Experts warn of lightning-strike injuries with electronic devices
Emergency physicians report patients with burns from freak accidents while using personal electronic devices such as beepers, music players and laptop computers outdoors during storms.

New research suggests Internet safety focus should not be on personal info
Victimization is more likely to result from other online behavior like talking about sex with people met online.

Whole Foods executive had secret online alter ego
Using the pseudonym, John Mackey posted more than 1,100 entries on a Yahoo bulletin board over a seven-year period, championing Whole Foods Market's stock and occasionally blasting a rival, Wild Oats Markets.

Motorola names new chief for its struggling cellphone division
Stu Reed, the executive vice president of Motorola's integrated supply chain group, was named president of its mobile devices division, the company's largest business.

Google chief executive criticizes Viacom
Eric Schmidt said that Viacom, which is suing Google over copyright infringement on YouTube, "is a company built from lawsuits."

Hollywood executives urge end to residual payments
Several of Hollywood's highest-ranking executives have called for the end of the entertainment industry's decades-old system of payments to writers, actors and directors for the reuse of movie and television programs.

JPMorgan analysts send mixed signals on iPhone plans
The banking group's research seemed to contradict itself about whether Apple planned a less expensive "nano" version of the hot smartphone, and a company spokesman scrambled to clarify the company line.

First comes the hype, then the actual iPhone; now, the accessories
It is not just Apple that stands to make big profits from its effort to redefine the mobile phone industry.

Making a little company look Big
Thanks to technological advances, it may be easier today to pull off the impression that a company is bigger.

Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying
A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through hismusic player's wires.