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Women's Hoops CruisesAmerica's Katie Smith reinjures her right knee early in a dominating 100-62 women's basketball victory over China on Sunday. | 1 |
Popular spam fighter's effectiveness questionedA technological weapon against unwanted ''spam quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn't work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study. | 2 |
US Army acknowledges eight deaths in military custody in Afghanistan (AFP)AFP - The US Army acknowleged that eight prisoners have died in US military custody in Afghanistan since US-led forces toppled the Taliban regime, two more than previously disclosed. | 0 |
Alaska Oil Spill Crews Seize on Calmer Weather (Reuters)Reuters - About 150 people were ready\to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered\animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six\people died in a helicopter rescue attempt. | 3 |
Microsoft to Launch New Small Business Software (Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp. is planning to\release a new version of its Office program for small\businesses that handles accounting and customer management\tasks, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. | 3 |
Youhana sidelined IndiaA magnificent unbeaten 81 from Yousuf Youhana and a devastating late cameo from Shahid Afridi made all the difference as Pakistan held their nerve to win a thrilling encounter at Edgbaston. | 1 |
Poor roads, looters keep Haiti victims from aidGetting aid to those who need it remain a big problem in storm-ravaged Haiti, where up to 1,500 were killed in flooding and 300,000 people were left homeless. | 0 |
Ward represents US boxing team #39;s lone chance for goldThe underperforming US boxing team lost one of its two Andres Friday when middleweight Dirrell lost his semifinal bout to Kazakhstan #39;s Gennadiy Golovkin, falling out on points, 23-18. | 1 |
Australians vow to destroy #39;killer shark #39;Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on. | 0 |
Cendant Corporation Acquires Gullivers Travel Associates And <b>...</b>NEW YORK and LONDON, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) today announced that it has agreed to acquire privately held, UK based Gullivers Travel Associates, the trading name of Donvand Ltd. | 2 |
Federer thumps Roddick for Bangkok titleWorld number one Roger Federer thumped Andy Roddick 6-4 6-0 for his tenth title of the season at the Thailand Open in Bangkok on Sunday. | 1 |
Bin Laden Casts Shadow Over Stock Market NEW YORK (Reuters) - A video appearance by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in which he said the United States may face renewed attacks, cast a shadow over the outlook for the U.S. stock market, analysts said on Friday. | 2 |
Lexmark recalls 39,431 printersThe potentially faulty machines were sold under the Lexmark, IBM and Dell brands. The company has recalled these products because they could short circuit and potentially give users an electric shock. | 3 |
Voters stick with ruling partyBOTSWANA #39;S ruling party had won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, handing President Festus Mogae a second and final term in office, election officials said today. | 0 |
Ford scraps Oracle-based procurement systemAutomaker dumps Everest procurement system to revert to older technologies. | 3 |
United skipper Keane in courtManchester - Manchester United captain Roy Keane denied on Thursday assaulting a 16-year-old boy when he appeared before a magistrates court here. | 1 |
Memorial for UK hostageLONDON: Some 2,000 people crammed into London #39;s Westminster Cathedral yesterday for a mass in memory of British aid worker Margaret Hassan, who was taken hostage and is believed slain by her abductors. | 0 |
New Media Center OS Plays WellWindows XP Media Center 2005 connects smoothly with video and audio equipment. | 3 |
Cisco flaw opens networks to attacksCisco has warned in a security advisory that some networks with its routers could be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. | 3 |
Scientists unveil project to extract hydrogen in nuclear reactorsIf hydrogen created in a nuclear reactor ever winds up fueling cars and homes and businesses decades from now, it might all owe its thanks to a pottery kiln in Salt Lake City. | 3 |
Yuganskneftegaz won #39;t be able to repay extraction tax on time <b>...</b>Moscow. (Interfax) - Yukos #39;s key production unit Yuganskneftegaz for now will not be able to fulfill the Natural Resources Ministry #39;s claim and repay its debt on the mineral resources extraction tax, Yukos CEO Steven Michael... | 2 |
