Family historians never have enough time in research facilities. It's especially difficult to have only a few hours or a single day in a mecca such as the library at Salt Lake City or the National Archives in Washington, D.C. ...more

October 25, 2009

More Internet users are communicating on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter than by e-mail, according to a study by Nielsen Media Research. ...more

March 10, 2009

When it comes to buying a home, the Internet truly is the information superhighway, and it has changed the way people shop for a new home, according to Dewey Mitchell, co-owner of Prudential Tropical Realty. ...more

November 26, 2008

In the world of business and antitrust law, big is not necessarily bad or illegal. But alarm bells went off when Google and Yahoo, the top two players in the search advertising market, decided to join forces. The Justice Department was right to challenge that proposal, which the companies have since withdrawn. A possible casualty: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. ...more

November 23, 2008

Tens of thousands of students in a southwest Florida school district who used an online Princeton Review program to study for the state's annual assessment test inadvertently had their names, birth dates and test scores published on the Web. ...more

August 20, 2008

Thousands of students in Sarasota accidentally had their names, birth dates, and test scores published on a Princeton Review Web site. ...more

August 19, 2008

At a time when many real estate agents are leaving the industry and many real estate companies are scaling back, Prudential Tropical Realty has been in an aggressive growth mode, according to Dewey Mitchell, co-owner. ...more

June 8, 2008

When Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and called the site, which carried only a few articles then, a free encyclopedia, not many people took him seriously. ...more

January 7, 2008

As Internet advertising is increasingly targeted precisely to meet consumers' presumed desires, the trick for advertisers is to sniff out people's interests and needs without riling their privacy defenses. ...more

December 10, 2007

Florida has partnered with Google to help residents track down online government records and services more easily, Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday. ...more

December 4, 2007