In California, a Second Internet Gold Rush
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SAN FRANCISCO At the Web 2.0 conference here in 2005 -- back before Google had paid $1.65 billion for YouTube and people were talking about valuations for Facebook of $15 billion -- Zach Coelius, a precocious 25-year-old who had snuck into the hall without paying, stepped up to the microphone and...
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When it comes to Internet usage, cell phones, and creating Web content Americans are leading the wired pack.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - By day, Alexander Vincent is a mildmannered secretary for a Vallejo, Calif., real estate broker. By night, heâs an online crusader protecting users of a new Internet browser from glitches and security bugs.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 21--Two low-income housing communities in Sacramento will offer their residents free Wi-Fi Internet access and computers later this fall.
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As travelers spend billions online, Internet options keep growing.
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PALO ALTO, Calif  - Bill Goldsmith has converted   the upstairs floor of his two-story California home into a   radio studio that broadcasts his favorite rock, blues and folk   tunes over the Internet.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
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Organized crime rings and petty thieves are flocking to the Internet like start-ups in the go-go '90s, establishing a multibillion-dollar underground economy in just a few years. The Internet's growth as an economic engine, particularly for financial transactions, is feeding the felonious frenzy.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration.
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A 100Gbps internet link has been established between the east and west coasts of the US for the first time.   The Internet2 project is capable of carrying information 100,000 times faster than the fastest current home network.  (c) 2007 Sunday Mirror; London.
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High-speed Internet access is becoming more and more popular, study shows.
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Like thousands of other merchants, Tammy Harrison thought she had struck gold when hordes visited her Web site by clicking on the small Internet ads she purchased from the world's most popular online search engines.
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Netizens often like to compare the settlement of the Internet with that of the American West. The explorers charted new territory, observes product developer Chad Harrington of Zone Labs, a San Francisco-based
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PALO ALTO, Calif -- Bill Goldsmith has converted the upstairs floor of his two-story California home into a radio studio that broadcasts his favorite rock, blues and folk tunes over the Internet.
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By Colin Stewart, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Jun. 19--Editor's note: Second of two columns on new uses of mobile  phones. Last week: an info-on-demand service for cell phones.
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By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 23--Get ready for the next generation of Internet users -- it's here already.