“Oh, the NHL lockout is over. And just when I had almost completely forgotten about hockey...”

WALTHAM, Mass. - Users of the Lycos Web portal have been unable to access their e-mail this week following a glitch during an upgrade. The system was expected to remain frozen until at least Friday, the company said.

BOSTON - If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she’d rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.

General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale has received a $30 million fiveyear contract from the U.S. Army to develop an improved electronics and life support system for military helicopter pilots.

LONDON - Reuters Group PLC and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to connect their instant-messaging services in a deal to be announced Tuesday.

BOSTON - A major defense contractor is selling technology to a large oil-field services company, Schlumberger Ltd., that hopes microwaves will someday become a key tool in unlocking the vast but hard-to-extract oil reserves in the West's underground shale deposits.

Hard work. Determination. Growing revenue. Joyce and Ralph Cruz of Chandler have turned those elements into a successful business.

BOSTON - The founders of Zink Imaging LLC believe they have two great ideas in one absolute show-stopper. They’ve created a portable device that makes it ultraconvenient to print photos from digital cameras and phones. And they designed it to use no ink.

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime software antagonists Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have reached a technological truce that promises to smooth the way the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular open-source Linux system work together.

BOSTON - Gerry Speca is not sure what about his high school drama lessons stuck. But clearly, something worked. On Sunday, Casey Affleck will be his third former student to vie for an Academy Award.

May 23, 2005

Angela Sullivan scoots around in a Ford Escort to run errands and sets the thermostat in her home each night at 66 degrees. In other words, she’s hardly a fuel hog.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - When Peter Ferris was hired by Tyco International five years ago, he received an employee handbook but little other formal training in business ethics.

Top finishers in Sunday's P.F. Chang’s Rock ’n’ Roll Arizona Marathon.