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Apple has retracted the NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 released on Monday from its website and automatic software update system without any explanation. The update was meant to address issues with its Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link...

Chakkaradeep Chandran · Jan 30, 2009 · Hot! with 77 comments

Apple and China Mobile have called off talks to launch the US group's popular iPhone handset to Chinese consumers. Though no explanation was given in China Mobile's statement, there is speculation that the two firms...

Steven Parker · Jan 14, 2008 · Hot! with 16 comments

The Navy has removed a YouTube video posted on May 23 shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. Nothing in the video compromised operational security, but officials were worried about the "lack of propriety" involving...

· Aug 19, 2007 · Hot! with 9 comments

A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week. On Monday, Google announced...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 14, 2007 · Hot! with 11 comments

According to a new IDC study, the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow 26% annually for the next four years, hitting a total market worth...

· Jun 4, 2007 · Hot! with 12 comments

Dell has decided to halt plans to open up a second retail outlet outside New York City, several months after cautiously saying it would give it a try, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The Round...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 12, 2007 with -1 comments

Reports from Taiwan's graphics card manufacturing industry are revealing that AMD's recently announced delay of its upcoming flagship graphics processing unit (GPU), the R600, was not just a shock and disappointment to fans of the...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 2, 2007 with 2 comments

isoHunt Web Technologies Inc the popular BitTorrent search website has been taken offline by it's Internet Service Provider. In a statement on their website, which is now hosted on a Canadian ISP they have said...

Steven Parker · Jan 17, 2007 · Hot! with 8 comments

Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases. It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday,...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 5, 2007 · Hot! with 17 comments

Seems the overly negative review of Neverwinter Nights 2 over at 1up didn't sit to well with the members. But that begs the question, why pull a review because it was negative? 1up says it...

Todd Tanner · Nov 4, 2006 · Hot! with 11 comments

On Monday, just two days after making Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of Windows Vista available to the public through the Customer Preview Program (CPP), Microsoft pulled the download, confounding many users who were hoping to...

· Oct 13, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Gamers looking to be among the first to get their hands on an X-box 360 controller at Wal-Mart demo kiosks can still do it, but they won't actually be controlling anything. Xbox...

· Oct 25, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

MSI, the Taiwan based motherboard maker, threatened to take down its DNS entry for the MSI HQ User Community Forum, a free site supported by MSI and run by enthusiasts. The threat came after a...

Steven Parker · Jul 4, 2005 with -1 comments

Red Hat yesterday unveiled its answer to the vexed question of what it should do about its consumer line - dump it. This is not quite how CEO Matthew Szulik put it to The Register...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 4, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

A day after it was released, Apple quietly pulled its Mac OS X v10.2.8 update from circulation Tuesday afternoon, both from its Web site and through the Software Update system preferences pane. Some Mac users...

· Sep 23, 2003 with -1 comments

Dell temporarily pulled from its Web site an operating system fix for its Axim X5 handhelds after some people used the patch to do unauthorized upgrades from older versions of the OS. The Round Rock,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 31, 2003 with -1 comments

A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The software, called Waste, lets groups set up private,...

· Jun 1, 2003 with 1 comment

or rather moved it from Critical Updates to Windows XP in Windows Update. Thanks Large for his post in BPN on our forums. Microsoft is revising a security patch for Windows XP systems...

Steven Parker · Apr 26, 2003 with 1 comment

The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons. The project's leader, Theo...

· Apr 17, 2003 with -1 comments

In an effort to push adoption of IE 6.0, Microsoft quietly yanked Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2 from its download site. Ironically, IE 5.01 SP2 is still available as it is...

· Mar 20, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

Five years after debuting the original iMac, Apple Computer has stopped selling the gumdrop-shaped machine to the public. The original iMac, which many credit for restoring Apple Computer to fiscal health and profitability,...

· Mar 18, 2003 with -1 comments

Microsoft has quietly nixed plans for OfficeLite, a subscription-based version of its Office productivity suite designed for the consumer and education markets, according to company documents examined by CRN. In a March 3 memo to...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 12, 2003 with 1 comment

Despite the wording of a small announcement claiming that it's all about performance, NTL seems to have the warez community in its crosshairs. Doubtless some users will be up in arms but NTL has decided...

Tom Warren · Jan 31, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks David for this one. After coming to a crescendo as key player in Liberty Alliance, AOL has disbanded the Magic Carpet product team and refocused limited resources on its core subscription and advertising businesses....

Steven Parker · Dec 2, 2002 with 1 comment

Cheers Bink for the heads up.. Job Witteman of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) confirmed this today a few minutes before noon. "Six of the seven ports allocated to KPNQwest are being cut off" That...

Steven Parker · Jun 26, 2002 with -1 comments

Ati has decided that it's next generation mobile graphics processor will not be DirectX 9 compatible, despite its own roadmaps. The reason, the INQUIRER has learned, is that the firm needs at least...

· May 20, 2002 with -1 comments

I found this over on the ThemeXP site...Apple has contacted ThemeXP and notified us that we are in violation of Apple's copyright on OS X by hosting two themes: "EclipseOSX v4.40" and "MacOSX Aqua 3.2"....

· Feb 16, 2002 with -1 comments

Saw this one over @ MaxReboot, Will Kyro follow the sad demise of 3Dfx ? Well don't ask me, read for yourself! ST Microelectronics Inc. has decided to put its graphics operations...

Steven Parker · Feb 11, 2002 with -1 comments

I saw this in my local Best Buy flyer this weekend, but the price was certainly NOT $129, as was seen on their web site earlier this week, according to a report over at the...

· Feb 9, 2002 with -1 comments

Now you see it, now you dont! The Register reports that Microsoft has pulled a download that added Java language support to .NET. Microsoft silently made it available on Sunday, less...

Steven Parker · Oct 8, 2001 with -1 comments

Users of the 'free' Netscape Online ISP will be forced to move to a subscription model when AOL pulls the plug AOL UK has announced the closure of its pay-as-you go Internet...

· Sep 11, 2001 with -1 comments

Reiterating its plans to concentrate on the U.S. market, Gateway confirmed Monday that it will pull out of Ireland and England. The direct PC seller, which also recently exited Asia, had notified its...

· Sep 10, 2001 with -1 comments