Week ahead: Earnings, earnings and more earnings

Technology stocks finally broke out of their slump this week thanks to some impressive earnings reports from the likes of Yahoo! (yhoo). Investors are hoping the pattern holds next week when virtually every other tech firm reports, including Apple (aapl), AMD (amd), Intel (intc), IBM (ibm), Microsoft (msft) and Sun (sunw). Full story. -- Larry Barrett, ZDNet Inter@ctive Investor