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Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI): A Major Workplace Safety Issue

The newsroom of San Jose Mercury News, like any daily newspaper, is crammed with reporters at their computers with arms raised and fingers flying as the deadline approaches. All this typing and clicking can cause damage to muscles, tendons and nerves and an alarming number of people who work at...

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There's more to story than cold hard cash

The headline ran a week ago in The San Jose Mercury News: Santa Clara County to pay $400,000 to Palo Alto family Sounds like a lot of money, doesn't it? Just look for the family driving new BMWs. But as is...

Articles 2008-05-04

First Greenfair Comes to San Jose McEnery Convention Center June 7-8, 2008

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Bay Area News Group, comprised of 30 Bay Area newspapers and 5 websites, including the Mercury News and MercuryNews.com, will produce the first green event of its kind in the Bay Area, Greenfair Silicon Valley, from 10am-7pm on Saturday, June 7 and...

Articles 2008-05-02

IXYS Ranked Higher On Silicon Valley 150

Power Semiconductors Thrive On Electrical Efficiency Demand MILPITAS, Calif. -- IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS), a Silicon Valley high performance semiconductor company, today announced it was ranked # 94 in The San Jose Mercury News "Silicon Valley 150". The Mercury News produces a yearly listing of the top 150 public...

Articles 2008-04-22

Javelin Strategy Announces the Addition of Mark Schwanhausser to Analyst Team

Veteran San Jose Mercury News Reporter Brings Personal Finance and Business Expertise to Javelin's Multi-Channel Financial Services Coverage SAN FRANCISCO -- Javelin Strategy & Research, the leading independent provider of nationally-representative, quantitative research focused exclusively on financial services topics, is pleased to announce that Mark Schwanhausser has joined...

Articles 2008-04-22

ShoreTel Ranked Among Silicon Valley's Top 150 Public Companies

Annual San Jose Mercury News Report Reviews and Ranks Silicon Valley's Largest Public Companies SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ShoreTelR, Inc. , a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions, announced today that the San Jose Mercury News has included ShoreTel in the 2007 Silicon...

Articles 2008-04-18

Iraqi army assault seen as mixed bag

The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., in an editorial: "Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has received a lot of criticism in the American press for his decision to engage (Muqtada al-Sadr's) Iranian-backed lawless forces in Basra. ... But he deserves firm support for his stand. A democratic Iraqi government --...

Articles 2008-04-04

American cyclist Thomas convicted of perjury

SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Former world class American cyclist Tammy Thomas screamed at jurors after being convicted of perjury and lying to grand jury probing a sports steroid distribution ring. "Look me in the eye, look me in the eye," Thomas screamed after the jurors' verdict was read...

Articles 2008-04-04

New Civil Rights Film Opening in Los Angeles April 25, Documents Obama's "Gap Between the Promise of Our Ideals and the Reality of Their Time"

The independent feature film "Dare Not WalkAlone" ( www.darenotwalkalone.com ) opens April 25 at the Laemmle Grande4-Plex in Los Angeles. Acclaimed as "brave filmmaking" by the San JoseMercury News, this award-winning documentary delivers a new generation'stake on civil rights, set to a soundtrack that flows from gospel tohip-hop. "Dare Not...

Articles 2008-04-03

Hoyas unlikely victims for upset; Past losers have common traits.(SPORTS)

Byline: Barker Davis, THE WASHINGTON TIMES When Georgetown and UMBC meet in Raleigh, N.C., tomorrow in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the Retrievers (24-8) will be chasing history. In the 23 seasons since the tournament expanded to a...

Articles 2008-03-20

San Jose paper shaves its staff by about 10%

SAN JOSE, Calif. AP -- The San Jose Mercury News laid off 15 newsroom staffers Friday and lost five other editors through buyouts this week, shaving the editorial staff by about 10 percent, according to the newspaper. The layoffs, buyouts and five other recent resignations leave the...

Articles 2008-03-08

The TPL Group Calls for Grassroots Level Support to Stop Passage of The Patent Reform Act

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Dan Leckrone, founder and chairman of the TPL Group, denounced the proposed Patent "Reform" Act pending for vote in the U.S. Senate as legislation that will subvert the process of innovation and investment in the United States. In an op-ed titled "Proposed Patent Law Will Cripple U.S....

Articles 2008-03-03

Kiffin: 'I wasn't dancing'

ALAMEDA -- Raiders coach Lane Kiffin broke his silence Wednesday to the Bay Area media after spending most of the past two months ducking, dodging and evading any and every attempt to tap his mind as to what's going on with his team. The timing made...

Articles 2008-02-29

Can chia seeds cheat death?

SAN JOSE, Calif. MCT -- Eat your Chia Pet. Help your heart? Some researchers think so -- prompting distributors of the tiny seeds used to sprout the pets' iconic frizzy green hair to tout them as the latest "superfood." Chia seeds and related items...

Articles 2008-02-26

Newspapers in trouble

LAST WEEK'S NEWS about the newspaper industry in the Bay Area reflects the huge economic challenges facing the business and the question about the future of daily newspaper journalism. The Bay Area News Group-East Bay, owner of the Herald as well as the Contra Costa Times,...

Articles 2008-02-26

Baseball Notes: Bonds is 'in game shape,' agent says

Barry Bonds is "in game shape" and looking for a major-league job this season, according to his agent. "He's doing all the baseball drills he normally does as he works to get in shape for spring training," Jeff Borris said in Tuesday's San Jose Mercury News. "His legs are as...

Articles 2008-02-21

Junior colleges can't be left behind

It is one thing for the uninformed to make rash statements as those quoted from the San Jose Mercury News regarding the recruitment of international students; but when someone from the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy can produce such garbage as, "You have native student populations that are...

Articles 2008-02-21

Network Products Guide Names Infineon's TPM Professional Package and Chip Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Awards in World's Best Security Product

Infineon Technologies AG (FRANKFURT: IFX)(NYSE: IFX) today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon ValleyCommunications publication and a world leading publication on technologiesand solutions, has named Infineon's Professional Package v3.0 and TPM 1.2 awinner of the 2008 Global Product Excellence in the World's Best SecurityProducts Award category. There were over...

Articles 2008-02-13

Quotable & notable

"What Bush has succeeded in doing is entangling the next administration in a $1 trillion war." --The Mercury News of San Jose, Calif., assessing President Bush's last State of the Union address and legacy "It is all so superficial, so artificial! These are but crumbs for...

Articles 2008-02-08

Bonds' lawyers ask judge to dismiss perjury case: report

SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Attorneys for US baseball home run king Barry Bonds filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss a federal grand jury indictment on grounds it is vague and poorly crafted, the San Jose Mercury News reported. The 43-year-old former outfielder for the San Francisco Giants was...

Articles 2008-01-23