San Jose Mercury News

College graduation is fast approaching and you're ready to don your cap and gown. You're already dreaming about your gratuitous post-graduation summer trip to Europe with your buddies. Well, think...

Tom Riley gets on the stairstepper at his athletic club in Redwood City, Calif. He has that day's sports and business sections. He has his plug-in headphones. With a few...

The promise of "new media"--the thing that made it different from newspapers and other "old media"--was the ability of users to customize the contents of their daily news feed. For...

William Payson worked all his life without gaining much attention in the world. Now, at 74, he's becoming something of a national celebrity. It's all because he's put together a...

Scott Gaidano, the co-founder of DriveSavers, a Novato, Calif., data-recovery company, regularly lectures people on the need to back up their crucial files on floppy disks, Zip drives or computer...

Sam Stern, professor of education at Oregon State University and co-author with Alan G. Robinson of "Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen," talked with Mercury News Staff Writer...

For years, the computer industry has thrived on a most improbable combination of circumstances: The prices for its wares have dropped steadily, but its profits have remained strong. The streak...

A new modem standard will soon--but not quite yet--make it safe for you to jump to the next modem level: the "56K" level where the modem moves more than 50,000...

When a group of former Apple Computer Inc. engineers set out three years ago to create software for designing and creating Web pages, they built it on a Mac. It...

Please respond to the following survey question. On-line polls are: a) Meaningless. b) Spinach. c) Hello. d) Quarks. e) Perhaps. It makes no difference to the usefulness of the result...