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Yahoo!, the most popular navigation guide to the Web, will swap its current partnership with search service Inktomi for fast-growing rival Google. Google will become the new engine powering Yahoo!'s...

Former Cisco Systems chief technologist Judy Estrin and her husband, Bill Carrico, last week unveiled a start-up aimed at improving the underlying technology of the Internet. Called Packet Design Inc.,...

Three years ago, in an uncharacteristic fit of responsibility and foresight, I decided to transfer my collection of family photos from paper to the digital world. It's been a very...

When you use a search service on the Web, you'll comb through only a fraction of the data that is stored on computers connected to the Internet. It's like panning...

After crossing the half-million dollar mark in March, the median price of a single-family home in California's Santa Clara County hit a jaw-dropping $577,820 in April, a real estate trade...

It's the kind of stuff guaranteed to kill a conversation. Petroleum marketplaces. Vertical exchanges. Streamlining procurement. Mind-numbing, maybe, but they're all part of business-to-business e-commerce, which everyone seems to think...

A Silicon Valley start-up says it has developed a chip that will let mainstream music lovers convert their CDs into digital music files without ever touching a PC. PortalPlayer Inc....

Looking at what's going on in Japan can give you a great idea of the gizmos that will be showing up in America. But not everything that's big in Japan...

Supermarkets, drug stores and department stores have known for years that private-label products sold under their own brands are popular--and profitable. Now, on-line merchants, seeking to boost sales and promote...

When it comes to news, more Americans would rather hear it from their TV sets than read it in the morning paper. Now the Internet--home to uncountable sources of fact,...