Nathan Eddy

The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center this morning at 9:08 a.m. Eastern Time after a journey of 238 orbits around Earth and more than 6.2 million miles. The scheduled Monday landing had been delayed due to worries over rainy, foggy conditions. Weather conditions brought the […]

Genpact Limited, a specialist in managing business processes, and NetSuite, a vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, announced a strategic partnership designed to leverage the growing power and popularity of cloud computing with an aim to transform and modernize business process management. The partnership brings together the strengths of the NetSuite cloud business […]

OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI Printing Solutions brand, announces the addition of two series of digital color printers designed for medium and large workgroups with the launch of the C610 Series and the C711 Series. Both series offer HD (high-definition) Color Technology and come in four configurations that deliver a […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard drew attention to the company’s commitment to open standards and the importance of newly acquired network infrastructure specialist 3Com’s presence in China during a conference call detailing HP’s plans for a comprehensive networking portfolio. David Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking business unit, opened […]

Arista Networks introduced the Arista 7500, a switching platform for maximizing data center performance, efficiency and overall network reliability. Introduced at the High Performance Computing Linux Financial Markets trade show in New York, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switching platform, which offers 10 terabits per second of switching capacity and 384 wirespeed L2/L3 10GbE ports […]

Cloud security specialist Panda Security announced the general availability of Panda Cloud Internet Protection (PCIP), a cloud-based security service that helps protect small to medium-size businesses from Internet-borne threats, including botnets, phishing, cross-site scripting and other Web 2.0 attacks. The service offers policy enforcement, data leak prevention and reporting capabilities. The solution is currently available, […]

While some people may think their ability to multitask comes easily, a report published in the current issue of Science magazine suggests the brain’s two lobes automatically divides the ability to do two tasks in half, and the report warned overloading the brain with several tasks simultaneously reduces its ability to function as effectively. The […]

GFI Software, an infrastructure provider for small to medium-sized businesses released GFI Backup 2010 Business Edition. The company said the backup solution is ideally suited for IT administrators who want to create a single backup/restore task and apply it across the entire network, saving time in configuring multiple tasks as well as maintaining them when […]

After several months of sales declines, the video game industry posted some good news for the month of March, recording a 6 percent rise in overall sales compared with the same period last year. According to The NPD Group, which tracks the industry’s economic performance, the sales in March totaled $1.52 billion, up from $1.44 […]

Toshiba, Seagate, Iomega Offer 1TB, 500GB Compact Storage Devices by Nathan Eddy Toshiba 500GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Dive ($77.54) This stylish, ultraportable storage drive offers 500GB of space and is capable of storing up to 142,000 digital photos, 131,000 digital music files or 410 downloaded digital movies. Also included is a complete system […]

Despite a federal appeals court ruling that concluded the Federal Communications Commission lacked the authority to regulate the Internet, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, told lawmakers the ruling would not affect the body’s decision to go ahead with the National Broadband Plan. Entitled “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan,” the […]

The technology spending freeze of late 2009 is showing signs of thawing among small to medium-size businesses, according to a survey by networking management specialist Spiceworks. The vast majority is seeing overall IT budgets and spending rise in the first half of 2010, according to the survey, State of SMB IT April 2010. The survey […]