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- Paupers' cemetery unearthed in California hospital parking lot
FAIRFAX, California (Reuters) - A judge on Friday is to consider the fate of dozens of paupers' graves unearthed by construction crews beneath the parking lot of a California hospital, apparently part of a long-forgotten cemetery established for indigent patients. Construction workers initially discovered 15 plain, uniformly spaced pine coffins in February, but the entire site, located in San Jose, may contain as many as 1,445 graves in all, said Joy Alexiou, a Santa Clara Valley Medical Center spokeswoman. ...
- Cisco to open Hawaii networking academy Friday at Honolulu Community College
Cisco Systems Inc. will open its first Hawaii Cisco Networking Academy at Honolulu Community College on Friday, a program to teach students how to design, build and manage computer networks and prepare them for information and communications technology jobs.
The University of Hawaii will provide classroom space, computer lab equipment and instructors Honolulu Community College Networking Academy, while San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) will provide free online course, teacher training...
- San Jose cut fees for downtown rental developers
The San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved a set of temporary incentives to encourage high-rise office and residential tower development in the city, particularly in downtown.
The incentives include:
- A guarantee that application reviews will be no more than 120 days.
- A 50 percent reduction of fees in lieu of adding park areas to developments.
- A 50 percent reduction of construction-related taxes.
- Elimination of the requirement for systems in high-rises that contain air to help firefighters...
- Will Apple's iPhone screen get bigger?
Apple Inc. reportedly has ordered larger screens for the iPhone it will roll out later this year, growing the display to 4 inches from the 3.5 inches on previous versions of the popular smartphone, according to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
Sources say Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ordered the bigger screens for the new phone that is expected in the fall, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apple has about 1,200 employees working at its Elk Grove campus.
- GM pulling Facebook ads, saying they don't work
General Motors Co. reportedly plans to stop paying for ads on Facebook but continue to use the social network in its marketing efforts, according to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
Unnamed sources said GM had decided that their paid ads on Facebook were having little impact on consumers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
GM spends about $40 million on Facebook, with about $10 million for advertising and the rest on content created for the site, agencies that manage the content...
- Intel plans to hire next CEO from within
Intel Corp. chief executive officer Paul Otellini said on Tuesday that he expects his replacement will eventually come from within the company, saying chief operating officer Brian Krzanich is one of a number of good candidates, according to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
Intel employs about 6,633 at its campus in Folsom.
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