Google adds improvements to Code Search
News Software developers can now benefit from improved ranking and country-specific searches
Dances with hippos
Leader The Tories are in favour of new approaches that reflect the new digital reality — except when they're not. Time they made up their minds
Dell gears up to launch Linux PCs in Europe
News The PC maker has also promised Ubuntu for small businesses, but gives no details on timing
NHS will switch to Outlook
News Supplier Cable & Wireless has announced that the NHS's mammoth email system will be 'transitioned' to Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Outlook
Broadcom warns Bush over Qualcomm chip veto
News Chipmaker says that vetoing the ban on imports of Qualcomm's 3G phones would harm the US's stance on intellectual property issues
iPhone probably not discontinued
Blog Amazon UK has already stuck the iPhone on its website, without a price but with several of those "user reviews" from people who have almost certainly not used the product. Amusingly, under...
Dialogue Box 7: Giving Vista a fair hearing
Video If computers are so smart, how come they don't understand a word we say? That's perhaps unfair — but, as Dialogue Box found out, even the state-of-the-art speech recognition in Windows Vista has...
Fujitsu Siemens launches 3G laptop range
News Company's Esprimo range of business laptops, all featuring integrated 3G connectivity, will become available in August
Second open Linux phone on sale
News FIC's fully hackable Neo1973 handset is officially launched for developers, with a 'mass market' launch of the OpenMoko system due later this year
Microsoft and Yahoo to reveal privacy policies
News Companies are to make public the details of their web search privacy policies, prompted by Europe's pressure on Google
iSoft shareholders approve IBA lifeline
News Ninety-seven percent of iSoft shareholders have approved the Australian company's £142m offer, as a merger moves closer
BT to snap up Brightview
News Telco has made a £15.8m offer for the London-based consumer ISP, which claims to have around 62,000 customers
AMD invests in chip designer Transmeta
News Chipmaker will receive preferred shares in exchange for its investment in Transmeta, whose financial performance has fallen lately



