Microsoft enables Silverlight video streaming to iPhones
At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone. While Microsoft user experience platform manager Brian Goldfarb said that Microsoft "worked with Apple" to make it happen, don't expect plug-ins for Mobile Safari to start flooding the App Store. Instead, Microsoft worked to make its IIS7 server software

Apple releases iTunes LP and Extras specs, TuneKit SDK
It appears the hubbub over iTunes LP production fees was indeed unfounded. As promised last month, Apple has

Let's talk about sex... in video games
These days, video games and controversy are old friends. Unsurprisingly, the biggest controversies seem to arise whenever the topic of sex in video games appears in the public forum. Whenever the topic rears its ugly head, critics come teeming out of the woodwork, condemning the video game industry for trying to sneak sex into our homes and corrupting the youth of America. It's

FCC posts "Help Wanted" for white spaces database managers
In another significant leap forward in the Federal Communications Commission's campaign to get unlicensed broadband, or "white space" devices, into the market, the FCC says that it is now accepting proposals from companies that want to run the databases that will prevent these gadgets from interfering with other broadcast services.There's money in this, in case

Military wins small battle in war against counterfeit chips
The US Department of Justice announced [PDF] today that a California man has pled guilty to counterfeit computer chips to the US military. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal, and he faces up to five years in prison for passing off bogus versions of chip