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Emirates Launches First In-Flight Mobile Phone Calls

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Emirates has become the first commercial airline in the world to provide in-flight mobile telephony service to passengers, the company said. The first authorized mobile phone call from a commercial flight was made Thursday at 30,000 feet on board an Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft flying from Dubai to Casablanca in ...

NYSE Switches To Linux

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year. Flexibility and lower cost are among the goals. "What we want is to be able to take advantage of technology advances ...

Google Mobile Maps Now With MyLocation

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Google Maps for mobile phones has announced a new feature called My Location. My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS. Simply fire up Google Maps for mobile, press [0], ...

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