BUSINESS
August 24, 2010 | Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Two tech giants in the PC field are battling to take over a relatively tiny company in the burgeoning arena of cloud computing. Hewlett-Packard Co., the largest PC company in the world, bid $1.6 billion, or $24 a share, Monday for 3Par Inc., a firm that makes products to increase the efficiency of data stored on remote, massive servers accessed through the Internet. Last week, Dell Inc., the second-biggest PC company, bid $1.13 billion, or $18 a share, for 3Par. HP's bid is probably not the last skirmish in the battle.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 30, 2010 | By Garret Therolf
Responding to recent deaths among children who passed through Los Angeles County's child welfare system, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas renewed his call Monday to improve the computer system designed to provide county agencies with information about a child's risk factors for abuse. The Times reported Sunday that an upgraded system for sharing information among agencies about suspicious injuries, domestic violence and other key risk factors was one of a number of unfinished reform efforts.
BUSINESS
March 11, 2010 | By W.J. Hennigan
Amid rising unemployment, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday unveiled a training initiative funded by Microsoft Corp. that gives California residents free access to Microsoft's online computer courses and certification exams. Microsoft said it would distribute 166,500 vouchers that could be redeemed online for courses that range from basic computer training -- such as Web navigation -- to more formal professional certifications in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel and Access.
WORLD
January 16, 2010 | By Bob Pool
For four days Gordon Thomas watched the horror of Haiti's earthquake unfold and wished that there was a way for him to help. But the 30-year-old San Diego man is a software engineer, not a medical doctor or a search-and-rescue expert who can drop everything and rush off to deliver emergency aid to the Caribbean island nation. So on Saturday he decided to use the equivalent of a digital pick and shovel to help Haitians with the long-term job of digging out their quake-crushed country.
BUSINESS
January 7, 2010 | By David Pierson
A Santa Barbara software maker has filed a $2.2-billion lawsuit against the Chinese government and several Chinese technology firms, accusing them of conspiring to steal and disseminate the U.S. firm's Internet filtering technology. Cybersitter, also known as Solid Oak Software Inc., alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles that Chinese software makers stole thousands of codes to develop a controversial Internet filtering program that was to be installed on all personal computers in China by July 2009.
NATIONAL
January 2, 2010 | Mcclatchy Newspapers
Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Larry Michaels has tried everything to teach high school students about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, but nothing has held their attention quite like a new computer program that shows them what they will look like after they use methamphetamine. "I've never seen the look of shock on their faces like I have with this," Michaels said shortly after several Windsor High School students this month volunteered to have their faces digitally altered to show how they would look after six months, one year and three years of meth abuse.