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SEATTLE (AP) _ Sears.com was inaccessible to U.S. shoppers for two hours on Friday in what was the most notable Web hiccup of the holiday gift-buying season's official start. Other sites, including Amazon.com Inc., experienced minor slowdowns,...

Print is having some issues at the moment, which may be like saying New Orleans took on some water. Insults fly, playground-style, about how long one published entity or another will be alive. Microsoft's CEO says no ink-on-paper newspapers or magazines...

China will probably surpass the U.S. as the nation with the most Internet users later this spring, according to statistics recently released by the Chinese government. The number of Internet users in China rose 53 percent to 210 million at the end of...

If you don't count Jared the Subway dude, the two nerdiest characters in American television commercials are probably the Verizon tech and John Hodgman as the "PC" in the Apple spots. That's instructive because the characters were meant to play off the...

The World Wide Web has become a worldwide bulletin board, condolence card and news source in response to the disaster in southeast Asia. Relatives have posted pleas to find loved ones. Mourners posted messages of sympathy. And so many people sought...

WHILE government Web sites stayed eerily static for hours after last week's terrorist attacks, private companies and nonprofits swiftly ripped up their home pages to focus on the tragedy. Watching the Internet respond to the worst terrorist attack in...

The continued spread of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human. Posing as a legitimate computer error message, the worm successfully tricked e-mail recipients into spreading it to...

A massive power failure swept the United States and southern Canada from the Great Lakes to the Eastern Seaboard yesterday, shuttering businesses, stranding commuters in elevators and subway cars, and leaving government officials bewildered as to the...

The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq - called the "first war of the Internet age" - is showing how much the communications medium has adapted in its relatively recent life. Major news sites on the Web have handled from 30 percent to 100 percent more traffic...

Technicians continued yesterday to clean up the wreckage not just in the Howard Street tunnel, but on the information superhighway. LAI Construction Services Inc. of Baltimore was completing yesterday a new fiber-optic loop around the downtown tunnel,...

Telephone networks and Internet news sites were swamped yesterday as people searched for information and the whereabouts of family and friends after the terrorist attacks on New York and suburban Washington. Phone companies urged customers to refrain...