It seems that a one person has “cracked the cookie code” and released his own version of diet cookies that can be made at home. While many retail websites sell diet cookies and the “Cookie Diet” for up to $500 a month, this site offers a recipe that can be made for about $5 – 10 a week. After doing a little research and experimenting with recipes Mike Primer, the founder of www.FreeDietC...

Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as ...

Google Inc (GOOG.O) closed its Mexico office for the day on Tuesday, as concerns of swine flu grip the country. The Internet company told staff at its Mexico City office to stay home out of “an abundance of caution,” a Google spokeswoman said. Google declined to comment on the number of employees that work at the Mexico City location, its only office in Mexico. Prepare For The Swine Fl...

U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC showed signs of progress with its unionized workers in its battle to stay alive on Sunday with just days left to complete deals to slash labor and debt costs or face bankruptcy. No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Corp (GM: 2.06, 0.38, 22.62%) is also restructuring in an effort to secure the government funding it needs to stay in business, and was expected to ann...

Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis of 20 million Friday after at least 16 people died and more than 900 others fall ill from what health officials suspect is a new strain of swine flu. World health officials worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic. The World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland said at least 57 have died in the outbreak, although it wasn’t ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts  — Friends and acquaintances of Philip Markoff, a medical student accused of killing a woman he may have met through a Craigslist online ad, described the 23-year-old as a model student. “My girlfriend actually rode the elevator with him a lot alone; it’s kind of freaking her out now,” said Patrick Sullivan, who lived in the same apartment building as...

U.S. home prices rose 0.7 percent in February from January, the first consecutive monthly gain in two years, a sign that low interest rates may be moderating declines in real estate values. Prices fell 6.5 percent in February from a year earlier, the second-smallest drop in six months, led by a 19 percent decrease in the region that includes California, the most populous U.S. state, the Federal Ho...

The chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide. A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said it was an apparent hanging. He declined to be identified because the investigation was ongoing. David Kellermann’s death is the latest in a string of blows to ...

Sales of Apple’s iPhone are slowing as potential buyers await the long-rumored refresh of the popular smartphone. On Wednesday, AT&T released its financial results for the first quarter of 2009. Among the details of the report – which showed revenue to be essentially flat, year-on-year – was the news that iPhone activations have slipped to 1.6 million during the quarter. Tha...

Change isn’t sitting well with black farmers who thought they’d get a friendlier reception from President Obama in their effort to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. WASHINGTON — As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now h...