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0 | 2 | Comcast, Microsoft to deploy DVR units | REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. and cable television provider Comcast Corp. said Monday they would begin deploying set-top boxes powered by Microsoft software starting next week. |
1 | 1 | Venus Battles Through to Second Round | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venus Williams advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday but had to work hard for her 6-3, 7-6 victory against Hungary's Petra Mandula. |
2 | 2 | China to Impose Tariffs on Some Textiles (Reuters) | Reuters - China will impose tariffs on some\textile exports in a move that may ease frictions with the\United States and others over an expected flood of Chinese\products on world markets after a global quota system expires\at year's end. |
3 | 0 | Two inmates found dead at prison | Detectives are investigating the deaths of two inmates who were both found hanged at Manchester Prison. |
4 | 1 | Packers Deal McKenzie | The Packers traded cornerback Mike McKenzie and a conditional draft choice to the Saints yesterday for reserve quarterback J.T. O'Sullivan and a second-round pick. |
5 | 3 | KDDI to offer music downloads for mobile phones (FT.com) | FT.com - KDDI, Japan's second largest telecoms group, on Wednesday announced that its mobile arm, au, would launch the world's first service offering music downloads directly onto mobile phones. |
6 | 1 | Redskins Show Some Regular-Season Plays (AP) | AP - In a way, the Washington Redskins didn't fight fair in their final exhibition game. They blitzed both cornerbacks on the first play and showed other blitzes and formations usually reserved for the regular season. |
7 | 0 | What Clotheshorses Owe to Horse Clothes | The Metropolitan National Horse Show was a reminder of how much of what one thinks of as fashion started in the equestrian world. |
8 | 1 | Collins Firmly Strides Into a Starting Role Without Any Misstep | Quarterback Kerry Collins, who helped lead the Giants to the Super Bowl four years ago, came off the bench to lead the Oakland Raiders to a victory Sunday. |
9 | 0 | Education by Murder | Education by murder describes the slow and painful way people wake up to the problem of radical Islam. It took three thousand deaths to wake up Americans - or at least to wake up the half of them who are conservative. |
10 | 0 | Australia #39;s Howard Poised for Fourth Term After Nation Votes | Australian Prime Minister John Howard #39;s Liberal-National coalition is poised to win a fourth term in office after pledging to extend 13 years of economic growth, keep interest rates low, cut taxes and increase spending. |
11 | 0 | Car bomb explodes in Baghdad | A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early today as dozens of Iraqis were applying to join the force, killing at least 47 people and wounding 114, officials said. |
12 | 3 | Cisco open \$12m research center in Japan | Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. have announced plans to open a new research and development center in Tokyo next year. The company will invest a cool \$12 million in the project over five years. |
13 | 0 | Eight children stabbed to death in China school | A man armed with a knife has gone on the rampage and killed eight teenagers at a school in central China, teachers and local authorities said. |
14 | 3 | Scientist Who Created K Ration Diet Dies (AP) | AP - Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100. |
15 | 2 | China builds on ties with Brazil | China's president Hu Jintao visits Brazil in a bid to secure trade deals to satisfy his country's burgeoning demand for foreign goods. |
16 | 3 | Intel finally cancels Digital TV screen project | In another development in what is becoming a depressing year for Intel, the company has announced that it has finally abandoned plans to get into the digital TV screen business. |
17 | 2 | Before-the-Bell: Taser Climbs | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Taser International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TASR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TASR.O</A> rose before the bell on Wednesday after the company said it had received five orders totaling more than \$741,000 for its stun guns. |
18 | 3 | Code targets Microsoft JPEG flaw | Code that exploits a weakness in the way many Microsoft applications process JPEG images has been published on the internet. Microsoft only discovered the security flaw, which could allow software viewing |
19 | 1 | Lions Sign Bubin From Jags' Practice Squad (AP) | AP - The Detroit Lions signed rookie offensive line Sean Bubin from Jacksonville's practice squad on Friday. |
20 | 3 | The Giants of Anime are Coming | The three titans of Japanese animation are all about to unleash monster new films. Watch your back, Shrek. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine. |
