San Francisco - Not content with dominating the internet, Google is looking to take on the traditional phone companies and Skype by offering a free new phone service that manages your voice communications and allows all your different phones to ring on one number.
San Francisco - National Semiconductor Corp, one of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phone chips, will cut over 1,700 workers, or about a quarter of its work force, the company said Wednesday.
The layoffs will hit all areas of the company and will be carried out in two phases with 850 redundancies occurring immediately and 875 taking place over the coming months, the Silicon Valley-based company said.
San Francisco - Social networking is a more popular online activity than email, according to a new survey that provides an interesting picture into web surfing habits.
The survey by market research firm Nielsen Online found that on average one of every 11 minutes spent online around the world is devoted to social networking and blogging sites.
San Francisco - US newspaper giant McClatchy said Monday that it plans to eliminate 1,600 jobs, or 15 per cent of its workforce, in yet another indication of how the recession is deepening problems in the already troubled newspaper business.
San Francisco - The California Supreme Court met Thursday in San Francisco to weigh a ban on same-sex marriage approved by voters last year.
The seven-member court is expected to decide within 90 days whether the ban known as Proposition 8 passed by voters in a November election is valid.
In the November 4 election, 52 per cent of voters favoured a ban on homosexual marriages be added to the state's Constitution by defining a married couple as only possible between a man and a woman.
San Francisco - After three exceptionally dry years, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state of emergency amid a prolonged drought.
"This is a crisis, just as severe as an earthquake or raging wildfire, and we must treat it with the same urgency by upgrading California's water infrastructure to ensure a clean and reliable water supply for our growing state," Schwarzenegger said, calling on residents to save water.
San Francisco - Not content with dominating the internet, Google is looking to take on the traditional phone companies and Skype by offering a free new phone service that manages your voice communications and allows all your different phones to ring on one number.
San Francisco - National Semiconductor Corp, one of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phone chips, will cut over 1,700 workers, or about a quarter of its work force, the company said Wednesday.
San Francisco - Social networking is a more popular online activity than email, according to a new survey that provides an interesting picture into web surfing habits.
San Francisco - US newspaper giant McClatchy said Monday that it plans to eliminate 1,600 jobs, or 15 per cent of its workforce, in yet another indication of how the recession is deepening problems in the already troubled newspaper business.
San Francisco - After three exceptionally dry years, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state of emergency amid a prolonged drought.
