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HMRC IT delays leave 35 million unprocessed tax cases

HMRC IT delays leave 35 million unprocessed tax cases

HM Revenue & Customs has queued 35 million tax cases for manual processing, directly as a result of severe delays to a new IT system rollout.

McDonald’s serves up five year outsourcing renewal

McDonald’s serves up five year outsourcing renewal

McDonald’s has signed a five year extension to its global IT outsourcing agreement with Affiliated Computer Services.

Software testing still under-resourced

Over half of companies (55.7%) do not spend enough on software testing, according to a survey of … software testers.

HMRC switches off 19 online systems for tests

HMRC switches off 19 online systems for tests

HM Revenue & Customs switched off 19 key online services, the majority over the whole weekend, in order to thoroughly test an upgrade to its systems.

IBM promotes developer products

IBM also announced software delivery solutions for automating development tasks and team collaboration and streamlining asset lifecycle management

Microsoft gives away model based software tool

The technology leverages model-based testing techniques

IT managers must face up to energy waste says Gartner

Data centre and IT managers are not paying attention to the process of measuring and monitoring energy use in data centres, according to a poll conducted by Gartner.

Google hosts Java language project

Google is hosting a language project called Noop, which initially targets the Java Virtual Machine and is intended to encourage industry best practices and discourage "worst offenses."

Microsoft ramps up the Windows 7 marketing machine

Microsoft today touted the experience of enterprises that have already started to deploy its coming operating system, Windows 7.

IBM develops Google-beating video search tool

IBM, working with researchers in Europe, claims to have developed a better way to search online for photos and videos than current methods used by Google and Yahoo.

Novel cooling solution boosts energy efficiency

A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of data centre cooling.

VMware targets Amazon with pay-as-you-go cloud

VMware targets Amazon with pay-as-you-go cloud

VMware is rolling out vCloud Express, a new service that will allow service providers to offer customers access to an Amazon-like pay-as-you-go cloud.

Apps development budgets grow despite recession

Apps development budgets grow despite recession

There is growing funding for business critical software development projects, according to a new survey from software development outsourcer SoftServe.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 hits final beta

Microsoft Exchange 2010 hits final beta

Microsoft has issued the final beta on Exchange Server 2010 along with the final beta of its security companion, Forefront for Exchange Sever

Microsoft Windows 7 free for beta testers

Microsoft Windows 7 free for beta testers

Microsoft will hand out free Windows 7 Ultimate copies to the initiation-only testers who received the very earliest builds last year.

REST versus SOAP war overblown

REST versus SOAP war overblown

The claim that there's a web services war saying that there's little conflict between SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services has been dismissed by a leading expert.

Tibco offers elastic cloud for developers

Tibco offers elastic cloud for developers

Tibco is to launch Silver, a new application delivery platform that aims to meet the concerns that the enterprises have about the cloud.

Windows 7's XP emulation 'will cause support nightmares'

Windows 7's XP emulation 'will cause support nightmares'

A new Microsoft add-on for Windows 7 that will let some users run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine could create support nightmares for IT managers, analysts have said.

Sun's open source chief slams Google over Java support

Sun's open source chief slams Google over Java support

Google's decision to only include support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development platform, is a major mistake, according to Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps.

Companies overestimate offshoring savings

Companies overestimate offshoring savings

The recession is pushing businesses to cut the cost of their software portfolios, but most companies overestimate the savings that offshoring can deliver, according to Compass Management Consulting.

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