Results tagged “pcworld”

-- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc]

You might want to wait before buying an iPhone.

According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more accurate, scalable, and user friendly--including better print-outs. Of note to us, visitors to Yahoo Maps, supposedly starting today, will have access to more detailed renditions of neighborhoods and buildings in New York City and San Francisco.

The story about Rex Farrance, the PC World editor shot to death in a home invasion robbery gets more complicated, as his 19-year-old son tells the media that the "drug trade" alluded to by the police was in fact a stash of licensed medicinal marijuana that the son was keeping at the father's house with the father's knowledge. Farrance's wife, who was pistol-whipped in the attack, strongly denies any drug dealing in the house -- and Farrance's stepdaughter said she thinks the family was targeted because her stepfather had guns in the house. Farrance was a fitness buff, and had been profiled in the Chron back in 2001.

So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter!