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The article reports that California man Gregory King was arrested for allegedly using a botnet to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against two companies. King was charged with four counts of electronic transmission codes to cause damage to protected computers. According to a grand jury indictment, King used an army of 7,000 zombie computers in multiple attacks on KillaNet and CastleCops.

The article reports that former California Judge Ronald Kline was sentenced to 27 months for possession of child pornography. According to the author, Kline was caught after a vigilante hacker, Brad William, penetrated his computer through a Trojan horse written to capture pedophiles. However, the case is a long way from adjudging open season for hackers in pursuit for child porn criminals, the author inferred.

An interview with Biz Stone, co-founder of the San Francisco, California-based company Twitter Inc., is presented. What inspires Stone is to expand the power of a real-time network to the weakest of signals around the world. He notes that anyone in the world can update their Twitter through text messages or SMS, but they only send out updates on SMS in the U.S. He looks forward to build a robust and reliable computer network that can be built upon and can assist people in their everyday life.

Reports that the City Hall in San Francisco, California has became the second in the United States to use kiosks to deliver information about city services to residents. How the residents who use the kiosks can get easier access to services; Details on the installation of kiosks in San Francisco; Information on kiosks produced by ObjectSoft Corporation.

The article presents information on Google Inc.'s I/O developers conference held in San Francisco, California.

The article informs that according to a report published in "The Financial Times," Google is working on a deal with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer also known as Foxconn, to manufacture Glass in Silicon Valley. According to Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, Google would get a better price if they manufacture it overseas but they will have better control over the product if it's being built in the U.S.

The article informs that on Thursday, Google has announced anyone living in the San Francisco Bay Area can sign up for same-day delivery of purchases from local and national retailers during the testing period. According to Google, the retail project of Google includes retailers like Target, Walgreens, Staples, American Eagle and Toys 'R' Us/Babies 'R' Us.

The article reports on the opening of virtual Palomar Medical Center West by Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) in Escondido, California. Accordingly, PPH created the facility and all of its technology in the Second Life virtual world to show its 900,000 clients in Southern California what is to come. It stated that the Second Life hospital boosts operating rooms equipped with robotics technology and functional imaging systems that support medical procedure including cardiovascular surgery. Orlando Portale, PPH's chief technology and innovation officer, mentioned that virtual world technology enables people to experience the environment on their own.

Focuses on the object-oriented application, called the Integrated State Information System, which is being used for the California Department of Health's Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. Objective of the WIC program; Development of the application by the IS team at the California Department of Health; Benefits of application; How the application works.