Cold water poured on Intel's Symbian deal
News Symbian Expo: 'Why would you choose a partner with a zero percent market share?' asks Texas Instruments
Ballmer opens up on Microsoft's future
Q&A What is Windows' strongest competitor? Will Microsoft expand successfully beyond the PC? Find out what Steve Ballmer thinks
NHS witholds BT payment
News 'Availability issues' with the data spine mean that the NHS is holding back a third of its payment to BT
Sun doubles server speeds
News After cancelling the UltraSparc V, Sun announces on Tuesday the imminent release of the IV+ chip, which should operate at roughly double the speed of current UltraSparc IV servers
IDC sees IT rebound in Europe
News The European IT industry is set to create $50bn in tax revenue and two million new jobs within the next four years
Where Adaptec is headed
Q&A After several acquisitions it looks like Adaptec is moving in the hardware arena. Its CEO explains why he thinks that it needs to be selling parts, and not just systems
IBM: JBoss more of threat to BEA
News Builder: A Big Blue executive claims that the open-source application server is more of a threat to BEA's WebLogic Platform than to IBM's own WebSphere - but BEA isn't convinced
Have we lost sight of what Web services are meant to do?
Feature Web services were meant to make the lives of programmers easier but have come under intense criticism of late - is it justified, and is there an alternative?
Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers
News Firewalls aren't doing a good enough job of protecting corporate networks, according to a Microsoft security expert
Symbian and Intel form 3G alliance
News Symbian Expo: The operating-system developer will work with chip giant Intel to help create third-generation smartphones with better features
Break IT with Kodak
Leader Freedom to innovate should not cost a billion dollars
Pan-Asian Linux initiative kicks off
News A trio of Chinese, Japanese and Korean software vendors are forming an alliance to try and create a pan-Asian standard for Linux, called Asianux
The chief has gone, but the battle continues
Feature Does Conway's departure signal the imminent takeover of PeopleSoft, or does the appointment of Duffield show that they're in 'for the long term'?
Apple releases security patches
News Brief: Apple has patched several security flaws in the two most recent versions of OSX
Gates speaks out on open source
Video Bill Gates has been speaking to an audience at Berkeley about what he thinks about open source, and why having different kinds of licensing for different products is a good thing
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News IdeaLabs' Bill Gross has cooked up a new search project and is set to unveil it at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday
Cray moves into the lower echelons of the computing market
News Its new entry-level systems will cost as little as $50,000, but the top-end of the range will retail for up to $2m
Are doodles the key to an effective search?
News Researchers in southern California are developing a technology to tag files with arbitrary graphics so that searches can take advantage of the way the brain processes images
Yahoo announces personal search feature
News Yahoo has announced a new personal search service, but despite reassurance from analysts it is unclear if anyone actually wants it
IBM to bring out budget UNIX servers
News Brief: IBM is expected to announce two new cut-price servers to aid its on-going battle with Sun and HP
HP and Sun intensify war of words
News Sun re-affirms belief that it 'absolutely thinks HP-UX is dead' while HP explains to customers that 'Sun is irrelevant and everyone knows it's about to go out of business'

