Apple's iPhone SDK Strategy Both Promotes and Stifles Innovation

The long-anticipated iPhone SDK announcement grants many of developers' greatest wishes, but does it still leave Apple too much control over the platform?

Apple's iPhone SDK Strategy Both Promotes and Stifles Innovation

The long-anticipated iPhone SDK announcement grants many of developers' greatest wishes, but does it still leave Apple too much control over the platform?

Bonds Are Saying Nasty Things About Stocks

Bond and stock investors have not been seeing eye-to-eye lately, and that could mean trouble for stocks

Stocks: Should You Ride the Cyclicals?

S&P's latest list turns up 34 attractive names from the energy, materials, industrials, and information technology sectors

OLPC Searches for a New CEO, Reorganizes

OLPC has reorganized into four operating units -- technology, deployment, market development, and fundraising and administration -- over the past month.

OLPC Searches for a New CEO, Reorganizes

OLPC has reorganized into four operating units -- technology, deployment, market development, and fundraising and administration -- over the past month.

Thornburg Defaults Spark More Credit Fears

Shares of the company plummett after it failed to meet margin calls

Apple Throws the iPhone Apps Door Wide Open

Developers now have the same tools at their disposal that Apple uses to develop applications for the iPhone.

Apple Throws the iPhone Apps Door Wide Open

Developers now have the same tools at their disposal that Apple uses to develop applications for the iPhone.

IPhone Takes on the BlackBerry

Apple today announced a strong push to help businesses incorporate the iPhone, putting RIM's popular BlackBerry handheld devices directly in the iPhone's sights.

IPhone Takes on the BlackBerry

Apple today announced a strong push to help businesses incorporate the iPhone, putting RIM's popular BlackBerry handheld devices directly in the iPhone's sights.

Jerks on the Web, Apps for the iPhone, and Linux PCs

Readers add to a list of bad behavior on the Web, propose iPhone apps, and take issue with our cheap Linux PC review.

Jerks on the Web, Apps for the iPhone, and Linux PCs

Readers add to a list of bad behavior on the Web, propose iPhone apps, and take issue with our cheap Linux PC review.

Vital Signs: Consumers' Lost Buying Power

Coming next: January data on international trade and business inventories, and key February reports on retail sales and consumer prices

Memory on Trial

The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more reliable. But what if the legal system had it wrong?Researchers Valerie Reyna, human development professor, and Chuck Brainerd, human development and law school professor-- both from Cornell University -- argue that like the two-headed Roman god Janus, memory is of two ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111230&govDel=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

Analyst Actions: Thornburg Mortgage, Zumiez, Coldwater Creek

Vernor Vinge

Science fiction author Vernor Vinge has won Hugo awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1996) and Rainbows End (2006). A published story ... more

S&P Picks and Pans: Merrill, Thornburg, PetSmart, NOV, Trump

Analyst opinions on stocks making headlines in Thursday's market

GPS Devices Find Their Way to Cebit

GPS navigation devices and related software took center stage at Cebit this year.

GPS Devices Find Their Way to Cebit

GPS navigation devices and related software took center stage at Cebit this year.