San Jose Mercury News

The vibrant pace of innovation--and the pressing urge to be an insider-- spills over from the technology industry into our everyday speech. As a result, it has become commonplace for...

In yet another measure of Silicon Valley's growth and expansion, the remodeling craze--adding on new rooms and new stories or even building a new, larger house--has moved north. The outcry...

It's capable of giving middle-age patients some of their youth back. It's the hottest drug on pharmacy shelves. Doctors have written more than 10 million prescriptions for it since January...

Hard-disk digital video recorders have yet to sell in big numbers, but the early-adopter couch-potato crowd is drooling. A much-hyped feature of these devices, in which a computer hard disk...

Dominic Ang was desperate. The University of California-Berkeley senior had been looking for a room within walking distance of campus since last May. After an exhaustive search, Ang found what...

Soon, perhaps very soon, 49ers quarterback Steve Young will face his own intensely personal choice. And whatever it is, people should respect his decision and call him neither a fool...

At first glance, there was no connection between two significant technology industry announcements: 3Com Corp.'s decision to spin off its Palm handheld computing unit and Microsoft Corp.'s new software development...

Microsoft Corp., Dell Computer Corp. and about 100 other companies have linked the auction portions of their Web sites to go after market leader eBay Inc. in the hot on-line...

Function over form has long been the mantra of the personal computer industry. But the makers of bland, beige boxes are getting a new message on how the outside of...

Even as the frenzy of dot.com start-ups begins to open doors to female executives, a new study suggests that many women in high-tech fields believe gender bias continues to hurt...