Technology

More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed. Any regrets? Not really, he said.

In a huge boost for the Obama administration and clean-energy firms, electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc. announced Wednesday that it is paying back its $465 million government loan in full – and nine years early.

BEIJING – Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too.

Telemedicine has been around for more than a decade, but the launch last week of RP-VITA – a fourth-generation telemedicine robot – aims to revolutionize the industry.

Cars that steer themselves through bumper-to-bumper traffic will hit the market by the end of this year, and self-parking vehicles aren't far behind. Fully autonomous models that don't need human drivers at all are less than a decade from dealerships.

Online social networking powerhouse Twitter reportedly is doing a major expansion at RagingWire Data Centers' 500,000-square-foot campus in Sacramento.

A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news.

The Sacramento region is seeing growth in medical technology companies and jobs, according to a report released today by the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance.

The approval of a new corporate jet center at this city's struggling airport might have been just another losing skirmish in the battle between Silicon Valley billionaires and middle-class neighborhoods worried about noise pollution. Instead, it is becoming the latest symbol for the rapidly growing gap between the region's haves, with their private jets and untold wealth, and the have-nots, clinging to more modest lives in the dwindling number of communities they can afford.

Intel, the world's largest maker of semiconductors, has named a company veteran, Brian Krzanich, as its next chief executive.

M Corp, the Sacramento-based information technology and management consulting firm with a long list of government and commercial clients, has won a nearly $600,000 contract to provide services for the Financial Information System for California project.

When a teenage boy snatched the iPhone out of Rose Cha's hand at a bus stop in the Bronx in March, she reported the theft to her carrier and to the police – just as she had done two other times when she was the victim of cellphone theft. Again, the police said they could not help her.

Seven years after introducing parking kiosks downtown, Sacramento officials say it's time for an even more expansive upgrade of downtown parking – starting with solar-powered parking meters that drivers can pay via cellphone.

Sacramento's leaders are counting on clean technology – the business of solar and wind energy, "smart" buildings and more – to help lift the region out of the economic doldrums.

Sarah Bagby’s 35-year-old independent bookstore so far has weathered the advent of Internet shopping and e-books. Now Bagby, the owner of Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kan., is closely following debate in Congress over a bill that she says would help her stay competitive with online retailers who are able to undercut her prices by not charging state or local sales taxes.