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Santa Barbara City College's Computer Information Systems Department recently received designation as the first Citrix Information Technology Academy in Southern California.

Roller coaster enthusiasts ride upside-down on the Riddler's Revenge roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, Calif., in this April 1, 1998, file photo.

Date: May 20, 2013 Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Our Career Fair's primary goal is to bring hiring and human resource managers, recruiters, and candidates together so that all involved parties can find what they are looking for.

In December 2009, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. flew into the San Diego airport, rented a Grand Marquis and headed to a marina Marriott for a five-day taxpayer-funded trip.

Dan Orum, president and CEO of the San Jose Giants, sent an email to the San Jose City Council about a week ago "to address the spate of misinformation recently published in the Mercury News and elsewhere regarding the San Jose Giants involvement in litigation against the City of San Jose." That would be the still-pending December 2011 lawsuit by ... (more)

Investigators believe one of them is responsible for killing the man in the green troll wig, Stephen Martin of Santa Clara.

Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

It was a fantastic Bike to Work Day this year! Counts of people on bikes in both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties were up this year: counts at 80 Energizer Stations in Santa Clara showed a 19% increase in butts on bikes on Thursday morning, while at the 36 Energizer Stations organized by our friends at Commute.org in San Mateo County, cycle ... (more)

Applied Materials , a maker of equipment used to manufacture chips, said on Thursday that demand for smartphone chips will help increase its revenues slightly in the current quarter and offset slowing demand from manufacturers hurt by slumping PC sales.

The Gold Striker, depicted in this artist's rendering, will be the tallest and fastest all-wood roller coaster structure in northern California when it opens at California's Great America later this month.

Santa Clara County CALIF.ORNIA The County of Santa Clara received a grant award of $300,000 from the California Energy Commission.

A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

When the school year ends a few weeks from now, millions of kids will head off to sleepaway camp for a summer filled with color wars, kayaking and bunk life.

Spacious and bright: The development wave in San Francisco includes projects with large floors to create a sense of voluminous space, natural light and two-storey lobbies.

Sheriff's deputies are at the scene of a triple stabbing in unincorporated East San Jose at Viewmont and Alum Rock avenues that left a 1-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman dead.

The San Jose Museum of Art chronicles the impact of contemporary Chinese art in the 21st Century.

Santa Clara County is celebrating May as Preservation Month, which might be a little funny to people who care about historic preservation in the county.

A stealthy embedded non-volatile memory developer Chip Memory Technology Inc. has announced a design win with Chrontel Inc., a vendor of video ICs, and claims to be in volume production with multiple customers at three foundries.

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. –– May 15, 2013 –– OneSpin Solutions™ , provider of innovative formal assertion-based verification and formal equivalence checking solutions, today unveiled a new business model based on Cloud Computing designed to give project teams flexibility previously unavailable for electronic design automation ... (more)

The company will acquire the shares as part of its previously announced intention to return over $1 billion to shareholders in the current fiscal year.