By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
by Lisa Irby Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your website. Below you’ll discover what the search engines…
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
If you don’t have any problems, Brighthouse can be great. But then, companies you really want to do business with prove that to you WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 9/1/2010 – This company has gotten…
If you’ve been informed that your Internet service has been suspended by the security department, it’s most likely that a computer virus has compromised your computer. Although the security department sometimes suspends the Internet service…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…
It’s late in spring or summer, and love is in the air — in your garden, porch, on the windshield of your car. Love is everywhere. It’s the kind of love that drives people insane:…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
By CATHY HORYN Published: September 17, 2010 Fashion writers and professionals have been complaining about the motley nature of the shows since the mid-1970s, when designers moved their presentations to hotel ballrooms and, through the…
By CHARLES McGRATH Published: August 21, 2010 What on earth is wrong with Tiger Woods? It’s true he played a little better at the P.G.A. Championship, where he at least made the cut and finished…
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
By TANZINA VEGA September 9, 2010 Google is rolling out a new advertising campaign on Thursday for its display advertising platform. The campaign, called Watch This Space, will run in advertising trade magazines and in other…
By NICK BILTON September 12, 2010 If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status…
By STEVE LOHR Published: September 11, 2010 MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new insights. Consider the subject of jobs…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: September 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type. On Wednesday, Google…
