Following the fine example of Yahoo! over the last month, Microsoft search engine Bing has overhauled their design and added two new features to improve results.

Steve Ballmer hasn't quite ridden off into the sunset yet. The Microsoft CEO has agreed a $7bn acquisition of Nokia's mobile division, transferring hardware licenses, patents and 32,000 employees.

Mozilla have snapped up a new global director of marketing in John Bernard to help launch a new Firefox mobile platform.

The third contestant in the smartphone race, Google, has raised concerns over the threat of limiting customer exposure to its Android platform following Samsung's defeat to Apple in California last week.

Research In Motion, the manufacturer behind BlackBerry smartphones, is in very deep trouble as it posted a major loss, cut 5000 jobs and delayed the release of their BB10 operating system until early 2013.