Google's index back in front

Following the announcement last week by Overture that its FAST database had the largest search index in the world at 3,151,743,117 pages, Google has quietly upped the number of pages it says it has indexed on its home page. The Google total is now claimed at 3,307,998,701. Of course the total number of pages is only part of the story. ...more

EU officials raid Intel's UK HQ

Investigators carried out dawn raids on Intel offices across Europe yesterday, including the company's British headquarters in Swindon. Officials visited Intel premises in other countries across Europe including Germany, Italy and Spain. The raids are said to be connected to the recent allegations of business malpractice and monopoly activity alleged by rival AMD. ...more

Samsung develops motion-sensitive mobile phone

Samsung has developed a motion-sensitive mobile phone, according to reports. The SCH-S310 phone uses a six-axis sensor to detect motion and has been preprogrammed to recognise phone numbers written in the air. That may be unnecessarily innovative for most of us, but there are other moves it has got down that make much more sense. ...more

IT Forum 2004: MOM 2005 aims for prevention rather than cure

As announced yesterday in Bill Gates' keynote, Microsoft has officially released its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 server product, which provides IT administrators with a way of monitoring system events and managing performance. The idea is to better enable IT operations staff to stay aware of Windows Server-based system issues, with the bottom line being better levels of service availability. As well as a new task-based interface, there is support for diagram views giving a topology of distributed services, and a security model so that staff and components can work with varying privilege levels. ...more

Is it the end for LCDs?

LG Electronics has announced the development of a new display screen that could mean the end of traditional liquid crystal displays. The new 1.8 inch colour organic electro luminescence (EL) display is to be used in new LG mobile phones. ...more