IT budgets are expected to improve at the majority of airlines this year - 58 percent - while the global level of IT operational spending at airlines should reach an estimated $10 billion, according to research from industry-owned IT supplier SITA. read more »
As the great and the good of the airline industry gather today (Wednesday) in Brussels for the first day of their annual airline IT conference, the organisers have been left reeling after losing a £20 million court battle over an IT deal that went wrong. read more »
The London Assembly has been told that "70 percent" of the Metropolitan Police's technology platforms are "obsolete". read more »
Almost every new car will be mobile-enabled by 2025, according to mobile industry association GSMA. read more »
BSkyB and Microsoft are among 23 organisations from around the world to form the Dynamic Spectrum Organisation to promote improved spectrum management and help develop new wireless technologies. read more »
The recently launched "Make Things Do Stuff" digital technology campaign for young people has now won support from Virgin Media, Caffè Nero, Microsoft and the UK government. read more »
Insurance broker Aon is centralising its telecoms management with Azzurri after its outsourcing supplier ended an IT services contract. read more »
Nestlé has appointed a new group CTO, to replace Werner Bauer who is retiring after 23 years at the company. read more »
Cray is bringing integrated open source Hadoop Big Data analytics software to its supercomputing platforms. read more »
Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the US - using 100 percent renewable energy on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. read more »
Despite the hype, only a tiny proportion of firms have moved towards cloud email or cloud office systems, says analyst Gartner. read more »
The high performance computing (HPC) market seems to be doing very well, says analyst IDC, although the niche supercomputer segment has slipped. read more »
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has slammed the way Google avoids paying corporation tax in the UK, and has called on the government to close tax loopholes the internet company has exploited. read more »
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is deploying a mobile business intelligence system among its 6,000 field-based clinicians. read more »
After enjoying it's own savings, Colt says European data centre operations could save up to a fifth on their energy costs through efficiency gains. read more »
The 100,000 workers in London's Canary Wharf are to get free public WiFi, along with the thousands of visitors and shoppers to the business and retail district. read more »
The Ministry of Justice has halted its £300 million End User Computing (EUC) "tower" procurement process, with the aim of getting a better deal and potentially involving smaller companies in line with government policy. read more »
A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from Big Data in a research report published this week. read more »
UK listening centre GCHQ is handing a report to MPs today over its role in the US Prism spying effort. read more »
Companies with virtualised infrastructures are being offered free "health-checks" to make sure they are using the right virtualisation technology for their data workloads. read more »
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