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BBC News world
Lindh killer's sanity in question
Sweden's Supreme Court hears evidence from six doctors on the mental health of politician Anna Lindh's killer. | 0World |
Yahoo Politics
Fong, First Asian-American Senator, Dies (AP)
AP - Hiram L. Fong, an immigrant's son who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97. | 0World |
ChannelTimes.com
MS, Cisco to Collaborate on Security Solution
Microsoft and Cisco Systems have announced that the two companies have entered into a pact to share security and network health technologies, to better stop, isolate and eliminate viruses and other malicious codes on Windows-based networks. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo Business
Goodyear plans more cost cuts
(Reuters)
Reuters - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , said
on Friday that quarterly earnings fell due to restructuring
charges and lower tire demand and said it has increased its
target for long term cost-cuts. | 2Business |
Yahoo Politics
Things looking up for McCain
(AP)
AP - The stars may be aligning for John McCain. The question is whether the Republican presidential candidate can hitch a ride to success. | 0World |
Yahoo Sports
LeBron James relaxed on eve of Game 2
(AP)
AP - Tony Parker, Tony Soprano. One's going to get hacked, the other might get whacked. At roughly the same time the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs take the floor for Game 2 of the NBA finals on Sunday night, the final episode of "The Sopranos," HBO's series about a dysfunctional New Jersey mafia family, will air. | 1Sports |
The Motley Fool
Foolish Weekly Fund Wrap-Up
Investors are running back into mutual funds. | 2Business |
Reuters World
Iran's president says nuclear work nearing "peak"
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear work is nearing a "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, while the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said Tehran was probably at least three years from making atom bombs even if it chose to do so. | 0World |
Yahoo Tech
MTV says it will sell videos on iTunes
(Reuters)
Reuters - Viacom Inc.'s (VIAb.N) MTV Networks on
Thursday said it has begun selling more of its shows at Apple
Computer Inc.'s iTunes digital media store. | 3Sci/Tech |
Japan Today
6 US soldiers killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD - A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, the US command said Wednesday, as US and Iraqi troops staged raids in Ramadi and Baqouba, stepping up pressure on Sunni insurgents before this week's start of the Islamic | 0World |
San Diego Union Tribune
Astros like chances with Clemens
Roger Clemens and Brad Lidge give the Houston Astros two reasons to think they will finally punch their ticket to a World Series. Clemens has gone 3-0 against the Cardinals this | 1Sports |
Boston Globe sports
Rutgers Women Hand UConn Its First Loss
Epiphanny Prince scored a career-high 33 points, including 27 in the decisive second half, to lead Rutgers to a 73-71 victory Tuesday over top-ranked and previously unbeaten Connecticut. | 1Sports |
Reuters Business
Morgan Stanley posts loss
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley , the second-largest U.S. investment bank, on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter loss after recording bigger-than-expected write-downs on assets hit by the credit crunch, and said it sold a $5 billion stake to China Investment Corp to boost capital. | 2Business |
News24
Smith hails SA fightback
Port Elizabeth - Graeme Smith hailed his team's performance after they fought their way back into the first Test against England at St George's Park ON Sunday. | 1Sports |
Yahoo World
Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated
(Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistan opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber on
Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into chaos ahead
of a general election she hoped to win. | 0World |
The Motley Fool
Do You Have the Guts to Buy?
Is ultimate growth investing for you? Find out. | 2Business |
International Herald Tribune
Baghdad ministry blast leaves 6 dead
BAGHDAD Insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education headquarters in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least six people in a powerful blast and wounding dozens more, an Iraqi official said. | 0World |
Reuters World
China bars AIDS doctor from U.S. for award: activist
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday. | 0World |
The Register
MP calls for law to force online shops to verify customer age
Just asking isn't enough
A bill has been introduced in Parliament which would force online retailers to check customers' ages before selling goods that cannot be sold to children.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Washington Post Tech
Feds Share Coupons to Help TV Transition
WASHINGTON -- Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo Science
Scientists study decline in turtle nests
(AP)
AP - Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years. | 3Sci/Tech |
RedNova technology
Publisher TechTarget to Go Public
By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Feb. | 3Sci/Tech |
Special Broadcasting Service
PARALYMPICS SOMBRE CLOSING CEREMONY
Instead of the fireworks and all night partying that usually accompanies such an event, it was a scaled back closing ceremony for the Athens Paralympics in tribute to seven teenagers killed in a bus crash on their way to the Games. | 1Sports |
PCWorld news
Fidelity: Ex-Worker Stole 2.3 Million Customer Records
A senior-level database administrator stole records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Washington Post sports
Five Terps Score in Double Figures in Rout
Crystal Langhorne scores 14 points and grabs 12 rebounds as sixth-ranked Maryland defeats Florida State 74-60 on Thursday night in Tallahassee. | 1Sports |
PCWorld news
Red Hat, Hyperic Team on Open Source Project
The RHQ project tackles IT infrastructure management issues and will be available under the GPL v2 license. | 3Sci/Tech |
RedNova technology
2007 Technology Industry Awards Finalists Announced By Technology Council of Southern California
TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Technology Council of Southern California today announced the finalists for the 2007 Technology Industry Awards. | 3Sci/Tech |
Boston Globe sports
Can His Kid Brother Follow In Barbaroâs Huge Footsteps?
