| Fire burns house, vehicle
Fire crews put out a house fire this morning on the 700 block of Empire Avenue in the Airport District. Battalion Chief Mark Johansen with the Modesto Fire Department said they received a call at 4:57 a.m. about a vehicle fire that was catching the side of a house on fire. He said the vehicle appeared abandoned and nobody was living in the house. The fire spread to the attic, he said. Johansen said he did not see any signs of arson but that a fire investigator is on the scene. Fire crews were leaving the site at about 7 a.m. .
Software Notebook: Microsoft boosts bottom line by sinking Windows ...
Last summer, for example, Microsoft and the Chinese government announced the bust of a counterfeiting syndicate that the company called the largest it had ever seen -- responsible for distributing more than $2 billion in pirated programs. Also in China, major PC vendors have made commitments to ship computers with legal software preinstalled, and the Chinese government has made a push to use legal software itself. The software piracy rate in the country dropped from 92 percent in 2003 to 82 percent in 2006, according to a Business Software Alliance report. Governments are becoming "much more sensitive to this as an issue," Liddell told analysts. He also cited technology advances in Windows Vista -- alluding to a beefed-up version of the Windows Genuine Advantage tool that was released along with the new operating system last year.
What Happened To New York: A History Of The 00's So Far
Investment banks and insurance companies grab for office space while dot-coms disappear. On November 8th, Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate. By November 25th, the Williamsburg Domino Sugar plant workers had been on strike for a year and a half. 82 substantiated complaints of abuse by the NYPD got disappeared. Unemployment hit an all-time low of 5.5%. "Deliverymen who often earn just $2 an hour lugging bags of groceries to apartments up and down Manhattan for the Food Emporium supermarket chain will receive $3 million in back pay under a settlement announced yesterday." Developers promise to rebuild West Side Rail Yards! "[W]hat appears to be fashionable for some of the French these days is to pack up one's life in Paris and relocate to the East Village." December 29: "A federal judge has upheld a Giuliani administration policy that allows police officers to arrest homeless people for sleeping in cardboard boxes in public." Boo.com wins the right in court to sell off their Silicon Alley lease.
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