Switzerland, the nation that gave us army knives and absolutely no popular musicians of note, …

NTP, the patent company that successfully forced a settlement from Research In Motion over wireless e-mail technology, has gotten the nod from an appeals court on the validity of its patents used in lawsuits against several other smartphone players. RIM was the first to settle with NTP five years ago, but it may not be the last. Research In Motion …

HTC has at last issued a Gingerbread update for the HTC Desire. But disappointingly, updating isn’t as simple as a normal Android update — and it could hobble your mobile. The Android 2.3 update has been seriously squeezed — adjusted and with applications removed to work around the Desire’s memory constraints. As such HTC says it’s for development only, and …