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NEWS ANALYSIS: Over the past 40 years, Ethernet - a standard that a bunch of tinkerers at Xerox PARC created to run a printer - continues to deliver as it grows bigger and faster.

Leading innovators, top-level executives from international telecommunications and networking agencies are meeting this week in Mountain View, California, to celebrate 40 years of the Ethernet, a computer networking technology and architecture for local area networks .

If you haven't noticed it yet, Mountain View is a great city for riding bicycles.

The Mountain View, California based company focuses on secure big data management through its Orchestratora v5, which makes a security "wrapper" around Hadoop distribution, operating as an "independent management layer" that's on top of the open source code.

A former city of Mountain View official, along with leading members of some Whisman-area neighborhood associations, plan to hold a neighborhood meeting to discuss the possibility of re-opening Whisman School.

Though burn victims in this country may emerge from the hospital with significant scars, chances are they will ultimately be able to return to their day-to-day routine -- even if people's stares make them uncomfortable.

Seven months after losing a bid to build a new restaurant in Mountain View, Chick-fil-A is taking its sandwiches four miles down the road ... to Sunnyvale.

Inside a nondescript office building in Mountain View, California, a gathering took place recently that might have been a glimpse into the future.

Red Rock Coffee Open Mic Night Cavin & Kings Open Mic night is a Monday mainstay at Red Rock Coffee in downtown Mountain View from 7 to 10 p.m. Everyone gets 10 minutes, enough time for two songs, three to four poems, or a stand-up routine.

Tens of thousands of homeowners will see their property taxes go up significantly this year as rising home values restore some or all of their homes' lost equity, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone said Monday.

The Immigrant House, pictured here on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in downtown Mountain View.

The City Council voted quietly and unanimously to allow car-sharing company Zipcar to park four of its cars in downtown Mountain View on Tuesday.

Dead cell phone batteries are one of life's biggest bitches. Most people's mobile phones are glued to them at the hip-or the hand, if you will-and being cut off from communication sucks some major balls.

The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford holds its spring concert on May 28, featuring live and multi-channel works including final projects from CCRMA students in various classes.

US lawmakers concerned over potential privacy abuses associated with Google Glass have contacted the Mountain View, California-based tech giant for clarification about the project, various media outlets are reporting.

Source: AP-Excite By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON - The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand.

The first in a series of such actions nationwide, advocates for immigrant rights in Mountain View made their point this month by going without food and speaking to church congregations up and down the Peninsula.

Wu-Tang Clan , Tyler the Creator and Big Krit will take the stage at this year's Rock the Bells Festival, along with the holographic images of fallen hip-hop icons Ol' Dirty Bastard and Easy-E. The traveling hip-hop festival begins Sept.

Clovis Unified flipped the switch Friday on phase 1 of its new 5.9-megawatt solar power system.

In an incident a local eyewitness described as "horrific," a person was fatally injured after falling or jumping off the Rengstorff Avenue overpass onto Highway 101 around 11 a.m. this morning, May 17, according to the California Highway Patrol and Mountain View police.