Thrasher Funds, a New York-based investment start-up, is targeting Generations X and Y with a slick lineup of holdings and lots of hot pink.

  Hewlett-Packard closes out the year with strong growth, helped by increased sales in China and other emerging nations.

  Amazon unveils its e-book reader, retailers commit "greenwashing"sins, and kids aren't the only cyberbullies.

  The contact management site, which recently branched out into social networking, says the launch of Google's OpenSocial has caused its "connections"to multiply tenfold.

  I'm happy with Lightroom 1.3 speedup, but the magnitude of that and other changes shows that Lightroom is work in progress, not a finished product.

  Hollywood's top Washington attorney argues Congress shouldn't be giving taxpayer-financed subsidies to universities whose networks allow widespread copyright infringement.

  The Amazon Kindle is here, and we've got a first look.

  Ever get misty-eyed for the days before crapware and cookies? Revisit the golden era of lean software and functional features with 1985's Symphony suite.

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  The acquisition has the potential to move an integral piece of application logic (user authorization) onto the network so it fits neatly into the overall Cisco strategy.

  The new Area-51 m15x and Area-51 m17 won't be available till 2008.

  Software maker releases test version of XP Service Pack 3 to 15,000 beta testers, with broader test version to be issued at "a later date."

  Open source is one of seven things pushing IT buyers to stop wasting money on proprietary software.

  Beneath the oaken exterior of a homemade auto in the Ukraine beats the heart of a 1981 Opel.