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"4:44 Last Days on Earth": How We Lived at the End

How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

Ron Paul Counts Bay Area Tech Companies Among Top Donors

This week Republican presidential cult favorite Ron Paul will campaign through California, with stops at well-known party school Chico State, as well as UCLA, and Berkeley. While the venues reflect Paul's solid and passionate base among college kids, a closer look at Paul's donor list shows that the ... More >>

What Exactly Is a Tech Company?

​Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>

S.F.P.D. Officers Finally Have E-Mail, But Department Still Lags in Tech

​Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>

Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

Massive Job Cuts Coming at Cisco

​Cisco Systems is planning to cut up to 10,000 jobs, Bloomberg News reported late Monday. That's obviously a huge number, but it seems even huger if you think of it this way: It represents more than half the number of jobs the entire U.S. economy created in June.​The numbers will be large en ... More >>

Cisco Welcomes Its New Chinese Overlords

​Remember the good ol' days, when companies that did terrible things tried to hide their behavior? Those days are gone. Just witness the American technology companies shamelessly scrambling to get in on a government project in China that is almost certainly designed to help the repressive regime s ... More >>

First Kremlin Tweet Sent from Twitter's San Francisco Headquarters

Hello everyone, I'm now on Twitter and this is my first message​The history of Twitter is strewn with specialness -- celebrity tweets, happy birthday tweets, tweets advertising that the tweeter had just taken a nice dump -- but the company today enjoyed one of its most special days ever with the d ... More >>

Record Labels Suing Everything Good Into Oblivion

MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

Owned!

MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

Snacktion: Banana Mango OMG! Bar

MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

Apple, Cisco, Google, SF Weekly To Attend SanFran MusicTech Summit Feb 25

MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

Film Orgy

An abundance of the best international cinema at the 2006 Telluride and Toronto film festivals

Quattrone 2.0

A judge says Silicon Valley investment titan Frank Quattrone is free to go back to work. Would you trust him?

Dirty Business

There's not much passion -- at least of the sexual variety -- in a corporate takeover

Big Doctor Is Watching

As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

A Kinder, Gentler Commute

Tired of sitting in traffic till your butt turns to granite? This French guy may be able to help you.

Sleeping With the Auditor

Why San Francisco and its outside accountants are a little too close for comfort -- and how it could threaten the city's financial integrity

Can you stop the bots?

Given that cyberspace is swarming with bots looking to snatch or destroy your data, does it make sense to install a firewall?

Disaster Plans

Face it -- Props K and L both stink as ways to manage growth. But we have another option.

Dog Bites

Taking the Fun Out of Fort Funston; A Tale of Two Cities (and One Swedish Furniture Emporium); Spin the Bottle?

Dog Bites

Can't Find My Way Home, Nancy Drew in The Case of the Screaming Stadium!, Last Week for Golden Handshake Reader Poll!

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Can't Find My Way Home, Nancy Drew in The Case of the Screaming Stadium!, Last Week for Golden Handshake Reader Poll!