Bloglines inks deal with parcel carriers to track deliveries

Search engine Ask Jeeves has added a new raft of features to its Bloglines service. Users are now able to access the service to track the progress of their deliveries from the world's biggest courier services. Among the companies included in the parcel tracking service are FedEx, UPS, and the US Postal Service. ...more

Dell releases Ubuntu-based PCs

Dell has confirmed today that it is launching three computer systems, including one laptop, that will come with the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system already installed. The three computers, which come with a price tag starting at around ?300, will have the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux system pre-installed for use out-of-the-box. ...more

Google loses image battle with soft porn publisher

The 'natural model' site Perfect 10 has won its legal battle against Google over the search engine's use of thumbnail images from the site. A judge in California has ruled that Google infringed Perfect 10's copyright on the pictures by taking copies and storing them on its own servers. Perfect 10 had claimed that Google was damaging its business by freely distributing the pictures it was trying to sell. ...more

Microsoft and the EU square up for new battle over source code

Microsoft and the European Union look to be squaring up for another battle in what is becoming a trial of strength. On the one hand, the EU is trying to get what it sees as a monopolist trying to evade the penalties imposed on it. On the other hand, Microsoft is waging a PR battle to show that it is a good corporate citizen. ...more

Microsoft simplifies its virtualisation licences

Microsoft has announced a comprehensive overhaul of its virtual machine licensing as part of its push to get its customers moving towards a dynamic systems network model. Self-managing dynamic systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in the larger scale enterprises where resources are allocated dynamically through virtual machines. The deployment of dynamic systems not only saves on hardware costs as many virtual machines can run on a single physical box, it also cuts down the time spent by IT staff in maintaining the plethora of computers linked together in the network. ...more