After years of indecision, Boeing announced a new and larger generation of the wide-body 747 jetliner today to do battle with the Airbus A380, the largest passenger jetliner ever built.

Boeing Takes On Airbus With New 747 Wide-Body Jets

McNealy: Energy efficiency and chip multi-threading are a big deal for Sun and major breakthroughs for the industry. We invested in this technology several years back when others were doubling down on press releases and dead-end operating systems like HP-UX [Hewlett-Packard Co's Unix operating system]. Sun moved in a different and seemingly controversial direction.

Who cares? If HP-UX is dead-end, then what does that make Solaris?

UltraSPARC T1 Fires Up Sun

The technology industry shift's to internet-based software and services represents a massive and disruptive "sea change," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates wrote to top-level executives in an e-mail aimed at rallying his troops against the new competitive threats the company faces.

Gates Feeling a Little Seasick

Silicon Graphics, a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage, announced today it will begin trading its stock on the Over-the-Counter (OTC) securities market under the ticker symbol 'SGID'.

Alas, poor SGI.

Silicon Graphics Announces New Stock Symbol SGID

Sprint Nextel will announce a deal to offer cellphone services with the nation's three largest cable television operators as early as tomorrow, according to people briefed on the deal.

Sprint Deal With Cable TV Operators Seen

Tom Gardner has made it his mission to uncover the best underfollowed, underappreciated companies before Wall Street gets on board. The legendary Peter Lynch once had a few things to say on the subject, and Tom thinks investors should listen up.

Finding Lynch's 10-Baggers

SBC Communications, which is awaiting regulatory approval to buy AT&T, announced today that it will adopt the AT&T name once the acquisition is approved.

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder...

AT&T Brand Lives On as SBC Adopts Name

McDonald's Corp. announced Tuesday that it will display nutrition information on the packaging for most of its menu items next year.

In the 1960s, if you'd suggested that cigarette companies would be successfully sued for product liability, you'd have been a laughingstock. McDonalds and co know that they're next.

McDonald's Plans to Put Nutrition Information on Packages

Wal-Mart's proposal to open a bank has sent a wave of concern through community bankers, who view the move as the first of several maneuvers that will turn the company into a financial services behemoth and drive them out of business.

For the time being, all it sounds like they're trying to do is dodge credit card processing fees. Nevertheless, the prospect of a Wal-Mart consumer bank is a little ... frightening.

Bankers Oppose Wal-Mart as Rival

There are many pocketsize digital music players available, but they fall into two groups: Apple's iPod products and everything else. That split, rooted in technology as well as style, poses a challenge for music lovers who want to upgrade their devices.

Between DRM and propriatery codecs, I'm afraid that CD may remain for a long time the only "universally accessible" format.

My Songs, My Format