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It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it's happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool. According to a growing number of academics, "technologists"...

EARNINGS Sun Micro profit falls on lower sales Sun Microsystems Inc. said that profit fell 73% last quarter and that it didn't expect to make money this quarter as customers of its server computers cope with an economic slump. Net income for the April-...

Chevron Corp. said Friday its second-quarter profit rose 11 percent, to a record $5.98 billion, despite losing money on the refining side of the business. But results for the giant U.S. oil company missed Wall Street forecasts, and its shares slipped....

A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk. The gaping security hole...

Monday Earnings Amgen; Kraft; Loews; Verizon; Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Tuesday Reports July consumer confidence index; May Case-Shiller home price index Earnings Alcatel-Lucent; Colgate-Palmolive; Entergy; MetLife; Northrop Grumman; U.S. Steel...

When the Zero X wheeled onto the dirt track at Lake Elsinore, the Colgate-white motocross bike looked positively virginal next to the belching, candy-colored models that leaped from mound to mound around it. Not surprisingly, the Zero X drew a lot of...

When Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young booked a concert tour for the summer of 2006, it was supposed to be an easygoing, no-surprises reunion ticket. But it ended up a much more confrontational affair. Prodded by Neil Young, the band reshaped the program...

Security researchers on Tuesday said they had discovered an enormous flaw that could let hackers steer most people using corporate computer networks to malicious websites of their own devising. For bad news, that's pretty impressive. But there are two...

As Michigan-based Pro-Temp Inc. grapples with its slowest period in eight years, co-owner Cal Van Hemert has started snipping away at expenses at the heating, cooling and refrigeration service company. He replaced the company's formal holiday dinner...

The other side of ethanol, vilified as a cause of soaring food prices and hunger, can be seen in Brazil, where farmers are pushing down energy costs - both at the pump and at the electricity meter. Twenty thousand acres of sugar cane are sprouting...

As Pro-Temp Inc. grapples with its slowest period in eight years, co-owner Cal Van Hemert has started snipping away at expenses at the heating, cooling and refrigeration service company in Holland, Mich. He replaced the company's formal holiday dinner...

Big corporate profits fueled by strong international sales could disappear fast if Europe's economy begins to falter, stripping many multinational companies of a huge source of earnings growth. Europe accounts for almost half of U.S. companies' foreign...