Tag archive: Orange County

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

A new suit filed against Facebook in Orange County alleges that the social networking site violated California law by reposting copyrighted images without approval, and also letting personal information of minors to be posted and shared without parental consent. The suit has been brought by three adults and two minors. In part, the suit alleges: "Facebook's interface and web site architecture causes users to believe and… Read More

TrafficGauge, a company which designs handheld devices for commuters to get real time traffic information, today said they are unveiling their product to San Francisco Bay Area drivers to help ease commute headaches and make better driving decisions such as choosing an alternate route. The handheld is priced at $79.95 and requires a monthly subscription fee to get the real time traffic information. The wireless TrafficGauge Mobile Traffic… Read More

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These improvements are designed to further increase the robust recording capabilities and navigation of the service. In addition to current DVR functionality such as the ability to record a program to watch at a later time, record high-definition programming (viewable only with an HDTV set or monitor) and pause and rewind live TV – the new dual tuner functionality allows customers to record two programs simultaneously while watching a… Read More

From Western Digital's press release: Filed today in United States District Court in Orange County, Calif., the lawsuit alleges that Cornice is infringing seven Western Digital patents related to disk drive technology. Western Digital is seeking to prevent Cornice from illegally using Western Digital patented technology, as well as seeking to recoup monetary damages resulting from patent infringement by products Cornice has already… Read More

A report from The Orange County Register has indicated that the offices of Interplay have officially been closed down by the state of California, shortly after Interplay CEO Herve Caen stated thecompany was still operational. The closure came about after an inspection at the Interplay offices revealed that not only had employees not been provided with the proper workers' compensation insurance, but also without pay forseveral projects as… Read More

According to a report in Gamespot, less than a day after CEO Herve Caen said Interplay was “still here,” the publisher has apparently been shut down by the State of California. Gamespot quotes an Orange County Register's  report from Friday that says California's Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement forced the Irvine, CA-based developer-publisher of Fallout to… Read More

Available in pearlescent white, the newly designed, futuristic ERS-7 AIBO model provides the greatest degree of autonomous behavior and functionality to date. It features a faster CPU, a higher resolution camera and twice as much memory as its predecessors. With an accompanying software application entitled AIBO MIND (on 32 MB Memory Stick® media bundled with the ERS-7), the ERS-7 will allow owners to interact with the robot in numerous… Read More