21 | 3 | Review: Microsoft's OneNote Organizes Data | Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts. |
22 | 1 | Miss. Aware of Past Orgeron Bad Behavior (AP) | AP - New Mississippi coach Ed Orgeron was charged with repeated domestic violence more than a decade ago when he was an assistant at Miami, according to records obtained Friday by The Associated Press. |
23 | 2 | Daughter of slain woman arrives to bury her family | Andrea Miles was supposed to arrive here from California to spend the holiday weekend with mother, stepfather and 13-year-old brother. |
24 | 2 | APEC #39;s importance never greater | The theme of the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) leaders #39; meeting - quot;One Community, Our Future quot; - is a reflection of the members #39; strong will to promote regional economic dynamism and a sense of unity. |
25 | 3 | Spherix May Get Another Shot at Contract | The Government Accountability Office recommended that a federal contract competition that went against Spherix Inc. be reopened because of flaws in the process, Spherix said yesterday. |
26 | 0 | Tel Aviv to take a second look? | JERUSALEM, Nov. 15. - Israel on Monday offered its first indication that it was reassessing relations with the Palestinians after Yasser Arafats death, suggesting it might coordinate a planned withdrawal |
27 | 3 | Stem-cell policy moderately wrong | Why didn #39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review. |
28 | 1 | Ganguly faces disciplinary hearing over dissent | Indian captain Saurav Ganguly was summoned by the match referee for a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday for showing dissent during the second test against South Africa on Wednesday. |
29 | 1 | Classic 5,000 metres in store at Helsinki | A race for the ages is in prospect at next year #39;s Helsinki world championships if three of the world #39;s great runners stay fit, healthy and focused. |
30 | 1 | Smoot Happy With Progress of Contract Talks | Cornerback Fred Smoot said today that he is enthused by the progress of negotiations with the Washington Redskins on a contract extension and hopes to play his entire career with the team. |
31 | 1 | Shapiro: We Still Want Clement | Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro said Tuesday that he remains hopeful of signing free-agent pitcher Matt Clement. quot;We #39;ll ride this out to the end, quot; Shapiro said, adding that he has already offered more |
32 | 1 | Scalpers Sell Athens Tickets at Face Value | ATHENS (Reuters) - The Athens 2004 Games which will have a place in history as the Olympics' homecoming may also be remembered as the Games that redefined a ticket scalper's job. |
33 | 3 | IBM Triples Transistor Performance with Germanium | IBM has successfully demonstrated a new technique for improving transistor performance that will help the company build smaller, more powerful chips in the next decade, company researchers said Monday. |
34 | 1 | Still a mystery to most | There was a serious chill in the air, the weather more suited for downhill skiing than baseball, but being the Fall Classic and all, preparations were being made to the diamond at Fenway Park yesterday. Bases were 90 feet apart and the mound 60 feet 6 inches from home plate -- surely the recipe for a conformity to make it ... |
35 | 1 | Furcal Shows No Leniency for Astros | Rafael Furcal could be in jail. Instead, he was at Turner Field on Thursday sparking an Atlanta Braves team desperate to avoid another October meltdown. |
36 | 3 | Apple peels wraps off fastest ever iBook G4 | Apple has unveiled what it claims is its fastest ever iBook G4 laptop, a \$1,499 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processor-based device sporting a 14in screen and a DVD burner drive. |
37 | 3 | IBM plans Web meeting service, takes aim at WebEx | NOVEMBER 10, 2004 (REUTERS) - IBM said yesterday it plans to offer Web conferencing as a hosted Internet service, seeking to reach small and midsize business customers while taking on more established rivals in the market. |
38 | 3 | Siemens to decide fate of mobile phone unit in January | German electronics giant Siemens could decide on the future of its mobile phone manufacturing division as early as next month, a company spokesman said. |
39 | 0 | Sudanese blood on UN hands | No discussion of war in Iraq - Thursday night #39;s presidential debate included - would be complete without a headmaster #39;s scolding of the arrogant and trigger-happy US government. |
40 | 3 | Nintendo Sells 500,000 DS Handhelds in First Week | Nintendo Co. Ltd.(7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) sold 500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of sales in US stores for the new handheld featuring two screens |
