Several hundred computer users, at the time of this article, intended to seek refunds from Microsoft for the unused operating system sold bundled with their machines.

Op/Ed piece about how Ted's tragic death should prod rethinking of police policy about chases.

A Suisun City man was charged with murder yesterday in the death of Theodore Resnick at the end of a high-speed chase in Berkeley involving the California Highway Patrol.

Could California lead the nation into a spam-free future? Or at least one where appreciably fewer unwanted pitches for porn, anatomical enhancements and cheapo printer cartridges flood our electronic inboxes? 2003.02.24

Nearly 9 out of 10 Americans who use e-mail at work support legislation that would require warning labels on sexually explicit or pornographic spam and establish criminal penalties for spam that contains misleading information about the identity of th...

So I get back after taking a week off and find my office e-mail basket spilling over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot, and the rest . . . well, you know where I'm going with this.

According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 ...

Describes the developers of Eazel.

A Henry Norr article on current issues facing Google.

Compaq Computer Corp. has agreed to pay a San Jose man $3.35 million for the Web address www.altavista.com, which is believed to be a record amount paid for a domain name, according to a source close to the deal. [SF Chronicle]