Apple’s attempts to have the anti-trust suit brought against them by the US Department of Justice thrown out of court were denied on Tuesday. Federal Judge Denise Cote cited previous statements from Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs as justification for the dispute over e-book pricing to continue. Jobs’s comment was included in the DOJ’s case against Apple. "We’ll go... 

Night owls will be pleased to hear that Amazon’s next Kindle is said to be front-lit so you can do away with those pesky reading lights. Reuter’s source, who claims to have seen a prototype of the front-lit ereader, says the new Kindle will arrive in July in both Wi-Fi only and 3G versions. July, of course, being one of the months in which the nights are shortest – how’s that... 

An ex-Microsoft exec has spoken out about the company’s Xbox success and relative Zune failings, saying part of the blame lies with the music industry. Robbie Bach, who headed up Microsoft’s entertainment division during the early days of Xbox and Zune, was speaking at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network event in Seattle. Talking about how the Zune team tried to replicate the Xbox’s... 

How to use iTunes Match Does your entire music collection fit on your iOS device? Even if it does, you’ll want to reserve some space for your apps, games, photos and ebooks as well. Cramming these things onto your device often means having to make some hard decisions about which songs you leave behind on your computer, which can be frustrating when you realise that a song you want to hear isn’t... 

The black and white world of e-reading is about to get a bit more colourful: Amazon is reportedly planning an Amazon Kindle Colour for the second half of this year. If you believe the rumours – and they’ve come from Digitimes’ ever-chatty supply chain sources, so we’ll forgive you if you don’t – the colour Kindles will come with multi-touch capacitive touchscreens. That’s... 

Have you purchased an iPod between 2006 and 2009? If so, you may be part of a class action lawsuit against Apple which claims the company used iTunes to create a monopoly over digital music and portable music players. Now, Apple is being targeted for another class action lawsuit, this one tied to customers who purchased an iPod between September 12, 2006 and March 31, 2009. The class action dates... 

In a world full of obscure product names, the Kyocera Hydro C5170 is actually, aptly named. We got a hands on look at the Kyocera Hydro on the show floor at CTIA 2012 and according to a Kyocera spokesperson, the handset is "Certified waterproof for IPX5, protection against water jets and IPX7, protection against water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 1 meter." What this means to the... 

Does this sound familiar? Microsoft tried and failed to launch a technology, and then twelve years later a rival beginning with "A" perfected it and made a mint. No, I don’t mean tablets: I mean ebooks. Microsoft’s tie-up with Barnes & Noble isn’t just an interesting new venture. It’s also a sign that Microsoft missed another enormous opportunity. Maybe there was...