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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's just not enough of...

Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access...

Google offered up a new vision of computing's future Tuesday, and it has little to do with desktops or laptops. It's a future that focuses on mobility, with access to the Web—and the ability to search its vastness, of course—no matter where...

Share prices of most of the technology bellwethers closed down Wednesday as the U.S. stock market continued to digest the troubling financial news of recent days: Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. filing for bankruptcy protection, the feds bailing out...

Why do airlines still float free drinks? One by one, U.S. airlines have snatched back freebies that fliers took for granted - baggage checks, meals. (Whoever thought there would come a day when we'd miss airline food?) But one service remains relatively...

Hurting from price cuts and an expensive restructuring, Dell Inc. rattled investors Tuesday with another warning, this time that corporate spending on technology is weakening further. By most measures, the technology sector has been chugging along fine,...

The European Commission has launched an antitrust probe of a virtual merger that American Airlines, British Airways and Spain's Iberia SA announced earlier this month. The proposed venture would allow the three carriers to coordinate frequent-flier...

So it's August. Prime time for picnics and pool parties. It's also time to plan end-of-the-year holiday travel. Seriously. Now. Airlines plan to significantly cut flights after Labor Day, decreasing seating by 10 percent, while increasing ticket...

Not long ago, the advent of online travel was thought to be a death knell for traditional travel agents, allowing travelers to research and book their trips with a few clicks of a mouse. But faced with the increasing cost and unpredictability of travel...

Krista Dietrich relishes the rare opportunity to sit back in her airline seat and shut off her mobile phone. But the simpler days of reading or napping on planes are soon to be replaced by Web surfing and instant messaging. Delta Air Lines announced...

According to official lore at Itasca-based Aircell, the company's founder first sketched his idea for an airplane telephone system on a napkin while sitting in a Texas barbecue restaurant in 1991. On Wednesday, Aircell Chief Executive Jack Blumenstein...

Billboards in New York City subways have recently advertised a pill that can turn any Pete, Jane or Bob into high-profile rapper Kanye West. The odd ad isn't from a pharmaceutical company. Absolut vodka, without identifying itself or its product, is...