Liberty Media Interested in AOL Dial-Up Business. Just days after Time Warner said it had cleaved off AOL's dial-up Web access division and was in a position to sell it, another big media company has expressed interest in a deal.

Game Changers. It used to be that this all-woman crew wouldn't fit the standard image of the video game consumer. But the perception of gamers as being mostly young guys isn't so true anymore. Women and girls make up 40 percent of the gamer population, according to the Entertainment Software Association, the video game industry's trade group. And with game software sales at $9.5 billion last year, companies are paying closer attention to the titles women seek out.

Nifty New Capabilities for iPod Touch and iPod Nano. Amid much fanfare in San Francisco, Apple introduced its latest music products, including new features in iTunes and a refresh of the iPod line.

Wario, Kirby, Sonic return in new adventures. - For a self-effacing, portly little plumber, Mario may be the most ambitious guy in video games. It's not enough that he has the most recognizable face in the industry; his parents at Nintendo have promoted him everywhere, from T-shirts and lunchboxes to cartoons and cell-phone ringtones. He's..

NHL 09' first star in hockey franchise. - In the world of sports video games, not much can really change year to year. The game at its core is the same, but it's what video-game developers add that makes it worth spending the cash.

Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security. ATLANTA -- Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.

BlackBerry Storm: RIM's Un-iPhone. Research in Motion has finally announced details about its long-rumored iPhone competitor, an almost-all-touch-interface 3G handset with a twist: The screen itself is a big hardware button.

IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds. NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.

The $700 Billion Man With an Engineer's Mind. Many of the complicated securities at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis were designed by mathematicians and physicists, and now the U.S. government has tapped an aerospace engineer who used to design NASA satellites to start unraveling them.

U.S. Allegedly Listened In on Calls of Americans Abroad. The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee is looking into allegations that a U.S. spy agency improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of hundreds of Americans overseas, including aid workers and U.S. military personnel talking to their spouses at home.

Balancing Defense and the Budget. At the Walter E. Washington Convention Center last week, Army soldiers, Pentagon weapons buyers and defense company representatives milled about a cavernous trade show floor for a look at the latest military equipment and gadgets.

Worth 1,000 Words? Okay. But $2,700? What is a memory worth? That's the question I asked myself when my computer sounded a little death wheeze a few weeks ago and then stopped working. This is the laptop I bought just before we moved to England two summers ago, the laptop on which I kept all the photographs I took during our European..

EU warns youth: turn your MP3 players down! BRUSSELS - Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned Monday.

Financial crisis takes a toll on already-squeezed U.S. cities. CHICAGO : After the layoff of 160 full-time and part-time city workers, the slashing of recreation programs and a call for volunteers to shelve books at the branch libraries, the people of Duluth, Minnesota,..

IDS staffs up to support jewelers' online efforts. October 07, 2008 New York-Ideal Diamond Solutions has named jewelry industry veteran David Norman as senior sales and marketing advisor, effective immediately.

Luxury Stores Brace for Slowdown. The luxury-goods industry is bracing for fallout from the global financial crisis.

Tiffany Opens Its First Pittsburgh Jewelry Store. There's a grand opening this morning in Ross Park Mall for the store with the world-famous blue boxes.

Poster service: Breakfast at Tiffany's. Paul Rennie on a classic expression of New York sophistication that is still popular half a century later Paul Rennie The poster for Breakfast at Tiffany's. Photograph: Kobal Collection The Film Breakfast at..

London school aims for trendy "Made in Bangladesh". "Made in Bangladesh" is set for a makeover after the Asian nation's key apparel sector signed up a London fashion design school to help it appeal to more trendy and quality-conscious buyers.

Restoration Hardware vice president charged in insider trading probe. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday charged a former vice president of Corte Madera-based Restoration Hardware with insider trading, saying he helped friends make nearly $1 million in unlawful..