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Apple to Hold iPad 3 Event Early Next Month - Report

Sources close to the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California have revealed to John Paczkowski of AllThingsD that Apple will hold an event early next month to launch the iPad 3. These sources specifically told the blogger that Apple had chosen the first week in March to roll out the next versi...

9 February 2012
10:42 GMT

AT&T Fires Up 4G LTE in San Francisco

AT&T is covering more of the United States with 4G LTE services, with San Francisco being the latest market to benefit from it. Earlier this week, the wireless carrier made its 4G services available for users in New York City, and the company has now fired it up in the San Francisco area as well, although no offici...

9 December 2011
09:57 GMT

Orange San Francisco II Coming Soon to the UK

It appears that Orange prepares to launch the sequel of the popular San Francisco Android smartphone within the next few weeks.Although the carrier has yet to confirm the phone's launch date and price options, it looks like the folks over at SoMobile were able to get a peek on the upcoming Orange San Francisco I...

14 November 2011
09:10 GMT

Apple Opens In-Store Pickup to America

US residents now have the option to buy an Apple product online and then pick it up themselves at their local store with an online receipt and ID in hand.Apple yesterday took down its web-based store across the United States to implement a new feature that allows customers to secure an item (such as an iPad or the ne...

27 October 2011
05:53 GMT

PC Version of Driver: San Francisco Delayed into Late September

Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that the PC based version of the upcoming Driver: San Francisco car based game will be launched on September 27, while the versions of the game that are planned for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 will still arrive on September 2 in Europe and four days later in North Ame...

11 August 2011
08:11 GMT

Microsoft Cloud Email for 23,000 Employees of the City and County of San Francisco

No less than 23,000 employees from the City and County of San Francisco will start leveraging Microsoft’s Cloud-based email service, the Redmond company revealed. This is of course yet another Cloud battle won by the Redmond company in the ongoing face-off with competitors. The software giant notes that the mo...

19 May 2011
04:58 GMT

MetroPCS Brings LTE to San Francisco

Today, mobile phone carrier MetroPCS announced the launch of its LTE network in the San Francisco metropolitan area, offering users the possibility to enjoy 4G LTE services at prices starting at $55 per month. Moreover, MetroPCS' 4G LTE network also brings to this market the first commercially available 4G LTE ...

1 December 2010
16:01 GMT

Driver and Ghost Recon Are Delayed to 2012

Publisher Ubisoft has announced that two of its most high profile titles, Driver: San Francisco and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, have been delayed from the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2011 to an unspecified date in 2012.The new Ghost Recon video game has been announced back in February for the PlayStation 3 fro...

16 November 2010
05:03 GMT

Los Angeles and San Francisco Get 4G WiMAX in December

The number of metropolitan areas in the United States that would receive 4G coverage this year from, Clearwire should include Los Angeles and San Francisco too, the company has just announced. Following the launch of its 4G WiMAX network in New York in November, the company plans on expanding the services to the sai...

18 October 2010
12:41 GMT

Orange UK Launches Android-Based San Francisco

A new Android-based mobile phone is now available for purchase in the UK via wireless carrier Orange, namely San Francisco, an affordable device meant to bring Android to the masses. The new mobile phone runs under the Android 2.1 operating platform, and offers fast access to a wide range of applications, including ...

21 September 2010
06:53 GMT

Pictures From Yerba Buena Center - Sept. 2010 Apple Event Preparations

Enthusiasts are dishing around photos of man-operated machines dressing up the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, California), depicting preparation of the venue for yet another iconic Apple event. In what is already customary for the Cupertino-based maker of Macs, iPhones and iPods, this year’s e...

30 August 2010
03:01 GMT

Apple Confirms September 1 Event

Apple has confirmed plans to hold a September 1 event focused on music, as it is customary for the company in recent years, by sending out invitations to a San Francisco location, hinting at the ongoing focus on music, rather than plans of reshaping the television industry.Invitations sent out to select members of th...

26 August 2010
04:20 GMT

Rogue San Francisco Network Admin Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

Terry Childs, the former San Francisco computer engineer who held the city's multimillion-dollar network hostage for almost two weeks in 2008, was sentenced to four years in prison late last week. The rogue admin already served 755 days in jail since he was arrested making him eligible for probation in around si...

9 August 2010
10:17 GMT

Driver: San Francisco Detailed, Coming with Licensed Cars

Ubisoft unveiled the new Driver videogame at its E3 presentation yesterday. The company is saying that the fresh title is coming to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the PC and Mac. Apparently, the developers are also thinking about a Nintendo Wii version, which will be created separately, all...

16 June 2010
07:48 GMT

Preparations Commence for Apple's 'Latest Creation' Event

Those with access to the surroundings of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco have been able to confirm that Apple is busy preparing for its “latest creation” event set to kick off on Wednesday, January 27 (tomorrow). Pictures are flying in from all corners of the world showing the venue b...

26 January 2010
04:06 GMT

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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