San Jose Mercury News

Ten McDonald's restaurants in Manhattan are offering customers Wi-Fi with their fries in a three-month experiment that will expand to several hundred restaurants by the end of the year, including...

My family room was transformed into a personal movie theater as my wife and I watched "The Lord of the Rings" on a 6-foot diagonal screen. Frodo Baggins, seeming larger...

Fred and Annie Chan want their new Los Altos Hills home to be unobtrusive -- all 26,709 square feet of it. So the Chans are going to extraordinary lengths to...

Other than being left-handed and Canadian and approximately the same size as a very small placekicker, Mike Weir is just about everything you'd expect and CBS would demand out of...

Everything you read or hear about Michigan these days is "remarkable." If it's not the Wolverines' "remarkable turnaround," then it's Tommy Amaker's "remarkable coaching job." Or the "remarkable play" of...

San Jose's high-profile plans to pump $120 million into dilapidated neighborhoods and build 6,000 new units of affordable housing over five years could all but disappear if lawmakers approve proposed...

When Steve Mariucci walks into Raymond James Stadium on Sunday, sees the pirate ship rocking and the cannons firing, maybe he'll think: "This little slice of job-secure paradise could have...

Is the battle for the PC one that Apple Computer can still win? Or has the company become like a Civil War nostalgist, re-enacting skirmishes long since decided? That question...

Dell Computer Corp. has made a brilliant debut in the crowded field of personal digital assistants with its fully featured and very affordable Axim X5 running Microsoft's Pocket PC software....

ADVENTURE CLASSICS Nancy Drew not shoot-'em-up type Far too many computer games are shoot-'em-up types that rely on flashy graphics and the hair-trigger reflexes of players. But a new series...