SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo's previous turnaround attempts have flopped under three different leaders with dramatically different backgrounds -- former movie mogul Terry Semel, beloved Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and profanity-spewing Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz.Now, the struggling Internet ...
PALO ALTO, Calf. -- In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history -- how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago."I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, 'I've ...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word processor, Bill Gates testified Monday in a $1 billion antitrust ...
It seems you can surf the Internet and check your email from virtually anywhere these days -- in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, airport terminals and airplane cabins.More places are making it easier to turn on your laptop or tablet computer and connect to the Internet through free public Wi-Fi ...
LOS ANGELES -- Steve Jobs's legacy at Apple Inc. goes well beyond cool gadgets, a thriving retail chain and a music empire.He also launched the company's all-out legal war on Google Inc.In the last months of Jobs's life, Apple unleashed a patent-suit blitzkrieg on its Silicon Valley rival, ...
DALLAS -- Bill Conner runs a defense company whose customers are threatened by new forms of global attack every day.The 52-year-old president and chief executive of Dallas-based Entrust Inc. sells software and technology to such marquee customers as Citibank, Interpol and the governments of the ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life -- giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer surgery in favor of cleansings and herbal medicine."Steve Jobs" by Walter ...
TORONTO -- The maker of the struggling BlackBerry tried to soothe tens of millions of frustrated customers Monday, offering more than $100 worth of free software to each one and giving some a month of technical support as compensation for last week's massive outage.But some BlackBerry users and ...
NEW YORK -- To the ranks of New Coke and the Edsel, we can now add Qwikster.Less than a month after announcing a plan to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services, Netflix reversed course Monday and said it would keep the two services on a single website. Customers had complained ...
NEW YORK -- It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday.Many consumers waited in lines for hours -- sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms -- to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week.The company's first iPhone release ...
