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You have to hand it to Palm Computing. They took the 15-year-old idea of a personal digital assistant--an electronic organizer that fits in your pocket and shares information with your...

Televisions could be chirping "You've got mail!" as early as this summer, as America Online prepares to bring its market-dominating Internet service to TV sets. AOL has lined up at...

Business software-makers say they know the Grinch who stole their profit growth and sent their stocks into a tailspin: It's the nasty Y2K bug. More than in any another sector...

In the competitive world of tech marketing, creating a clever gadget isn't good enough to lure teenage buyers anymore. The stuff's got to have style. Even Silicon Valley old-timer Hewlett-Packard...

Talk about Internet time. In the real world, you could spend 134 years building a venerable auction house on the expertise of your appraisers and be worth $260 million. But...

As lawmakers rush to shield businesses from the blizzard of lawsuits anticipated over the Year 2000 computer problem, there are growing fears that consumers may end up out in the...

Personal computer prices have dropped far enough that a handful of companies are beginning to package a computer and Internet access together for a monthly fee that can be as...

Microsoft Corp. reported its typically handsome quarterly revenues and profits last week, and, as usual, the profits were higher than Wall Street analysts had estimated. As it seems to happen...

Burt Reynolds is hot again. So, too, are twin sets. So it shouldn't be entirely surprising that the fitness fad known as rebounding appears to be making a rebound itself....

Imagine yourself facing the blank screen at home, hoping to make a welcome-home banner, a garage-sale flier or a lost-pet sign. Or picture yourself at work, up against a deadline...