San Jose Mercury News

Customization is one of the big buzz words on the Internet. Web portals like Yahoo! provide customized feeds of news, sports scores and stock quotes. And online retailers like Amazon.com...

John and Sheila Dobbie of Gahanna, Ohio, don't just watch their television. They use it. A few times each week, one or both of the Dobbies will plunk themselves down...

The moribund online video and music companies piling up like bags of trash along the information superhighway stand as a grim reminder that the Internet doesn't make it any easier...

Microsoft Corp., the company that put its Windows operating system on nearly every household computer, is now promising big business its software can handle the most complex corporate tasks. In...

The Internet's ability to spread ideas is often compared with the proliferation of a virus, infecting citizens with information. But the power of the Internet to target consumers and change...

Much of the buzz at this month's Telecosm Conference--the futuristic annual gathering that presumes that ubiquitous communications capacity is just around the corner--centered around another high-concept idea: TeraBeam and its...

A proposal offered by a property manager is aimed at making condominium owners out of scores of San Francisco renters who can't buy because city laws won't let them. Pitched...

The scene at the Sydney Entertainment Center was almost catatonic as far as Olympic events go. A small group of Americans half-heartedly chanted "USA, USA" during the U.S.-Croatia volleyball match....

A cell phone that acts as an all-powerful remote control. Messages and photos swapped with the click of a button. A cartoon of the day. Those are some of the...

Business-to-business electronic marketplaces for supplies and services were supposed to save traditional companies billions of dollars by bringing together buyers and sellers online, cheaply and instantly. But a funny thing...