This week we have a new Mole story—a 360 bundle that's coming in October—as Microsoft begins a $50 mail-in rebate program. Sony gives a few more details about its upcoming motion...

When Microsoft first launched the Zune, the player was something of a kludge. The hardware design had been licensed wholesale from Toshiba, and the fact that it had WiFi and could "squirt" songs was little advantage in a world where few peo...

Apple has opened the source code of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), a powerful, system-wide concurrency framework that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.6. The userspace library component of GCD, which is called libdispatch, is now available for download u...

The Federal Communications Commission's long awaited Report to Congress on Parental Control Technologies for Video or Audio Programming is finally out. The report compiles almost a year's worth of comments from industry and public interest gr...

We've known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses. (4 billion and change being the number of combi...

When the news broke earlier this week that the so-famous-you've-never-heard-of-it BlueBeat.com was both streaming and selling The Beatles remasters—and for 25¢ a track—we speculated that an entertainingly weird legal theory was at the root of this...

Infinity Ward needs to realize that talking to people in the PC community does not end well for the buzz around its game. The lack of dedicated servers was "announced" during an interview with a gaming podcast, and the interviewers were stunned into...

Let's face it: sometimes planning travel can be a pain in the butt. Not only that, but actually going through with them—getting to the airport at the right time, catching your connecting flight at the right time, getting to the right hotel,...

The Recording Industry Association of America wants accused file-swappers to know that not responding to a federal copyright infringement complaint is a bad idea. When we last looked into this issue just over a month ago, we found something...

In recent years, malware authors have developed increasingly sophisticated rootkits that burrow into the operating system itself, modifying basic filesystem and process management code in a way that ensures they are essentially invisible to anyone...