To be self-employed means a lot of hard work and patience, but many workers are more than eager to give it a try
By Will Weissert
His living room is already crowded with customers and still more shuffle in, clutching gold necklaces with broken clasps and bent rhinestone earrings. Juan Bautista Gonzalez knows he will be skipping lunch again.

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Until now, as chips became smaller, they grew faster in the same proportion. The rules have changed, but IBM isn't giving up
By Michael Fitzegerald
If innovation has a heart, it's probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law. Under this principle, named for the Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, the chip industry in the last four decades has doubled the number of transistors it crams onto a chip about every 18 months.

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By Chandler Burr
Its scent is reminiscent of a mixture of a just-picked apple and a rose in its prime. But to Takasago International Corp, which manufactures this synthetic material, it smells even sweeter.

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