Shopping for back to school used to mean a trip to Target to buy notepads, binders, pencils, erasers and a “Spongebob Squarepants” pencil box. Now it means a visit to Best Buy, Office Max or clicking ...

Over the next few weeks, thousands of Bay Area consumers will decide whether to get new computers or other big-ticket gizmos. That's nothing new. In recent years, the year end has become an ...

It’s easy to think you can get by with just a laptop. After all, it comes with a built-in keyboard, trackpad and screen all in one package — what else could you possibly need? But if you’re working ...

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, if someone wanted to buy a personal computer, they had to make a trip down to a local computer store to physically check out what was available. Once there, ...