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Buried in a labyrinthine mass of narrow hallways and white-wall offices, in the middle of the largest IBM site in the world, are the modest digs of the man who...

Toiling in university laboratories across the country are thousands of researchers looking to uncover the next big technological breakthrough as life-changing as the Internet. The federal government foots the bill...

Shortly after Carly Fiorina joined Hewlett-Packard as chief executive in July 1999, she went on a whirlwind trip to Paris to see customers and employees. With a packed schedule and...

It could have worked. Now that Webvan Group has collapsed, number crunchers are dismissing the company as an experiment doomed from the start. But they need to look beyond Webvan's...

Here's a bet to consider: Can online gambling overcome legal, technological and social challenges to become a mainstream multibillion-dollar business? The odds are improving in the wake of a new...

One cut fastball kept Mark Mulder from making history Friday night. Mulder threw it over the inside of the plate to Danny Bautista leading off the eighth inning, a 1-0...

It's always a bit weird to celebrate Independence Day in the nation from which my country rebelled. The British who note it take the occasion in good humor. But I...

Shows such as TechXNY are packed with gee-whiz products we can really do without. After wading through a sea of new offerings at this year's gathering, only a few came...

Repo man Marty Pichinson swaggers down the deserted hallway of Zoho.com in Sunnyvale. Zoho, a Web site that serves hotels, is barely alive. And Pichinson has arrived to grab and...

In his 1984 science-fiction novel, "The Final Encyclopedia," Gordon Dickson envisioned a future that included the ultimate reference and information tool--a computing machine providing fast and useful access to humanity's...