An apparent licensing issue has rendered Columbia Pictures movies unwatchable through New Xbox Experience's Netflix instant queue, for reasons Netflix is describing as a "natural ebb and flow" of licensing.

In the next stage of what has turned out to be a more successful project than even its creators envisioned, the public beta of Moonlight -- a runtime library for Linux supporting sites that expect Silverlight -- is expected within days.

Sony has informally announced its PlayStation Portable handheld console will be receiving another firmware upgrade. Conspicuously, the announcement came on the same day as news that the "unhackable" PSP 3000 had been hacked.

A much faster USB specification is finally about to be implemented, replacing the eight-year-old USB 2.0 standard for connecting printers, mobile phones, drives, and other consumer devices.

A federal judge yesterday dismissed Psystar's claims that Apple is violating the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts. But the Mac clone maker is not yet entirely "down for the count" in court.

On what could possibly have been the worst possible day for the company to throw a party, yesterday Yahoo lifted the veil on its new suite of open source services designed to work like browser add-ons.

In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission yesterday, DVR pioneer TiVo showed that it is reducing the size of its work force to cope with the economic turmoil.

Microsoft's Zune 3.0 lineup, which was launched only two months ago, has received a price cut this week, knocking the 4 GB model below $100 for the holidays.

After leveraging Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail to help get elected, Barack Obama will face new challenges around Internet communications as US President -- most notably, a law dubbed the Presidential Records Act.

A Harvard Law School class led by the head of the school's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is pursuing a counterclaim against the RIAA after it targeted a Boston University graduate student for alleged illegal downloading.

Although only five of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers ran Windows -- the same number as last June -- the fastest among them has finally claimed the #10 spot.

Harris Poll results released this week give an overview of who in the US is online, where they log in, and who's still lagging.

Exactly one year after it re-announced the commercial subscription edition of its anti-malware service for individual Windows users, Microsoft announced it will discontinue Windows Live OneCare, replacing it with a free alternative.

Terence V. (Terry) Milholland started a new job as the Internal Revenue Service's chief technology officer on Monday. No worries; he's already been CTO of organizations handling your money.

Yesterday, the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida placed a temporary restraining order on CyberSpy Software's RemoteSpy keylogger, acting on a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission.

Today, Amazon entered beta with CloudFront, an expanded cloud service aimed at taking the company into the same league as Akamai and Limelight. As with other cloud services, customers will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.

In what the company happily proclaimed to be "one of the largest patent infringement claims ever filed," flash patent holder Spansion Inc. has filed infringement suits against Samsung in federal court and before the USITC.

The newest MacBooks and MacBook Pros are Apple's first devices with the Mini DisplayPort as their standard video out. But owners are discovering that display port comes with an extra added bonus, which they may not have asked for.

On the eve of availability from Verizon Wireless of the BlackBerry Storm, AT&T -- the exclusive provider of Apple's iPhone in the US -- has announced a Windows Mobile-based phone from LG with a now-familiar profile.

One must take one's good news where one can, and HP on Tuesday announced that other than some currency-related unpleasantness, the company's outlook for fourth quarter and for 2009 isn't bad.