Apache Project Rejects Sender IDSeptember 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Apache Project (apache.org) has rejected the Sender ID proposal for email user authentication because of the incompatibilities between Microsoft #39;s (microsoft. | 3 |
Woods closes in on SinghTiger Woods has closed the gap on world number one Vijay Singh after winning his first strokeplay title of the year in Japan on Sunday. | 1 |
Qantas to raise fuel surchargeAUSTRALIAN airline Qantas has upped its prices for the second time in three months, blaming rising oil prices, while budget airline Ryanair insists it will not impose fuel surcharges on customers. | 2 |
Rocket, bomb kill two Pakistani soldiers (Reuters)Reuters - A rocket attack and a remote control bomb killed two Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and wounded 11 in the western tribal regions where troops are hunting al Qaeda-linked militants, officials said on Sunday. | 0 |
Microsoft Takes Different Tack on Multicore PricingOCTOBER 25, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Preparing for the wave of servers with multicore processors that #39;s expected to hit data centers over the next year, Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Baseball Today (AP)AP - San Francisco at Atlanta (7:35 p.m. EDT). Kirk Rueter faces Jaret Wright and the Braves. | 1 |
Israeli forces launch air raid on Gaza cityIsraeli forces fired rockets at the Gaza City on Monday, responding to an earlier attack launched by Hamas movement against an army post. | 0 |
European music-sharers face legal attackThe entertainment industry took aim at law-breaking European internet file-sharers on Thursday, with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announcing plans to sue hundreds of copyright infringers. | 3 |
AOL Goes ShoppingAmerica Online has launched an online shopping service called inStore that lets users search for products, compare prices and features, and set up price-drop alerts. | 2 |
Computer Associates to Pay \$225 Million to Avoid ProsecutionThe software giant agreed to pay \$225 million to avoid criminal prosecution in an accounting scandal that has brought down several of its top executives. | 2 |
Gary Payton, unguardedDespite an on-time arrival for Celtics training camp, Gary Payton never really left Los Angeles. He keeps his clothes back home, necessitating the establishment of a bicoastal laundry service. When Payton tires of wearing a set of outfits, he sends them to his wife, who mails back a fresh set. His... | 1 |
VA Software adding Wiki support to collaborative toolVA Software in March 2005 plans to add Wiki integration to its SourceForge Enterprise Edition environment for collaborative application development, with the goal of providing more structure to Wikis. | 3 |
Telecom Italia #39;in TIM buyout #39;Telecom Italia will use cash for a larger-than-expected chunk of a 20 billion-euro (\$26.69 billion) buyout of mobile unit TIM it is likely to announce on Tuesday, a source close to the deal told Reuters. | 2 |
Plugging Into the Net, Through the Humble Wall OutletAn emerging technology known as broadband over power lines may soon provide a new channel for high-speed data into homes through ordinary electrical outlets. | 3 |
Athens staged costliest GamesThis year #39;s Olympic Games in Athens cost nearly nine billion euros (\$11.5 billion), almost double the amount forecast a year before the opening ceremony, the Greek finance minister said on Friday. | 1 |
Senate Confirms Adelstein for FCC Term (AP)AP - Jonathan Adelstein, a former staffer for outgoing Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, was approved for a full term on the Federal Communications Commission in a Senate vote early Sunday. | 0 |
Israel Wins First Olympic GoldA windsurfer whose first name means ""wave"" in Hebrew gave Israel its first Olympic gold medal ever Wednesday, taking a plunge in the Saronic Gulf to celebrate. | 1 |
Finish tarnished by silverATHENS, Greece -- It was death by a thousand cuts. If you can describe taking silver instead of gold as quot;death. quot; ... | 1 |
Manufacturing Speeds Up as Consumers Spend Away NEW YORK (Reuters) - The outlook for U.S. manufacturing improved in November as factories hired more workers in response to a jump in new orders, a national survey published on Wednesday showed. | 2 |
Stocks to Watch on Aug. 20 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks to watch: GOOGLE INC. <A HREF=""http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GOOG.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote"">GOOG.O</A> Google shares jumped 18 percent in their long-awaited stock market debut on Thursday after a scaled-down ... | 2 |
