Renting a server from Amazon Web Services promises all the advantages of the Cloud: ephemeral, convenient computing without the nuisance of owning hardware. In fact, it may be more like renting a house where the last tenant left his junk in the closets and hasn’t changed the locks.

Four years after getting laid off as a security worker at Filene’€™s Basement in Downtown Crossing, Alem Gebrecherkus sought out his former employer at a recent job fair, hoping to get a part-time position, seasonal gig, or any hours.

Your mother probably had a Christmas club account at a local bank or credit union. You might remember her faithfully depositing $5 or $10 a week all year long to save up money for the holidays.

Flying in a private jet used to be the ultimate status symbol, but the recession completely knocked the wind out of the industry — until now.

News that a former assistant to celebrated Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys has rattled students, fans and alumni across the United States.

A federal judge on Monday blocked implementation of a law that would have mandated tobacco companies include on cigarette packages graphic pictures and messages showing the dangers of smoking.

Researchers have developed a computer simulated nurse that patients in hospitals find comforting.

Northeastern University has been on an expansion tear for some years now (just ask its neighbors in the South End, Roxbury, and Mission Hill).

Over the last nine years, the Boston Red Sox have increased their revenue by an estimated $45 million through the use of two streets that city officials handed over for a relative pittance: an average of $186,000 a year in lease fees.

Men and women in their late teens and early 20s are struggling, but some are especially hard hit.

Not everyone loves hitting the links. And, as relaxing as surf sounds can be, even they become commonplace after awhile.

Complex networks as dissimilar in size, age and character as the metabolic processes of a yeast cell, the World Wide Web, and the airline system of the United States all share a similar underlying structure, said Northeastern University Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi during an Oct. 26 talk, the first in the Distinguished Engineering and Science Speaker […]