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Tech Headlines for July 2, 2009
FAA Gets Its New Virtualized Flight-Plan System Off the Ground
EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States.
- The people whose job it is to clear aircraft for takeoff, help guide you to your destination and get you safely back down on the ground finally have some powerful new open-standards computer systems up and running to help them do their work more reliably. The Federal Aviation Administration has e...



iPhone 3GS Tops Consumer Reports Ranking, with Palm Pre Close Behind
The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider its testing model.
- The Apple iPhone 3GS topped Consumer Reports newest smartphone ratings, according to the blog of the no-nonsense magazine that Americans have trusted for its unbiased reviews since 1936. The iPhone 3GS was not, however, a runaway winner, with the keyboard-boasting Palm Pre following clo...



Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the Enterprise
Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. In-box socialization is table stakes for software makers that want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier for workers to find company colleagues.
- For Google Apps users who have been waiting for the software-as-a-service suite to resemble some of today's social networks for businesses, Google is surfacing Gmail contacts more readily within companies. When corporate employees search for a contact in Gmail, they'll see relevant contacts from ...



Five Continuing Trends in Data Storage
As we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a short list of key continuing trends in data storage, based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs -- even a few former industry executives now blissfully retired and simply watching this evolution with continued amazement.
- Data storage historically has been thought of as a solid, super-important but not-very-exciting sector of IT. Well, quot;not-very-exciting quot; is a value judgment made strictly in the mind of the beholder, and storage certainly is not a newsless valley in the overall IT landscape. New products...



CSC to Resell Microsoft Cloud Services
CSC announces an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell the software giant's cloud-based online services.
- CSC has announced an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online services. Under the agreement, CSC will resell the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services. The move is an expansion of a cloud services an...



Labs Gallery: Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to VMware with SMP Support
VirtualBox, Sun's open-source, cross-platform desktop virtualization product, now boasts support for multiple guest processors. Starting with Version 3.0, which began shipping on June 30, Sun's virtualization tool can expose up to 32 virtual processors to its guest instances. The rest of the changes in VirtualBox 3.0 are primarily bug fixes and tweaks. Even so, the non-free workstation products from VMware and Parallels will seem a little less shiny now that VirtualBox is sporting its SMP chops.
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