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PALO ALTO, Calif. — By many measures, it has been a tough year for employees of Electronic Data Systems.
After Hewlett-Packard bought the computer services company last August for $13.9 billion, it immediately began hacking the work force....
SAN FRANCISCO — Will Carol A. Bartz sell Yahoo’s search business to Microsoft?
Analysts asked the question time and again after Ms. Bartz delivered Yahoo’s financial results to Wall Street for the first time since becoming chief executive...
Casting a pall over one of the world’s most closely watched companies, Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, said on Wednesday that he was taking a leave of absence because of health concerns.
Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple,...
Beta test version will be available Friday for regular PC users to download
LAS VEGAS – Microsoft Corp.’s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time.
That’s one message Chief Executive Steve...
SAN FRANCISCO — In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an early age.
That passion didn’t change after glaucoma took his eyesight at the age of 14. What changed is the role that technology — and...
Faulty software has crippled 30GB first generation versions of the Microsoft Zune digital media player, affecting thousands of customers worldwide.
The problem appears restricted to first-generation 30GB Zune players
The company said it was...
MARSHFIELD, Wis. — Joseph Calderaro, 67, is one of health care’s quiet success stories. Over the last four years, he has carefully managed his diabetes by lowering his blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol with diet, exercise and medication.
Claire...
Tech Daily: Sales of under-$400 computers are expected to soar in the coming year – much to the delight of one tech giant and the dismay of just about everyone else.
SAN FRANCISCO — This Christmas, the titans of the personal-computer...
Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from pages to pixels?
For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity...