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Quick, name the actor who played Agent Smith in the movie "The Matrix." If you didn't name Hugo Weaving, you wouldn't have done well in the Linux Geek Bowl, a...

A year ago, workers were flocking to Web start-ups from established companies. Competition for dot-com workers was so intense that many job-seekers received multiple offers. The risks of going to...

The transformation of San Francisco's northeastern waterfront has set sail with approval of a historic plan to preserve the Bay Area treasure while allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in...

DotTV Corp., the latest hatchling from tech incubator Idealab, looks like that rarest of Internet birds: one that's making millions in revenue and has barely any overhead. But while the...

Hot on the heels of the run-up in Silicon Valley housing prices, apartment rents in California are soaring to new heights this year. With vacancies at their lowest point since...

The IRS has confirmed that an effort to save taxpayers time and filing hassles has backfired for tens of thousands of mutual fund investors who have been mailed erroneous billing...

The on-line auction business is booming, as millions of people go onto the Web to buy and sell everything from Pez dispensers to baseball cards to antique vases. Now, a...

This month's big trade show for semiconductor equipment-makers was full of good news. Not only is the $25.5 billion industry poised for at least two more years of strong growth,...

On many levels, teenagers appear to be obvious customers for on-line retailers. They love to shop and they have disposable income because they face few financial responsibilities. With money from...

Palm Inc. announced last week that its next generation of handheld organizers, due in the first half of 2001, will carry far more memory than today's Palm offerings and should...