IBT Staff Reporter

YouTube, the popular online home video site, has an unexpected star - a septuagenarian British widower - whose soft-spoken, humble manner has won the hearts of users of the youth dominated Web site.

The Starship Enterprise is in trouble and, as usual, Capt. James T. Kirk has a plan to save it.

A week after getting back into the NFL with the kickoff of its six-year TV package, NBC will drive forward into a big and growing-bigger portion of the sports world: fantasy football.

A substantial minority of American adults would rather spend their free time playing casual games - such online diversions as Bejeweled and TextTwist - than watch television.

Nokia announced a $60 million acquisition last week of music streamer Loudeye Corp., a move potentially pitting the world's largest cell-phone maker against the current king of portable music, Apple Corp.

Airlines will cut 20 percent of flights departing London's Heathrow Airport on Monday following a directive by the airport's owner amid a growing dispute over how to handle tougher security measures.

An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India.

The world's top money laundering watchdog on Friday called on countries to intensify measures to combat the financing of terrorism in the wake of the UK bomb plot and called Britain's efforts exemplary.

It was only a matter of time: China is catching Blackberry fever. And like most other things in that burgeoning economy, it's likely to be at cut-rate prices.

It all started with Canadian mining company Inco Ltd. saying that it wanted to acquire nickel miner Falconbridge Ltd.

CVDR had announced that it would bid for Canadian mining firm Inco amid two other competing offers.

Apple Corp. said on Monday that its third quarter earnings to the SEC would be delayed due to a stock option “irregularities” found at the company.

British Petroleum's shutdown of the largest United States oil field has could cause California gas prices to rise.

Biotechnology firm ImClone said on Thursday that it had failed to find a buyer for the company six months after beginning its search at the beginning of the year.

SanDisk Corp., the worlds largest flash memory supplier, has been sued by two parties with regards to its proposed acquisition of M-Systems Ltd., the firm said on Thursday.

Target Corp., the US market's second largest retailer, endured an uncertain economy in the latest quarter to earn a solid profit which beat Wall Street expectations.

Social book-marking website, del.icio.us (pronounced delicious) has seen traffic grow two-fold in the past 8 months, garnering an audience with a higher than average income and education, according to a just-released study.

Nvidia Corp. posted higher-than-expected revenue on Thursday, but said it would have to postpone a detailed earnings report due to an ongoing investigation from the SEC.

In the Darwinian evolution of electronic companions, first came the speaking doll, then the Tamagotchi virtual pet, then Sony's short-lived AIBO dog.

Can technology create a non-hijackable plane?By 2008, European researchers aim to bring that vision closer to reality through an ambitious security program to combat on-board threats in an industry left reeling this week by a security scare that raised the specter of September 11.

Internet gaming group BETonSPORTS, which removed its chief executive from his job following his detention in Texas last month on racketeering charges, said on Friday it was closing down the U.S. business, which drives the vast majority of the company's profits.

The world can cope for now with the loss of about 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Alaska and Nigeria, but the pressure is on exporter group OPEC to fill the gap, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

Gone are the days when companies promised flashy cars and gourmet meals to attract and keep top employees. These days, practical tools for balancing work and life are the best reward, according to new research.

Makers of security equipment are the most likely to benefit from the heightened alert at airports after British police foiled a plot to blow up planes flying between Britain and the United States.

The battle between two hyped formats for high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them off the whole technology, a London-based research firm predicted on Friday.

South Africa's telecommunication giant Telkom's proposed takeover of IT company Business Connexion Ltd has been delayed as certain conditions have not been met on time, the group said on Thursday.

Tokyo residents have the highest purchasing power in the world, overriding residents in Los Angeles, London, New York and Sydney, according to a new survey released on Wednesday by Swiss banking giant UBS.

Nigeria is set to receive a $2.5-billion loan from the US Federal Government to assist government plans to rehabilitate and modernize the country's dilapidated railway system, President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday.

Intel Corp., the worlds largest processor and graphics supplier, announced today that it will unveil the inner workings of its software to the open-source community, aiming to promote development.