41 | 2 | No Delay in Freddie Pay Order | A federal judge refused to delay an order that Freddie Mac release more than \$50 million to former chief executive Leland C. Brendsel. |
42 | 3 | ATI Announces New X850 and X800 Cards | December 01, 2004 - ATI Technologies today officially unveiled its new lineup in its RADEON X800 family of add-in graphics boards, including both a new flagship board as well as new, more wallet-friendly incarnations of its current crop. |
43 | 1 | Final Answers From the B.C.S. Once Again Raise Questions | Southern California and Oklahoma finished 1-2 in the final B.C.S. standing and will play for the national title in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4. |
44 | 1 | MLB: San Francisco 10, Los Angeles 0 | Jason Ellison, Marquis Grissom and Deivi Cruz had two-run homers Sunday to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 10-0 rout of the Los Angeles Dodgers. |
45 | 3 | Gnome 2.8 Desktop released | A NEW version of the open Sauce desktop Gnome is on the net for Linux users to play with. Gnome 2.8 includes Evolution 2.0, the open-source e-mail and groupware client that looks like Microsoft Outlook if |
46 | 0 | NGOs working to topple regime, says Mugabe | Harare - President Robert Mugabe has described non-government organisations in Zimbabwe as imperialists working to destabilise the nation. |
47 | 1 | UNITED FEAR FAN TROUBLE | MANCHESTER United will draft in extra security for today #39;s annual meeting amid fears of protests from fans opposed to Malcolm Glazer #39;s planned take-over. |
48 | 3 | Intermec Offers Up RFID Patents For Free | Intermec Technologies Inc. has agreed to waive intellectual-property licensing fees for 60 days on 14 patents in hopes of spurring more companies to build prototypes based next-generation standards for radio-frequency identification. |
49 | 1 | Irish players support Ty, rip firing | SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Despite voting to play in the Insight Bowl, the Notre Dame football players didn #39;t mask their shock and outrage over the sudden firing of coach Tyrone Willingham after only three seasons. |
50 | 3 | Some Globular Clusters May Be Leftovers From Snacking Galaxies | Globular star clusters are like spherical cathedrals of light -- collections of millions of stars lumped into a space only a few dozen light-years across. If the Earth resided within a globular cluster, our night sky would be alight with thousands of stars more brilliant than Sirius. |
51 | 1 | GB badminton duo make final | Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms reach the final of the badminton mixed doubles. |
52 | 0 | Lawyers argue Thatcher coup case | Sir Mark Thatcher's lawyers are to argue for his right to silence over a call to answer questions on his role in an alleged coup plot. |
53 | 0 | Al-Zarqawi says Japan offered ransom for Koda; gov #39;t says it didn #39; <b>...</b> | BAGHDAD - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who heads a group of Islamic extremists affiliated with the al-Qaida network, said in a statement posted on a website Tuesday that his group is responsible for the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, while repeating |
54 | 2 | Medarex #39;s Hodgkin #39;s treatment gets orphan status | PRINCETON, NJ (Dow Jones/AP) _ Biopharmaceutical company Medarex Inc. said Wednesday its Hodgkin #39;s disease treatment was granted orphan drug designation by the Food and Drug Administration. |
55 | 2 | Sanofi Weight Loss Drug Effective in 2-Year Study | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - An experimental Sanofi-Aventis diet drug helped people lose much more weight than a placebo in an eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said on Tuesday. |
56 | 1 | Eto #39;o target of racial abuse | Barcelona striker Samuel Eto #39;o was the target of apparent racial abuse during his side #39;s 2-1 victory over Getafe in Madrid on Saturday. |
57 | 2 | Linux #39;s Latest Moneymaker | NEW YORK - A Salt Lake City startup called Linux Networx has just closed a second round of venture funding for a staggering \$40 million, further proof of investors #39; appetite for Linux as a solid, high-growth alternative to Windows and Unix. |
58 | 2 | Holiday sales outlook dims with retailers November results | The outlook for the holiday season dimmed yesterday as several of the nation #39;s large retailers reported disappointing sales for November, which included an uninspiring Thanksgiving weekend, The Associated Press reports. |
59 | 2 | Staff layoff deal for Alitalia | Unions and executives at Italy's Alitalia reach a deal with the government on layoffs, opening the way for a wholesale restructuring. |
60 | 1 | Stanford wins, Minnesota upends champion USC in volleyball semis | Led by All-American Ogonna Nnamani, the Stanford women #39;s volleyball team defeated Washington 3-1 in the NCAA semifinals at Long Beach Arena last night. |
