Oracle has sued Google for a sum “in the billions of dollars” for patent infringement relating to it’s Java software platform. Oracle acquired the rights to Java when it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.
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Colette Phelps, a 28-year-old Los Gatos teacher, has been charged with committing “lewd and lascivious acts” against a 14- or 15-year-old student from one of the Stratford Schools in San Jose.
After hacking the Senate website on Tuesday, the intrepid hacker group LulzSec targeted the CIA with a denial of service attack. LulzSec later tweeted, “Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz.”
At GreenWaste’s San Jose facility, which boasts the nation’s highest recovery rate among garbage processors, garbage is a dirty word. Three-fourths of all materials that enter the facility, via curbside bins from throughout Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, never actually go to a landfill.
The Internet radio station and online sensation Pandora has released an IPO at $16 per share, giving the company an estimated market value of $2.6 billion.
Google and solar panel development and distribution company SolarCity, believe that people’s energy choice “will help to play a major role in our economy and our environment.”
Los Gatos’ last 40 acres of undeveloped land is scheduled for private development, but the town’s Planning Commission wants to use on-line surveys to find out what people think should be done.
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.1 struck this morning in Santa Clara County.
Officers are investigating a shooting that left one dead and three injured in San Jose Tuesday morning.
There’s one thing to be said for Anthony Weiner. Though his Twitter account was not hacked as he originally claimed, as far as excuses go, it was pretty good. It may have even been inspirational. CNET is reporting that a group of hackers known as Lulz Security successfully hacked the Senate’s computers and gained access to its server’s directory and file structure.
