Given the option of contesting a traffic ticket, most motorists — 19 out of 20 by some estimates — would rather pay up than pit their word against a police officer's in court.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened as sales through retail outlets slowed and the company faced increased costs related to its planned acquisition by smaller rival Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.
Motorola Inc.'s third-quarter earnings plummeted 94 percent but the cell-phone company still managed to impress Wall Street with its progress, improving from its dismal first-half performance and serving notice its turnaround effort may be taking hold.
Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable TV systems operator, said Thursday that its third-quarter profit fell 54 percent and new customer additions slowed amid increasing competition from phone and satellite TV companies.
We give Google's front-running applications a lot of ink (or pixels, as it were), and the rest a passing mention in the fast-flowing river of news. Today's top 10 pays homage to the little brother and sister Google products that you forgot all about.
Mozilla Corp. will rush another version ofFirefox to users as early as next week, the company's user interface designer said Tuesday, to fix five bugs it introduced in last Wednesday's security update.
A recovery in electronics sales offset losses in video games and helped boost Sony's profit for the July-to-September quarter more than 40-fold over the same period a year ago.
Samsung Electronics was showing three prototype TVs based on 14-inch OLED panels. That's larger than the 11in screens that are in the new Sony TVs but a close look at the Samsung panels revealed some imperfections.
I was reading the AP article Singapore Airlines' A380 Takes Off and was thinking, "Gee, I'd like to see some photos ..."and then noticed there were two more with the AP story that I hadn't seen. But those weren't any more fulfilling.
Rather than looking for their perfect match, one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Vonage Holdings, the beleaguered provider of telephone service over Internet connections, said today that it had settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications for a maximum of $120 million.
A 20-year-old computer science undergraduate has claimed a prestigious $25,000 mathematics prize by proving that a simple mathematical calculator can be used as a "universal computing machine".
