San Mateo News

Phil Harrison denies rival handheld is a serious competitor for the PlayStation Portable.

A Ventura businessman with a prior criminal strike on his record and a lengthy rap sheet of misdemeanor molestation charges was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading no contest to fondling an ...2.7

A conversation between two women about the lack of parking on San Mateo's 25th Avenue is exactly what store owners are happy to hear on Tuesday evenings.2.9

SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Leland Yee's contentious bill regarding jet-fuel tax dollars at San Francisco International Airport was stuck on the state Senate floor Tuesday.2.7

Apple Computer Inc.'s plan to issue $50 vouchers to settle a lawsuit filed by consumers who complained about the battery life of older versions of the iPod music player has been approved by a California judge.2.7

Web analytics firm Coremetrics introduced Coremetrics Search yesterday, a closed-loop solution for creating, managing and optimizing pay-per-click marketing campaigns across various search engines.2.7

Though blogs can reveal what customers do, it's difficult to understand why they behave the way they do.2.7

I'm drunk. Restrain me. A drunk man was restrained in a wrap binding his arms and legs after he entered the Burlingame police station yelling and screaming around 7:43 p.m. Saturday.2

Offering an inferior quality of public education is a crime against the next generation.2.7

Several hundred school workers who called in sick on the first day of classes at the San Francisco Unified School District will have their pay docked unless they produce a doctor's note verifying their illness, ...2.7

WLAN systems are arguably one of the hottest spaces in Enterprise networking today, representing a strong growth opportunity for OEMs.2.7

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Monday it would delay by two weeks its return to nuclear talks, blaming the decision on U.S. military exercises and Washington's appointment of a special envoy on human ...2.7

The stretch of state Highway 92 that claimed the life of a local student Saturday is a tricky road that people drive far too fast, firefighters and local residents said Monday.2.7

Tenebril Releases First Anti-Spyware Solution with Enterpise-Class Protection, Manageability and Scalability Publication date: Monday, 29 August 2005 SpyCatcher Enterprise Provides Unique Defense against ...2.7

Whitepaper: Symantec LiveState Client Management Suite This lifecycle management solution includes Ghost imaging and pcAnywhere , allowing you to discover assets, configure and provision client devices, deploy ...2.7

More than 1,000 friends classmates, teachers, neighbors and co-workers packed into San Mateo's largest Catholic Church Saturday to bid a final farewell to a family that never had a chance to say good-bye. ...2.9

SAN MATEO - Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Barron loved cars so much and had such a silver tongue that when his grandmother Marlene Ferrigno went to pick out a Cadillac, he came with her.2.7

At issue was the length of the iPod's battery life. Apple had advertised the iPod could last 10 to 12 hours after being charged, but customers complained that the device would die after as little as four hours, ...3.2

As many as 1.3 million owners of iPod music players will be able to replace their defective batteries on Apple's dime, after a judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the company.2.7

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. said it plans to buy a California-based soil and landscape product company for $20 million, increasing its presence in the West and among independent nurseries.3.2

REDWOOD CITY - Slow progress has been made in the last year-and-a-half to understand and reign in the disproportionate number of minorities in the county's juvenile justice system, largely due to a lack of ...2.7

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Drivers looking to steer clear of confusion about hybrid gasoline/electric vehicles' eligibility for travel in the carpool lanes on Bay Area freeways and at toll bridge toll plazas can now find their way on a ...2.7

A dead whale that washed up on the sandy shores of the San Mateo Coast earlier this month has come full circle.2.7

On-demand Webcast: Identity-Driven Computing Add intelligence to every part of your IT infrastructure and make your business more agile and more secure.2.7

As the San Mateo County Fair morphs into Bay Meadows' summer-fall season today, the pertinent question, as always, concerns the track's future.2.7

Developers want to replace the defunct Coca-Cola factory in the Bayview with a 341-unit condominium complex.2.7

SAN MATEO, Calif. and London August 24, 2005 Glu Mobile, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, today announced plans to create and publish DRIVER: VEGAS, a ...2.7

Around 600,000 students in England and Wales are waiting to hear how they have done in their GCSEs.

The City Attorney's Office is suing a contractor, claiming shoddy and incomplete work on a critical pumping station is putting at risk the delivery of some 130 million gallons of water a day to residents and ...3.1

A little quiet in the blogosphere today as all everyone wants to talk about is Google Talk, but there's a new feature in Gmail that will come in handy for bloggers using the service, or not using it because ...

It may have been an attempt of ``suicide by cop'' Wednesday morning -- forcing an officer to kill you instead of killing yourself.2.7

The driver in a 2002 quadruple murder in San Bruno was sentenced to four concurrent life sentences Thursday after a San Mateo County Superior Court judge denied a motion for a retrial.2.7

UKIAH - Underscoring a local epidemic of methamphetamine abuse, federal officials Tuesday said Mendocino County is one of 11 counties nationwide to receive special $1.5 million grants to expand meth treatment ...2.7

John Bernard Murphy, a beloved math teacher and athletic director at St. Ignatius College Preparatory school in San Francisco who was best known for his firm yet compassionate classroom manner and for his ...2.7