U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, as crude prices continued to fall. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking a third consecutive week of gains, closed up 45.94 points at 10,686.04.

MCI Inc.`s Enterprise Hosting Services are now more cost effective due to its new on-demand storage service for company management and storage of growing corporate data.

Great new feature for Excel users is now available from Cogent Real-Time Systems. Live data can now be fed from any OPC-based production system right into an Excel spreadsheet, to be analyzed. The data from the Excel spreadsheet can then be sent back to the production system.

New Yorkers are tough on their teams. Perhaps the toughest New Yorker, when it comes to expecting top results from the city`s professional teams, is Yankees owner George Steinbrenner

After Google`s announcement that the search engine company will release a speared-sheet application, we thought that there is no limit to Google`s ambitions, and now we learn that we were right. Google announced this week that they are working on a new service.

NASA and Google have signed an agreement that outlines their plans for cooperation in many areas, including largely distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and data management on a large scale, among others.

The timeless R.EM band gave 1600 spectators a night to remember. On Saturday night, the four original members of the group, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry came together for a rare performance as they were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service, DirecTV, broadcasting to the U.S. and the rest of the Americas their digital satellite television and audio broadcasts.

The Aura Group, a new media marketing and advertising company in Orange County, has launched a worldwide online video banner advertising system, revolutionizing the way video advertising is delivered on the web.

Michael Jackson will not be using the `Two Seas` label, as it has been confirmed that he is no longer affiliated to the Persian Gulf ? based label he co-founded last April.

After the New York Yankees exercised an option on Gary Sheffield`s contract last weekend to prevent him from becoming a free agent, the team traded Sheffield to the Detroit Tigers

The microchip industry has seen new materials shrink transistors, again. Getting smaller and faster, constantly, according to the now famous Moore?s Law, it is now Intel?s turn to announce yet another breakthrough.

If you own a business you know that you must go through a computer upgrade period at least once every 2-3 years. But what do you do with your old computers once the new ones take over? In the EU, all businesses who replace their computers must recycling them and not just dispose them in the garbage.

When the Oakland A`s meet the Minnesota Twins Tuesday for the first game of the AL Division Series, keep an eye on the hard-hitting, 38 year-old Frank Thomas.

All writers who have a holiday story to tell, now is your chance! This season you can post your greatest holiday tales on HarperCollins Publishers` Web site, for all the world to read! Take this opportunity to finally get published by sending in your writing.