Articles by Danny Wool

Local Police Go Wireless

Local Police Go Wireless

The Los Gatos/Monte Sereno police force has finally gone wireless. A new system, installed in the forces fourteen patrol cars, allows officers to download video from their vehicles directly to police headquarters.

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The Russians Are Coming … to Twitter

The Russians Are Coming … to Twitter

Twitter has received an $800 million dollar infusion of venture capital from Yuri Milner’s Digital Sky Technologies investment fund, the largest VC investment in history.

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It’s Bill Gates’s Turn Now

It’s Bill Gates’s Turn Now

Last week, we discovered that Apple has more money than the federal government. While that could be a tad embarrassing, today’s revelation is a lot more disconcerting. At least Apple is a company.  It’s worse when a man has more money than the U.S. Treasury.

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Why Was Alex Trebek in Mountain View?

Why Was Alex Trebek in Mountain View?

By now just about everybody knows that Alex Trebek sleeps in the nude. The naked truth was revealed after Trebek injured himself in a San Francisco hotel, trying to chase a thief that broke into his room.

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Is KISSmetrics the Mole that Can’t Be Whacked?

Is KISSmetrics the Mole that Can’t Be Whacked?

Wired reports that KISSmetrics, one of most popular web analytics services today, is using software that evades end-users’ basic privacy requests that they not be tracked.

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Yahoo, Alibaba Reach Agreement

Yahoo, Alibaba Reach Agreement

Yahoo shares are up 7 percent in pre-market trading now that the company has reached a deal with Alibaba and SoftBank over the Alipay web payment service.

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Schmidt to Testify before Senate

Schmidt to Testify before Senate

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights on Sept. 21. The hearing is entitled “The Power of Google: Serving Customers or Threatening Competition?”

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Tragedy in Los Gatos

Tragedy in Los Gatos

A prominent developer in unincorporated Los Gatos is believed to have shot and killed his 22-year-old, cancer-ridden son before turning the gun on himself.

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Facebook Exec Wants Less Privacy Online

Facebook Exec Wants Less Privacy Online

“I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away.” While many people may share that sentiment, it is different coming from Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s marketing director.

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16-Year-Old Testifies in Cole Case

16-Year-Old Testifies in Cole Case

Sara Cole, 48, was confronted in court by the seventeen-year-old boy with whom, police believe, she had sexual relations.  She had previously denied having sex with the boy, who is best friends with one of her sons, and insisted that they had “intimate relations” only.

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