AIDS conference program has major research gaps fighting HIV
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PJesep
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 13:35:24 -0700 | health-news
A coalition of global advocacy groups released a major report Tuesday, “Coverage of Key Populations at the 2012 International AIDS Conference,” showing the International AIDS Conference (IAC) program lacks meaningful coverage of populations most-at-risk for HIV.” Its quantitative...
Amazon releases social gifting service
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 16:26:41 -0700 | technology-news
Amazon wants to crowdsource gift giving. On Tuesday, the company released Amazon Birthday Gift, a program that allows groups of people to pitch in on Amazon gift cards for a lucky someone. The new service requires connecting via Facebook. “Amazon...
Google's 'Project Loon' brings Internet to the world through balloon
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:19:37 -0700 | technology-news
Earlier this month, Google launched Project Loon—a strategy to link remote areas of the globe to the Internet via balloon. Yes, balloon. “Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does...
Chinese Company Unveils World's Slimmest Smartphone
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:05:33 -0700 | technology-news
The Chinese have reduced the smartphone like never before. Chinese mobile device manufacturer Huawei recently released the Ascend P6, a slim beauty that supposedly holds the record as the skinniest smartphone in the world according to the company. Huawei is...
New York City Reveals Free Charging Stations
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:29:58 -0700 | technology-news
New York City is partnering up with AT&T to keep its citizen’s phones charged up. The city unveiled solar powered charging stations this week. Eventually, the structures will be popping up on street corners, beaches and in parks throughout the...
BitTorrent Pairs With Public Enemy for Remix Contest
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:51:37 -0700 | technology-news
No one can deny Public Enemy’s massive impact on the history of hip hop. The influence of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the group’s seminal album released in 1988, can be heard in most of...
Two youths arrested for San Leandro carjacking after chase
Source: KTUV
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 12:06:07 -0700 | allnews
Two juvenile suspects were arrested in Oakland on Tuesday evening in connection with a carjacking in San Leandro, police said...Tuesday, a man and his juvenile daughter were sitting in their car near the intersection of Castro Street and San Leandro...
Man shot by deputy at Calif. burger joint ID'd
Source: Merced Sun-Star
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 11:42:03 -0700 | allnews
A man suspected of trying to rob an Oakland burger restaurant at gunpoint before being shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy has been identified as a 32-year-old Oakland resident. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department identified the man as Quincy...
West Oakland family considers moving after drive-by shooting injures 11-year-old son
Source: Contra Costa Times
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 19:54:43 -0700 | allnews
Phuc Tran, 11, said he has heard gunshots ring out before near the West Oakland housing project where his family has lived for 12 years. He sometimes feels scared living in the neighborhood, he said. Sunday morning, he was awakened...
West Oakland family considers moving after drive-by shooting injures 11-year-old son
Source: Contra Costa Times
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 19:54:43 -0700 | allnews
Phuc Tran, 11, said he has heard gunshots ring out before near the West Oakland housing project where his family has lived for 12 years. He sometimes feels scared living in the neighborhood, he said. Sunday morning, he was awakened...
Warriors: Oakland's Will Cherry has pre-NBA draft workout
Source: The Mercury News
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 16:23:42 -0700 | sports-news
Will Cherry grew up close to the Warriors' practice facility, and attended camps there as a youngster. On Monday, the former Montana star guard was again at the Warriors practice facility, this time for an NBA predraft workout with five...
New push for early reading in Oakland schools
Source: Contra Costa Times
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 15:53:12 -0700 | political-news
As an accomplished orator, 10 year-old Rahsaan Smith knows that good public speaking requires excellent reading skills...Oakland Oratorical Fest in the Oakland schools, spoke Monday at a conference where education officials and politicians brainstormed how to make sure that students...
Man charged with April fatal shooting in East Oakland
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 15:39:53 -0700 | disasters-news
A 21-year-old man was charged with murder Friday for the April 20 fatal shooting of a former friend outside an East Oakland liquor store, police said...Evans, 22, of Oakland in what police said was the culmination of a personal dispute....
Lawmaker Calls For State Funds To Clear Backlog Of Veterans' Benefits Claims
Source: Big News Network
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 14:57:45 -0700 | health-news
Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner called on Gov. Jerry Brown Monday to support spending provisions recently approved by state legislators that would provide $6 million to reduce the long backlog of veterans' benefit claims in California. Speaking at a news conference outside...
Oakland: Police convince threatening man at homeless camp to surrender
Source: Contra Costa Times
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 15:21:57 -0700 | political-news
A 45-minute standoff Monday afternoon between police and a man underneath the Interstate 880 overpass in downtown Oakland forced the closure of entrances to the Webster tube, police said Monday afternoon. The man, who at one point took off all...
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