California, August 26 : Tim Cook, who replaced Steve Jobs as the chief executive of Apple has told the staff that `company will not change'.

In an email to Apple's staff, cook said he is confident that the future of the company was `safe' and the `best years' were yet to come.

The email was sent a day after Steve Jobs stepped down as the CEO. Jobs resigned after telling the board that his health problems meant that he `could no longer meet my duties and expectations as CEO', The Telegraph reports.

Technology giant, Apple is planning to build a new a 'spaceship'-type campus in the company's home town of Cupertino, California.

The company is aiming to move to the new office, which it believes could be the best office building in the world, by 2015. Apple Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs announced the company’s plan during the Cupertino City Council meeting on June 7.

On the basis of a study, researchers of California claimed that girls in their adolescence, who drank alcohol in excess, were open to affect the part of the brain that controlled the memory and spatial awareness. The women are claimed to be more open to negative results of drinking than men, because to the difference in the development of their brains.

A union official has said that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ordering unpaid furloughs for most state workers until a state budget is adopted.

The FBI said on Tuesday that a California paraplegic used his computer skills to get video of girls and women in sex acts and blackmail them into sending him more.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Luis Mijangos was charged in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The FBI, in a 23-page complaint, said that he may also have been involved in financial fraud, since investigators found screen shots of pages with financial information on his alleged victims.

Witnesses have said that two jets described as U. S. Navy F-18s flew dangerously low over San Jose, Calif., houses, making deafening noise and scaring residents.

The San Jose Mercury News reported on Thursday that the aircraft shook windows Wednesday night, set off house alarms and unnerved homeowners in downtown neighborhoods.

David Vossbrink, spokesman for Mineta San Jose International Airport, said, "It was very strange."

This was not the only incident of this kind.

A spokesman said on Thursday that a California girl trying to set an around-the-world sailing record is probably floating in the Indian Ocean in a disabled boat.

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Jeff Casher, a member of Abby Sunderland's support crew, told reporters he spoke to her at about 3:45 a. m. PDT, about an hour before the 16-year-old set off emergency beacons. He said she cut the conversation off because she needed to check on something.

Officials have said that California may use a commercial pesticide so toxic chemists refuse to handle it, despite protests by 49 scientists and five Nobel laureates.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation has proposed registering the cancer-causing methyl iodide, to the consternation of environmental groups and scientists.

It has successfully shipped its first order of ground station display technologies in support of an unmanned aircraft program, California's Z Microsystems has said.

It has been reported that Z Microsystems' display panels offer military and homeland security authorities operating an unmanned aircraft system ground station, a display technology capable of feeding the surveillance and intelligence data collected by the UAS in real time and full-motion video to the ground station.

According to the media reports, protesters at a California university resisted efforts by campus police to disperse them and say they will continue a hunger strike that has lasted a week.

The Oakland Tribune reported on Monday that activists have been camped in front of California Hall at UC Berkeley for a week, demanding the university condemn alleged racist legislation in Arizona, create a sanctuary on campus and stop punitive action against student and worker activists.

Authorities have said that a California woman pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering an 8-year-old Tracy, Calif., girl and will be sentenced to life in prison.

The Tracy Press reported on Monday that Melissa Huckaby will avoid the death sentence being pursued by prosecutors in exchange for her guilty plea in the killing of Sandra Cantu.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill, which would have banished smoking in all state parks and beaches, calling it an inappropriate interruption of administration into people's lives.

Arnold, an avid smoker who even set up a special smoking tent outside his office, thinks that such steps should be assigned to cities, regions and local park functionaries.

He also thinks that the step will not help much in controlling litter on California's immeasurable boundaries.

The state presently has 278 state parks and 64 beaches.

The lawsuit filed against Sony claims that the technology giant is much more concerned about piracy than security. The latest firmware 3.21 of PS3 roots out 'Other OS' feature creating a tumble in the playstation market.

It was the state of resentment that led Anthony Ventura, file a suit against Sony for "intentional disablement of the valuable functionality originally advertised as available". It was in respect of the potential piracy adapted by the Japanese corp.

In support of this Sony made it clear that removal of Other OS feature was simply for security reasons.

Researchers have said that a strain of an airborne fungus that has caused several deaths in Oregon appears to be moving toward California.

The mortality rate for Cryptococcus gattii fungi in the Pacific Northwest is approximately 25 percent out of 21 cases analyzed, Edmond Byrnes III, a graduate student at the Duke University Medical Center, said.

Authorities have said that a 7-month-old child died after being left in a car overnight for more than 14 hours in front of the family's central California home.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday that Sofia Wisher was left in a child seat when the family arrived at their Antioch, Calif., home late Saturday, each parent thinking the other would take her into the home.

Saying the state can pay whatever level of wages it wants, even zero, an appeals court has ruled against higher pay for federal prisoners in California.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday that in a 3-0 ruling, Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said prisoners "do not have a legal entitlement to payment for their work."

It was further reported that the ruling came in a lawsuit brought by attorney J. Tony Serra, who spent nine months in a federal prison camp for non-payment of taxes.

A University of Southern California study has indicated that children who go to school near busy roads increase their risk of asthma 45 percent.

The Keck School of Medicine study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, said that attending school in high-traffic areas is almost the same as living near similar pollution sources, even though children spend only about a third of their waking hours at school.

According to some news reports, a 6-month-old baby was mauled by two pit bulls as he sat strapped in a carrier in an apartment his mother was visiting in California.

The Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise has reported that the dogs bit the boy in the scrotum, removing his testicles.

The dogs, a 5-year-old pit bull and an 8-month old pit bull mix, both females, first ripped off the infant's diaper, Murrieta, Calif., Police Sgt. Bob Landwehr said.

The police further said that the mother, Carrie McKinney, 22, of Point Loma was visiting the owner of the dogs, Doug Ritchey, on Saturday. She allegedly left her son in his carrier on the floor in a room with the dogs.

A newspaper has said that officials knew that a sex offender now charged with killing a California teenager lived close to an elementary school.

The San Diego Union-Tribune has reported on Thursday that John Gardner had been living within half a mile of Walker Elementary School in Mira Mesa for almost two years before he was ordered to move.

Apple unveiled its next-generation iPhone operating system in California. The details of the all new operating system have been unveiled in a press event at the company's headquarters.

The developers can get the new operating system, iPhone OS 4 soon. Company officials have anticipated that within a week time it will be released to the developers. By using this latest addition the developers can access to calendar, photo library, still image and video data.