US Group Urges Rumsfeld War Crimes Probe in GermanyA US human rights group urged German prosecutors Tuesday to investigate accusations that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and senior US officers are guilty of war crimes over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. | 0 |
Nokia Raises Outlook, Shares Up (Reuters)Reuters - Mobile phone maker Nokia raised its\third-quarter sales and earnings forecasts on Thursday on the\back of strong market demand, reversing a recent spate of grim\outlooks and sending its share price higher. | 2 |
Speedy Plane Check-In by Mobile Phone Set for 2005 (Reuters)Reuters - Passengers wanting to skip airport\queues will be able to check in for flights using their mobile\phone beginning next year, two European firms set to offer the\service announced on Tuesday. | 3 |
New study puts civilian deaths in Iraq at 100,000An estimated 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of last year #39;s US-led invasion, according to a new study by a research team at the Bloom-berg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. | 0 |
Russian gold medal winner tests positiveRussia #39;s Irina Korzhanenko, who won the Olympic shot put last Wednesday, was stripped of her gold medal Monday because of drug use. | 1 |
HyperTransport Consortium Announces HTX SpecHyperTransport Technology Consortium announced today that is has approved HTX, the industry #39;s first HyperTransport technology expansion connector specification. | 3 |
New Zealand deports suspected spiesNew Zealand has deported two Israelis who admitted trying to fraudulently obtain passports, the BBC reported Wednesday. In July, Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara got six-month sentences for the crime. | 0 |
Top Official: U.S. Wants Cuba 'Liberation' (AP)AP - President Bush will be committed during his second term to the ""liberation of Cuba"" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday. | 0 |
O'Brien Sues OSU for #36;3.4 Million (AP)AP - Former Ohio State basketball coach Jim O'Brien sued the school, claiming he is owed at least #36;3.4 million because his firing violated terms of his contract. | 1 |
Utah Says Goodbye to Meyer With Win (AP)AP - Urban Meyer paused a few times to collect himself. Saying goodbye was hard enough. Doing so after a 12-0 season was almost too much. The fifth-ranked Utes sent Meyer to his new job at Florida with one last nearly perfect performance, beating Pittsburgh 35-7 Saturday night in... | 1 |
Utah Enjoys BCS Celebration While It CanUtah Coach Urban Meyer is a man whose brown eyes boil with intensity. He subscribes to the football adage of taking one game at a time as if it were a directive from Scripture. | 1 |
Howard out to fight child pornSYDNEY - Prime Minister John Howard promised yesterday to bring in new legislation if it was needed to fight child pornography, following more than 200 arrests in a countrywide crackdown on Internet pornography. | 0 |
F.C.C.'s Chief Turns Into Pitchman for Converting Nation to Digital TVMichael K. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been at the forefront of efforts to get consumers to buy high-definition TVs. | 3 |
Britain target Beijing goldBritish badminton star Nathan Robertson has set his sights on Olympic gold in Beijing following his silver medal with Gail Emms at the Athens Games. | 1 |
Golf: Els Leads American Express Golf ChampionshipsWorld number three golfer Ernie Els of South Africa has a two-stroke lead over Denmark #39;s Thomas Bjorn after the third round of the American Express Golf Championships in Ireland. | 1 |
Oates: Favre delivers on hypeGREEN BAY - It was clear from the non-stop Brett Favre hype that aired on ABC and its little brother, ESPN, all weekend the television network had pulled some strings with the NFL to get Favre #39;s 200th consecutive start on quot;ABC #39;s Monday Night Football. | 1 |
Oil Tops \$48 After U.S. Inventories Dive LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped more than a dollar, climbing above \$48 a barrel on Wednesday after U.S. data showed the disruption caused by Hurricane Ivan had eaten into fuel stocks. | 2 |
Pakistan #39;s caretaker PM resignsPakistan #39;s interim Prime Minister Chaudhry Shaujaat Hussain has announced his resignation, paving the way for his successor Shauket Aziz. | 0 |
Adobe announces Photoshop Elements 3.0 for MacintoshAdobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Macintosh, a major upgrade to its digital imaging software for photo hobbyists that makes it easier than ever to enhance images and transform photos. | 3 |
