Frank Quattrone, the former Silicon Valley investment banker whose storied deal-making was derailed by criminal charges in 2003, could finally clear his name, according to terms of a settlement with federal prosecutors in New York.

Why carry a cell phone and a pocket music player when one device will do it all? Among the new gadgets trying to do just that is a trendy phone from LG Electronics that Verizon Wireless calls “Chocolate.”

NEW YORK - The story of how the crass comics magazine Cracked was brought back to life begins, of all places, at a white-shoe law firm in New York. A pudgy young lawyer named Monty Sarhan had been giving life to the dreams of Internet entrepreneurs by helping them with finance deals when he caught the entrepreneurial bug himself. He decided to leave the legal profession and ‘‘go for the

Bass, Berry & Sims’ Music Row office has hired attorney Diane M. O’Dell to work within the firm’s Entertainment Practice Area. O’Dell will focus her practice on entertainment and intellectual property matters, including new media and technology licensing.

Los Angeles underground MC, 2mex, is offering fans an opportunity to purchase a verse from him through eBay. “Basically, I started realizing that most of my fans are rappers,” 2mex told BallerStatus.net.

SEOUL, South Korea — Technology-savvy South Korea isn’t happy just making MP3 players and the memory chips that go inside many of the more popular models: It wants people wearing South Korean “smart” clothes with built-in digital music players.

Gill Charlton answers questions on illegitimate hotel-stays, Jamestown anniversary deals and weak luggage straps.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Turned away and turned off by conventional banks, Jerry R. Brown plugged into an online lending network in search of a financial boost for his business.

Sellers on eBay and would-be sellers have another new way to get help in using the online auction Web site. PAID, a new eBay trading assistant, is now open for business in Rome and is owned and operated by friends Nicole Carver and Keri Green.

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