TechWeb - InformationWeek - It's part of an effort to improve manufacturing as Boeing faces an order backlog of 3,600 planes, including the delayed Dreamliner 787. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A U.S. District Court Judge ruled the firm had to stop using its FaceTime instant messaging after failing to make a final payment to the contractor that provided it. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The agreement includes evaluation, benchmarking, and optimization of software for Intel architecture in Facebook's growing data centers. -- read full article
AP - Thomson Reuters Corp. has overhauled its instant messaging service to avoid a communications breakdown that threatened to alienate brokerages and banks that rely on the system to complete stock trades and exchange other sensitive information. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Free Software Foundation, unhappy with Apple's restrictions on the iPhone, is urging members to overload the appointment schedule at the Genius Bars. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Though it's been less than a month since Firefox 3's blast-off into the Internet and a software download record, Mozilla developers have already distributed a very early preview of the next upgrade to the increasingly popular browser, code-named Shiretoko. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A judge told Thomson Reuters it had to stop using its instant messaging software by Friday after a payment dispute with the contractor providing the technology. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The operating system is being designed from the ground up to support Internet-based computing and multicore architectures. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - We've pulled together a passel of little-known software backup and repair techniques so you won't have to reinstall Vista from scratch, if it gets trashed or hits a fatal startup error. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Video chat software and service firm ooVoo has increased its video quality to 30 frames per second at VGA resolution in version 1.7, and added a Web client. -- read full article
AP - Thomson Reuters Corp. must remove a crucial layer of software from its instant messaging service beginning Friday under a federal court order that threatens to disrupt communications within dozens of stock brokerages and banks. -- read full article
