May 4th Wedding Workshop 1-5PM. Enjoy an afternoon at David Girard Vineyards at this fun, informative approach to planning your perfect & unique wedding day. Speakers include Laurie Schmalzel and Lora Word both Sacramento based wedding planners with combined experience of 45 years and over 1,000 weddings! Champagne preview, food tastings, speakers, cake & wine tasting. Bring a notebook! You must pre-register for this event $20.00 per person. Call 530-295-1833 or email weddings@davidgirardvineyards.com for more information.
AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
AP - NEW YORK — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.
AP - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.
CNET - On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss Google's latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's product launch event on September 9.
Reuters - When Napster reported its fiscal
first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive
picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous
about the company's future.