PM preferred leaderTHE Coalition remains in a strong position to retain the nation #39;s key marginal seats - including Adelaide and Hindmarsh - Newspoll has found. | 0 |
EU Likely to Clear Oracle Deal-Source BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Oracle Corp is likely to win clearance from the European Commission for its hostile \$7.7 billion takeover of rival software firm PeopleSoft Inc., a source close to the situation said on Friday. | 2 |
Annan pledges to cooperate in oil-for-food probeUnited Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, making his first trip to Washington since members of Congress called for his resignation over allegations of fraud in | 0 |
Bus Hijackers Hold 11 in Athens, Demand \$1 Million ATHENS (Reuters) - Two gunmen thought to be Albanians hijacked a Greek bus with 23 passengers on board on Wednesday in Athens and demanded a \$1 million ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia. | 0 |
Old Labor Tactics Resurface in Unite Here UnionLabor experts say Unite Here, the newly merged union that is representing the D.C. hotel workers in their current contract dispute, is one of the most outspoken and toughest unions under the AFL-CIO umbrella. | 2 |
Hotmail to wean users from free export toolAs many as 18 million Hotmail subscribers will be weaned Monday from a free service that lets them export e-mail to another mail client, under Microsoft MSN #39;s new spam-fighting plan. | 3 |
McDowell trumps Ryder teamGraeme McDowell, unencumbered by Ryder Cup distractions, surged into the lead at the Linde German Masters at Gut Lrchenhof in Cologne yesterday with a second-round 64, eight under par. | 1 |
Broker Accused of Rigging Bids for InsuranceEliot Spitzer, the New York state attorney general, yesterday accused the world #39;s largest insurance broker of cheating customers by rigging prices and steering business to insurers in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks. | 2 |
Blogs Abuzz with Gossip in Caustic U.S. Campaign (Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. presidential campaign between\George W. Bush and John Kerry has prompted a frenzy of gossip\and conspiracy theories among Internet bloggers, hybrid online\sites that blend news, gossip and opinion. | 3 |
Blair Fears Climate Change Disaster, Challenges US LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair pledged on Tuesday to force international action on global warming, despite the reluctance of big powers like the United States. | 0 |
NFL games on TVNY JETS (2-0) at MIAMI (0-3) When/where: Sunday, 4 p.m., at Miami. TV: Ch. 4. Last season: Miami won, 21-10 and 23-21. Comments: The Jets are coming off a bye week, while the Dolphins lost to the Steelers in a hurricane last weekend. Jay Fiedler reportedly will be back starting at quarterback for Miami, ... | 1 |
Judge Reduces Jail Time for Calderon (AP)AP - A judge on Wednesday reduced the time former President Rafael Angel Calderon must spend in jail while being investigated on corruption charges. | 0 |
Selanne Enjoying Ice Time Again (AP)AP - Teemu Selanne's season with the Colorado Avalanche was nothing short of miserable. | 1 |
BT poised to expand in US with \$1bn dealBT GROUP is likely to clinch a controversial \$1 billion (550 million) expansion deal this week in a third attempt to build a substantial overseas presence in America. | 2 |
Minimum Wage to Increase in New YorkRepublicans in the State Senate forced through a measure to gradually raise the minimum wage by \$2 to \$7.15 an hour by January 2007. | 0 |
Digital Assistants Continue to Lose Ground (AP)AP - Shipments of personal digital assistants declined for the third consecutive quarter as large vendors continued ceding the depressed market to smaller electronics makers, the research firm IDC said Wednesday. | 3 |
DaimlerChrysler appoints board member to head China operations (Canadian Press)Canadian Press - STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - DaimlerChrysler AG has named management board member Ruediger Grube to lead the German-U.S automaker's China operations, reflecting the increasing importance of the Chinese market, the company said. | 0 |
Arizona State stays unbeatenTEMPE, Ariz. -- Jamar Williams intercepted two passes and Jordan Hill recovered two fumbles in 22d-ranked Arizona State's 27-14 victory over Oregon State last night, the Pac-10 opener for both teams. The Sun Devils' Emmanuel Franklin saved an Oregon State touchdown by knocking the ball loose... | 1 |
