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There has always been competition in the world of microprocessors, but until recently there's been little in the way of innovation or choice. Ever since IBM decided to use Intel...

Buying any piece of electronic equipment is invariably an act of surrender. No matter how long you wait, you could always do better by waiting longer. These days, the decision...

Are laser printers dead? Inkjet printers costing about $400 now claim to be nearly as fast as laser printers that cost anywhere from $400 to $800. Inkjets not only print...

Merrill Lynch & Co.'s Thomas P. Kurlak and Mark Edelstone of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter are having a $64 billion disagreement over Intel Corp. One of these research analysts is...

Egged on by the computer industry, cable TV operators are poised to spend billions of dollars to equip their networks for a new, interactive breed of television. Much of the...

Although it may seem as if the road to digital nirvana gets redrawn every two weeks or so, there is a comforting sameness to some of the stops along the...

Netscape Communications Corp., in the process of renegotiating the fees that search engines pay to be displayed on its high-traffic Web site, is adding free e-mail and other features to...

Most of us are electronic-mail minimalists. We get new messages, then read them, save, reply and delete them. Naturally, we create and send a few new messages of our own....

A team of Silicon Valley researchers have turned molecules of chloroform into the world's first quantum computer. The breakthrough uses a variation of medicine's magnetic resonance imaging to manipulate the...

The pot of gold created by the growth in sales of enterprise resource planning--or ERP--software has spread far beyond the coffers of the companies that sell the massive software systems...