IBT Staff Reporter

Sprint announced Wednesday that the Palm Treo Pro (not to be confused with the Palm Pre) will be released on March 15 with a two-year contract.

Sprint announced the launching of Palm Treo Pro on March 15 of this year with a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional on a 400 MHz processor from Qualcomm, and comes with Microsoft's standard suite of productivity and entertainment applications.

General Electric Co shares fell as much as 16 percent on Wednesday, touching their lowest point since 1991, as investors worried about a possible downgrade of GE's credit rating and how its finance arm would get through the recession.

Stocks rallied on Wednesday, ending a five-day losing streak, as another Chinese stimulus package boosted commodity prices and encouraged investors to jump into energy and natural resource shares.

Ford Motor Co detailed debt restructuring initiatives on Wednesday, including conversion of debt to equity and two cash tender offers, that could retire up to $10.4 billion of the automaker's debt.

EA (Electronics Arts) has three options to come out for Need for Speed this summer. The Need for Speed SHIFT, Need for Speed NITRO and Need for Speed World Online.

The immediate outlook for U.S. growth is grim but forceful policy action will help end the country's year-long recession, top officials for the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

Stocks rallied on Wednesday, ending a five-day losing streak, as another Chinese stimulus package boosted commodity prices and encouraged investors to jump into energy and natural resource shares.

Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday it plans to sell the retail and commercial banking businesses of newly-acquired ABN AMRO China, part of efforts to exit from these operations in Asia.

U.S. private companies hemorrhaged nearly 700,000 jobs in February and the service sector slump deepened as the year-old recession showed little sign of abating, according to data released on Wednesday.

TORONTO - Biovail Corp and its founder were so worried in 2003 that the drug company's quarterly results would not meet targets that they fabricated the effects of a fatal truck crash that destroyed a shipment of drugs, Canada's main securities regulator said on Wednesday.

Apple Inc iPhone and iPod Touch users can now read books on their devices using software from Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic reader, boosting shares of the online retailer 5 percent.

Oil settled nearly 9 percent higher on Wednesday after data showed an unexpected drop in U.S. crude stocks and an increase in gasoline demand.

General Electric Co shares fell as much as 16 percent on Wednesday, touching their lowest point since 1991, as anxiety over a possible downgrade for GE and its finance unit was compounded by an investor lawsuit over a recent dividend cut.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she wanted to put on a serious track talks with Russia on a missile defense shield to counter nuclear threats from Iran.

BOSTON/CHICAGO - General Electric Co shares fell as much as 16 percent on Wednesday, touching their lowest point since 1991, as anxiety over a possible downgrade for GE and its finance unit was compounded by an investor lawsuit over a recent dividend cut.

British luxury car makers have been defying the recession by unveiling glamorous new models...

Facebook is making a variety of product announcements on Wednesday, the most significant of which is a renovation of the News Feed that users see when they log into their accounts and new filtering tools.

thing can make a traveler feel more clueless than mispronouncing the name of a local destination, but it's easily done.

The town of Chongiu, not only is it the center of Korea but it has also become the center of media attention as it is home to the humanoid carp living in a small pond.

Microsoft Corp will favor neither American nor foreign workers as it cuts thousands of jobs, the company said on Tuesday in response to a senator's call that the jobs of U.S. employees be preserved.

IBM created a software allowing people to meet in a virtual world face to face. The new software called Sametime 3d allows people to meet, exchange instant messages, chat verbally and share presentations and ideas in private, prefabricated, reusable meeting spaces located in a variety of virtual worlds.

eTelecare Global Solutions to acquire Phone House Ltd., a BPO service subsidiary Talk Talk Group Limited, a South African customer care subsidiary by adding about 400 employees to expand its global delivery network.

Stocks rallied on Wednesday as shares at 12-year lows lured investors to break a five-day sell-off and a jump in oil and other commodities boosted energy and natural resource companies.

General Electric Co shares fell as much as 16 percent on Wednesday, touching their lowest point since 1991, as anxiety over a possible downgrade for GE and its finance unit was compounded by two investor lawsuits over a recent dividend cut.

Linux.com claim serving over 25 million users at the site featuring news, forum and information but the site was redesigned when the non-profit Linux Foundation has announced its acquisition over Linux.com promising to transform it into a more collaborative site.

Oil rose over 7 percent on Wednesday after data showed an unexpected drop in U.S. crude stocks and an increase in gasoline demand.

Sony introduced three new home theater systems on Wednesday, adding to its lineup of home solutions with DVD based equipment.

The top 10 highest-paid employees received $209 million in cash and stock, slightly higher than the $201 million the top 10 received in 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.