How $100 Oil Could Help

Pricey crude hurts in all sorts of fiscal ways—but it could also spur crucial investment in alternative fuels

Fresh Pain for the Uninsured

As doctors and hospitals turn to GE, Citigroup, and smaller rivals to finance patient care, the sick pay much more

Hollywood Launches Legal Digital Copying of DVD Movies

Buyers of the new 'Live Free or Die Hard' and 'Harry Potter' movie DVDs will be allowed to make digital copies. But are these efforts enough to stem illegal activities?

Hollywood Launches Legal Digital Copying of DVD Movies

Buyers of the new 'Live Free or Die Hard' and 'Harry Potter' movie DVDs will be allowed to make digital copies. But are these offers enough to stem illegal activities?

Behind Freddie and Fannie's Free Fall

Analysts slash ratings and investors trounce share prices as the home financiers post huge third-quarter losses

Stocks: Five Overstuffed Turkeys

These companies are doing well, but there are signs investors may have indulged a bit too much on their shares

Amazon Kindle Review: Igniting Interest in E-Books?

The Web retail giant nails some aspects of its Kindle e-book reader and service, but misses others by a mile.

Amazon Kindle Review: Igniting Interest in E-Books?

The Web retail giant nails some aspects of its Kindle e-book reader and service, but misses others by a mile.

The Fed Takes a Gloomier View

The release of the minutes from the Oct. 30-31 policy meeting—and new economic forecasts from the central bank—show a more downbeat outlook on growth

Analyst Actions: HP, Nordstrom, Consol Energy

Opinions from analysts around Wall Street Tuesday

S&P Picks and Pans: Freddie, HP, Target, Comerica, D.R. Horton

Analyst opinions on stocks making headlines Tuesday

Amazon Kindle Finds a New Use for 3G

Amazon's method for delivering e-books to its Kindle readers may present a new use for mobile data networks.

Amazon Kindle Finds a New Use for 3G

Amazon's method for delivering e-books to its Kindle readers may present a new use for mobile data networks.

Stocks Move Higher in Early Trading

Market players Tuesday weighed a surprising increase in October housing starts and news of a big loss at Freddie Mac

Informatica: The last enterprise software indie?

With mergers-and-acquisitions fever sweeping the enterprise-software space, is Informatica destined to be the last indie standing? And when does cussed independence become less appealing than the money train?

Are we asking too much of mobility?

Columnist Craig J. Mathias would like to use his mobile phone to do any work that he does at his desk, but his wireless efforts lately have been a struggle lately. Is he asking too much?

Sun advances file-sharing with Windows

The goal is to implement Common Internet File System on both the client and server sides to help with the interoperability effort, Sun says.

Kindle to ignite trend for more consumer wireless devices

The portable reader the Kindle is the first consumer device in an emerging market of gadgets that analysts predict will connect to wireless networks at no additional cost because they have limited function and data use.

Microsoft wading through 3,522 comments on Open XML standards bid

The software vendor has started responding to several thousand objections and suggestions about its proposal to have the Office Open XML file format certified as an ISO standard.

Microsoft, unlike Oracle, embraces third-party virtualization platforms

While Oracle is apparently looking to push customers toward its new virtualization platform, Microsoft appears to be doing just the opposite.