SF News Missing Utah CEO and Tech Entrepreneur Found Dead Inside Her Rental Car When Utah tech entrepreneur and “force for good” Erin Valenti went missing in San Jose Monday, friends and family hoped for the best, but yesterday their worst fears came true: A body inside the back of a parked vehicle near San Jose’s Bose Lane was identified as hers.
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: In Brief Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Vista operating system won't be released until January of next year (link from CNet news.com). Office 2007 is also delayed to come out in tandem with
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Say Uncle! Last week, after Yahoo's share price dropped when the company's profits failed to reach analyst's expectations, Chairman Terry Semel conceded in an interview with SFGate, "Frankly, Google has done a better job than
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: For Great Justice The story is of interest more in terms of its precedent than for any actual privacy concerns. The data cannot be traced back to any personal information of individual users, and Google's objection
SF News SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube? But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of the
SF News SFist Chuck: New Year's Revolutions Best Gadget of 2005 The iPod Nano. As pernicious as my gadget fetish is, I still get more than a little unnerved when people talk about consumer electronics using words like "sexy" and
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Usual Suspects Google bought stock in AOL, after the latter turned down possible deals with Microsoft, and earlier Yahoo and Comcast. Google also made additions to its services by adding GMail access from mobile phones,
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple revolution
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\ Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content providers as
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: My AIBO Ate My Homework Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Very Brady Bulletin When we agreed to open the SFist Tech Labs to the public with this column, we had visions of writing about new cell phones and PDAs and MP3 players, web applications, and all
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Zeptointerest Apparently the rest of the world wasn't satisfied with our "look at how small it is" defense for the iPod nano, as they've gone and made Apple admit to the screen defect, prompting
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Three Companies Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This week,
