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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 schedule aircraft for takeoff, help guide passengers to their destinations and get them 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 Admini...

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 Su...
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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10 Additional Ways to Geek Out Your Office
Anyone can dress up the office with Ikea lamps and funky furniture, but if you want to truly stand out you have to find the objects and accessories no one else is going to have. Sure, an office desk crafted from an airplane wing may not be your style, but for the tech geek who wants it all, eWEEK presents 10 cool ways to customize your cube, including unusual iPhone docking stations, flying alarm clocks and even an ejection seat.
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Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers
Cisco and VMware are working on a proof-of-concept around the idea of using VMwares VMotion technology to move live virtual machines between multiple data centers, a capability that would aid in such areas as load balancing, data center maintenance and disaster avoidance. The two companies demonstrated the proof-of-concept during the Cisco Live show. However, VMware officials warn that more work needs to be done to make the concept a reality.
- Cisco Systems and VMware are developing ways that enterprises can use VMwares VMotion technology to move live virtual machines from one data center to another. The two companies showed off a proof-of-concept at the Cisco Live 2009 show in San Francisco, and demonstrated the capabilities during ...

How to Improve IT Cyber-Security with Visual Analytics
Few disciplines require the comprehension of as much information in so little time as computer security. With billions of data records piling up daily for large organizations, no technique holds as much promise as using computer-generated images to tell the story of what's in the data a process known as visual analytics. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Justin Wolf explains how to use visual analytics to improve IT cyber-security.
- Data visualization has been around for decades, but modern desktop computers finally possess the power to turn raw data into interactive displays for analysis, enabling computer security analysts to use visual analytics techniques to solve daily problems. Although many other tools exist to assi...

Mozilla Rushing to Fix Firefox 3.5 Bugs
Mozilla plans to release a patched version of its latest browser, to be named Firefox 3.5.1, in response to certain bugs that have revealed themselves following Firefox 3.5's June 30 release. Firefox 3.5 offers new features such as extensive support for HTML 5, faster speeds than previous versions, and support for JSON and Web worker threads.
- Mozilla will rush out a patch to its Firefox 3.5 browser to correct a number of bugs that users have cited as causing them issues. The patch, if it proceeds on schedule, will be released later in July. The patched version will be named Firefox 3.5.1 and include a fix to the browsers JavaScript ...

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