On Business, and Blogging on the Road
Hurricane Katrina was a defining moment for Rachel Gradwohl, a frequent business traveler. A consultant for a national accounting firm, Ms. Gradwohl blogged about being made homeless by the disaster ...
HP considers open-source services
Hewlett-Packard is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community, the company's new open-source boss said. — "Across HP, there are tho...
Yahoo misses Wall Street estimates
Internet bellwether Yahoo posted on Tuesday net income for the fourth quarter that rose from a year ago but was below analyst expectations, sending shares down about 13 percent in after-hours trade. ...
Devious Tactic Snags Phone Data
Online information brokers pried thousands of private cell-phone records from Verizon Wireless by posing as speech-impaired customers and company employees, court documents show. — The charges, whic...
Software patents loom large again
Forced back on agenda — Europe's Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy on Monday launched an initiative that could re-open the controversial software patents debate. — As part of the init...