San Jose Mercury News

Xerox Corp. will spin off its famed Palo Alto Research Center by the first of the year, following through on a pledge last year to find outside investors as a...

Yes, this has been a brutal year for the Internet industry--and it hasn't exactly been a walk in the garden for those who make it their business to study the...

The first batch of games for Nintendo's petite new GameCube console are more than enough reason to buy the machine. The same can't be said yet about the games for...

Silicon Valley career counselors report that as many as one-third of laid-off tech workers may never return to the fast-paced industry that sent fortunes rocketing and then crashing. And it's...

The Pentagon is "looking high and low for good ideas to combat terrorism." Good idea. On the DefenseLink Web site (www.defenselink.mil), the public face of the U.S. military, you'll find...

They love the bucolic charm of San Jose's Coyote Valley, but those who live and work there know it can't last. So when Cisco Systems last month drastically scaled back...

Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett has taken about 10 flights since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The tall, distinguished-looking Barrett, 62, has been singled out and searched on half of...

Sales of existing single-family homes continued to slide in September compared with the year before, but the 24 percent drop-off in the Bay Area is likely the result of economic...

If you need evidence that the next big thing on the Internet is digital music delivery, look no further than your hard drive. Simply launch an MP3 music file, and...

Wireless phones are becoming more and more a part of everyday life, both as a fashion statement and as a vital communications tool. In the category of fashion, the coolest...