Here's one reason you may want to take the hardcover of David Sedaris' new book to the beach this summer instead of the digital version for Amazon's Kindle: Sand between the pages won't ruin a good story.About six months after
David Ferguson once played in a seminal art-rock band in Britain, but much of the money for his house and his son's education came from writing music for a children's television program, "Moondial," which has been rebroadcast many times over.
Will Circuit City join the long list of electronics retailers, like Tweeter Home Entertainment and Harvey Electronics, that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the past year? Given that shares of the Richmond [Va.] company are trading at
NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin Aug. 8.Besides giving advertisers a clearer picture of how much consumers
NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process that had attracted interest from several major media companies.Financial terms weren't disclosed, but a person
Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but
Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory to warn users about attacks targeting a vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system. Microsoft said it is investigating active, targeted attacks. "When a
Alexei Miller forecasts that Gazprom will be paying double for gas puchased in Central Asia, and that European customers could be paying more than $US 500 per thousand cubic metres by the end of 2008.
Robert Dudley, CEO of Anglo-Russian oil giant TNK-BP, has survived a vote on whether to extend his contract. Victor Vekselberg, a member of the TNK-BP board representing Russian shareholders, had called for the embattled boss to go, and be replaced
Sukhoi, one of Russia's most famous names in aviation, has shown off its latest fighter jet, the super agile Su-35. The firm expects large orders from its traditional Asian clients like Malaysia and China, and hopes to win a big