Symantec Corporation

Florida lost 19,000 more jobs in October, pushing the state's unemployment rate to 7 percent -- the highest it has been in nearly 15 years. Metro Orlando also saw its jobs picture worsen last month. The four-county area's unemployment rate climbed three-...

E-mailers, enjoy the early holiday gift: Spam volume has been cut by more than half because Internet providers pulled the plug on a Web hosting firm that was allegedly helping some of the world's most dastardly junk e-mail gangs. The break won't last...

E-mailers, enjoy the early holiday gift: Spam volume has been cut by more than half because Internet providers pulled the plug on a Web-hosting firm that was allegedly helping some of the world's most dastardly junk e-mail gangs. The break won't last...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ E-mailers, enjoy the early holiday gift: Spam volume has been cut by more than half because Internet providers pulled the plug on a Web hosting firm that was allegedly helping some of the world's most dastardly junk e-mail gangs. The...

Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates' 2004 proclamation that the spam problem would be solved within two years has proved a bitter joke, with unsolicited messages doubling yearly to make up about 90% of mail transmitted on the Internet. But this week,...

With all the qualms parents have about the Internet, from worrying about sexual predators to whether their kids spend too much time online, here's another one: It can teach them how to cheat. At one increasingly popular site where young kids inhabit a...

Q: Can Coca-Cola Co. put two years of good stock performance together? What is the outlook for my shares? --R.M., via the Internet A: These are the times that try colas' souls. The U.S. market for carbonated soft drinks declined 0.6 percent in 2006,...

Monday: -- March personal income and spending -- March construction spending -- Earnings: Alberto-Culver Co.; Anadarko Petroleum Corp.; Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.; Centex Corp.; CNA Financial Corp.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Genworth Financial Inc.;...

Old Dominion University economists predicted economic growth would slow to 2.6 percent in 2007, falling below the average annual growth rate of 3.4 percent over the past 45 years. However, economic growth, measured in expansion of the region's gross...

Most longtime users of Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh machines know their way around its venerable operating system, OS 9, pretty well. But if they've purchased a new Mac or boldly installed OS X on an existing machine, they find themselves facing an...

As the latest Microsoft Windows infection spread across the Internet last week, knocking out thousands of PCs in homes and businesses, Macintosh users did what they usually do during a computer virus outbreak -- they continued working. That's because the...

The continued spread of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human. Posing as a legitimate computer error message, the worm successfully tricked e-mail recipients into spreading it to...