The technology company will make $70 million in vouchers available to several municipal governments in California that complained of being overcharged by Microsoft.

Corporate users of Microsoft’s productivity suites Office XP and Office 2003 will have to upgrade their software, in the wake of Microsoft’s court loss in a patent suit.

A 20 year-old was taken into federal custody and accused of compromising 400,000 computers with adware, and letting others use the zombie machines to send spam or launch denial of service attacks.

Trade groups want to overturn a recently passed law to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.

The dinner tonight was really fun. Renee and Paul Mooney put together quite a great group of more than 30 geeks.

I spotted this post on the Digital Squeeze today, which links to a job posting on Craigslist …

The first legislation in the country aimed at banning phishing was passed by the California legislature.

Could we stop making up words, please? It was cute at first, but now it’s terribly annoying as the squiggly red lines on my word processor stretch across my screen candy cane style. Thanks to an NYU grad student, we get to add another word to the effluvium of techno-jargon logorrhea.

The Windows Genuine Advantage program has moved from an optional one to a requirement to obtain updates.

Also, the California State University system will use Cdigix to provide digital entertainment services on its campuses.

If you’re convicted of a crime, better hope you’re not sent to a California prison. The prison health care system is so bad that one inmate dies every week.

The UC Board of Regents voted overwhelmingly to bid on continuing its 62 year history of managing the nuclear weapons lab.

Lawmakers introduce legislation to enforce what is already practiced in the video game industry.

A massive hacker attack made against California State University may have caused the personal identity information of 59000 students to be compromised.

There aren’t many contributors, but the stuff that shows up there really appeals to my sense of desert scenery.

The Sierra Nevada received its biggest snowfall since 1916, only the latest in an onslaught of storms to hit California.

Continuing the California Senator Challenges Gmail story that appeared here, Senator Liz Figueroa has drawn up a bill that would require member consent in order to place contextual ads within Gmail mailings.

Senator Liz Figueroa (D-Fremont) has written a letter to Google questioning the intentions of Gmail, the search engine’s new email service. Her issue with Google concerns the placement of AdWords within incoming and outbound emails.