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Columnist/Reporter | Technology

Phone: 612-673-4553

Steve Alexander follows consumer and business technology trends, and writes a weekly question and answer column for consumers. He also is a general-assignment reporter for business news.

Florida gets $14M Medtronic facility

The Jacksonville headquarters of Medtronic's surgical technologies gets an addition plus 175 new jobs, partly due to subsidies.

Updated: April 06, 2012, - 08:17 PM

Obituary: Albert Cupka turned down airlines to fight fires

Albert Cupka, who died March 22 at age 89, wasn't afraid of much.

Updated: April 05, 2012, - 11:33 PM

Comcast offers networking for businesses

The cable giant will link up multiple buildings in a private network, but it's a crowded field.

Updated: April 05, 2012, - 08:41 PM

Warm weather boosts Target's March sales; key figure up 7.3 percent

Target and Gap outsold expectations in the warmest March in more than 50 years, which helpd boost demand for spring products and speed up Easter shopping.

Updated: April 05, 2012, - 12:32 PM

St. Jude pulls problematic pacemaker wires

For the second time in two years, St. Jude has taken wires for heart devices off the market because of trouble with their insulation.

Updated: April 04, 2012, - 09:37 PM

G&K plans $6 a share dividend

G&K Services of Minneapolis has declared a special dividend of $6 a share, or a total of about $113 million.

Updated: April 04, 2012, - 09:37 AM

Alexander: The sights, sounds of bad power supply

Q I think I may have a bad power supply unit on my Dell PC. But, so I can be sure, what are the symptoms of a bad power supply?

Updated: April 03, 2012, - 04:43 PM

Manufacturing up in nation, Midwest

U.S. manufacturing activity increased in March, led by apparel, minerals, metals and petroleum, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Updated: April 02, 2012, - 09:54 AM

Questioning the cloud

Software firm SparkWeave argues that keeping corporate data inside the company is better than trusting it to the public cloud.

Updated: April 01, 2012, - 05:35 PM

Alexander: Getting e-mail warnings from a good demon

QI think someone has stolen my Yahoo e-mail contact list and is sending out e-mails that appear to be from me. I received an e-mail from "mailer-daemon@yahoo.com" that refers to an e-mail I supposedly sent to three people in my Yahoo contact list. But I never sent that e-mail, or others that have come back to my Yahoo address. How did this happen, and what should I do?

Updated: March 27, 2012, - 03:50 PM