Apple Inc.'s local partner has sold 5,000 iPhones since the smart phone's formal weekend debut in China, a lackluster start after analysts warned the company might be setting prices too high.

  Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

  Some semiconductor stocks finished lower Tuesday after a Morgan Stanley analyst downgraded the sector and individual stocks including Intel Corp. on a prediction that a boom in their share prices is in its "final innings."

  T-Mobile USA Inc. said about 5 percent of its subscribers are still having problems with its phone and data services as of Tuesday evening.

  AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials, saying in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the ads are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices.

  Overstock.com Inc. said on Tuesday that it lost $787,000 in the third quarter, about half the size of its loss during the same period a year earlier.

  Dateline: 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined this oft-invoked aphorism in his 1964 opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.

  Comcast Corp. reported a 22 percent increase in third-quarter earnings Wednesday after stepping up promotions on its bundled video, phone and Internet plans.

  In 2007, I was commissioned by a Fortune 100 company to perform an analysis of their company's operations and suggest means by which they could become leaner and more efficient.

  A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to "vet" websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates "conspiracy theories".

  Every day this past week on my way home from RMU, I made a call to the Apple Store. "Did you get any Magic Mice in yet?" I was always getting the same response, "Nope, not yet. Sorry sir!" Well, on Friday, the Shadyside store finally got them in.

  Microsoft is set to give its MSN portal a major upgrade, freshening up the popular destination with a new look and with social networking hooks such as integrated

  Nearly 1.7 million T-Mobile USA subscribers are affected by a service disruption that hit the mobile operator beginning late Tuesday afternoon.

  Since I'm becoming an active blogger once again, I decided I'd resurface after a very long hiatus. Thanks everyone! I'm glad to be back!