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Facebook are hosting an event to launch their "new home on Android." The event starts at 10AM PT, 1PM ET and 6PM BST. Facebook is expected to unveil a custom skin for Android running on an HTC device.

Max Slater-Robins · Apr 4, 2013 with 14 comments

News International (NI), the owner of The Times and Sunday Times newspapers, has announced plans to charge users for access to their websites from June. Users who wish to access online content from The Times and...

Tom Warren · Mar 26, 2010 · Hot! with 62 comments

It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out...

Steven Parker · Nov 23, 2007 · Hot! with 26 comments

Until recently, Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, but now, by sending data using 10 different colors of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100...

· Oct 13, 2007 · Hot! with 28 comments

The New York Times has been rather notorious in keeping most content on their website for paying eyes only. While this system did manage to bring in $10 million a year in subscription fees, it...

Christopher Vendemio · Sep 19, 2007 · Hot! with 3 comments

The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to...

· Aug 23, 2007 with -1 comments

Google is to cut the length of time it holds users' personal search data. The move comes in response to a data protection group that wrote to the firm questioning its privacy policies. The European...

· Jun 12, 2007 with 2 comments

Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In...

· Feb 24, 2007 · Hot! with 17 comments

Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The...

· Feb 1, 2007 · Hot! with 6 comments

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on Sep. 12 brought three bulletins covering a three software flaws, but the day will be remembered most for an Internet Explorer mega-patch that is being re-rereleased to address a 10th vulnerability...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 13, 2006 with -1 comments

Following in Neowin's very recent footsteps, one of America's biggest newspapers, The New York Times, has updated its online service. The main features include a re-design of the layout. With a nod to...

· Apr 3, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Developers speaking to GamesIndustry.biz this week havecommented that the the Revolution console, hardware kits for whichbegan shipping to third parties recently, is shaping up to be around2.5 times more powerful than GameCube. Up until...

· Dec 7, 2005 with -1 comments

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL...

· Jun 1, 2005 with -1 comments

With the PlayStation Portable now officially available and nearly all of the 200,000-unit Japanese launch allocation already sold, word is getting around about some of the key issues that Sony has been unable or unwilling...

· Dec 14, 2004 · Hot! with 1 comment

The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · May 28, 2004 with -1 comments

Strategy First sends along the playable demo of War Times, allowing you to try out the imminent World War II 3D real-time strategy game by Legend Studios. This demo includes two single-player missions from the...

Marcel Klum · Mar 20, 2004 with -1 comments

That's what a new analysts' report reckons, anyway Sony have already won the next generation of console wars and PlayStation 3 will have sold three times more than Xbox 2 in Europe by...

Darren Bolton · Mar 10, 2004 with -1 comments

A nationally known computer hacker is being sought on a federal arrest warrant stemming from a sealed complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday. Adrian Lamo, 22, has publicly...

Michael Stanclift · Sep 8, 2003 with -1 comments

Printer manufacturers are ripping off consumers by overcharging for printer cartridges, according to a study by the Consumer Association's Which? magazine. Which? slams the cost of printer ink. A Colour HP cartridge,...

· Jul 5, 2003 with -1 comments

US Navy's 'Flipper' goes AWOL! : "AUSTRALIAN military divers yesterday questioned the effectiveness of the US Navy's mine-clearing dolphins, revealing one had disappeared for two days. The polite way to express their scepticism...

· Mar 30, 2003 with 2 comments

As reported previously, a bug in Windows XP SP1 may cause some programs to launch 10 times slower because of a change in memory management in SP1 from XP retail. Remember, only download...

· Mar 26, 2003 · Hot! with 1 comment

A bar owner in the US has been charged after shooting his laptop computer. George Doughty is said to have fired four bullets into the Dell computer in the middle of his bar...

Michael Stanclift · Mar 9, 2003 with -1 comments

Foreigners will have to pay to read The Times online (in the UK), with tariffs levied on 10 separate channels. The newspaper, part of the Murdoch empire, says it can identify overseas visitors with "90...

· Mar 19, 2002 with -1 comments

Internet connections at the New York Times were interrupted for at least several hours on Tuesday after the paper's computers were flooded with information in an apparent attack. "We don't know that...

· Oct 31, 2001 with -1 comments