San Jose Mercury News

Every dog has his day. And the Web's most celebrated canine is getting more than one. The Pets.com sock puppet--perhaps the best-known icon of the dot-com boom and bust--is coming...

Ofer Shoshan wants his visitor to understand something. Contrary to appearances--pleasant offices in one of this city's gleaming skyscrapers--this outfit is operating on the cheap. Shoshan and his colleagues at...

I would like to have a search engine that has the ability to re-tune itself based on my behavior. It would build a history of the pages I select and...

The release of the summer's first blockbuster movies has sparked an unprecedented frenzy of film piracy, sending nearly 10 million people online to download bootleg copies of "Spider-Man" or "Star...

Companies always want experienced workers. But they don't always want to pay for them. And the hefty raises many workers got while earning their experience during the past few years...

Dell Computer Corp. is considering entering at least one facet of the printer business, a move that could be a thorn in the side of the new Hewlett-Packard Co., whose...

Here's my personal nightmare as a reviewer of personal technology: I wake up one morning to discover the most important thing about new computers, digital cameras, personal digital assistants and...

The SiPix StyleCam Blink is an amazing example of what's possible with cutting-edge technology: a fully functional 1/3-megapixel digital camera, only slightly larger than a matchbox, for just $39. While...

Two men scrutinize a laptop computer screen in a conference room splattered with yellow Post-it Notes (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). Conversation is interspersed with...

"Golf is Not a Game of Perfect" reads the title of sports psychologist Bob Rotella's popular book. Until Lorena Ochoa came a few inches short on a putt two weeks...