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Peter Marvit, scientist and music enthusiast

2012-09-23 18:09:46

Peter Marvit, a 51-year-old scientist who sang with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and sought to widen music education opportunities for city students, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital after he was shot near his Northeast Baltimore home last Monday...

Firms with interests in Md. pour cash into DGA

2011-11-27 06:04:00

Some companies with interests in Maryland have found a new way to show support for Gov. Martin O'Malley: They're contributing tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Governors Association. Last December, O'Malley took the helm of the DGA, where as...

The job hunt gets social

2011-08-14 00:00:00

Gary Bacon spotted a Web designer job posting online several months ago and shot an email to a recruiter at Medifast Inc. But that was just the beginning. Bacon connected with a recruiter, Caitlin Goldstein, and the conversation moved to Twitter. They...

In volatile market, some see bargains, others, pitfalls

2011-08-22 07:21:00

As the Dow took another 400-point tumble Thursday, Baltimore money manager David Stepherson found himself talking one client out of selling everything. "I advised him that it would not be a good idea because our view of things is that this is going to be...

Memorializing the dead with a book for the living

2011-09-13 13:02:00

Aigburthvale resident Peg McAllen was 84 when she died of cancer this past summer. Her life was summed up in 200 words in an obituary in the Baltimore Sun. And she was lucky to get that. Though the obituary page is chock full of death notices each day,...

Constellation shareholders reject Shattuck's pay

2011-05-27 18:27:36

Made (once again) in America

2011-02-27 00:00:00

When NovaSom Inc. was looking to produce its sleep apnea diagnostic kits, the Glen Burnie-based company didn't look to factories in Asia or Mexico. Instead, it found a manufacturer right off the Beltway in Woodlawn. NovaSom chose Zentech Manufacturing...

Think before you surf at work

2006-09-25 00:00:00

Think twice about what you write in your e-mails, which Web sites you browse and what you say on the telephone. The recent snooping scandal at Hewlett-Packard got me thinking about workplace privacy, or the lack thereof. HP's case involved hired...

Microsoft's Tablet PC: A hard pill to swallow?

2002-11-14 00:00:00

When Microsoft Corp. Chairman William H. Gates III introduced the Tablet PC on Nov. 7, he declared it the future of computing. The Tablet PC is a mobile computer a bit smaller than a notebook personal computer. It�s distinguishing feature is a screen...

A conversation with Steve Wozniak

2003-06-05 00:00:00

First of two parts Though out of the spotlight since leaving Apple Computer Inc. in 1985, Steve Wozniak remains revered for his integral role in helping Steve Jobs establish the company in 1976. He is credited with single-handedly designing the Apple I...

Pirates and pioneers

2003-05-15 00:00:00

Everybody steals from Apple Computer Inc. Or so the thinking goes in the Mac community. Ever since Microsoft Corp. introduced Windows 1.0 in 1985, there has been a ceaseless chorus from Mac users accusing the software giant, based in Redmond, Wash.,...

Apple's music lessons

2003-07-24 00:00:00

Over the past few years, Apple Computer Inc. has flummoxed its critics and thrilled its user base by venturing into new territory with products like the iPod and its .Mac online service and chain of mall-based retail stores. Apple has explained the new...

The tiny Leap Motion sensor, which goes on sale in May, enables users to interact with their computers using intuitive gestures.

2013-04-17 14:12:37

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman delivers a speech during the Global Influencer Summit 2012 in Shanghai.

2013-02-14 08:05:01

Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has denied Hewlett-Packard's allegation of accounting fraud by the British company.

2013-02-11 09:32:11