See's Issues Valentine's Day Chocolate Recall

California-based See's Candies has issued a recall of its 16-ounce Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips. See's says the chocolate candies may contain undeclared amounts of milk, which could result in serious or life-threatening illnesses if consumed by those with severe milk …

Apple iPhone Tops Customer Satisfaction

Satisfied with your cell phone? Got all the features, from Bluetooth technology to MP3 playback, that you want? A new consumer study finds that big-name mobile manufacturers like Motorola and Sony Ericsson rank low on the customer satisfaction scorecard, while the …

Brit Arrested After MP3 Mistaken For Gun

When Darren Nixon decided to listen to his favorite tunes on his MP3 player while coming home from work on his Philips digital music jukebox, he never thought he'd wind up in jail.

Nixon, a mechanic for Olympus Engineering, was arrested by armed British police January …

UC Davis Tops List Of Dangerous American Schools

A few weeks ago, a quiet house party turned into a nightmare for one 19-year-old University of California, Davis student when four men she'd never met cornered her in a bedroom of the Lexigton Apartments near the college. Davis Police were able to track down three of …

CBS13, CBS5 Reports On Story From RadioMatthew.com

One more score for citizen journalism! Thanks to CBS13 Sacramento for covering the story. You can read the original report here, as well as CBS13's report here. In addition, San Francisco's CBS5 also reported on the story.

Music Video Monday: Song of the Year

Amy Winehouse was the clear winner last night at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, snagging herself Song of the Year for her smash single Rehab. Despite what she says in the song, Winehouse had her own run-in with rehab recently, following her past of drug addiction …

Farewell Polaroid Instant Film Camera (1947-2008)

In this world of zeroes and ones, where everything analog is going digital, great modern gadgets are rendering sentimental electronics of yesteryear obsolete. Optical discs replaced cartridges in video game systems, USB flash drives have taken over 3.5 floppy disks, …

2008 Grammy Compilation CD Available

The 2008 Grammy Awards are scheduled to appear February 10th, 2008 on the CBS network. An annual tradition for the Grammy Awards is the release of a "Best of the Year" compilation CD featuring top artists from the Grammys. This year's CD is already available for …

PSP Catches Fire, Burns Schoolboy's Pants

This is why teachers never let you bring electronics to school: In Michigan, a twelve-year-old boy suffered second degree burns after a portable video game system spontaneously caught fire while in his pants pocket.

Harold Clay, a sixth-grader at Warner Middle School …

Wireless Internet Coming To BART?

San Francisco's commuter system may going high-tech soon--passengers on the Bay Area Rapid Transit mass subway could soon be able to connect to wireless internet while travelling from station to station, at Internet speeds matched or faster than common home wireless …

Boy Robbed Of Pok

This morning in Redwood City, California, a ten-year-old boy was arrested and sent to juvenile hall after allegedly stealing a classmate's Pok

Fluid Leaking From Corpses At Bodies Revealed

Since late last year, Sacramento has played home to one of the most fascinating science exhibitions of our time. The exhibition Bodies Revealed, which is calling the old CompUSA building on Alta Arden Expressway home until March, features fourteen real preserved …

Happy Birthday To Me...Now Go Vote

Today is New Year's Day in my life (screw the calendar). For the past couple of years, I've made it pretty apparent that I don't want anyone knowing when my birthday is; however, today I'm 21 and for the first time ever, I've had an amazing year filled with success. …

Rhapsody Takes Over Yahoo! Music Unlimited

By now, everyone's heard at least a little bit of Microsoft's $40+ billion bid to purchase the once-great search engine Yahoo! in an effort to stop giant Google from dominating the Internet (which it already does at 77% of Internet searches over Yahoo's 14%). However, …

Music Video Monday: Beautiful Love

What do you get when four guys working at a Starbucks decide to form an alternative band? You get The Afters, a band that was originally called Blisse but was forced to change their name one album and one concert later after discovering that another band had already …

Beatles To Soar Across The Universe

Monday, NASA will beam The Beatles' track Across The Universe to the North Star Polaris across the galaxy.

This "space radio" broadcast will be in celebration of three events: The 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network and the …

Pointless Research: Scratching Itches Feels Good!

It may not be a cure for cancer, nor will it help stop Alzheimer's disease. But Wake Forest University's Gil Yosipovitch doesn't care about that. Instead, he needs to know the crucial medical question of life: Why does scratching an itch feel good?

According to …

Slacker Portable Available Today

Remember last April when I wrote about Slacker, the device that was supposed to change the way we listened to Internet and satellite radio on the go? Remember how I said it would be coming out in Fall 2007?

I was a little late in my prediction. However, for everyone …

Domino's Pizza Allows Ordering & Tracking Online

Retailers have Christmas to boost sales; pizza delivery companies have Super Bowl Sunday. Domino's Pizza is kicking things up a notch--now you can order and track your pizza delivery online.

Today, Domino's unveiled Pizza Tracker, a piece of online technology that …

Former Good Day Sacramento Studios Robbed

Remember the good ol' days of Good Day Sacramento? For eleven years, the show was hosted at a studio near Natomas before moving to a new section of the CBS13 building on KOVR Drive across from the IKEA in West Sacramento. The old Good Day studio always shared a …