Local journalism requires local journalists. Each week in the coming months, we will be spotlighting the Beacon staffers who serve our community. Here’s how you can support the work we do. Position: Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal/BeaconJournal.com; regional editor of the USA TODAY Network in northern Ohio. I joined […]

I’m the Reviews Editor at ZDNet UK. My experience with computers started at London’s Imperial College, where I studied Zoology and then Environmental Technology. This was sufficiently long ago (mid-1970s) that Fortran, IBM punched-card mach…ines and mainframes were involved, followed by green-screen terminals and eventually the personal computers we know […]

Ishpeming High School runner Lola Korpi continued her cross country dominance, winning the M-PC meet by nearly 40 seconds, finishing in 21 minutes, 4.4 seconds. (Photo courtesy of Jill Korpi) By Journal Sports Staff ISHPEMING — Negaunee came within an eyelash of sweeping the Mid-Peninsula Conference […]

After five quarters of double-digit gains, the PC market grew by just 5% last quarter as vendors struggled to fulfill an order backlog, Canalys says. Image: Sompetch Khanakornpratip/Shutterstock Global PC shipments scored another gain last quarter, but growth was on the weak side compared with the past several quarters. On […]