Last week Cisco announced that it was laying off 6,500 employees. Now the company is asking San Jose to release it from its commitment to develop 1 million square feet in Alviso by 2012.
Articles by Danny Wool
There will be no medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Gatos. The decision was made at a public meeting Monday night. Though these meetings in other cities have gotten heated, the Los Gatos version was serene, since no one actually spoke, either for or against the dispensaries.
It seems that everyone is taking advantage of the Netflix price hike to grab a piece of the pie. Blockbusters is offering new deals for new users, and the Huffington Post recently published articles on regular and offbeat alternatives to Netflix.
Anonymity has long been a bastion of the Internet. For many it’s a plus, but others see it as a problem. Apparently Google+ is moving toward the latter position. They are insisting that users use their real names to get an account.
China had a history of making cheap knockoffs and selling them as the real thing. This includes everything from useless Wal-Mart tchatchkes to Rolexes to electronics, but now there’s a new trend that is redefining knock offs.
The robbery occurred in February. Armed bandits raided the Unigen complex in Fremont and made off with $37 million in high-powered NAND computer chips.
“When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his subsequent work fit in with the explanation.” -Alexander Calder.
Now that Google has raised the gauntlet and taken on Facebook with Google+, all that’s left is for Microsoft to join the fray.
Analysts expected Apple to announce impressive quarterly earnings yesterday. The surprise was just how impressive those earning were, over double last year’s reported income for the quarter.
The FBI arrested 14 people between the ages of 20 and 42 on Monday for allegedly launching a cyberattack against PayPal. A federal indictment against suspects claimed that the suspects were members of the group Anonymous.
