Judge halts BlueBeat's sale of Beatles tunes

Temporary restraining order finds BlueBeat's arguments "lacking in clarity" and sees the threat of irreparable harm to the copyright holders.

EMI to offer instant concert recordings

An initiative called Abbey Road Live will enable concert attendees to buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard.

Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love

The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.

Originally posted at Beyond Binary

Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia

Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.

eBay's Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement

New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer.