Nathan Eddy

Space shuttle Atlantis crew members Michael Good and Garrett Reisman installed the final new battery, battery F, on one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS) during the mission’s third and final spacewalk. All six batteries the STS-132 mission delivered to the station are now installed. The astronauts completed the installation […]

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a provider of digital office equipment and document management solutions and services, announced the launch of the Ricoh HotSpot Printing application for BlackBerry smartphones. With this app, users will have a print option inside their BlackBerry e-mail client allowing the ability to search for and print to publicly available Ricoh HotSpot-enabled printers […]

The Federal Communications Commission adopted its 14th annual report on the state of competition in the mobile wireless industry, omitting a statement that would have described the industry as effectively competitive. It is the first time since the FCC’s 2002 report that the commission has failed to describe the industry as competitive. Unlike previous reports, […]

Space Shuttle Atlantis Final Flight in Pictures by Nathan Eddy Atlantis Backflip Backdropped by Earth, space shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crewmember as the shuttle approaches the International Space Station during STS-132 rendezvous and docking operations. Enjoying Microgravity STS-132 Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman takes advantage of the weightless […]

The term “Main Street” has become code for all that is right in America – especially in an election year – but it is a nebulous term when used to describe the economics of smaller, local businesses that make consumers spend their money there instead of a larger chain. A survey by local online marketing […]

Disk-based all-in-one backup appliances provider Unitrends announced the launch of Release 5, the latest version of its all-in-one backup appliance software. Featuring a new adaptive deduplication data reduction capability, vStorage-based (VDDK) VMware ESX and ESXi Backup, and a new implementation and features associated with its D2D2D (Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk) archiving subsystem, the company said Release 5 helps […]

NASA announced spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Michael Good of the space shuttle Atlantis installed the first of three new batteries, battery A on the B side of one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalkers completed the installation at two hours and 27 minutes into today’s spacewalk, the second […]

In an effort to expand its support for businesses and provide greater levels of service in the North and South Carolina regions, Canon U.S.A., provider of digital imaging and software solutions, has acquired the assets of Tereck Office Solutions. Tereck, based in North Carolina, will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A, the company […]

Caspio, an online database platform for creating Web applications without programming, announced the launch of its Access Migration Kit, which provides a package of tools and services for developers to bring their Microsoft Access databases online. With last week’s launch of Microsoft Office 2010, there has been a lot of attention surrounding the new Office […]

Sans Digital, a provider of storage subsystems, announced the launch of MobileNAS MN4LA+B, a 4-bay iSCSI and network attached storage unified storage tower utilizing Intel Atom-based Dual Core D510 CPUs with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Based on the existing EliteNAS and MobileNAS series that range from 1U 4-bay to 8U 50-bay rackmounts, the MN4LA+B provides […]

On its final mission, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis successfully brought the Russian Mini-Research Module-1, also known as Rassvet (Russian for “dawn”), to its permanent home on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. NASA said Rassvet will provide additional storage space and a new docking port for Russian spacecraft. Mission specialists […]

A report from IT management specialist Spiceworks found small to medium-size business IT professionals expect this year to be better than last, with business IT budgets up in 2010 as the economy seems to be stabilizing. However, the last six months of 2009 proved to be much harder on midmarket IT departments than IT professionals […]