San Jose Mercury News

In 1971, Charles Schwab set out to challenge full-service brokerages and redefine how Americans buy and sell investments. Today, the San Francisco discount brokerage is trying to redefine itself and...

You can now get a scanner for as little as $40. Not a toy scanner. Not a clumsy hand-held scanner or obsolete black-and-white model. I'm talking about a real millions-of-colors,...

Jeff Bezos has been president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com since the company was founded in 1994, later becoming chief executive officer. Although it has yet to turn...

One month after being laid off, Bonnie Niederstrasser, a mechanical design engineer, remains confident about finding another job. But it's a tougher search than it was two years ago for...

You may not realize it, but as you browse the World Wide Web you're running computers that are vastly more powerful than the one on your desk. Even what appears...

California Gov. Pete Wilson last week signed into law two sweeping bills that seek to give businesses and consumers powerful new tools to regulate the unsolicited commercial e-mail messages that...

One of the great mysteries of the consumer technology business is how companies that sell hardware and software to the home market can continue to treat first-time customers with thinly...

A little-noticed proposal now in Congress to revise existing copyright law has the potential to fundamentally alter the way many Americans work and play. Proponents say the legislation--which tightens protections...

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...

One month after being laid off, Bonnie Niederstrasser, a mechanical design engineer, remains confident about finding another job. But it's a tougher search than it was two years ago for...