BROOKS, Ky.--At Geek Squad City, it's no accident that everywhere you look are well-groomed young people in dark pants, white shirts, and narrow black ties. Since its founding by Robert Stephens in ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup, Geek Squad, under the massive corporate umbrella of Best Buy. Parked in an alley ...

Corporations spend a great deal of time and money training their employees how to work the office computers. But when it’s a personal computer and it’s sitting at your home with its bottomless pit of ...

In the beginning, computers were mystical machines created to meet the special needs of government, researchers and large corporations. These were "mainframe" computers. Huge and expensive, only the ...

Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Todd Bishop on Jan 5, 2012 at 4:06 pm January 5, ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Mónica Guzmán on Feb 16 ...

— -- It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene. And the stars of The ...

The media is full of geek stereotypes, everywhere from Big Bang Theory to episodes of CSI and NCIS. These images of geeks as antisocial, immature dorks may seem harmless — but a new study suggests ...

Hear rock legend Carlos Santana's reasoning for why technology has killed some forms of musical creativity, what gadget he can't live without and why he calls himself a "computer geek." Kara Tsuboi ...