Tim Steller: Local firm faces heat of patent enforcer

Pay $100,000 and we'll forget the whole thing. That was the bottom-line message of an otherwise cordial letter that Bill Nelson, president of Tucson's GLHN Architects and Engineering, received Oct. 1.

Tech Q&A: Free software will help import old emails

Q: Do you know of a way to import old emails into the Thunderbird email program? I recently reformatted my PC's hard drive and need to reload it with the things I had before. While I've copied the old emails back onto the hard drive, I can't access or view them with Thunderbird.

Real-estate suit could define what qualifies as electronic signature

PHOENIX - A fight between a professional couple seeking to buy a house and a real estate agent could finally help define exactly when someone in Arizona can "sign" a document by email.