre-show 2008 International CES keynote address at 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday, January 6 , in the...
If you've ever accidentally closed a tab in Internet Explorer 7 when you didn't mean to, then you will know how handy this IE7 add-in can be. With the IE7 "Open Last Closed Tab" add-in,...
A price cut in early June seems to have boosted sales of Sony's PlayStation 3, but the floundering console is still trailing its rivals from Microsoft and Nintendo. After dropping the console's 60GB SKU price...
Shipment delay problems plaguing Dell may be worse than expected, with a shortage for the company's consumer notebook models likely to last into October or November, according to sources at Taiwan-based retail channels. Retail channels...
AMD's share of the microprocessor market might be on the rise again, but things don't look too good on the graphics front. Market research firm Jon Peddie Research has published PC graphics market numbers for...
Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and...
Imagine if your smartphone was as advanced as your toothbrush -- at least in the charging department. That would be cooler than your peppermint toothpaste. If you've got one of those high-end vibrating toothbrushes or...
Bill Laing, a General Manager in the Microsoft Windows Server Division, has been quoted as saying that Windows Server 2008 will be the last 32-bit operating system. Bill is a server guy and indeed...
It's the end of the line for 32-bit operating systems, Microsoft has proclaimed at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference After the software giant has gotten over its hangover from partying like it's 1999 with...
Anti-virus researcher Andreas Cleminti, owner of Innsbruck, Austria-based AV Comparatives Web site posts quarterly results of tests that compare the top anti-virus products against a dynamic list of nearly half a million individual pieces of...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today attempted to end rumors that Windows Vista will be the last Windows client operating system, claiming that Microsoft has "plenty more where that came from" at a press event to...
Using IE6 was "unsafe" 284 days last year even for users who patched their systems as soon as Microsoft released fixes. An analysis by the Washington Post's Stuart Krebs revealed that exploit code for critical...
Almost three years after it debuted at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), wireless USB remains one of the most promising implementations of ultra wideband (UWB) short-range radio technology, but it is still waiting for its...
Apple's marketshare continues to climb, up 34.6 per cent, year on year, new statistics reveal. According to Net Applications' latest research figures (for October) for platforms used when accessing the web, Mac usage has...
Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. The research firm predicts Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together...
According to a global movie body, movie piracy in China is costing the industry $2.7bn a year. The Motion Pictures Association say that around 93% of all films bought in China are pirated, and 40%...
This week saw Neowin updating its design layout to Public Preview 5. Almost everyone appears to have welcomed the changes, we know theres a way to go yet before all the features are completed. Look...
A site boasting to offer irreverent Apple news boasted some frankly irrelevant news yesterday. An opinion piece titled " Will Vista Be the Last Operating System Microsoft Produces?" suggested that after Vista, that's it...
The Intel Pentium M 'Yonah' dual-core processor is planned for the first quarter of next year. This 65nm mobile processor's FSB will be clocked at 667MHz and the target clock-rate for launch will likely be...
Hewlett-Packard is set to debut as soon as next week its first Unix servers with the last member of the company's PA-RISC processor family, a lineage that's being supplanted by Intel's Itanium. The company is...
ATI Technologies and Nvidia will both launch new-generation AGP8X chips in the second quarter aiming to sustain their market shares before they start marketing chips supporting PCI Express standards, according to sources familiar with the...
A REPORT SAID factories in mainland China bashed out over 23 million units in 2003. And the report, by Kevin Wang, display analyst at iSuppli, reckons that manufacturing will grow by 20% this year. If...
Plus, is the PC version due to be released in April? While Microsoft announced way back at last year's E3 that Doom 3 is Xbox-bound, we've had very little in the way of...
SPARKLE Computer Co Ltd, professional manufacturer and supplier of VGA cards and recent winner of the "Neowin Choice" Award for their excellent GeforceFX 5900XT; is delighted to announce two new products imminently arriving into...
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is listening to Microsoft making oral representations this week before it makes a decision on whether to find against it for antitrust behaviour. Microsoft will, apparently, have to come up with highly...
The spread of broadband may finally allow the Net to reach its full commercial potential -- and change the way people live Jon Nordmark has been through the e-tail bust, so the...
Thanks again to Sid for this sad news. "Amber Passed Away Last Night around 11PM. She fought very, very hard; she had to battle for most of her short life....
Hoping to get the last dollar possible for their once-dominant ISP, Excite@Home owners are putting most of the company's tangible assets up for sale during a two-day online auction next week. Wednesday...
Wind River Systems, a maker of software that powers many of the lesser-known types of computing devices hidden in the fabric of the high-tech world, has won approval to have its operating system used in...
Thought this would interest you, got this link from my Lockergnome - Bits 'n Bytes email today. Full interview can be read when you click "read more". After what he describes as...
Thanks Slashdot for this neat story... The biggest problem with getting connectivity has always been the "last mile", but according to Cisco, this will become a dead issue, with the release of information on...
Yesterday saw the final official updates to the Soundblaster line with no announcement made over the future of LiveWare. Creative has released Microsoft Windows XP-compatible drivers to enhance your digital entertainment experience. By leveraging on...