San Jose Mercury News

My mother translated movies for a living. She would start with a literal translation, then restore the poetry and passion of human communication. In her craft, precision needed nuance. She...

High-speed Internet access should become a little more affordable for consumers, thanks to a new standard adopted last week by the telecommunications industry. The standard, which sets the rules for...

Like millions of other children who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, Mark Root is intelligent, hyperactive and hard to control. He's also been mislabeled. Mark, like a growing...

One day this spring, a 16-person working group -- the entire management and engineering team from a Silicon Valley ISP -- put itself up for sale, with a minimum bid...

I've just survived a travel nightmare, made a little bit less awful by an interesting new piece of technology. Here's the nightmare: On the afternoon of June 6, I boarded...

When we strip away all the shiny, smiley-faced rhetoric about the Internet and get down to the hard, empirical facts about Net usage, almost all of what we know is...

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology has undergone a remarkable transformation in a mere four years-- from promising and sexy to useful and boring. That change may have dampened Sun's dreams...

A federal court has cleared the way for a San Jose company to continue selling its popular portable digital music player, a decision that will likely prompt more companies to...

Carla Anderson, 59, sits in her spare bedroom and dispatches e-mails to plan a surprise party for her sister, catch up with a cousin in Sweden and swap recipes with...

Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo! Inc.'s Internet directory chief, is trying to explain what her team of Web surfers does. Raising her voice above the muted roar of several dozen diners packed...