Nathan Eddy

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 […]

At about 8 a.m. EST this morning, space shuttle Atlantis spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen switched their suits to battery power, signifying the start of today’s 6.5-hour excursion for the STS-132 mission and the first of three planned spacewalks. According to NASA officials, Atlantis Pilot Tony Antonelli will be inside the International Space Station […]

Network infrastructure startup Infineta Systems introduced its groundbreaking system architecture to power a new generation of products to address the urgent need for very high-speed enterprise data center interconnects. At the center of this architecture is Infineta’s Velocity Dedupe Engine, a hardware-based data reduction technology designed to increase levels of throughput, scalability and bandwidth capacity […]

Synology America May 17 launched the DiskStation DS210+, a secure NAS server aimed at small to medium-size business users designed to share and back up data. The company claims the DS210+ is ideal for users who require a reliable data storage solution and high-performance file sharing. The small form factor and its encryption ability make […]

Countdown activities continue on schedule as teams across NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare for the 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis. The space agency announced Atlantis’ external tank is fully loaded with more than a half million gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The fueling process started on time […]

GPS-based fleet optimization products and services specialist Navman Wireless announced the addition of route compliance reporting to its OnlineAVL2 fleet tracking software, providing an AVL-integrated SMB solution for monitoring driver adherence to daily routing schedules. Version 10.1 also includes an expansion of OnlineAVL2’s messaging platform for in-vehicle communication between drivers and dispatchers, new vehicle clustering […]

The video game industry experienced its worst year-over-year decline in April since July 2009, and the fourth largest year-over-year percentage decline ever after September 2000, June 2009 and July 2009, with sales falling 26 percent, to $766.2 million, from the same period last year. Year-to-date sales declined 11 percent compared with 2009, with 2010 totals […]

The countdown is on for Friday’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians at Launch Pad 39A continued preparations for the liftoff at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The rotating service structure will be moved away from the spacecraft at 5:30 p.m. today. During the […]

Security specialist McAfee announced its strategy to advance the security options for virtualized environments that would provide stronger and optimized security controls helping customers maximize their current and future investments in virtualization. McAfee said it is currently developing a platform and application programming interface to provide a framework that will accelerate and address the specific […]