Nathan Eddy

While economic confidence among the nation’s small-business owners continued to improve in November, according to the Discover Small Business Watch, 25 percent of small business owners said the economy is getting better in December, down from 33 percent in November. In addition, the survey found 51 percent of small-business owners said it is getting worse, […]

If finding a new job is high on many peoples’ lists of New Year’s resolutions, the prospects are likely to improve to some degree, according to CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast. Compared with 2010, more employers plan to add full-time, permanent headcount in 2011, with a continued emphasis on hiring in technology and revenue-producing fields. The […]

Wondershare Software, a provider of consumer software, announced the release of Data Recovery for Mac 1.0.0, which can recover lost data, including documents, archives, photos, videos, and audio files on Mac OS X. For a single-user license, the regular price is listed at $89.95, though a company release stated a sale price of $69.95 for […]

The cloud computing division of i-Technosoft announced its service availability for SharePoint 2010 Cloud Hosting, which offers a broader selection of features, including FAST search, access Web services, Excel services, Visio service, performance point, business-intelligence services, and a rich and interactive dashboard for reporting. The company has been gradually rolling out hosted versions of Microsoft […]

10 iPhone Apps to Ring in the 2011 New Year by Nathan Eddy Times Square New Years Eve Ball App (Free) All the insanity of New Year’s in New York City beamed to your phone. Check in with friends via Facebook and Twitter, and post your own New Year’s Eve photos. Party Whistle (Free) Turn […]

Apple is planning to release three different versions of its update to the popular iPad tablet, according to Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes. The claims come on the heels of a report published earlier this week in the publication, which quoted unnamed Apple iPhone suppliers saying Apple had raised first quarter 2011 iPhone shipments. The iPads […]

Discoverys Final Flight, ISS and Beyond: NASAs Memorable 2010 by Nathan Eddy Space Shuttle Discovery Grounded During the 11-day STS-133 mission, Discovery will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, on its 39th and final mission. New Directions In February, NASA awarded $50 million in Space Act Agreements: The contracts are for the development of crew concepts […]

MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, a macroeconomic report tracking national retail and services sales, provided summary results for e-commerce sales over the full 2010 holiday shopping season. During the period Oct. 31 to Dec. 24, U.S. consumers spent an estimated $36.4 billion, a 15.4 percent year-on-year increase over the 2009 holiday season. In terms of share, online […]

ConnectWise, a provider of business management solutions designed for IT service providers, value added resellers and managed service providers, announced that VirtualTone has completed integration with ConnectWise. VirtualTone’s latest feature, the VTone Sidebar, provides total integration of VirtualTone’s inbound and outbound IP calling capabilities with ConnectWise’s Business Automation Software to help enhance the productivity and […]

With sales of the fourth generation of its popular iPhone smartphone still going strong, computer maker Apple is taking steps to ensure supply meets demand. The company raised its shipment goal for the first quarter of 2011 to around 20 million iPhones, the technology blog DigiTimes reported. The blog quoted unnamed component suppliers based in […]

The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by International Launch Services. Built for Eutelsat by Astrium using the Eurostar E3000 platform, the KA-SAT is a new generation of multi-spotbeam satellite. Its concept is based on a payload with 82 narrow spotbeams connected to […]

Marketing and research specialist Infogroup, a provider of local business listings and points of interest (POI) data for navigation, local search and location-based service applications, announced that its ExpressUpdate service now offers local and national businesses the opportunity to include additional information in their business listings. ExpressUpdate provides a single-step process for both Infogroup data […]