A judge has ordered BlueBeat to immediately halt sales of The Beatles MP3s on its site, but the company is coming back with a rather unique defense. The saga of the BlueBeat website (previous stories here

A month after a record-setting batch of updates, the November ‘Patch Tuesday’ package will contain just six updates. Of those, at least three appear to be revisions or repetition of updates from the October release. As usually, Microsoft hasn’t...

Despite the troubled economy, sales of smartphones rose four percent over the past year. Nokia retained its number one slot, but RIM was the biggest winner.Figures from research firm IDC show that 43.3 million “converged mobile devices” were sold in

It seems that nothing, not even a tenacious worldwide recession, can keep the smartphone market from growing and the Apple portion of it from growing even faster than the overall niche. The latest quarter’s smartphone results are in from IDC and the...

The man heading the One Laptop Per Child program says the next technology produced under the scheme will likely be a tablet device rather than a netbook. He has also come up with a new target for the cost