San Jose Mercury News

A new minority--the transgender community--is fighting for acceptance in California. Over the last five years, John Whiteway of Santa Cruz, Calif., gave up dressing like a man, had his genitals...

Throw away your keys. Forget your passwords. A new technology called biometrics might soon make these old-fashioned forms of security obsolete. Everything from computers and automatic teller machines to cars...

The plain old telephone still edges out the computer on the list of most important equipment for telecommuters and small-office or home-office workers. Many telecommuters spend a good deal of...

If Babe Ruth were alive today, he would be rooting for Sammy Sosa to get the record, just on a personality basis. . . . If you disagree because you're...

Business opportunity: Entrepreneur or company wanted to devise a reliable method to measure workplace Internet usage. Vast market awaits whoever overcomes this huge hurdle for advertisers on the World Wide...

Drum roll, please. The award for least lifetime improvement in a personal computer role goes to: The display, also called "monitor" or "screen." More than a decade ago, the display...

Learning how to write computer programs can teach kids far more about logic, mathematics and self-discipline than any junior-high and high-school classes. And today's adolescents and pre-adolescents don't have to...

"Shopping bots"--short for shopping robots--are a hot commodity as major Internet companies rush to acquire a technology seen as instrumental to the future of on-line commerce. The more complex a...

When Lynne Davis retired earlier this year, she didn't have visions of whiling away her time on the links or in a hammock. "I don't play golf, tennis or bridge,...

Most personal computers are wired for sound, but not all Windows PCs have the right hardware to make the sounds you want to hear. It takes sound-processing chips and speakers,...