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USB 2.0 is a new and better way to plug devices into a personal computer--one of those dry technical improvements that's worth understanding because it will make life just a...

It's a vintage Hollywood premiere, with A-list actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire striding along a red carpet lined with paparazzi and a burly bouncer at the...

The U.S. military's psychological warriors have been sent to the Afghanistan region with equipment to broadcast political messages to the Afghan people. But a Pentagon report released last year suggests...

In the first hours following the Sept. 11 atrocities, consumers of news learned the "what" about the attacks, thanks to the television networks that showed the horror so graphically. Then...

XM Satellite Radio, a revolutionary service delivering 100 channels of music and talk for $9.99 a month, is only a few days old, and I'm already prepared to call it...

Palo Alto's high-speed, fiber-optic fantasy is about to become a reality for a select group of residents, two schools and a library. Four years after Palo Alto became one of...

iPaq Music Center $799, by Compaq Computer Corp. www.compaq.com/ipaqaudio Compaq Computer's new iPaq Music Center, a $799 piece of audio equipment that uses a hard disk to store tunes, is...

A new development in Vallejo's sand-colored hills is trying to make Thomas Kinkade's paintings a reality with 101 houses inspired in part by his nostalgic art. "The Village, a Thomas...

Call it a "Hail Carly" play. When one beleaguered giant buys another, you can smell the desperation. It's oozing from the corporate pores at Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp....

Little did IBM know when it unveiled the first IBM PC 20 years ago that it would spawn what is now the $178 billion personal computer industry. It is also...