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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.

Google holds contest for developers

If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge to a programmer, then this year's Google Code Jam may be of interest.

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.

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.

Sun backs Zembly social networking project

Sun Microsystems is sponsoring a project for building and hosting social applications that would run on social network sites like Facebook and OpenSocial.

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.

Reliance Security reduces software testing time by 80%

Reliance Security Services has reduced software testing times by 80 percent after long development and testing cycles had meant users were losing confidence in its systems.

Mobile Linux groups join forces

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is folding its activities and joining the alternative LiMo Foundation from next month.

Judge lets settlement in ConnectU vs. Facebook stand

Dating website ConnectU won't get more money out of Facebook after the two settled a dispute earlier this year.

Betfair builds in-house platform for faster transactions

Betfair has built an in-house transaction processing and event platform, which it says has the capability of processing up to one million transactions per second, a 100-fold increase on previous rates.

Endeavors offers free application streaming

Endeavors Technologies has launched a free, fully functional version of its Application Jukebox product, an application streaming technology.

Progress beefs up SOA with Iona purchase

Progress Software is buying fellow SOA (service oriented architecture) infrastructure vendor Iona Technologies, which recently indicated it was looking for a potential suitor.

Eclipse to announce 23 updates

The Eclipse Foundation is set to make available today its annual coordinated release of open source projects, which this year includes some 18 million lines of code and updates to 23 different projects.

Ubuntu releases developer kit for mobile devices

Ubuntu Linux has released the first developers' version of its new Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 operating system, aimed at device manufacturers.

Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organisation's web server, according to the Ruby development team.

Govt hires ex-Logica boss to oversee IT

The government has hired Martin Read, Logica's former chief executive, to conduct a thorough review of its IT projects after many have gone over budget or failed to deliver on their original targets.

Red Hat Summit panel: Who 'won' OOXML battle?

A Microsoft official said Wednesday that Open Document Format (ODF) has clearly benefited from the two-year fight over the OOXML standard.

Wine 1.0 finally launched

Developers are celebrating the release of version 1.0 of the Wine emulation software. The occasion was noted by the opening of a few bottles of wine....what else?

JBoss joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2

Red Hat on Tuesday made its JBoss Java middleware available through Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, eight months after it gave customers access to its Enterprise Linux on its technology partner's computing infrastructure.

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