Computer Sciences

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Intel Corp. has provided some insight into the state of global PC demand, telling Wall Street that while technology spending may be slumping, the chip maker fully expects its profits to hold steady. The Santa Clara-based company,...

Justin Palatsky has designed more than 200 spaceships. Someday, one or more of those ships could be racing through intergalactic space in his first video game, ''Mourning Star.'' Though his strength is in design, Palatsky, 18, plans to develop his...

A reader wrote in an e-mail that her third-grade daughter is already saying girls just aren't good at math. "Where in the heck did she get that?" the reader wrote. "Are there any resources for parents who want their girls to not fall into that trap?" I...

Melbourne-based Harris Corp. has landed an information-technology contract worth a potential $140 million, the Defense Department said today. Terms call for Harris to perform systems integration and information technology services for the National...

So many global-warming studies have been conducted now that you have to wonder: What new revelations could possibly be brought to light at this point? That global warming makes presidential debates more tedious? But the National Center for Atmospheric...

It's as fast as 25,000 high-end laptops linked together. It has enough capacity to store 30 million novels. And someday, it might help keep you safe in severe weather. This is the Bluefire, an IBM supercomputer so powerful that scientists think it will...

A record 6,668 students voted in this year's student Senate elections at the University of Central Florida, but that number is still just a little more than 10 percent of the 50,000-plus student body. Fifty-two students will make up the 41st session of...

MIAMI—In a nod to how finicky people have become about the gadgets they use, software company Citrix Systems Inc. is rolling out a new program for its workers: BYOC—Bring Your Own Computer. Employees get a $2,100 stipend to buy a laptop and...

Russell Evans was torn over career possibilities growing up. "From the time I was 8, I wanted to be a professional football player," said Evans, who became a Division II All-American receiver. "But, I also realized most players only played for five...

MIAMI (AP) _ In a nod to how finicky people have become about the gadgets they use, software company Citrix Systems Inc. is rolling out a new program for its workers: BYOC — Bring Your Own Computer. Employees get a $2,100 stipend to buy a laptop...

Globecomm Systems Inc. of Hauppauge, a maker of satellite-based communications systems, said Tuesday it has launched an information technology subsidiary to offer customers advisory and consulting services and engineering information. The subsidiary,...

Hurting from price cuts and an expensive restructuring, Dell Inc. rattled investors Tuesday with another warning, this time that corporate spending on technology is weakening further. By most measures, the technology sector has been chugging along fine,...