Author: Mark Glover

Citing robust online traffic, General Motors and eBay Motors have extended a trial program that enables consumers to bid for new GM cars from California dealerships. Originally scheduled to wrap up next Tuesday, the trial has been extended through Sept. 30. It was launched Aug. 11 on gm.ebay.com. “We are…

Brand new GMC trucks are displayed at Hilltop Buick Pontiac-GMC in Richmond. Hundreds of General Motors California dealers have started to auction off new GM vehicles on eBay as part of a trial program with the online auction site and GM.General Motors today will join legions of mom and pop…

Is that employee preparing the financial report the boss requested or checking out YouTube to see that amazing triple play that was all over sports radio this morning? Did that tweet just sent out over Twitter close the deal with a key client, or was the sender just chatting up…

Retired Aerojet engineer Clay Boyce is surrounded by Apollo 11 memorabilia, including a model of the lunar module and orbiting lunar station. Boyce and his colleagues at the Johnson Space Center control room waited with bated breath in July 1969 to see if their propulsion system would steer Apollo 11…

More than a month after the historic nationwide switch to all-digital TV, some Northern Californians are still struggling to receive signals and watch their favorite programs. The Federal Communications Commission said the June 12 changeover from analog to digital signals went well for most Americans. The Nielsen Co. said recently…

Still struggling to join the digital TV age? The Federal Communications Commission has some tips for you from its digital-transition playbook. TV stations nationwide ended analog-signal broadcasts on Friday. However, many viewers with digital-to- analog converter boxes – which enable older TVs to receive digital broadcasts – have been struggling…

Television converter boxes await last-minute shoppers at a Los Angeles Best Buy. The converters allow analog TVs to receive digital broadcasts.Somewhere in the Sacramento area on Friday, someone will turn on their TV and watch … nothing. The nationwide transition to digital television is here, finally, but despite a four-month…

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke came to Sacramento on Tuesday with a message: Those who are not ready to make the switch to digital TV need to hop to it. Locke, speaking during a brief ceremony at the Sacramento Central Library downtown, said Nielsen Co. estimates show Sacramento is the…