Week in Apple: Trojan time, Office 2011 arrives, and more
New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites: A new trojan named Boonana disguises itself as a link to a video and can install to computers running Mac OS X without users' knowledge
iFixit finds MacBook Air...
Week in tech: Ubuntu Unity, no more porn piracy, and more
Windows Phone 7 from an iPhone user's perspective : Most Windows Phone 7 early adopters will come to the platform after using a competing smartphone OS. One iPhone user's impressions of Windows Phone 7 inside.
Shuttleworth: Unity...
Week in science: viruses, bacteria, and monopoles, oh my!
Giant virus found in tiny predator: A giant virus has its genome sequenced, which shows that it has stolen genes from a bacteria and suffers from DNA-level parasites.
Energy crisis: why bacteria can't build complex cells: Mitocho...
Sour ruling for LimeWire as court says to turn off P2P functionality
LimeWire's days as a major player on the P2P scene appear to be over. Judge Kimba Wood has issued an injunction forcing LimeWire to disable "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionali...
Ashes to ashes, Devo to dust: RIP Sony Walkman
When I was a youngster, albums were most often heard in order. 8-track tapes were the only technology that could jump from channel to channel; LPs and cassette tapes were strictly sequential-listening affairs. But one electronic ...
Amazon jumps on e-book lending bandwagon with the Kindle
Attracted to the Kindle, but put off by the inability to lend your e-books to others? Amazon is changing that. In an announcement posted today on the Kindle Community site, Amazon said that it would be rolling out e-book...
Week in Apple: small laptop edition
Before we get to the spate of MacBook Air stories, a quick guide to trolling Apple:: Are you a Windows user seeking ammo with which to rebut your Apple-loving friends? Search no longer: here's our 21st century guide to...
Week in tech: Meerkats, Gene Simmons, and expensive cell plans
Blessed Unity: Ars reviews Ubuntu 10.10: Ubuntu 10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, has arrived. Ars takes a hands-on look at the major features in this in-depth review, including the new Unity netbook environment, updated softwar...
Week in gaming: Fallout: New Vegas, WoW: Cataclysm, and more
Roll the dice: Ars reviews Fallout: New Vegas: Fallout: New Vegas doesn't do a whole lot that we didn't already see in Fallout 3. But the epic story and the glitz of Vegas are enough to make up for...
Week in Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 arrives
Windows Phone 7: The Ars Review: With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft finally sheds the baggage of past mobile failures and brings to market a truly slick, finger-friendly, fully modern smartphone OS. But it's not without its faults. ...
Week in tech: Gene Simmons sticks his tongue out at P2P users
From Geek to Chic: a decade of smartphone evolution: Over the past decade, the smartphone has gone from a large, belt-holstered badge of geekiness to mass-market mobile computing platform. In this photo gallery, we survey the las...
Week in science: Nobel Prizes, flapless aircraft, and drunken jerks
New test plane flies without control surfaces: With fewer moving parts, there's less to break. That's the idea behind a new flapless aircraft.
New e-paper may send e-ink running for its e-mommy: E-paper is a new version of the lo......
