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First Picture Leaks from Apple ‘Rock & Roll’ Event

Apple has placed a huge event-specific banner on the front of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The venue will be used for the company’s press event taking place two days from now. The event, titled “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it,” was indirectly confirmed by Appl...

7 September 2009
10:39 GMT

S.F. Network Admin Turned Hijacker Gets Most Charges Dropped

Terry Childs, 44, the former network administrator who hijacked San Francisco's FiberWAN network last year, has recently seen a favorable turnover in his case when the judge tossed out three tampering charges. He remains accused of locking officials out of the city's critical network.Back in July 2008, San ...

26 August 2009
06:50 GMT

Apple Event to Focus on Music. No Tablet.

The latest Apple rumor concerns a September 9 event, claimed by multiple sources as being hosted in San Francisco. The event is likely focused on music,  iPods and iTunes, sources inform, while no Apple tablet announcement is likely to occur. However, the introduction of a camera-equipped iPod touch is expected....

18 August 2009
04:15 GMT

RIM Opens Registrations for the BlackBerry Developer Conference

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is set to kick off the second edition of its BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA, November 9-12, 2009. Those interested in participating at the conference can already register, the maker announced via the newly launched BlackBerry Developer's Blog. ...

13 August 2009
11:23 GMT

San Francisco Bay Area to See WiMAX Next Year

Clearwire’s WiMAX service, based on the next-generation 4G technology, has reached four markets in the United States already, and it is set to become available in ten more areas before the end of the third quarter of the year. Unfortunately, the service won't reach all major cities in the US in 2009, thoug...

11 August 2009
05:53 GMT

Hackers Own San Francisco Parking Meter System

A team of researchers told the audience at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas how San Francisco's smart parking meters could be tricked to benefit from unlimited parking for free. The hack took three days to devise and uses off-the-shelf equipment. San Francisco acquired around 25,000 MacKay Guardia...

31 July 2009
09:42 GMT

The US Reserve Fleet Is Rotting in San Francisco

More than 70 warships and auxiliary vessels can be found at Suisun Bay, near San Francisco, on the western coast of the United States. They are a part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF), which is currently managed by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), a part of the US Department of Transportation. Recentl...

14 March 2009
05:13 GMT

Woman Wins $2 Million House in Raffle

A husband and wife in Danville, a suburb just south of San Francisco, California, are still psyched at this moment, after they learned last Sunday that they had just won a brand new house in the Marin County, another suburb of the city, just to the north. Susan Wells was the winner of the ticket, and her gain couldn&...

25 February 2009
05:54 GMT

Electric Recharging Plugs Now Work in San Francisco

San Francisco is now the proud owner of three electrical vehicle recharging stations, strategically placed in front of the City Hall, for optimum access from all areas. This effort is just a small part of a larger initiative underway in the state of California, where mayors form several large cities plan to turn the ...

19 February 2009
15:01 GMT

Jim Heid Present at the Apple Store, San Francisco on December 6

Apple has announced a “Holiday Keepsakes” workshop with Jim Heid at the San Francisco Store (One Stockton Street). Jim Heid is the author of "The Macintosh iLife '08,” a book that offers insight on the applications found within Apple's iLife suite. Apple encourages San Francisco residents ...

2 December 2008
07:56 GMT

Dallas Rejects Plastic Bag Ban

The Chemistry Council won another victory against the environment today, when the Dallas city council rejected a proposal to ban plastic bags altogether. The measure was aimed at reducing the impact that plastic has on the environment, seeing how it takes a couple of hundred years to decompose and all that. But appar...

15 October 2008
10:07 GMT

T-Mobile Offers 3G in San Francisco

In a press release made available on T-Mobile's website, the company reveals that it plans to expand its wireless network, including the deployment of its third-generation (3G) wireless broadband service to 27 major markets in the United States by the end of 2008. Thus, the aim is to provide more than two thirds...

1 October 2008
05:07 GMT

Coverage – 'Let's Rock' Apple Event

Apple is set out to unveil... well, only Apple knows what it is planning to unveil during its event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) today. One thing is certain, though – Apple has something pretty important to showcase today, and there is strong evidence for that. We're going to upda...

9 September 2008
15:22 GMT

FiberWAN Network Admin Hands Over Password

Earlier this month, a network admin working for the city of San Francisco, locked everybody out of the fiberWAN network which handled much of the city's private, confidential data. Terry Childs, the admin in question, who previously stated that he was not guilty, has now given up the password, but not to the law...

25 July 2008
04:11 GMT

FiberWAN Network Admin Claims He Is Not Guilty

A few days back we were reporting that the actions of one network administrator had put the city of San Francisco's FiberWAN network under complete lockdown. Terry Childs, whose password was the only one that could access the network, has pleaded "not guilty" at the court hearing held yesterday. Another interest...

18 July 2008
02:26 GMT

San Francisco Unable to Access Its Own Network

San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN network, which is used to handle delicate information in regard to law enforcement documents and city payroll files, was hijacked by a 43 year old disgruntled employee. Terry Childs used to work for the city of San Francisco as a computer network administrator and it...

16 July 2008
03:02 GMT

Google Offers Free Phone Services to the Homeless

The Mountain View-based company is pulling a stunt I'm really not getting. Google's Grand Central's senior product manager of voice products, Craig Walker, has just announced that his company will offer free phone numbers and voicemail accounts to people that don't have a home. So far, he claims, ...

29 February 2008
06:50 GMT

Google: Lights Out San Francisco!

Saturday was the day when the Mountain View company turned the lights off and debuted a new search engine page for the San Francisco users which is based on a dark-colored layout. This was only Google's support for the energy conservation campaign started by the authorities from several regions but still no sign...

22 October 2007
04:47 GMT

The Last Supper - S&M Version

Ever imagined the S&M version of da Vinci's "Last Supper"? No, don't worry, it's not another Dan Brown novel. Not that I know of, anyway. No, this is an ad campaign to promote something called "The Folsome Street Fair" that takes place in San Francisco over the weekend. And apparently, it has caused qu...

29 September 2007
05:42 GMT

San Francisco - Man Killed Over a PS3 Console

Listen up 'cause this one says a lot about what happens if you try and do the good thing. An Article on 1P Start tells the story of a man called Hani Attia, who got killed trying to help two women in distress. The man was buying a PS3 console from the two women, while another came along trying to steal it from ...

4 May 2007
03:56 GMT

Griefers - Gamers Acting Like Dicks When Playing Online. Why?

It's all about courage. Sometimes when you play online (doesn't matter what game 'cause it happens everywhere, everyhow), your opponents may act like real punks, jerks, dicks if you will. Why is that? Why do some feel this compulsory need to annoy others, or to stand out by doing something very unortho...

21 March 2007
11:06 GMT


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