The Tax-Rebate Scramble

Big-box chains are devising crafty ways to coax stimulus checks into their cash registers

How I Became a Little-Guy Lender

Lending site Prosper gives average folks the opportunity to be small-scale angel investors by funding other people's loans

More Pain for Ambac

The bond insurer's "crisis of confidence" continues with deeper-than-expected losses in the first quarter

Liberty Mutual Pays Up for Safeco

The 51% premium may inspire awe, but Liberty Mutual may have a plan to improve Safeco's auto insurance business

A CluE in the Search for Data-Intensive Computing

The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a solicitation for proposals for the new Cluster Exploratory (CluE) initiative. The CluE program was announced in February as a part of a relationship between Google, IBM and NSF. NSF hopes this initiative will help lead to innovations in the field of data-intensive computing, as well as serve as an example for future collaborations between the private sector and the ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111470&govDel=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

Catching a Glimpse of a Black Hole's Fury

Using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and a host of international telescope partners, a team of researchers has made the clearest observation yet of innermost region of a black hole.From the observations, astronomers found strong evidence that the enormous jets of particles emitted by supermassive black holes are corkscrewed in a way predicted by theory. The researchers believe the coiling is a result of twisted magnetic fields acting on the ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111487&govDel=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

Sorry, MSN Music "Buyers!"

As I've said before, I don't have any religious opposition to the very notion of Digital Rights Management. But boy, does DRM in the real world keep turning out to be a compelling argument for the elimination of DRM, period....

Sorry, MSN Music "Buyers!"

As I've said before, I don't have any religious opposition to the very notion of Digital Rights Management. But boy, does DRM in the real world keep turning out to be a compelling argument for the elimination of DRM, period....

Onkyo TX-SR805 Home-Theater Receiver

The first home-theater receiver to decode DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD from Blu-ray movies produces phenomenal sound.

Analyst Actions: Yahoo, VMware, Edwards Lifesciences

S&P Picks and Pans: Boeing, Yahoo, Delta, Schering-Plough, Ambac, Wells Fargo

Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Wednesday

Movers: Boeing, Yahoo, Schering-Plough, Safeco, VMware

Wednesday's stocks in the news

Stocks Open Higher

More earnings news hit Wall Street, with strong results from Boeing but a huge quarterly loss from bond insurer Ambac

Josh Brolin

More than two decades after starting as an actor, Josh Brolin finally got heaps of praise in 2007, thanks to dramatic roles in American Gangster ... more

Unlimited Voice Calls: I'm Not Impressed

Four major U.S. cell carriers offer all-you-can-eat voice-call plans, but they're pricey--and the drawbacks abound.

Unlimited Voice Calls: I'm Not Impressed

Four major U.S. cell carriers offer all-you-can-eat voice-call plans, but they're pricey--and the drawbacks abound.