California firefighters employ AI to preemptively tackle wildfires, using footage from over 1,000 state-wide cameras.
Former eBay CEO Wants to Be Next California Governor
Everybody knew it was coming, but today, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced her announced she has formed an exploratory committee that will see her running for Governor of California in 2010. Whitman is a fifty-two year old Republican, and aims to replace John Matrix himself – Arnold Schwarzenegger.
California Sues Online Travel Company
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing an online travel business for operating a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited thousands of members with misleading claims that they could earn huge sums of money through its online travel agencies.
California To Launch Online Drug Database
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has introduced a plan to create an online prescription drug database so that doctors and pharmacies can reduce prescription drug abuse."Every year thousands of doctors try to check their patient’s prescription history information but California’s current database is difficult to access," Brown said."If California puts this information online, with real-time access, it will give authorized doctors and pharmacies the technology they need to fight prescription drug abuse which is burdening our healthcare system."
California Bill Seeks To Tax Downloads
California Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-City of Industry) wants to impose a sales tax on music and movies downloaded from the Internet in order to ease the states budget shortfall.Calderon’s proposal would raise the cost of an iTunes download from 99 cents to $1.07. He believes the Board of Equalization should update a 75-year-old law that authorizes sales-tax collections on tangible personal property. Music and movies downloaded off the Internet are not considered tangible goods.
California May Rebel Against Real ID
California has informed the Department of Homeland Security that although it has applied for an extension on the Real ID deadline it may not be committed to complying with Real ID rules by 2010.
California Earthquake Prompts Twitter Reaction
At any given moment, people on Twitter are likely to tell you that they’re hungry, sore, or tired. But last night, people used Twitter to report something that was literally of earth-shaking importance: an earthquake near San Jose.
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Google Fills California Tax Coffers
All of that insider selling by Google insiders like Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin helped boost the state’s take in personal income tax. Tax collectors in California must have been shouting the state’s motto when counting up the receipts in April.
Microsoft Settling California Antitrust Suits
The technology company will make $70 million in vouchers available to several municipal governments in California that complained of being overcharged by Microsoft.