Three charged with stealing Coca-Cola trade secrets
Coca-Cola and Pepsi called a brief truce in their long-running “Cola Wars”, to catch a Coke secretary and two accomplices who allegedly tried to sell a secret sample to the company’s arch-rival.

Lay's death could wipe record clean
Ex-Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, who went from the pinnacle of corporate America to a synonym for corporate greed, died Wednesday, imperiling the government's attempts to recover his assets.

Microsoft Plans iPod Rival
Microsoft will use the emergence of portable video to challenge Apple’s dominance of the MP3 market by introducing a portable music and video device by Christmas that will take advantage of the best technology available from its thousands of technology partners, according to reports Thursday.

PCs becoming more reliable, but laptops keep breaking
Hardware annual failure rates (AFRs) have been reduced by approximately 25 per cent in the past two years the company said, but laptop reliability remains poor.

Google Added To Dictionary
This year’s copy of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary got a little thicker with the addition of words like Google, Unibrow and Himbo. You know you are big when you make it into the dictionary.