Virgin Atlantic (not to be confused with its domestic sister airline, Virgin America) is introducing the ability to make and receive cellphone calls while crossing the Atlantic. Oh no, say it ain't so.

When you think about it, the world of mobility has changed beyond all recognition since early-2007. OK, perhaps I'm guilty of slight exaggeration, but a certain blog post -- the subject of much chatter this weekend -- really brings it home quite how much the world has changed...

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft are forming a joint venture for e-books. Why? Read on, gentle reader.

Has Apple succumbed to the classic mistake made by Unix kernel writers back in the early 90s?

Uncharacteristically, security maven Alan Shimel recently jumped to the wrong conclusion about the spam filtering blacklist/reputation-service, SpamCop. I'll explain why he shouldn't shoot the messenger, but instead redirect his ire at the real culprit.

Over the weekend, The Economist picked up on a 40-day-old report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The IDB appears to say that the MIT-incubated charity One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation is failing to improve children's education. But all is not as it seems, blogs Richi Jennings...

Today's announcement from Dropbox that Elevation Partners are taking a stake in the cloud sync company has certainly turned heads. But is the investment likely to return a profit?

The new iPad has made the market think more deeply about screen pixel density. In the recent past, most shoppers for a tablet or laptop only wanted to know how big the screen was, not how many pixels it could display. Suddenly, dots-per-inch (DPI) matters. But what of Windows 8 tablets?

The not-for profit Museum of Email & Digital Communications is about to launch, next week. Check out how you can find out more and even contribute.

Samsung's smartphone market share in China is three times that of Apple's. Apple doesn't have as a partner the #1 mobile player in the #1 mobile subscriber growth market. What's going on here?