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Last week's announcements of price increases by two influential Internet service providers highlight the competing schools of thought regarding how to provide Internet access profitably when a handful of users...

After a record-breaking year of low unemployment and unrivaled job growth for engineers and other technical specialists, it's no wonder job seekers seem so optimistic. But have we hit the...

As the Web grows, so do the lists of results from Web searches. A new search engine from GoTo.com promises to change that by elevating the best results to the...

Let's make one point perfectly clear. Monday night's NCAA championship game between Kentucky and Utah isn't going to be about human highlight reels. There will be few, if any, monster...

The technology industry says there's such a shortage of technology workers that we must not only spend more taxpayer money to train workers, but drastically loosen immigration rules. But on...

Flat-panel displays, which will someday replace most of the bulky monitors sitting on top of personal computers, took a big step forward last month when NEC Technologies Inc. cut the...

Buyers of digital home-entertainment devices will almost certainly see some limits on their ability to copy movies and albums in the wake of a recent proposal by five major electronics...

With as many as 400,000 jobs available nationwide in information technology, some U.S. colleges are striving mightily to entice students into computer science. For example, how's this for a message...

John S. Blaine, vice president of Sun Microsystems Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif., was talking with his executive coach. "All the things that get you here to the executive level...

Congress this session is examining a number of electronic commerce issues, from Internet taxation to the use of digital signatures, that will significantly affect the number and kind of jobs...