Indians Rout Yankees 22-0 in Epic Defeat (AP)AP - The hits and runs kept coming, spinning by on the scoreboard as fast as symbols on a slot machine. It wasn't just a rout, it was an epic defeat, the most one-sided in the 101-year history of the New York Yankees. Cleveland's 22-0 victory Tuesday night matched the bigges... | 1 |
After Dark, the Stuffed Animals Turn CreepyOvernight guards and scientists at the American Museum of Natural History often feel glassy eyes on them. | 0 |
Stottlemyre returns for one moreMel Stottlemyre announced his retirement on Wednesday, but that retirement won #39;t begin for another 11 or 12 months. The long-time Yankees pitching coach will return for | 1 |
Champ ready for goodbyeCHAMPION Makybe Diva, the dual Melbourne Cup hero, may have run her last race in Australia. Trainer Lee Freedman said yesterday he was pushing hard to campaign Makybe Diva in the northern hemisphere | 1 |
Up-and-down night in the ringThroughout these Olympic Games, United States boxing coach Basheer Abdullah has lamented that his young fighters weren #39;t listening to him. | 1 |
Shatner Wants to Boldly Go on Space FlightActor William Shatner is shown in this undated publicity photo. (AP Photo/www.williamshatner.com). LONDON Oct 22, 2004 - quot;Star Trek quot; star William Shatner and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro | 3 |
Arafat orders release of kidnapped CNN producerPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza. | 0 |
Computer Associates Posts Wider Loss (Reuters)Reuters - Computer Associates International Ltd.\, a business software maker, on Wednesday posted a wider\quarterly net loss, including charges for job cuts and a #36;225\million payment to settle a long-running accounting probe. | 3 |
Woods seizes first strokeplay title of yearTiger Woods picked up his first strokeplay title of a difficult year when he romped to an eight-shot victory at the Japanese tour event in Miyazaki. | 1 |
Runaway Rod hard to rein inONE of Queensland golfer Rod Pampling #39;s principal endorsements is from a company that manufactures a flea treatment for dogs. He wore the Bayer cloth badge proudly on his chest yesterday while dusting down | 1 |
Google to Help Microsoft Promote WindowsWhile senior Microsoft executives pit the company against Google in a looming Internet search war, the Redmond, Washington-based company has begun offering a Google search tool for download from the Microsoft. | 3 |
Average techie starting salaries to remain stableIT professionals can expect a moderate increase in starting salary, a staffing firm says. | 3 |
Delta, US Air Stocks DropInvestors pulled back from shares of major air carriers Friday as concerns loomed that US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. might soon declare bankruptcy, in what would mark yet another major setback to the embattled industry. | 2 |
IDC: mobile phone market growth to slow down in 2005The global mobile phone market is expected to see a slow down in market growth due to the lack of additional catalysts, US high tech market research firm IDC warned on Tuesday. | 3 |
Chance to try out new MSN MessengerWeb surfers in the United States and five other countries will be invited this week to begin using a new version of MSN Messenger that includes a search function in the message window, reports on the Web said. | 3 |
Mars rovers getting old, but they keep on rollingNEW YORK Aging but still on the go, climbing in and around craters, tapping into the mysteries of strangely cracked rocks, the two roving vehicles Spirit and Opportunity have explored Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled and keep finding | 3 |
What it's like to switch to open-sourceAn IT director reports on problems associated with a move to Linux. | 3 |
Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strikeSome 800 Palestinian detainees in Israel #39;s Ashkelon prison have suspended their 13-day-old hunger strike until Monday after some of their demands were met. | 0 |
McNair sits, but hope standsThe Tennessee Titans have a simple rule: If Steve McNair feels he can play injured, discussion over. | 1 |
Software bug raises spectre of #39;JPEG of death #39;Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus. | 3 |
Lexar launches new media card readersLexar Media today at Photokina (Hall 1.2, B-058) introduced two new Professional CompactFlash Readers designed for nearly instantaneous data transfer as well enhanced version of its multicard readers. | 3 |
Microsoft Delays New Windows Search FeatureMicrosoft will release its long-awaited update to its Windows operating system in 2006 without its advanced file search capability, the company said last week. | 3 |
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