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Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them. The reason is a lack of demand. The surprise is that it took so long. If you still rely on the massive...

Research in Motion unveiled two new BlackBerry models, the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G. The phones are not radically different from earlier versions, but do offer several new features. According to The Street, the...

The video site has quietly launched a streaming rental service, after some earlier experiments. The streaming rental industry is getting ever more crowded, and now it’s going to have to make room for at least one more. YouTube...

Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple’s iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology. The decision reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on the gadgets. Flash is very widely...

Microsoft has finally announced the next major release of Windows Live, referred to as Wave 4. The software giant has had “several thousand people” inside the company running internal builds for the last few months, and has decided...

Even though Dell has lost a bit of its footing in the PC race–sliding behind Acer in overall shipments–the company does appear to have a plan to hook consumers another way, by expanding beyond its core consumer business of laptops...

A programmer has managed to run the Google Android mobile operating system on an iPhone, with features like browsing the Web and making phone calls functional on Apple’s hardware. David Wong, who goes by the handle “planetbeing,”...

The leading online radio service and world’s biggest social network have forged a bond that will solidify both companies’ dominance, while offering music fans a way to share music with each other that appears to lack any significant downside....

World of hurt Enterprise customers of a widely used McAfee anti-virus product were in a world of hurt on Wednesday after an update caused large swaths of their machines to become completely inoperable. The problem started around 2 pm GMT when...

Bluetooth 3.0 may still be a rarity on devices, but the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) aren’t letting that stop them from whipping ahead with the next spec in line. Bluetooth 4.0 has been finalized, and it delivers both a new low-energy...