As the sun peeked through the clouds Monday, business representatives throughout the region assessed what a weekend of near-constant rain meant for them.

— Oct. 30, 2008 — The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG) announced it is working on a specification to standardize small-format storage.

The country's economic uncertainty is actually helping one North State business. Tom King, the owner of Sutter Surplus Sales in Marysville, says customers are stocking up on supplies in case of full-on economic disaster.

Brocade Communications Systems rode a boom in networked storage to double-digit revenue growth and earnings that beat analysts' expectations in its fiscal third quarter.

The same credit problems that have hit many a home mortgage holder are also threatening to unplug troubled electronics big-box store Circuit City. The nation's second-largest seller of consumer electronics said Monday it will close 155 stores, lay off up