Tag archive: California

Need to feed your zombie cravings? Capcom's Dead Rising may soon be getting a new installment. News is spreading about a mechanic protagonist to star in a Dead Rising 3 set in sunny California.  Capcom started a ripple of rumors when it posted a teaser to the official Dead Rising Facebook page recently. The first game's protagonist Frank West wrote, “I'm packing for my new adventure—camera, notebook and baseball bat. What else… Read More

Earlier this week, both Amazon and eBay had a public debate in Washington in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the creation of a standard Internet sales tax that could be adopted by any state seeking increased tax revenue according to CNNMoney. Recently on the opposite side of the argument, Amazon is currently arguing in favor of a standardized tax in order to simplify the tax collection process. It's likely that Amazon wants… Read More

Ten minutes before the Porter Ranch Walmart opened in Los Angeles, California, a mother of two used a can of pepper spray to attack other shoppers waiting in line for the early, Black Friday door-buster sales according to the Los Angeles Times. The woman was specifically looking to get the $100 discounted price on a Xbox 360 as well as a few Xbox 360 games. With both children in tow, she began spraying other customers as soon as the store… Read More

Part of Dow Chemical, Dow Solar has begun production of solar shingles at a pilot plant in Midland, Michigan. Called the Powerhouse solar shingles, they are initially being sold in Colorado and will be released in twelve more states through 2012 such as Texas and California. Outfitting the average house with a roof covered in solar shingles and an energy converter box will cost consumers approximately $10,000 to $15,000. However, energy costs… Read More

Earlier today, the two men involved in the theft of the iPhone 4 prototype pleaded no-contest to misdemeanor theft charges, reversing their earlier plea of not guilty. The no-contest plea allowed the court to find the men guilty and sentence them both to a year of probation, 40 hours of community service and a $250 fine paid directly to Apple. While the district attorney in the case asked for jail time for the theft of the smartphone, the judge… Read More

Earlier today, California governor Jerry Brown put his signature on the Internet sales tax bill at the Gap Inc. offices in San Francisco. However, this doesn't mean that California will see an increase at the online checkout screen just yet. Governor Jerry Brown compromised with the leader in opposition, Amazon, and postponed collection of the sales tax until September 12, 2012. In return, Amazon agrees to end a political push to promote… Read More

Back on September 2, Petaluma resident Debbie Payne heard a loud crash and felt the entire home shake, also catching the attention of a nearby neighbor. After searching around the house, Ms. Payne discovered a large 9-inch hole in the roof as well as two window screens sliced open. Laying on the ground nearby, the neighbor found the remnants of a two pound Canon 24-105mm lens designed for DSLR camera like the Canon EOS Rebel T3i. Ms. Payne… Read More

Residents of California can take a trip to Orange County and find the world's first sewage-powered refueling station. Located just off the 405 freeway, the station is located next to the Orange County waste-water treatment plant in Fountain Valley. The hydrogen fuel offers about 70 miles per gallon and the station can fuel up to 50 automobiles per day with the daily 120 kilograms of hydrogen gas produced at the plant. In order to produce… Read More

Due to a Jalopnik reader's quick reflexes with a mobile phone camera earlier this week, one of Google's self-driving Prius automobiles got caught rear-ending another Prius. This caused a chain-reaction that resulted in two Honda Accords and a second Toyota Prius to be rear ended. However, Google claims that the manual driving mode was enabled and a human driver is to blame for the accident. Legally, the cars must have a human behind… Read More

That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today for his role in designing websites to mock financial institutions and using those sites to scam over 38,000 victims. He worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email phishing. Nguyen sold the data containing the identities stolen from the fake sites to Ryan Price and Stefani Ruland. These two men setup lines of credit at GE Capital kiosks at Walmart in Northern… Read More

Amazon has been butting heads with many states that feel the e-commerce giant needs to be paying taxes alongside brick-and mortar businesses. Now, Amazon has vowed that it will terminate its Callifornia Associates Affiliate program in response to a sales tax bill part of an effort to balance the state's budget. The Amazon ax was just waiting for Jerry Brown to sign the bill into law, and since he's done so, there's nothing… Read More

Amazon, Overstock and similar companies may be facing new taxes in California. The golden state has passed a bill in the Assembly which will tax retail internet sales, and now the piece of legislation is on its way to the Senate. AB 155, which passed 47-16, is the doing of Democratic Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Whittier). The bill would close a loophole that proponents say gives online stores an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores such as… Read More

Growth may be no surprise when it comes to Facebook, but it seems as if the California based social networking giant will be reaching 700 million users soon according to some analysis done by the Socialbakers Facebook statistics site. Countries such as Brazil, Phillipines, Indonesia, Mexico and Argentina are responsible for much of the social website's international adoption recently. According to Socialbakers' statistics, almost… Read More

Proposed legislation in California is seeking to give parents increased access to their children’s social networking accounts while simultaneously requiring sites like Facebook to seriously alter their privacy settings. SB 242, or the Social Networking Privacy Act, spearheaded by Senator Ellen Corbett, would require social sites to fundamentally reformat how they operate and share information. “You shouldn’t have to sign in and give up your… Read More

Google announced this week that it has committed $168 million in funding for what will be the world's largest solar power tower plant, which is currently being built in California's Mojave Desert. The massive alternative energy project, spearheaded by BrightSource Energy, will reportedly generate 392 grow megawatts of clean energy, enough to power 140,000 homes. “That’s the equivalent of taking more than 90,000 cars off the… Read More