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Ryanair systems upgrade vital, despite teething problems

Ryanair has said a key bookings system upgrade was crucial to help it cope with rapidly growing volumes of ticket sales, despite the upgrade requiring a two-day website closure and causing some problems with bookings.

Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray

Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecom is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Patent claim tries to dim Microsoft Silverlight

Video software developer Gotuit Media has sued Microsoft, claiming that its Silverlight multimedia software infringes several of the company's patents.

Microsoft to patch Windows, SQL Server & Exchange Server next week

Microsoft is planning four security updates for next week that would fix vulnerabilities in Windows, SQL Server and Exchange Server.

MoD's DII over budget, needs action to speed rollout

The Ministry of Defence needs to take ‘further concerted action’ to speed up the delivery of the Defence Information Infrastructure programme, which will be millions over budget, according to the National Audit Office.

Leicester College converges networks with Siemens

Leicester College will converge its data and voice networks across three campuses, using Siemens software.

Northern Ireland IT disaster leads to £130m arrears

Shortcomings in an expensive IT system has led to rate arrears of £130m, the Northern Ireland Audit Office has revealed.

Adobe PDF approved as standard by ISO

The ISO has approved PDF as an international standard.

Gartner: The seven risks in cloud-computing

Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner.

NHS CTO: ‘Standards bodies need to stop arguing’

The chief technology officer on the £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT has told Computerworld UK that standards bodies must ‘stop arguing’ and work together, so that the NHS can deliver highly interoperable software in hospitals across the country.

Moody’s disciplines staff after £500m software code error

Credit ratings agency Moody’s is starting disciplinary action for some of its ratings staff and executives, amid a probe into a software error that incorrectly rated nearly $1bn (£500m) worth of a complex debt product.

Vision Express focuses on ITSM with new software

Vision Express has gone live with online IT service management software to help improve service levels and reporting.

Oracle spells out BEA roadmap

Oracle has presented a comprehensive roadmap for its recently acquired BEA Systems middleware technologies, making BEA's application server Oracle's strategic Java container and pledging continued support for BEA customers.

Taylor Woodrow turns to Google for core business apps

Construction giant will deploy web-based suite across 1800 seats

Google and Yahoo to offer Flash file search

Google and Yahoo are adding functionality that search inside the content of files encoded in Adobe's Flash file format -- SWF.

Microsoft boosts its interoperability efforts

Microsoft has unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents.

Government refuses to reveal NHS Fujitsu ‘termination’ details

The government has said it will not publish any details of cancellation clauses in Fujitsu’s £896 million contract with the NHS, or details of the termination notice, citing legal and confidentiality interests.

Google enhances BlackBerry users' experience

Search giant Google recently launched a number of enhancements to its US mobile search results pages for Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry browser.

Darzi NHS review promises patients online access to care records

Patients will have online access to their electronic health records within the next year, according to yesterday'’s review of the NHS by Lord Darzi.

Progress makes another SOA buy

Progress Software has purchased Mindreef, a Hollis, New Hampshire, maker of tools for testing SOAs (service oriented architectures). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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