The SAG-AFTRA actors union has officially authorized a strike against the major video game publishers for their voice actors after trying to reach a new contract. The strike goes into effect on Friday
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On what could arguably be one of the biggest shopping days of the year, workers across Europe have gone on strike to protest the e-commerce retailer's working practices in its warehouses.
Twitter users can now enable Tips through Twitter for Android. The option became available on iOS in September and, as promised, is now available to Android users. You must be over 18 to use Tips.
In an effort to improve working conditions and minimum wages for drivers of ridesharing services, drivers of big tech companies like Uber and Lyft have taken to the streets and gone on strike.
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain has called on Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, and Nottingham to hold a 24-hour strike against the company over what they claim as workers' rights.
Following its bankruptcy early last year, Mad Catz has returned from the dead with new gaming peripherals in tow. The company will be fully unveiling its new products at this year's CES.
Strikes are set to take place on Black Friday at an Italian Amazon plant after workers said they want pay to increase with Amazon's growth in the country. Workers find themselves doing long hours.
Employees at Amazon's warehouses in Germany are on strike in a long-running dispute over better pay and conditions, but Amazon has promised Christmas orders will be delivered on time.
Reports of the strike at a Foxconn factory are inaccurate, according to company officials. More employees have been added, and workers have been given overtime for working the holiday.
A new report claims that 3,000 to 4,000 workers at an Foxconn iPhone 5 plant in China went on strike today, claiming that the plants were "in a state of paralysis for the entire day."
Over 45,000 Verizon workers who went on strike earlier this month will go back to work on Tuesday under its current contract while the workers and Verizon talk about a new contract.
Verizon claims that it has had to deal with over 70 acts of sabotage since over 45,000 of its landline and FiOS workers went on strike on Sunday.
Over 45,000 Verizon Communications workers are now on strike which could affect the landline and FiOS high speed Internet business.
Plans by the French government to require Internet service providers to throw persistent pirates off the Internet are now closer to becoming law. The French Senate voted 297 to 15 in favour of the law,...
The People's Liberation Army in China is building up its cyberwarfare capabilities according to a report from the Department of Defense. DoD has found that the PLA, the largest standing army in the world, has...
Yahoo has announced a multiyear partnership with Viacom for its new Panama search advertising platform; Yahoo will serve as the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads to all of Viacom's 33 broadband sites...
It seems Joost has won the first battle with potential rival YouTube. Viacom, which includes entertainment companies MTV Networks' Comedy Central, Black Entertainment Television and Paramount Pictures, has announced a deal to license its programming...
As I reported previously, someone at EA made an oopsie and had the information page up for the first booster pack for Battlefield 2142 - Northern Strike. It was since taken down, but now the...
Vodafone and Microsoft are collaborating on developing software to help users take their office with them while they travel. The agreement will see the companies co-operate so that applications available to Vodafone users, such as...
Tiered archive offering will be sold alongside Windows Server, following a co-marketing agreement announced this week Microsoft is teaming up with IBM to offer email archiving products to help its customers control their spiralling quantities of...
Infinium Labs much touted Phantom games console/service has had analysts, gamers and journalists confused from day one, announced over three years ago it didn't even make an appearance at e3 this year, but according to...
Strike Force: Red Cell, the UT2004 mod offshoot from Vision Studios has now secured a publisher for the game. The game will be released sometime in 2006 (though if you look closely 2007 is mentioned...
Mac developer Dan Wood knows what happens when Apple Computer has the same idea he does. A couple of years back, his small firm, Karelia Software, released a set of...
After months of threats that the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) would strike if a new deal was not made with game publishers, a settlement was announced...
The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title. The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird...
Eidos announced today a new World War II first person shooter called Commandos Strike Force, slated for release in spring 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Based on the Commando strategy game franchise, players...
The Strike Force modification for Unreal Tourniment 2004 has been released, and is allowing gamers to test two Team Deathmatch maps. The file clocks in at a decent 250MB. Also Vision Studios, the company behind...
Yevgeny Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs fame, has raised concerns of a major attack on the internet today. Kaspersky has been widely quoted as saying that there would be a major online attack against Israeli sites...
The same day that Microsoft announced its instant messaging service was available for Verizon mobile users, Yahoo said it had done a similar deal with Verizon rival Cingular. On Thursday, Cingular said users of...
Don't worry folks, your friendly tech news source Neowin was not affected. *wink* An early morning Internet attack on Tuesday took down the Web sites of Microsoft, Google, Apple Computer and Yahoo,...
Sony aims to take on industry leader Apple starting Tuesday with an online music service whose songs will play only on Sony products. Internet analysts are scratching their heads, especially because the digital download service...
Thanks OptiPlex. The women challenging the stereotype that professional online gaming is the realm of geeky men alone. Anja Maller lives a double life. By day she is a 26-year-old single mother studying...
After the German demo early this month, Data Becker has now released the English playable demo of Castle Strike, offering another opportunity to try out the medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs. As...
A German playable demo of Castle Strike is now available, offering the first opportunity to try out this medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs and Data Becker. This single-player demo includes Tutorial 2...
Buka has released an updated playable demo of Fair Strike, renewing the opportunity to try out the arcade combat chopper shooter by G5 Software. Apart from a welcome 35 MB reduction in download size, it's...
Turn off the TV. And let the games begin. The fall-off in viewership is unprecedented, and among no group is this more the case that young males between 18 and 24, a...
After a false start with the E3 demo this Spring, Buka has now released the official playable demo of Fair Strike, offering an opportunity to try out this arcade combat chopper shooter by G5 Software....
Sierra has released a brand new trailer for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, offering a bit more than one minute of in-game footage for this upcoming tactical game in the works at Ritual Entertainment. CZ: Condition Zero...
LucasArts will be packaging in a special bonus disc with the latest game in the Rogue Squadron series. LucasArts has informed GameSpot of the contents of a bonus disc that will be...
Codemasters has released a new multiplayer map for IGI 2: Covert Strike, once again expanding the tactical first-person shooter by Innerloop Studios. This map is titled Area27, but it's not clear whether it's still considered...
