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For the first time since 1994, Santa Clara County--the heart of California's Silicon Valley--is expected to end the year with a rate of job growth that falls substantially behind the...

Nearly every Internet company wants to be the next Amazon.com Inc., but at least one wants to move beyond that lofty goal. If early promises play out successfully, aptly (re-)named...

The veteran University of California child psychiatrist believes adults need to rethink their notions about adolescence as a hormone-soaked, rebellious binge. The teen years are not naturally a time of...

"E-commerce" is the bureaucratic term. "On-line shopping" is the personal reality. Both are being scandalously hyped. There's nothing new about the convenience of "anytime, anywhere" shopping. You can already shop...

Portals and search pages rank near the top of popular World Wide Web sites, but their biggest strength--massive size and reach--also can be a drawback. Even the best of the...

They came to celebrate the visionary who made today's computing possible. They ended up helping to push his vision out another 30 years. "Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" at Stanford Memorial...

Jo Dewhirst wanted to be a doctor when she grew up, not a patient. Turning her family's basement into a makeshift hospital, she would perform imaginary appendectomies on all her...

I won't spoil the fun by explaining why you should sit through the credits at the end of "A Bug's Life," an animated feature film that has become a hit...

DEALS SECURE MILLIONS FROM SMALLER COMPANIES Lucent Technologies Inc. wants badly to be thought of as the next best thing to a Silicon Valley company. One problem in gaining admission...

Back in the Stone Age of personal computers, a little more than a decade ago, I bought an IBM XT. For the first time, I had a computer with a...