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...

The US Court of Appeals has ordered Microsoft to drop support for editing Custom XML in Word, essentially stopping the company from selling current versions of one of its flagship products and affirming a $290 million patent infringement judgment...

Here at Ars, we bash copyright holder excesses on a regular basis, and with good reason—but there are times when it's easy to understand the siege mentality so many of the biggest media players live under. Case in point: last week's Congressional...

Two major TV networks are considering joining Apple's plan to offer TV subscriptions over the Internet in a venture that could put Apple in direct competition with cable and satellite providers. Disney and CBS are both taking a liking to the deal,...

Malware distributors, apparently tired of facing the constant threats of disconnection, are taking advantage of lax background checks in the system for distributing IP address blocks and buying them directly. Address blocks, which cover a contiguous...

In previous social and economic crises, we waited for Lefty, then for Godot. Now we're waiting for government broadband money. As the holidays approach, broadband developers and policy folk everywhere are wondering when the White House's $7.2...