Senator John McCain will be visiting Silicon Valley on Mar. 22, but before he comes, he will be needing a lesson in outsourcing.
Articles by Danny Wool
While the revolution sweeping the Middle East might not have been possible without social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, those sites have avoided joining Google, Apple, and Microsoft in the Global Network Initiative to ensure free speech and privacy online.
Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church failed to show up at Gunderson High’s performance of “The Laramie Project” on Friday, but at least 500 counter-protesters were outside to greet them. Inside, the show went on as planned before a sold-out audience.
By the end of the year, San Jose will be getting a new area code, 669, in addition to 408. The question is whether the split will be geographical, as it was in 1998, or whether there will be an overlay, so that two adjacent homes could have two separate area codes. The California Public Utilities Commission will be holding public hearings this month before deciding which strategy to adopt.
Unemployment in Silicon Valley rose 0.2 percent in January, from 10.6 percent to 10.8 percent, but there were also 40,000 job ads in January, 10,000 more than January 2010. New jobs range across industries, from high tech to retail, and from Apple to Safeway. .
The poll of young Britons found that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are considered more important than David Cameron and Barack Obama. According to the poll’s results, the invention of Facebook is more important historically than even the discovery of the laws of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton.
Bill Sherry, Aviation Director at Mineta Airport of San Jose/Silicon Valley, has been picked by the city to moonlight as Dan Fenton’s replacement as the head of Team San Jose. Despite his new position, he will continue to serve as head of Mineta as well.
City Council and the Firefighters Union have hammered out the final details of a deal that would save the city about $30 million over the next two years, while protecting firefighters from a repeat of last year’s layoffs. With an agreement in place, the proposal is expected to pass a vote by members of the union.
The National Day of Unplugging this Saturday offers people a chance to “Turn off. Tune off. Drop in” by unplugging their cell phones and laptops. The event runs from sundown Friday evening until sundown on Saturday, and gives electronics consumers everywhere a chance to reconnect with people as people, not as bits and bytes.
An Atherton teacher is on paid administrative leave after a student called 911, complaining that he shouted at the class to get their attention. By the time police arrived, the class was underway with nothing out of the ordinary going on. Nevertheless, the school board was forced to act, pending an investigation of the incident.
