MIAMI – Tropical Storm Epsilon formed Tuesday in the central Atlantic, where it was a threat only to shipping, forecasters said. The 26th named storm of the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record was expected to be absorbed by other weather systems and shouldn’t affect land, said Jennifer Pralgo, a …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Joining the herd of Web sites jostling to cash in on the holiday shopping season, online search engine leader Google Inc. is adding a tool designed to make it easier for consumers to map out their local trips to the mall. The feature, to be unveiled Tuesday …
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NEW YORK – A Pakistani man who claimed he was pressured into a false confession was convicted Wednesday of trying to help an Al Qaeda operative slip past U.S. immigration officials to carry out a chemical attack. A federal jury deliberated for about five hours before finding Uzair Paracha, 25, …
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This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” November 29, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Alan Alda has been a star on TV, on Broadway, and in the movies. He won five Emmy awards. He’s been nominated for an Oscar and a Tony, …
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DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups, an option aimed at building contractors and others who do business on the road. A Ford F-250 Super Duty truck (search) equipped with a mobile office is scheduled to debut Tuesday at the …
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LONDON – It may not be quite what Steve Jobs had in mind, but an online search engine called Guba is set to offer vast amounts of pornography and other video files, specifically tailored for Apple’s (AAPL) new iPods. Guba (search) is a subscription-only search engine that culls video files …
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WASHINGTON – One week after five top oil executives testified before a joint Senate hearing on record oil profits, three Democratic senators challenged the truth of the executives’ testimonies and renewed a call for regulations preventing price gouging by oil companies. On Wednesday, Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. …
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Real progress in desktop computing always stems from gaming. Even the invention of spreadsheets was a sort of game, and all the display technologies were boosted by gamers. But in the mid- to late 1990s, the scene began to focus purely on business computing, giving it a largely undeserved leadership …
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PARIS – The rows upon rows of towering concrete blocks have a dreary regularity: Most are exactly 17 stories high with six apartments to each floor. Today, these housing projects at the heart of rioting across France are rotting, the walls smeared with graffiti, weeds sprouting through cracks, windows protected …
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DETROIT – Unionized workers at General Motors Corp. (GM), the world’s largest auto maker, have ratified a landmark deal to help the automaker cut its massive health-care costs, the United Auto Workers union said on Friday. The deal, which shifts some of GM’s costs to hourly GM workers, has been …
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