Outerwall, the parent company of San Diego cellphone recycler ecoATM, said this week that it would explore strategic alternatives after a large shareholder called for the company to shed its money-losing ecoATM division.
The acquisition does not include Verizon’s wireless cellphone business, but does include its Internet, video and phone services. The transfer is set to take place April 1.
Over the next six weeks, the U.S. Census Bureau will mail several notices to 225,000 homes in the Los Angeles area asking people to go online and answer questions about how many people live in their home, how they are related and who owns the property.
Soon, on a broad scale, cars will drive themselves and “virtual people,” or talking computers, will carry on conversations with the linguistic skills of an actual person.
In 2006, a new computer and software system that never worked right became a nightmare as poorly trained employees tried to cope. This time around the training program was “designed and planned to apply lessons learned from the previous implementation.”
Tech leaders argue that changes to Visa allowances would hurt their bottom line if people doing business with their companies had difficulty coming to the U.S.
What started as a service to provide cheap storage for software developers soon added computer power for rent on a pay-as-you-go basis, enabling a new generation of Web-oriented startups such as Airbnb and Pinterest to focus on building apps rather than the technology infrastructure to support their products.
Internet service providers would face tough new restrictions on how they could use the personal information of their customers, including their Web-browsing activity, according to privacy regulations proposed Thursday by a top federal regulator.
The Modesto City Council on Tuesday approved spending more than $1.5 million for a new budget software system that city officials say will provide the city with better budget and performance data and will replace a system that is more than 15 years old.
Intel hopes to use Replay’s FreeD format to expand a “new category for sports entertainment that we call immersive sports,” wrote Intel Senior Vice President Wendell Brooks.
The California bullet train has won a court victory in a key lawsuit that sought to stop the $64-billion project because it allegedly violated restrictions voters imposed in 2008.
Gig workers such as Uber and Lyft drivers would gain the right to collectively bargain for benefits and wages under legislation introduced in California on Wednesday.
The service's connectivity relies on a combination of T-Mobile and Sprint's networks, as well as available Wi-Fi for the strongest signal and fastest data.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is exploring whether to purchase camera-toting drones for locating missing people, aiding SWAT teams and assessing raging wildfires.
Leaders in the green industry will converge in Clovis on Wednesday for the sixth annual International Green Industry Hall of Fame (IGIHOF) conference and induction ceremony.
The panel consisted of legislators, clean energy proponents and oil industry reps who gathered to debate about the state's plan to cut petroleum use by 50 percent in 15 years.
Though the technology is not as sophisticated as a custom-built platform, candidates who subscribe to the service can immediately start tracking voters and organizing volunteers.
Assembly Bill 2536 would give schools the right to expel or suspend students for sending nude or sexually explicit photos and images electronically “with the purpose or effect of humiliating or harassing a pupil.”
The costly and geologically complex crossing of the Southern California mountains cannot be completed by 2022, as the rail authority had long contended.
About 75 people turned out for the fair learning about how drones and satellites assess farm performance from above and about electronic devices that monitor soil moisture, nutrients in leaves and other aspects of farming.
The government's battle with Apple over encryption dominated one of the world's largest cybersecurity conferences as top Obama administration officials and Silicon Valley executives argued about how to balance privacy and security.
Transit experts, business executives and policymakers such as U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx presented hopeful visions of an exciting and high-tech transportation future in front of a Los Angeles crowd.
Results from the samples showed that there were above-normal levels of several compounds that are found in natural gas, including benzene, toluene and xylenes.
