Author: SacBee — Technology

From ads placed by women seeking men.This Valentine’s Day, like every Valentine’s Day, thousands of Sacramento singles are looking for a lifelong love … or a one-night stand … or something in between. Photos at right: The Bee compiled a few word clouds – visual representation of the most popular…

Six Sacramento-area Hollywood Video stores have begun going-out-of-business sales, preparing to close their doors as part of the movie chain’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, announced Tuesday. A seventh store is closing in Vacaville, the firm said. Eight stores from Woodland to Lodi will remain open, along with one in Vacaville,…

emTrain, a Sacramento-based, online human resource compliance training company, is offering a free online course to help employers educate workers on the benefits and drawbacks of using social media tools in the workplace. For more information, visit www.emtrain.com or call (866) 651-7474. – Mark Glover

Job vacancies advertised online in California rose nearly 7 percent in November, according to the Conference Board’s monthly online help-wanted study. Online ads nationwide hit 387,000 last month compared with 362,400 in October. The West had the second largest November gain among all U.S. regions, with California’s 24,600 increase accounting…

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is part of a group that has received $2.3 million in economic stimulus funding to demonstrate energy storage technologies. The U.S. Department of Energy award will fund the installation of two large battery systems in the Sacramento region, each able to deliver 500 kilowatts of…

A 2006 University of California, Davis, graduate’s audio creation has made Time magazine’s list of “Top 50 Inventions of 2009.” Jason Lucash’s OrigAudio is a self-powered, portable audio speaker made from recycled materials. OrigAudio’s Illinois-based Web site says the product is composed of recycled paper materials, and the speaker units…

The board of Unify Corp., the Roseville-based provider of business software, has authorized the repurchase of up to 300,000 shares of its common stock. As of Oct. 31, the company had about 10.1 million shares outstanding. “Unify’s progress so far this year is ahead of our internal plans, and we…

SureWest Communications’ broadband Internet business keeps growing and its telephone business keeps shrinking. The result was a third quarter that was essentially flat. The Roseville telecommunications company said Thursday that its third-quarter loss widened to $211,000 from $101,000 a year earlier. The increased loss was mainly due to higher depreciation…

InsWeb Corp., the Gold River-based online provider of insurance quotes, reported a net loss of $870,000, or 18 cents a share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The company lost $552,000, or 12 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2008. Quarterly revenue was $8.9 million, down slightly…

It wasn’t exactly Black Friday, but a number of local PC users scooped up Microsoft Windows 7 computers and software after the new operating system’s Thursday launch. Francisco Austria, a graduate student at California State University, Sacramento, eyed a Windows 7-loaded Lenovo laptop computer Thursday morning at Best Buy on…