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Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Tammy Lafky has a computer at home but said she doesn't use it. 'I don't know how,' the 41-year-old woman said, somewhat [...]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ HighJump Software of Eden Prairie, Minn., is high on RFID. It's not a drug. It's the acronym for 'radio frequency identification,' a [...]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Financially troubled phone company Qwest Communications International on Friday reached a tentative two-year labor agreement that offers no raises for 27,000 employees [...]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo MINNEAPOLIS _ Former Minnesota Twins star Kirby Puckett broke his silence Monday and denied he dragged a woman into the men's room of an Eden Prairie [...]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo When Richard Brama wants to snap a picture on the spur of the moment, he doesn't look for a camera _ he whips out his cell [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ 'Do you know what this is?' my brother asked me. His voice was hushed. I leaned over to peek. You'd have thought he'd found the Hope [...]

The first time Carol Ewer learned she had hepatitis, her doctor told her not to worry. ``He told me it was (Hepatitis) non-A non-B, and he just said we would [...]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Westlaw finds itself in the middle of an intensely growing debate over consumer identity theft and the safety of personal information, following […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ If you want to figure out the recent flurry of telecom mergers _ including Thursday's report that Qwest Communications International might buy […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Consumer backlash against the creation of a 411 directory of cell-phone numbers this year may have weakened it to the point that […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Online holiday shopping is expected to soar again this year, but will a new form of Internet fraud follow suit? The answer […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ States cannot regulate the rapidly growing, significantly cheaper Internet telephone services that are luring away the nation's telephone customers from traditional phone […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ The superfast world of supercomputing got much faster Tuesday. High-performance computer maker Silicon Graphics announced that it has built the world's most […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Jennifer Jasinski's 3-year-old computer got sick in February. The onset was sudden, and, like a medical horror movie, the symptoms multiplied rapidly […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ If you've seen those amusing commercials about identity theft but don't think the problem is really that bad, consider Paul Luehr's experience. […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Thieves don't always need technology to steal your personal information. Sometimes all it takes is a little wad of paper and a […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo The latest move in Ma Bell's massive effort to market a high-tech answer to the old-fashioned telephone will debut this fall at Best Buy. The Richfield, […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Jeffrey Lee Parson, the 19-year-old Hopkins High School senior arrested in connection with last summer's massive "Blaster" computer worm outbreak, plead guilty […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ IBM Tuesday unveiled a server computer that acts like a mainframe, which could help IBM overtake rivals Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard in […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ A majority of Americans thinks the music industry has gone too far in its campaign to sue illegal music downloaders, according to […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Kristen Moe, age 16, is savoring her prepaid cell phone and the envy of her peers. "It's a really cool phone," said […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Prepaid cell phones are convenient but there's one catch _ you have to use the minutes within a certain period or they disappear. Virgin Mobile, for […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Oh, give Elizabeth Meyer a cellphone where the signals don't roam, where calls and technology can play _ in harmony. Since last […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Chris Bucsko, a senior project leader for Consumers Union who has studied the cellphone industry, has tips for people who want AT&T Wireless' new GSM phones. […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Douglas King of Minnetonka, Minn., was puzzled when he noticed that AT&T had charged him $3.95 in February for long-distance service. King […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Magnetic tape came first for Imation Corp. Then computer floppy disks, optical CDs and DVDs. Now the Oakdale, Minn.-based maker of removable […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Microsoft Corp. used rumors, strong-arm tactics, technical sabotage and deceit to establish its monopoly over the world of computer operating systems, an attorney told a jury […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Qwest Communications International is about to find out if going "naked" is a viable strategy for a telephone company. Denver-based Qwest, Minnesota's dominant local phone service […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Using Windows, the Microsoft kind, to surf the Internet is no big deal. Using windows, the over-the-kitchen-sink kind, to do the same thing might be considered […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo St. Nick once more gave online retailers a merry Christmas, according to early indications. Online shopping still represents only a fraction of overall retailing, but it […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Usually, nobody beats Santa Claus' famed night-before-Christmas deliveries. But John Michener did. Last year, the 42-year-old Minneapolis engineer got up Christmas morning, slogged off in his […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo For all of you here with us in Remedial Online Shopping 101, today's vocabulary word is "aggregator." It's a shopping Web site that gathers information for […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ For Jon Benfer, switching his phone service to save money was a "no-brainer." But the option he chose surprised his friends and […]

Byline: LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMO ST. PAUL, Minn. _ The music industry unleashed its most aggressive effort yet Monday to discourage Internet music piracy, filing 261 lawsuits across the country that […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo The sagging music industry is starting to realize that consumers alienated by high CD prices may never return to the store. Downloading online music has become […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ An 18-year-old high school student was arrested and charged Friday with creating one of the variants of the "Blaster" computer worm that […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Computer worms. E-mail viruses. Power blackouts. All were painful reminders to businesses and other organizations in recent weeks that without access to their data, work grinds […]

Byline: Scott Carlson and Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Best Buy Co. took to the Internet Friday in a continuing effort to alert millions of customers to a massive e-mail scam affecting […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo MINNEAPOLIS _ Hennepin County prosecutors lost an attempt Monday to prevent jurors in the Kirby Puckett sexual assault trial from hearing the defense's version of how […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo ST. PAUL, Minn. _ That sleek gray thing on Linda Ehresman's desk in Chaska, Minn.'s City Hall looks like a phone, sounds like a phone and […]

Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Landing and keeping your next job could depend on how a piece of software assesses your potential and performance. National employment firms have long used specially […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Tired of telemarketing calls? Monday, you can start fighting back. That's when Minnesota residents can begin registering their home phone numbers on the state's eagerly awaited […]

E-mail preserved them on Sept. 11 like insects frozen in amber. You can hear their echoes. 'I don't even know why I'm writing this, but I am just completely freaked […]

When disaster strikes, people instinctively huddle together _ to count survivors and their blessings, to comfort the wounded, to grieve the dead and, most of all, to bind together. On […]

"People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the future answered by the Phythia, the priestess of Apollo. And her answers, usually cryptic, could determine […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ In cyberspace, nobody knows you've got bad breath. A new Web site is trying to change that. The site, called "Meetup" (www.meetup.com), has a simple goal: […]

"People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the future answered by the Phythia, the priestess of Apollo. And her answers, usually cryptic, could determine […]

Next to e-mail, search engines are the Web's most popular and useful feature. Need a recipe for Hawaiian poi? Type "Hawaiian poi recipe" into the Google search engine box at […]