RETAIL magnate Solomon Lew has sold half his stake in Coles, a $659 million deal that is expected to spark a $20 billion-plus bidding war for the supermarket group...

The technology preview Parent arranged for BusinessWeek bears an eerie resemblance to a famous scene in Minority Report , Steven Spielberg's 2002 film featuring Tom Cruise as a cop under investigation for murder...

BUILDING THE PERU BIKE I have cycled in Peru seven times. Three times were on my foldable Bike Friday. I had done ten day out and back rides over the mountains and left my bike case at my base hotel...

The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. Blog Archive Digest: Iowa s race to watch, conventional wisdom, E. coli recap...

It's Saturday night at Petit Campus, and the place is packed. About 300 people are crammed into the neon-lit Montreal dance club for a hard-core rock band with a very impolite name. Lead singer Damian Abraham, 27, is sweaty, and the young crowd is stoked...

New businesses continue to open up at Westchase Town Center, formerly called the Avenue at Westchase. Recent additions to the shopping center include Martinizing Dry Cleaning, 9614 W Linebaugh Ave. The dry cleaner is open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m...

by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mar 30th, 2007 @ 10:24pm It's not just that Linux and Unix use UTC time, but that they have a systemwide timezone database (zoneinfo) that (nearly) all apps use, instead of inventing their own systems for keeping track of timezo...