On a hike the other day, I saw my first reminder of what spring in the desert is all about — besides sunny afternoons at the ballpark, that is. It was a flower, tiny and delicate, pushing up through the desert pavement.

On a hike the other day, I saw my first reminder of what spring in the desert is all about — besides sunny afternoons at the ballpark, that is. It was a flower, tiny and delicate, pushing up through the desert pavement.

Q. Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the same thing? Donna, Mesa.

July 12, 2004

NEW YORK - Type "dentist" into Google from New York, and you’ll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you’ll be stymied. Local TV rights block the webcast.

Cassy Saba is a jewelry designer. Like any good businesswoman, she has business cards and is developing a Web site. She hosts parties at clients’ homes to sell her necklaces, bracelets and earrings, which cost $15 to $450.

Q: How is it when I print certain Web pages, the right side of the page is cut off? This gets real irritating and I lose a lot of information. — David

Back when, if up-and-coming musicians or bands wanted to sell their music, they had to lug suitcases of CDs to peddle at bar and coffeehouse gigs.

Ten women put down their knitting needles, pushed their yarn bundles aside and stretched arms across a table. They placed their palms onto the bright fibers of a newly knitted prayer shawl.

December 7, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO - Google, already the world's most popular spot for finding Web sites, is aiming to become the go-to place for creating Web sites too.

An Arizona firm that fraudulently marketed home-based Internet businesses across the country is being shut down.

October 26, 2004

NEW YORK - Much of the talk around Al Gore's new Current TV network has been broadly philosophical, like the former vice president's statement that "we want to be the television home page for the Internet generation."

East Valley web development companies are seeing business surge, with many college graduates finding work in the growing industry.

NEW YORK - Next time you're walking down a city sidewalk, look out for the Internet. It's all around you - and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams.

Rich Kowalski is a jovial fellow who loves his job but approaches it with a certain sense of dread.

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it will make technical adjustments to its Web browsing software as a result of an August ruling that the software giant infringed on a patent licensed by Eolas Technologies Inc.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jay Walker jumpstarted an online shopping craze by inventing Priceline.com, the Web site that lets people bid on airplane tickets and hotel rooms.

A word of warning to those who shop the World Wide Web: Don't count on being able to sue sellers in Arizona courts when what you bought isn't what you thought you were getting.

When Pauline Caporaletti and her husband moved to the East Valley six years ago, she didn’t know a soul. She took a job at a church and, within six months, found a friend in her co-worker, Nancy.

April 11, 2005