During a tense confrontation witnessed by a government-sponsored press tour in the area protesters smashed the windscreen of a police vehicle, prompting the police to draw their weapons.
Jim Winkler, minister of the church, was the first to take the podium at the July 2 noontime press conference in sweltering 95-degree heat, just days after millions in the area had lost electric power during a brutal storm.
Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.
Because it's so hot right now, Apple is able to take a go-it-alone approach to product releases, summoning the world's tech media to the Bay Area for press conferences that focus only on its new products and bottom line.