Earlier this year BitTorrent Inc. promised they would release a Linux client this summer, and today they are one step closer to achieving that goal. The company just released uTorrent ... (more)

Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley has a world of trouble on his mind, and he hopes that Congress will lighten his load... by gutting the best part of the Digital Millennium Copyright ... (more)

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay - maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the ... (more)

Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what ... (more)

PlayStation 3 owners will finally be able to watch movies in 3D by October, Sony CEO Howard Stringer promised during his speech Wednesday at the Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) ... (more)

Microsoft plans to again sell a "family pack" of Windows 7 that includes three copies of the Home Premium edition of the operating system. Microsoft offered such a bundle when Windows ... (more)

Alan Boyle writes:Will memristors save Moore's Law? The answer appears to be yes … that is, if you redefine Moore's Law, which has fueled the growth of the computer industry for four ... (more)

China began requiring identification from anyone buying a new mobile phone number today in what it says is a bid to stamp out junk messages. But critics say the move gives the government ... (more)

Man, the broadcasting industry is on a device mandate rampage these days. For weeks, we've been covering the National Association of Broadcasters call for Congress to require all smartphones ... (more)

A new type of color filter could significantly increase the energy efficiency of liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), which dominate the market in everything from televisions to cell phones. ... (more)

Vivendi SA’s music labels and Time Warner Inc. are seeking arbitration in a copyright case in which the labels charged that “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” played its recordings without ... (more)

Waving the proverbial white flag, MySpace on Monday said its members can now synchronize posts, and other activity, with their Facebook profiles. To some, the move represents a last-ditch ... (more)

US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the Obama administration will ... (more)

Intel has agreed to acquire Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions business for approximately $1.4 billion, the companies announced late Sunday, as the world's largest chipmaker ... (more)

Canada's telecom and broadcast regulator ruled on Monday that incumbent telecom carriers must give new entrants access to their high-speed fiber networks at same speed they offer their ... (more)

Rails 3.0, a popular Web framework written in the programming language Ruby, was released Sunday after several years of development. In a way, the release is just as much of a political ... (more)

The LHC isn't simply the most powerful particle accelerator ever created. Handling the huge amounts of data it produces has required the creation of one of the biggest computer grids ... (more)

Soon you won't own a car, but one will come to you on its own when you call it, then whisk you away in perfect safety without you having to drive it - and that day may be closer than ... (more)

Hollywood studios have often argued in court that Web sites hosing pirated clips infringe on copyright, but this week Warner Bros. and Disney tried a more unusual approach: They sued ... (more)

Gamers who have decided to forgo the 3-week wait and download illegitimate copies of Halo: Reach will suffer some less than pleasant consequences. A group of modders managed to nab ... (more)

NEWSCommodore USA announced on Wednesday that it will be launching an all-in-one keyboard computer, branded as the PC64, that should be on sale before Christmas. The device will ... (more)

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow will share top honors at the Media Institute's 19th annual Friends and ... (more)

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen fired a patent shot across the bow of several prominent technology companies Friday, suing Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and others over patent claims. The ... (more)

By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the ... (more)

More than 400 movies will be available on YouTube for viewers to watch in full for free, the website has announced. Titles on youtube.com/movies will include a range that “brings ... (more)

Facebook is facing down another embarrassing episode of censorship this week after refusing to show ads submitted by the Just Say Now marijuana legalization campaign. The gag is an ... (more)

Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California. Drug ... (more)

Don't weep for the movie biz. While still concerned about camcording and P2P piracy, the industry has been hauling in the cash at the box office. 2007, 2008, and 2009 all set new historic ... (more)

The Federal Communications Commission is pushing back against the court that dealt its "fleeting expletive" indecency rules a huge blow. The agency has asked for a rehearing of the ... (more)

The Internet is a killer of art--at least that's how a couple of former rock 'n' roll gods see it. John Mellencamp, known for such '80s hits as "Jack and Diane" and "Hurts So Good," ... (more)