LONDON (Reuters) - Champagne is losing its fizz for British consumers who would rather be curled up with a book downloaded onto their eReaders, according to government statisticians. The Office for National Statistics, which bases its monthly calcula... [Full Article]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Oz the Great and Powerful" cannot match the wonder and magic of the 1939 film classic "The Wizard of Oz" - at least in the estimation of America's top critics. The film, which stars James Franco a... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tailored clothes for fall and winter are turning away from the traditional as designers at New York's Fashion Week add twists and tucks to give time-honored looks an up-to-date image. Sleek wool topcoats and jackets took cen... [Full Article]
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The tip that led to the revelation that one of the most widely recounted U.S. sports narratives of the past year was a hoax came to the editors of an online sports blog as many of their news tips do: an unsolicited email. That ema... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that a security update of Oracle Corp's Java software for Web browsers does not do enough to protect computers from attack, sticking to its previous advice that the program be disabled.... [Full Article]
BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp released an emergency update to its Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, but security experts said the update fails to protect PCs from attack by hackers intent on committing cyber crimes. The software maker rel... [Full Article]
BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp released an emergency update to its widely used Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, days after the U.S. government urged PC users to disable the program because of a bug it said made computers vulnerable to att... [Full Article]
The Rules, a dating instruction manual of yore by two ladies named Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider (they know what they're talking about 'cause they're married!), should, by now, have gone the way of the cave drawing or the horse and ... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The prospects for consumer spending and the broader British economy will be in focus next week when a host of retailers, including Marks & Spencer and Tesco, report Christmas sales figures. Many store groups found the going tou... [Full Article]
Verizon Wireless (VZ) on Thursday announced that it will roll out a major software update for its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone beginning Friday. The update will bring Jelly Bean to the popular handset, though it will be a variant of Android 4.1 r... [Full Article]