Nathan Eddy

Teambox, a developer of social-powered online collaboration tools, announced today the release of Version 3.0 of Teambox, a work management solution for freelancers, self-employed, small business owners and large teams. It is an online collaboration tool that allows individuals both within and outside of an organization to work together in a social setting. Users can […]

Astronauts Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff completed a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk at 7:39 a.m. on May 27, NASA reported. The primary objectives for the spacewalk were accomplished, including stowing the 50-foot-long boom and adding a power and data grapple fixture to make it the Enhanced International Space Station Boom Assembly, available to extend the reach […]

Both Hewlett-Packard and Xerox have made acquisitions in an effort to bolster their managed print services. Technology giant HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of MSP provider Printelligent. The infrastructure, software and trained workforce of Printelligent, combined with HP’s channel relationships and base of services and […]

Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of small businesses surveyed by Newtek Business Services said they have never heard of cloud computing, underlining a fundamental lack of knowledge about the technology. Based on a poll of approximately 1,800 respondents, the survey found only 26 percent of those who had heard of cloud computing could describe what it […]

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Space shuttle Endeavour’s crew completed an inspection of the shuttle’s thermal protection system the morning of May 26, NASA reported. The crew began the inspection early and used the 50-foot-long Orbiter Boom Sensor System to conduct a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry – the […]

Technology giant Intel has launched the AppUp Small Business Service, an offering running on the company’s Hybrid Cloud platform that is designed to enable server manufacturers, software vendors and service providers to offer small businesses the advantages of cloud computing with applications and data running on their own premises. Intel’s AppUp Small Business Service represents […]

Email management solutions company Red Earth Software introduced Policy Patrol Archiver, a new email archiving and e-discovery solution for small to medium-size businesses using Microsoft Exchange Server. Policy Patrol Archiver now helps SMBs meet compliancy needs, reduce Exchange store size and boost Exchange performance. Policy Patrol Archiver automatically stores emails in a centralized archive location, […]

Are the days of paying for your purchases at the traditional cash register coming to an end? According to the CEO of tech startup Square, that’s the way the world should be going. The company, headed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has developed an application for the Apple iPad, iPhone and Android-powered devices that turns […]

A survey from Constant Contact found that social media marketing has surged to be a top contender in small businesses’ marketing tool kit; 73 percent of small businesses report using social media to market their business, and this appears to be a growing trend. Of those who are not currently using social media marketing, 62 […]

More than seven in 10 SMBs that use cloud-based storage solutions also use networked-attached storage, according to a recent In-Stat survey. While SMB NAS represents a smaller portion of the total NAS market, it is expected to grow at a much faster rate over the forecast period, with revenues reaching $2 billion in 2015, said […]

There are more technology job openings in a single day on Dice’s career site than there are computer science grads ready to join American businesses, according to a report from Dice Holdings, which runs a career site for technology and engineering professionals. In California, that ratio is 3-to-1, the company noted, and the number of […]