61 | 3 | Rare, Large Hornets Breeding in Arkansas (AP) | AP - Entomologists at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville say a rare breed of hornet known as the European hornet is breeding for the first time in northwest Arkansas. |
62 | 1 | Hungary Ends America's Winning Run | Defending Olympic champion Hungary hands the United States its first loss in water polo preliminaries Thursday, beating the Americans 7-5. |
63 | 2 | Delta gets up to \$600 million in new financing | Delta Air Lines Inc. has obtained up to \$600 million in new financing and has agreed to conditions that require it to get court approval to repay the money even if it files for bankruptcy. |
64 | 2 | Reeling Merck Offers Officers a Bonus Deal | With its stock plunging, drug giant Merck has adopted a plan that could give top executives big bonuses if the company is taken over. |
65 | 3 | Microsoft trademark troubles | Two small browsers are very definitely chomping at Microsoft #39;s leg, rather than merely nipping at its heels. And now Savvysoft says Microsoft is demanding that it drop the name Excel from its TurboExcel product |
66 | 1 | Green Bay Packers | GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Ticker) -- Darren Sharper returned one his team #39;s three interceptions 90 yards for a touchdown, leading the Green Bay Packers to a 19-14 preseason victory over the New Orleans Saints . |
67 | 1 | Edelin Cleared to Play | The NCAA has granted the academic waiver petition of Syracuse junior guard Billy Edelin, making him immediately eligible to play for the Orange. |
68 | 2 | Tech Stocks Rise; Blue Chips Struggle | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. technology stocks rose on Thursday as profits from eBay Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=EBAY.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">EBAY.O</A>, the world's largest online market place, helped lift the Nasdaq. |
69 | 1 | Astros #39; Backe living out a dream | CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Houston Astros aren #39;t pitching future Hall of Famer Roger Clemens or 20-game-winner Roy Oswalt in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. |
70 | 2 | Fed chairman makes no comments on monetary policy | WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- US banks have learned painful lessons from crises and competition and have adapted to succeed in today #39;s economy, Alan Greenspan told an audience of bankers on Tuesday. |
71 | 0 | Hurricane's fringes lash Jamaica | Heavy rains and high winds pound Jamaica as Hurricane Ivan roars towards the Caribbean island. |
72 | 2 | Crude Oil Prices Surge Past \$55 Per Barrel | The \$55.33 per barrel comes amid ongoing uncertainty over production, high demand and tight global supplies just ahead of winter. |
73 | 1 | Top Seed Federer, Andre Agassi Advance at US Open (Update5) | Top seed Roger Federer beat Albert Costa in their first-round match at the US Open, and two-time champion Andre Agassi beat Robby Ginepri as the final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year got under way. |
74 | 2 | Lucent Reaches Tentative Deal with Unions | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lucent Technologies Inc. said on Tuesday it has reached a tentative agreement with the unions representing 10 percent of the telecommunications equipment maker's work force. |
75 | 3 | The Visual World of Michel Gondry | A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry. In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos. Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane. However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience. He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ideas about the visual medium. |
76 | 3 | Circuit City Partners With Verizon | Consumer electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. on Monday said each of more than 570 Superstores in the United States will feature a Verizon Wireless store, following an exclusive agreement with the communications provider. |
77 | 2 | Mixed End to Light Trading as Oil Surges, Then Retreats | Shares shuffled to a mixed finish yesterday, rebounding from earlier lows as oil prices retreated after surging past \$50 a barrel. |
78 | 3 | Software pirates arrested | The largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft software and components ever - some \$80 million worth - along with the indictments of 11 people suspected of being involved in the piracy is being credited to a two-year investigation undertaken in a |
79 | 0 | Fear of ethnic conflict charges Mosul unrest | MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security vacuum and engage in a bloody power struggle. |
80 | 3 | Geminid meteor showers alarm area residents | WASHINGTON It #39;s a global celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year. |
