Oil Dodges Dennis Bullet

Oil traders calmed after Hurricane Dennis created minimal problems for offshore rigs after initial predictions had those investors worried. Light sweet crude on the August contract slides down ever so slowly to $58.10 in midmorning trading.

From Podcasting To Premieres

Apple's switch to Intel coupled with profits driven by iTunes and the iPod media player might mean video iPods for Christmas.

Harry Potter the BC Leak

Neither the teen wizard nor the massive effort to keep J.K. Rowling's latest masterwork out of hand until the weekend proved successful. Apparently, a single bookseller in British Columbia let a dozen or so copies be sold and that put Raincoast Books Ltd, the Canadian publisher of the phenomenal children's series, under the sorting hat.