The Cream of the Mid-Cap Crop

Mid-cap stocks are sitting pretty compared with their larger counterparts. S&P's latest screen identifies 22 attractive names in the group

Don't Let the Rules Overtax Your Retirement

When planning for retirement, make sure you know how these rules could change your financial picture after age 70

Redfly Mobile Companion

Redfly offers a unique, handy way to expand the capabilities of your smart phone.

Redfly Mobile Companion

Redfly offers a unique, handy way to expand the capabilities of your smart phone.

Jobs: A Slowing Slowdown?

Action Economics expects a larger decline in payrolls in May, but encouraging news in other parts of the month's employment report

A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA. Since there are no physical records of what the first primitive cells on Earth looked like, or how they grew and divided, the research team's protocell project offers a useful way to learn about how Earth's earliest cells may have interacted with their environment approximately 3.5 billion years ago. The protocell's ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111652&govDel=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

Stashing Cash at Higher Rates

Though rates have dropped dramatically, some online banks are offering as much as 3.5% for savings accounts. It pays to look around

Stocks End Mixed

Worries eased over Lehman Brothers, but bond insurers faced more trouble. Smuckers agreed to buy Procter & Gamble's Folgers coffee business

Legendary Game Designer Calls It Quits

Famed Japanese designer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden, is leaving the company he helped build up

Movers: MBIA, Ambac, American Express, Lehman Brothers, Hovnanian, Williams-Sonoma

Wednesday's stocks in the news

AT&T Boosts Cell Data Speeds

AT&T tries to steal some of Verizon and Sprint's thunder with somewhat faster downstream and much faster upstream rates on its newly updated 3G cell data network.

AT&T Boosts Cell Data Speeds

AT&T tries to steal some of Verizon and Sprint's thunder with somewhat faster downstream and much faster upstream rates on its newly updated 3G cell data network.

WMS 200 Video Wi-Fi Projector Adapter

The WMS 200 Video wirelessly delivers presentations and video clips, but its documentation and its Windows Vista support are lacking.

WMS 200 Video Wi-Fi Projector Adapter

The WMS 200 Video wirelessly delivers presentations and video clips, but its documentation and its Windows Vista support are lacking.

Analyst Actions: Tibco Software, Guess, SAIC

S&P Picks and Pans: Lehman Brothers, UAL, Hovnanian, J.M. Smucker, Williams-Sonoma

Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Wednesday

Traveling With a MacBook Air, Part 2

Apple's much-hyped ultra-thin laptop can be an ideal traveling companion--but it's not for everyone.

Traveling With a MacBook Air, Part 2

Apple's much-hyped ultra-thin laptop can be an ideal traveling companion--but it's not for everyone.