More and more people are communicating by Facebook. With Facebook mail now in the works, is it possible that voice communication will be next? The internet is buzzing with rumors that it is.
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Maxim Integrated Products, a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductor products with $2 billion in annual sales, announced that it will be moving its headquarters to North San Jose’s Golden Triangle.
A man was shot on Wednesday on Roundtable Drive, but by the time police arrived he and the perpetrators had fled the scene. The SJPD later reported that the victim’s friends dropped him off in the emergency room of a nearby hospital. Though police are investigating the shooting, they have yet to identify the victim or say what the motive was. Police have also not indicated whether the incident was gang-related or not.
William Nicholson’s “Shadowlands,” a fictionalization of the brief romance between Joy and Lewis, began life in 1985 as a BBC television movie before graduating to the stage in 1989.
The high-speed comedy adapted from Hitchcock’s “man on the run” caper runs through Feb. 13 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
San Jose State won’t be making a move to the Mountain West Conference, but it wasn’t because the Spartans got cold feet.
Vince Vaughn gave him his first big break. The Italian-American comic from Chicago performs at the San Jose Improv on Feb. 2-5.
The recent 30th-anniversary concert given by San Jose’s modern-dance gem the Margaret Wingrove Dance Company drew from decades of Wingrove’s award-winning choreography.
Peruvian cuisine sounds exotic, but at least as far as it’s expressed in Silicon Valley, it’s quite tame. There’s a lot of meat and potatoes, and rice and beans; often all on the same plate. It many ways, it resembles Spanish food, with paella-like dishes, grilled and fried seafood and stewed meats.
Anthony Batts moved his way up the ranks of the Long Beach Police Department over 20 years, steadily picking up specialized training as he earned awards and accolades before becoming chief. After seven years in that job, where he was able to oversee a significant reduction of violent crime, Batts moved on to Oakland with a promise to save the city—whose young African American men were being murdered at an alarming rate—and lead a department shaken by the killing of four officers. Fourteen months later, Batts is already planning to move again.
