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San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion dollar wide area network.Childs made hea Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case It's been nearly three weeks since Terry Childs was arrested on four counts of computer tampering and sent to jail on $5 million bail. In those three weeks, this event has taken turns to the strange, and wound up firmly in the land of the absurd. From bombastic claims Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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San Francisco Hack: Where Was the Oversight? InternetNews: "If the City of San Francisco were a public corporation and allowed a blunder on par with the recent Terry Childs case, it might find itself facing federal investigation and Mayor Gavin Newsom might be fighting to stay out of jail, experts said." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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The Lede: San Diego Meets the Blackwaters The reception has been so chilly that it fell to a federal judgeto order the mayor to welcome the company. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Barack Obama meets with single moms in San Francisco - San Jose Mercury News Barack Obama meets with single moms in San FranciscoSan Jose Mercury News - 1 hour agoBy Julia Prodis Sulek Democratic Party Presidential candidate Barack Obama, met with Northern California women to talk about families and their needs, Thursday January 17, 2007.Barack Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike Messenger SAN FRANCISCO -- Here along Market Street, heavily tattooed bicyclists with too many piercings in too many places weave through traffic, ducking subway steam vents, trolleys, motorists and a sea of jaywalkers. They're bike messengers -- a fixture in most large cities -- slinging satchels stuffed Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike Messenger SAN FRANCISCO -- Here along Market Street, heavily tattooed bicyclists with too many piercings in too many places weave through traffic, ducking subway steam vents, trolleys, motorists and a sea of jaywalkers. They're bike messengers -- a fixture in most large cities -- slinging satchels stuffed Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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May 27, 1937: A Bridge Over the Gate? Are You Crazy? 1937: After nearly four-and-a-half years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrians. Approximately 18,000 people are waiting to walk across the span when it officially opens at 6 a.m. The bridge opened to automobile traffic the following day, when President Franklin Ro Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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May 27, 1937: A Bridge Over the Gate? Are You Crazy? 1937: After nearly four-and-a-half years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrians. Approximately 18,000 people are waiting to walk across the span when it officially opens at 6 a.m. The bridge opened to automobile traffic the following day, when President Franklin Ro Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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A Day in the Line: Queuing Up for the iPhone 3G Launch : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO, California — It's finally here. After months of waiting, salivating and prognosticating, the iPhone 3G finally became available worldwide today. Lining up in front of the San Francisco Apple store during the wee hours on Friday morning, W Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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A Day in the Line: Queuing Up for the iPhone 3G Launch : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO, California — It's finally here. After months of waiting, salivating and prognosticating, the iPhone 3G finally became available worldwide today. Lining up in front of the San Francisco Apple store during the wee hours on Friday morning, W Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Court says San Francisco health plan can proceed SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's universal health-care plan, a first-of-its kind local program to be funded in part by fees on employers, may go forward while under appeal, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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May 20, 1873: The Pants That Changed the World 1873: Blue jeans assume their distinctive form when a patent is issued for the rivet process used to strengthen the pockets on what were then called "waist overalls." Jacob Youphes, a Latvian immigrant who changed his name to Jacob Davis (.pdf) after coming to the United States in 1854, Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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May 20, 1873: The Pants That Changed the World 1873: Blue jeans assume their distinctive form when a patent is issued for the rivet process used to strengthen the pockets on what were then called "waist overalls." Jacob Youphes, a Latvian immigrant who changed his name to Jacob Davis (.pdf) after coming to the United States in 1854, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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China's record does not reflect the Olympic spirit - San Francisco Chronicle Fresh NewsChina's record does not reflect the Olympic spiritSan Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour agoThe Olympic torch will pass through San Francisco Wednesday during the only North American stop on the worldwide Olympic torch relay to Beijing, where the 2008 Olympic Games Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Court says San Francisco health plan can proceed
(Reuters) Reuters - San Francisco's universal health-care plan, a first-of-its kind local program to be funded in part by fees on employers, may go forward while under appeal, a U.S. appeals court panel ruled on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Remembering Charlton Heston, Mr. Confidence - San Francisco Chronicle ServihooRemembering Charlton Heston, Mr. ConfidenceSan Francisco Chronicle - 10 hours agoMost celebrities are confident because they're successful. They've achieved a certain level of acclaim and, understandably, they feel pretty good about themselves.Charlton Hest Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Olympic torch relay on truncated route through San Francisco away ... - The Canadian Press Famagusta GazetteOlympic torch relay on truncated route through San Francisco away ...The Canadian Press - 1 hour agoSAN FRANCISCO - The Olympic torch was rerouted away from thousands of demonstrators and spectators who crowded the city's waterfront Wednesday to Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |