The new meters send electricity and water usage reports via wireless network, but in Santa Clara, a city of 118, 000 in the heart of the Silicon Valley, they also have an unusual separate channel that provides free, outdoor Internet.

NPR: Calif. City Gets Free Wi-Fi Via High Tech Meters

This attack can put corporations at risk because telecommuters often fail to regularly update their antivirus software, said Sal Viveros, group marketing manager for total virus defense at Network Associates Inc.(NAI) in Santa Clara, Calif.

CNN: New 'Trojan Horse' strain may go mainstream

Network Associates has taken offline a central server in Santa Clara, Calif.

CNN: Technology - Security flaw discovered in Network Associates PGP software

Today at Qualcomm's What's Next in Mobile event in Santa Clara, California, the company told us more about its plan to help build a network that'll be able to serve up the data all its SoC's need.

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