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The open source community is getting some respect from Intel Corp., as the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker puts the technical specifications of its next generation Itanium processor on the Internet...

For decades, ideas conceived at Stanford University have materialized off-campus into high-tech powerhouses like Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and Genentech Inc. Now Stanford will try to tap into some...

A Bay Area biotech company and a supercomputing team have analyzed about two-thirds of the known human genome and will sell the data, like candy or flowers, to anyone with...

Palms are sweeping the nation, and as a certified techie, I own one. But I don't use it. I tried. I really did. But I just got too frustrated with...

Someday, the Los Angeles Lakers may look back at their first-round playoff series and laugh, for the Sacramento Kings might just prove to be the biggest obstacle between them and...

Over the last few years it seems Silicon Valley venture capitalists and IPO-hungry investors were willing to throw their money at practically anyone with an idea for how to make...

Picture the jaded technology watcher, contemplating a slew of announcements in recent weeks. Ho-hum, he mumbles, when he hears that IBM is selling a personal-computer disk drive capable of storing...

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are moving into Europe to tap a swell of entrepreneurship, and their overseas ambitions raise delicate questions about whether the blunt, hard-charging venture model developed here...

Businesses want Congress to enact a law making Internet transactions legally binding. Consumer groups fear that could make customers vulnerable to deception. And state officials say they could lose their...

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