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California Attorney General Jerry Brown has introduced a plan to create an online prescription drug database so that doctors and pharmacies can reduce prescription drug abuse."Every year thousands of doctors try to check their patient's prescription history information but California's current database is difficult to access," Brown said."If California puts this information online, with real-time access, it will give authorized doctors and pharmacies the technology they need to fight prescription drug abuse which is burdening our healthcare system."

California Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-City of Industry) wants to impose a sales tax on music and movies downloaded from the Internet in order to ease the states budget shortfall.Calderon's proposal would raise the cost of an iTunes download from 99 cents to $1.07. He believes the Board of Equalization should update a 75-year-old law that authorizes sales-tax collections on tangible personal property. Music and movies downloaded off the Internet are not considered tangible goods.

California has informed the Department of Homeland Security that although it has applied for an extension on the Real ID deadline it may not be committed to complying with Real ID rules by 2010.

At any given moment, people on Twitter are likely to tell you that they’re hungry, sore, or tired.  But last night, people used Twitter to report something that was literally of earth-shaking importance: an earthquake near San Jose.

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All of that insider selling by Google insiders like Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin helped boost the state's take in personal income tax. Tax collectors in California must have been shouting the state's motto when counting up the receipts in April.

The technology company will make $70 million in vouchers available to several municipal governments in California that complained of being overcharged by Microsoft.

A 20 year-old was taken into federal custody and accused of compromising 400,000 computers with adware, and letting others use the zombie machines to send spam or launch denial of service attacks.