David Needle

Almost three decades ago, a cover story

That's the speculation by *Mercury News* reporter Tim Kawakami in a (http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12789923?nclick_check=1)today. Citing

Is it safe to go short? Generally yes, but security firm MessageLabs says in a report this week that there are many reasons to be careful about clicking

A U.S. judge dismissed some damages claims in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and its video-sharing Web site YouTube but left open the

Today's memorial to fallen entertainment superstar Michael Jackson may well have been one of the most viewed online events in history. Reports of

Google's Gmail has earned a unique distinction as one of the longest running programs to maintain a "beta" designation since its debut five years ago.

Yahoo Search Pad Source: Yahoo Yahoo is readying a public beta for this Wednesday of Search Pad, a service it's already promoted and previewed at various

Microsoft is moving rapidly to build on the early good buzz its Bing search engine's received since its launch last month. Today the company announced its

Chances are you already know. According to a new report by Internet research firm (http://www.comscore.com) nearly 55 million Americans visited an

You can attack spammers' distribution and also haul them off to court, but darn it all, the dreaded mass e-mail pitches keep on coming. That conclusion is

Even as Google is devising ways to wean corporate users off of Microsoft Office, the company publicly thanked Microsoft today for help with compatibility

More than a third of network managers in a survey released this week say they are holding off deployment of next-generation datacenter applications