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IBM researchers have found a way to transfer information using just a handful of atoms, holding out the promise of ultra-small, ultra-fast computer chips that could move data without using...

Imagine for a moment that you are a tourist in a foreign city--a tourist in a hurry. You don't have time to stop at every street corner to look up...

Remember a few years back, when people were predicting baseball might not make it to the 21st Century? Too old-fashioned, too slow, too mismanaged. Well, it's still old-fashioned--and that is...

The battle between eBay Inc. and two Web sites that want to post its auction listings has taken another nasty turn. EBay has been struggling for months to prevent Bidder's...

Take a deep breath, count to 10 and repeat after me: Last week's Web-site attacks are serious, but they are not the end of the Net as we know it....

A lawsuit against DoubleClick Inc., accusing the leading on-line advertising firm of improperly using the information it collects about Web sites visited, has focused new attention on the vast amount...

Just a couple of miles across the freeway from Imagine Media's Brisbane, Calif., headquarters, in an office complex near 3Com Park, Chris Anderson's next big media play is taking shape....

Just last year, LinuxWorld was an intimate gathering of hobbyist developers and vendors of a fringe operating system. No more. Last week thousands of enthusiasts for the software system flocked...

It's a place where a dead guy named Baudot is worth 50 times more than Bill Gates and where Peter Pan can be unearthed--or lost--in the Neverland between cyberspace and...

Silicon Valley's lack of affordable housing could soon be more than a source of anguish for house hunters--it could also be the Achilles' heel of the region's booming economy, according...