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Although all of us try to get the biggest sustained bang for our hardware buck, we know that any computer purchase will have a finite service life. We demand ever...

Silicon Valley prosecutors have latched onto a novel way to go after Internet auction scams that's straight out of the Old West. Using an obscure 1872 law originally intended to...

Graphics chip maker S3 Inc. and Via Technologies are joining forces to take on Intel Corp. in the fast-growing market for inexpensive chips that combine some key features into a...

A new group of Web sites is using the model of business-to-business e-commerce to bring the power of aggregation of buying power to consumers. The new sites are allowing on-line...

A funny thing is happening on the way to network computing. The model it's supposed to replace--"client-server" computing--is teeming with innovation. At the same time, client-server computing is becoming part...

It's called the World Wide Web, but until recently, much of the content on the Web has reflected only a small slice of the world for some. And that's where...

For 28 years, Wind River Systems has been quietly thriving in its own little niche of the high-tech industry: providing an operating system for such semiconductor-based products as catalytic converters...

RealNetworks Inc. has issued a software update that stops its music player from secretly collecting information about its users. "We want to clean this up, and clean it up as...

A University of Texas study commissioned by Cisco Systems Inc. found that the Internet-related revenue of 3,400 companies grew to $108 billion in the first quarter of 1999, up nearly...

This just in from the Census Bureau: About half of all adults in the United States used computers, and about 20 percent of all Americans (children and adults combined) accessed...