81 | 1 | DenverBroncos.com | ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Broncos emerged victorious on Sunday night, but came out of the 34-24 win anything but unscathed. Cornerback Lenny Walls could miss as many as four weeks due to the dislocated shoulder |
82 | 3 | More flaws found in Microsoft Windows | The giant has released a patch so that Windows doesn #39;t let in hackers when it handles JPEG graphics formats. The flaw means that attackers can create an image file that will automatically run dodgy code, dump |
83 | 2 | A New \$3Bln Tax Claim Looms Over Yukos | Reports of a new tax claim dealt a blow to Yukos on Monday, as the embattled oil major announced it would cut this year #39;s oil output forecast and defer certain tax payments because of a lack of cash. |
84 | 3 | Red Hat Preps Enterprise Linux 4 | CRN India: Red Hat aims to more deeply penetrate the enterprise by launching its first Linux distribution based on the Linux 2.6 kernel. |
85 | 1 | SuperSonics Beat Jazz 129-119 in OT (AP) | AP - Ray Allen scored a season-high 38 points, including nine in overtime, and the Seattle SuperSonics overcame Carlos Boozer's career-high 36-point performance for a 129-119 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. |
86 | 2 | DirecTV to write-off Net-via-satellite effort | This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web Services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients. |
87 | 1 | Cuban influence benefits Thai | ATHENS -- Yudel Johnson lost the gold medal to a shadow last night. The Cuban light welterweight was slickly outpointed by Thailand's Manus Boonjumnong at Peristeri Boxing Hall, 17-11, but what really beat him was Cuba's exporting of its coaches to a host of other countries. |
88 | 0 | Producer Sues Over 'Rings' Trilogy Profits | LOS ANGELES - Pay up, Frodo. So says Saul Zaentz, a Hollywood producer who has sued New Line Cinema for \$20 million in royalties from the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" trilogy... |
89 | 1 | Locked Out NHL Players Join European Teams (AP) | AP - Alexei Kovalev, Brad Richards and Nikolai Khabibulin became the latest NHL players to join a European team during the lockout, agreeing to play in Russia. |
90 | 3 | US volcano spews out more steam | America's Mount St Helens belches more vapour, raising fears it might blow at any moment. |
91 | 0 | Russia increases Yukos' tax bill | Oil giant Yukos has its tax bill for 2001 upped by Russia's tax ministry, a move that may push it closer to bankruptcy. |
92 | 3 | Nobel laureate joins solar-cell firm | Arno Penzias, who won a Nobel Prize for physics, is now a scientific adviser to Konarka. |
93 | 0 | Final instalment of Dogville trilogy years away: Lars von Trier (AFP) | AFP - Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, who is currently filming the sequel to his 2003 movie Dogville starring Nicole Kidman, said the final instalment of his American trilogy was years away from hitting screens. |
94 | 0 | Libya Deported 1,000 Egyptian Migrants from Italy | Libya said today it had deported 1,000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in a bid to deter would-be asylum seekers |
95 | 1 | Bellevue dominates dream matchup against De La Salle | At almost noon yesterday, the Bellevue High School linebacker was just waking up from a deep slumber, the kind a body dives into after extreme physical exertion. |
96 | 1 | Ireland bursts Boks #39; bubble | Ireland stopped South Africa #39;s grand slam bid in its tracks as world champions England and southern hemisphere heavyweights New Zealand swept to easy victories in yesterday #39;s internationals. |
97 | 2 | A Bird's-Eye Test for Profits | Comparing operating cash flows to net income lets investors weed out disasters early. |
98 | 3 | Web-apps are the legacy apps of the future. | Back in the days of stone knives and bearskins applications were things that were written in cretinous languages like COBOL that ran on wierd 71 bit architectures and used messed up file formats like JCL and VSAM files or whatever. What's a 'Data Division'? Some whiny 80s band from Manchester? Of course today we are so much smarter. If you look at the evolution, from ML, to branched languages to structured programming to OOP, and from 3270 applications, to PC apps to client server to web apps, you can clearly see how the applications programmer transformed himself from knuckle dragging simian to homo sapiens. That's the stereotype, right? We have a name for all that old stuff, a pejorative name: 'legacy'.1 I'm here to tell you that the web application is the new legacy. |
99 | 2 | Peregrine indictment large in scope | Though it is only 38 pages, a federal indictment handed up last week offers a panoramic view of the corporate corruption that allegedly permeated San Diego #39;s Peregrine Systems. |
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