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5 Stocks That Could Make Ordinary Folks Rich

Saving for retirement is an extremely difficult task. If you're like me, after work, family, and errands, there isn't much time left over to plan for the future. And who really has all that extra cash laying around, just waiting to be invested? I know I certainly don't.

Excess weight means lesser memory in women

Women interested in keeping their memory sharp during the later years in life need to keep a check on their weight as new research has established a link between weight and memory.

Consumer Reports does not endorse iPhone 4

It has been almost a month since the iPhone 4 was launched with much fanfare. Enormous hype was created before the arrival of the gadget. The newest version of the iPhone 4 was welcomed by loyalists who made long serpentine queues outside stores several hours before it was unveiled.

Google's Viral Sensation

You may not see a budding app developer for Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG)Android platform when you look in a mirror, but it's now within reach after this week's public launch of App Inventor.

The Biggest Threat to Apple and Google

Rob Pegoraro is a technology columnist at The Washington Post. I recently interviewed him on our Motley Fool Money radio show. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation:

Is This an Omen of Doom or a Buy Signal?

Rarely does the topic of technical analysis come up at The Motley Fool. Unless, of course, we're debunking the idea that staring at charts will do anything more for you than contribute to myopia.

Even These Stocks Can Pay You Back

Investors have gotten increasingly frustrated with companies that hoard their cash instead of putting it to better use -- like paying dividends to shareholders. But if you like a particular stock as an investment, but also need to draw income from it, there's still a way to turn you shares into a stream of income.

Buy, Sell, or Hold Smartphones?

Rob Pegoraro is a technology columnist at The Washington Post. We recently interviewed him on our Motley Fool Money radio show. Here is an edited transcript of the conclusion of our conversation, when we wrapped up with a round of buy/sell/hold and touched again on the growing battle between Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) andApple (Nasdaq: AAPL) in the smartphone arena.

Wireless e-mail patent suit filed by NTP

New York -- NTP, Inc., has filed a federal patent infringement lawsuit against some of the leading manufacturers of smartphones.

NTP holds a number of patents related to smartphone technology and is suing over eight of them, which are related to wireless e-mail delivery.

The Wall Street Journal said Saturday the companies being sued in Virginia were Microsoft, Apple, Motorola, Google, LG Electronics and HTC.

While NTP does not actually manufacture phones, it owns and has aggressively enforced the patents it holds and are used by other companies. NTP was formed by Thomas Campana, an early developer of wireless e-mail who died in 2004.

Picture of the Day: Google Makes a Prank Call

I don't know that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) placed a gloating prank call toApple yesterday evening. But given the point of iPhone market share that its Android phones just gained, I wouldn't put it past the folks from Mountain View to lord it over their Cupertino cousins a little. After all, the iPhone hawkers rarely chalk up a losing quarter like this one:

Google's co-founder accuses Apple's Jobs of ‘rewriting history’

While addressing media at the Allen & Co. conference this week, Google co-founder, Larry Page along with CEO Eric Schmidt accused Apple CEO Steve Jobs of “re-writing history” by stating that they entered smartphone market after them.

More Upside: Apple or Google?

Nicholas Carr is a technology writer and the author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. On a recent Motley Fool Money Radio Show, Chris Hill asked him about the relative merits of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) andGoogle (Nasdaq: GOOG). This is the second of two parts.