San Jose Mercury News

When Gary Greenburg pulled his computer software consulting firm out of San Jose, Calif., and relocated to this tropical paradise, he had his fingers crossed. Greenburg, 42 years old and...

No one seems to be talking about the demise of Unix anymore. The preferred operating system for powerful server computers, once thought to be on its way to extinction, appears...

Everybody talks about the upcoming age of Big Bandwidth, when computer connections are instant and life is wonderful. And we're entitled, in dealing with an industry that over promises and...

Plenty of people interchangeably use the terms Internet and World Wide Web in conversation, but the two are no more interchangeable than the words wine and Cabernet. The Internet, by...

The country's third-largest satellite television service plans to make interactive TV available throughout the United States next year, bringing electronic mail, local weather forecasts on demand and home banking to...

It appears there are two kinds of accounting for Internet companies: Excite Inc.'s and everyone else's. The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that Excite, like Yahoo Inc. before...

Under a banner proclaiming the "Programming Republic of Perl," Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl,...

Keith Pope was driving down Highway 101 one day when he saw the Corvette with the U.S. Bobsled sticker. He tailed the car until it stopped, introduced himself to 1992...

Fancy big-screen television sets--the centerpiece of home theater systems--are increasingly popular. Ordinary consumers, not millionaires, are snapping up premium-priced sets for $1,000 and above. If you're one of those people...

One day you're the boss's pet, receiving plum assignments and sparkling job reviews. The next thing you know, you're in the doghouse. All you get are complaints about your performance...