Groundhogtech

Former Intel Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry — and how to respond. He even has coined a term for it: the “strategic inflection point.” Now the retired chairman of the world’s largest computer chip maker thinks the term applies to energy […]

Despite the housing recession, there are still more than 1.5 million real estate agents in the United States.

Police in the 1970s urged citizens to “drop a dime” in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages.

Police hope the idea helps recruit teens and 20-somethings who wouldn’t normally dial a Crime Stoppers […]

Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo’s online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.

The latest twist in Microsoft’s convoluted courtship caused Yahoo’s shares to rise more than 3 percent in Wednesday’s sinking stock market, even though the chances of […]

In a move that could give a welcome, if short-lived, boost to consumer electronics makers and retailers, consumers up and down the West Coast are snapping up headsets that let them talk on cell phones while driving — and stay in compliance with a law that took effect in California and Washington state on July […]

Don Reisinger explores truth in journalism and wonders why it hurts so much to hear it.

A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world’s third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.

Question: Do you think your Google habits — your random, untethered wisps of thoughts manifested as search terms like “unexplained hives” and “Kate Beckinsale single?” — can be bundled together to paint an accurate representation of your morality?

So many people are lining up to buy a new touch-screen wireless phone that the carrier selling it can’t keep up with demand.

Finally open source gets some mainstream press