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Sainsbury’s website down, again

Sainsburys.co.uk has suffered its second major outage in a month.

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.

Viacom gets YouTube data, but Google keeps code

Google need not reveal its search code to Viacom, but its YouTube subsidiary must disclose a database listing who watched what video, when, and from where, a New York judge ordered this week.

Dresdner Kleinwort moves datacentre out of London

Dresdner Kleinwort is moving a key datacentre out of London's Docklands area, in a bid to cut energy bills and improve power reliability.

Barracuda slaps counter-suit on Trend Micro

Barracuda Networks is counter-suing Trend Micro for infringement of three security patents that Barracuda acquired earlier this year from IBM, the company has announced.

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.

Equifax bolsters border security

Equifax, a credit report company has chosen network-access-control technology to make sure contractors and employees access its network with machines that meet the firm's security requirements.

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.

IM to overtake email in business claims IDC

Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake email as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.

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.

Opera fixes critical hole in new browser

Opera Software has patched the newest version of its flagship browser for the first time when it released Opera 9.5.1 to fix several flaws.

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.

Google Yahoo partnership still being investigated

The partnership between Google and Yahoo is still being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Google gives away free Web application security scanner

Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications.

Intel and AMD grow after price war truce

Both Intel and AMD enjoyed gains in the first quarter of 2008 as the price war between rival chipmakers slowed.

Fibre-optic broadband grows faster than cable

Fibre-based broadband is growing faster than cable for the first time.

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.

Microsoft partners with Micro Focus to boost Cobol on Windows

Micro Focus and Microsoft have sigend an agreement to bolster efforts to enable Cobol-based mainframe applications to run on Windows and also plan a version of CICS for .Net.

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