The state capital of the United States is filing a lawsuit against the two conglomerates for allegedly violating campaign finance law. The state seeks penalties and an injuction on the two companies.
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Vladimir Putin has renewed calls for Russia to move from foreign software. He said private comapanies may lose out on sales to the state if it offers foreign products. The move will bolster security.
As a follow-up to our previous SSD coverage, today we will be looking at four popular mainstream SSD offerings which include the A-Data S592 128GB, Corsair P Series 128GB, OCZ Agility 120GB and the OCZ...
SSDs have always been for those with a lot of cash and a lot of demand for speed, and after this new product introduction, things are still the same. SSDs, or solid state drives, are...
I would describe myself as an 'avid' gamer. Lately, not so much, due to time constraints, but given some time I like to sit down with a good title and try it out. Something that...
The Attorney General's Office along with Microsoft announced the filing of new cases under Washington's recently improved Computer Spyware Act during a joint press conference today in Seattle. "We won't tolerate the use of...
Tweaking and customizing Windows is a major element of what people do with their PC. Neowin.net's own sidebar has an entire section dedicated to Customization websites. There are about 50,000 posts on Neowin just...
Are solid state drives becoming a reality? Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech published an article this morning concerning the current state of SSD with a comparison between a Samsung 64GB SATA and a Super Talent...
Symantec has released its May 2007 report entitled The State of Spam for the month of April. The 11-page monthly report includes news and data from the company's ongoing monitoring of vast amounts of e-mail....
Perhaps you've experienced that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion. That's what happened to a computer technician...
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) needs access to the raw data collected by the FCC in order to unearth the true statistics proving or disproving competitiveness in the US broadband market. The FCC has...
So, the State of Illinois is not having good luck with the gaming industry. First you have a U.S. District Judge deem the States new videogame law unconstitutional. Second you have said Judge order the...
THERE WAS AN update on the state of IPv6 at Defcon today, not really picking it apart, more where things are at. There is good and bad, but as always, much of it depends on...
It's 5:45PM. 15 minutes to go before tickets for the Arctic Monkey's tour go on sale. You've already missed out on the pre-release tickets because of a problem with Worldpay, so you're pretty keen to...
A firm is readying a solid state disk drive aimed at the computer enthusiast and likely to be released this quarter. The DDR Drive X1 is a PCI Express based plug in card with 8GB...
Microsoft® Windows® User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 2.6.1 migrates user files and settings during deployments of Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP. USMT 2.6.1 provides enterprise migration capabilities such as unattended migration, multi-user profile...
Publisher BAM Entertainment has updated its release schedule, revealing that State of Emergency 2, currently in development at Scottish studio VIS Entertainment, has been pushed back in to 2005. The game is the sequel to...
Apple Computer Corp. agreed Friday to a revised deal that will place laptop computers in roughly one-third of Maine´s public high schools this fall, Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said. "I´m absolutely delighted," said Gendron, who...
A recent interview with Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi hosted by Sony Computer Entertainment's PS World Japanese website reveals a few new bits of information regarding Gran Turismo 4 and Gran Turismo 4 Mobile. First...
A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ...
Fortune has a great interview with one of the original Xerox PARC researchers. Who was a pioneer in personal computing. He shares he's thoughts about how even after 20 years we've missed the...
The Orange County Register reports that California labor investigators have shut down the publisher--something CEO Herve Caen disputes. Less than a day after CEO Herve Caen said Interplay was "still here," the...
YOU'RE PROBABLY wondering what happened to the 800MHz front side bus Xeons that Intel was promising its customers they'd see early this year. We know we are, so we decided to ask some people and...
The U.S. State Department has quietly expressed its concerns to European regulators about last week's decision to levy harsh penalties and a $613 million fine on Microsoft. The quiet protest from the...
America Online reported Wednesday that it has filed a civil suit against four Florida-based individuals who the company believes are responsible for sending massive amounts of spam e-mail to its members. The giant Internet service...
Microsoft Corp. and the New York State Attorney General have teamed up to fight unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, a Microsoft spokesman said Wednesday. A news conference to announce the cooperation has been scheduled for...
Penn State University has teamed up with Napster to offer students free downloads from the library of over "500,000 songs, as well as 40 radio stations, access to six decades of Billboard chart data, an...
DÃœSSELDORF, Germany -- Even though interest in open source software is high in Germany's public sector, Microsoft Corp. continues to grab contracts with local authorities. This month the U.S. software giant began...
A nice article rounding up on Nvidia's lacking behind in the DX9 architecture's market, the so called drivers "optimizations" and how it may come back. Since the official release of the GeForce FX...
Microsoft has reached settlements in some state class-action lawsuits it has been defending, the company said Tuesday. Details about the settlements will be released later in the day, Microsoft said. Ever since...
A federal judge has ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $1 million in legal fees to the state of Massachusetts, although the award was less than half of what the state has been seeking. ...
In a report from Reuters today, The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) stated that it would challenge the bill signed yesterday by Washington State Gov. Gary Locke, in court. The bill makes it...
The legal tango between the gaming industry and the government has taken a step in the government's direction. Washington State's senate passed a bill Thursday that would institute a fine of up to $500 to...
Full Title: The Processor Performance State Is Not Restored to the Maximum State If the CPU Runs at 100 Percent The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows...
Germany's most populous state is requiring Internet providers to block two US-based neo-Nazi websites after a court ruled the measure did not violate the providers' rights, officials said Thursday. The verdict followed...
Computer experts and interested amateurs are joining forces to map out wireless networks around the world and find out how many are secure. The results of the first mapping expedition reveals that,...
Most e-commerce transactions currently are secured by the SSL (secure sockets layer) protocol, which is designed to encrypt data exchanges over the Internet. While SSL is generally viewed as effective, an increasing number of vulnerabilities...
Who said government work was boring? At least six Washington state employees who used their e-mail to send raunchy jokes, sexual overtures and even make plans for an orgy will be fired,...
We all know the Internet is the "Information Super-Highway". But due to many things happening on the WWW today -- including viruses, worms, DDoS attacks, increased subscriber bases, poor line quality, poor quality of Web...
