After toying with the hearts of iPhone users since Apple (AAPL) unveiled the first model, today marks AT&T's (T) much-anticipated

Despite a technical meltdown that left thousands of customers unable to activate their new phones, sales of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3G have met analysts’ expectations. Apple sold over 1 mil

Golly, the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone 3G is nifty.The ads proclaim, “Twice as fast. Half the price.”That’s the lesson for buyers of this gizmo and just about any hot device: Unless you&

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin

Citrix Systems (CTXS): Just yesterday this stock was downgraded. In the interview with Reuters the CFO is calling for a strong second half, though he cited continued sluggish results in the U.S. Virtu