D.B. Cooper

The original jumping skyjacker, D.B. Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland, Oregon on 24 November 1971 -- the eve of Thanksgiving. Once aloft he threatened to blow up the plane and ... more

Life Sciences Stocks: A Healthy Outlook

S&P likes the fundamentals of one of the stronger-performing subindustries this year, and has buy ratings on seven names

Samsung SCH-i760, From Verizon

With the addition of the Samsung SCH-i760, Verizon gives its ho-hum selection of Windows Mobile 6 smart phones a much-needed boost.

Samsung SCH-i760, From Verizon

With the addition of the Samsung SCH-i760, Verizon gives its ho-hum selection of Windows Mobile 6 smart phones a much-needed boost.

Really Fast Phones Coming in 2008, Verizon Says

Verizon will use a technology that will give individual users performance comparable to today's wired broadband For its fourth-generation network.

Stocks: Too Early to Jump Back In

S&P's chief technical analyst thinks it may take some more time for major indexes to trace out a bottom

Analyst Actions: Fannie Mae, E*Trade, Citigroup, EchoStar

Opinions from analysts around Wall Street on Monday

Lowe's: The Housing Chill Deepens

Shares in the home-improvement retailer sank Monday after it cut its sales and profit outlook for 2008

Frequently Asked Photo Questions for November

Take better banquet photos, recover deleted photos, improve your action shots, and more.

Frequently Asked Photo Questions for November

Take better banquet photos, recover deleted photos, improve your action shots, and more.

Mass Effect: Xbox 360 Game Doesn't Live Up to its Hype

Beautifully rendered with an above-average plot, Bioware's new sci-fi epic for the Xbox 360 still turns out to be a disappointingly overhyped encore to Microsoft's main holiday act in gaming, Halo 3.

Mass Effect: Xbox 360 Game Doesn't Live Up to its Hype

Beautifully rendered with an above-average plot, Bioware's new sci-fi epic for the Xbox 360 still turns out to be a disappointingly overhyped encore to Microsoft's main holiday act in gaming, Halo 3.

S&P Picks and Pans: Xerox, AMAT, XL Capital, Celgene, M&I

Analyst opinions on stocks making headlines Monday

Amazon Unveils E-Book Reader, Download Service

Kindle users can download thousands of titles plus periodicals and Web fare from Whispernet.

Amazon Unveils Wireless Kindle E-Book Reader

With the $399 Kindle, Amazon's first hardware offering, users can download thousands of titles, plus periodicals and Web fare from Whispernet.

Q&A: Eyeing IT spin-offs through an R&D lens

David Tennenhouse, a former research and development director at Intel and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, talks in an interview about his new job as a venture capitalist.

Benchmarks Last Week

Brief items about notable IT developments, both present and past.

Short Takes

Brief IT news items.

Oracle Claims Early Wins in Battle With Red Hat

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told an audience at the OpenWorld user conference that the company now provides Linux support to 1,500 users, a significant boost to its effort to challenge Red Hat.

Paglo unveils free IT infrastructure search engine

An IT search engine start-up said it will soon launch beta software that will allow businesses to scour and search all of the IT data from their networks, computers and security systems from a free, Web-based application.