Technobabble

As data centers grow in size, number, and importance, the need to reduce their —much of which is due to equipment and space cooling—is growing as well. Whil

Though most analyst sentiment is negative for Research in Motion's prospects, some analysts are turning positive.

The problems with Apple's new mobile maps were embarrassing, but the company has a tendency to bungle services that rely heavily on the Internet.

In a video interview, Meg Whitman, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, explains what she needs to tell Wall Street at this week's analysts meeting.

This fall, 110 engineers from high-tech companies are teaching computer science classes as part of a Microsoft program aimed at getting high school students excited about the field, Nick Wingfield reports in Monday's New York Times.

Owners of Apple's new iPhone 5 may notice that the phone is guzzling more bytes over the cellular network on Verizon Wireless than it should, which could lead to a hefty bill. It turns out there's a bug.

Ursula M. Burns, the chief executive of Xerox, inherited a company that makes a product that people no longer need. She discussed her solution - moving into a new business, providing services to companies - and her transition to chief executive.

Facebook announced that it was the first social network to reach one billion active users on the site within a month.

The keyboard button that stands between machine and master.

Apple is trying to use its patent portfolio as a strategic weapon to gain competitive advantage in the smartphone and tablet markets.

The start-up Art.sy aims to do for visual art what Pandora did for music: become a source of discovery, pleasure and education.

To help protect dissidents using video to tell their stories in countries with repressive government regimes, YouTube made available a new tool allowing people to obscure faces within videos uploaded onto its platform.

Peter Thiel is tapping into the lore of Silicon Valley, where coffee shops are crammed with C.E.O.'s barely out of their teens and being a dropout is a badge of honor.

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items.

Apple's map application debacle has been a boon for an unlikely suspect: MapQuest. The map company, owned by AOL, seemed to have been eclipsed in the era of in-car GPS and smartphones, but it is experiencing a resurgence.

Modern technology can do strange things to your brain. Just ask the man who tried to turn a magazine page with a finger swipe.

Lawrence J. Ellison, the founder and chief executive of Oracle, kicked off his annual show with the announcement of a new cloud database and a very fancy new machine for storing and processing lots of data.

Oracle's Mark V. Hurd on investing in data.

A leading technology research firm has cut its 2012 forecast for shipments of ultrabooks by more than 50 percent.

Mobile devices save critical time in emergencies. Photographer Rick Smolan discusses his latest project, "The Human Face of Big Data." Gutting an iPhone 5.

Facebook is one of the world's biggest buyers of computers, and has to think hard about what its data centers will look like. Its answer is to design and build its own systems, then give other manufacturers a price target to hit.

The company's bundling of its mapping technology with the iPhone 5 brings to mind the Microsoft-Netscape antitrust battles of the 1990s.

Answers to reader questions about Twitter and its chief executive, Dick Costolo, a former improv comedian, the subject of a profile in Sunday Business.

Corporations are moving to cloud computing a lot faster than expected, and the big incumbent players are moving fast too.

Twitter has appealed a federal court order requiring it to turn over a Twitter user's posts to prosecutors in New York in connection with an Occupy Wall Street protest last year.