Oil prices are back over $54 after faster growth of global demand was estimated by the International Energy Agency.

Since the worldwide quota system has ended, textile and clothing makers wish for the government to stem Chinese imports.

At first I wasn’t sure about eBay’s new Kijiji service, essentially an international answer to Craigslist.

Microsoft plans to discontinue its support for the Mac OS X client for its MSN services after May 31st.

O.V. Delle-Femine reacted to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s announcement that it plans to terminate the pension plan for United Airlines Ground Employees.

Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo talked the other day about the company’s plans which include its next gaming console with Wi-Fi features.

Microsoft and Burst.com announced that the two companies have reached an agreement in principle resolving all claims in Burst’s lawsuit against Microsoft.

No, the title’s correct. Apple hasn’t won a damn thing, but they’ve lost a great, great deal…

Novell introduced Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management, an integrated, complete management system for centralized control of Linux desktops and servers.

Oh, the Register is picking on me and other bloggers here at the SXSW show: “Scoble seems to scoot around the country …

Seth points to an ironic mixup by the producers of Spamalot … And I thought it was ironic when I heard that one of the Jupitermedia brass was heading out to see the show with a Yahoo notable.

HSBC is going to invest over US$240 million into its operations in India in an effort to support quicker growth of retail and commercial businesses.

Qwest Communications is planning increase its bid for MCI to stop its deal with Verizon.

The Google Toolbar Beta 3 has been stirring controversy and outright anger by many web site owners and advertisers since it was launched.

Stocks have fallen on Wall Street with investors worried about inflation cashing in profits, as well as higher oil prices.

An investment group offered $5 billion for Toys “R” Us sending the company’s shares up.

Microsoft will buy Groove Networks which was founded by the creator of IBM’s Lotus Notes.

The California-based, portable storage producing SanDisk has enhanced their flash drive line-up, offering a 2-gigabyte model.

Microsoft Business Solutions is promoting its own CRM – Microsoft CRM. Microsoft CRM is gaining market share in small, mid-size and even large company CRM markets.

Lots of people disagreed with me when I said that if you are always representing your company when in public.

One thing to master about scanning is the proper scanning resolution. The proper resolution to scan depends on how you intended it to be used.

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft wants to reform the patent system. There’s a major need for this.