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Critics say interactive television is becoming the punch line of a bad joke: It is next year's technology, and always will be. A progression of Silicon Valley companies have been...

Two years ago, Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison announced what sounded like a fairly audacious, if entirely sensible, plan: He and computer hardware partners would sell boxes that would act...

Nowhere have this entrepreneurial city's manic-depressive financial tendencies been more evident than in the Internet economy. It took off late last year and early in 2000. When the U.S. Internet...

Josh Silverman can't remember exactly when the realization hit him that his company wouldn't make it to an initial public offering. But the chief executive of Evite Inc., an online...

It's hard to know which of Anna Morris' lives is more quintessentially Silicon Valley. Her previous: Up at 3 a.m., pack the kids over to mom's, hit the road by...

With scores of search engines out there, why is it still so hard to find what you want on the Web? For one thing, there's a problem with language. When...

Santa Clara County's biggest house has nine bathrooms, or so Cindy and Gaymond Schultz believed. But when the couple moved in, they came across a 10th, tucked down a hall...

Internet time, at least in the case of encyclopedias, runs 10 times faster than normal time. Encyclopedias in print arrived more than 200 years ago; the first complete version of...

For the first time, the U.S. Department of Commerce computer use survey examined computer and Internet access for disabled Americans, and learned that they are only half as likely to...

Imagine the real estate pitch: Charming Craftsman in quiet residential neighborhood. Close to downtown. Birthplace of Silicon Valley in back. Hewlett-Packard Co. has purchased a piece of its own history,...