The only full brother that Barbaro had, yet to be named, carries high expectations, potential disappointment and a permanent soft spot in the hearts of the many who became drawn to Barbaroâs story. | 1Sports |
CNET personal technology news
iRobot winner offers simple home help
Winning robot for iRobot Create contest does many things you wish the company already offered in a home robot. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Scotsman
HP enjoys a record quarter as sales rise
COMPUTER and printer maker Hewlett-Packard has reported record revenues in every business and every region, with quarterly profit up 27 per cent. | 2Business |
CNET enterprise hardware news
Apple schedules London press event, iPhones expected
With plans to enter Europe by the end of the year, Apple could be ready to announce who gets to carry the iPhone. | 3Sci/Tech |
RedNova general
CBS Fined $550,000 for Jackson Stunt
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," which exposed the singer's breast during this year's Super Bowl halftime show. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to slap each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations with the maximum indecency penalty of $27,500... | 0World |
New York Times sports
He's taking pain in stride
He logged 20 minutes of ice time. That was progress. He logged it in isolation. That was the problem. | 1Sports |
RedNova space
India Rethinks Plan for Manned Moon Mission
By S. SRINIVASAN BANGALORE, India (AP) -- India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday... | 3Sci/Tech |
BBC science
Rainforest gets protected status
Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters Business
FDA Warns Pfizer Over Painkiller Ads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Pfizer Inc. that television and print advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra misled consumers, according to a letter made public on Wednesday. | 2Business |
Reuters World
Car bomb kills 6 U.N. soldiers in south Lebanon
KHIYAM, Lebanon (Reuters) - A car bomb, "most likely" driven by a suicide bomber, killed six U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Sunday, a police source said. | 0World |
CNN/SI
San Antonio Spurs
Easily overcoming a somewhat sub-par game by Duncan, the Spurs rolled to their fourth straight win, a 99-81 victory over the Knicks. | 1Sports |
Boston Globe sports
Schilling Blogs Against Clemens
Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling called on Roger Clemens to give up the four Cy Young Awards heâs won since 1997 if he canât clear his name from allegations that he used steroids. | 1Sports |
Boston Globe sports
Padres 3, Cardinals 1: Padres Find a Strange Way to Fend Off the Cardinals
The Padres, still down two games to one in this N.L. division series, forced Game 4 on Sunday at Busch Stadium, with Woody Williams starting for San Diego and Chris Carpenter for St. Louis. | 1Sports |
EastDay.com
Eurozone economic growth slows down
A report released in Brussels on Friday showed a slowdown of economic growth in the 12-nation eurozone due to record high oil prices and the euro's sharp rise against the US dollar. | 2Business |
Washington Times
UAE president dies at 86
United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86. | 0World |
Yahoo World
Bomb attacks kill 2 in Thailand
(AP)
AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents exploded more than 40 bombs in attacks on government offices across Thailand's restive south on Thursday, killing at least two people as the deputy prime minister visited the region, officials said. | 0World |
RedNova general
Yahoo's 3Q Profit Nearly Quadruples
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet giant Yahoo Inc.'s third-quarter profit nearly quadrupled, reflecting a continued boom in online advertising. The Sunnyvale-based company said Tuesday that it earned $253.3 million, or 17 cents per share, for the three months ended in September, up from net income of $65.3 million, or 5 cents per share, at the same time last year... | 0World |
San Francisco Chronicle
Japan's Cabinet approves draft budget for fiscal 2005
Japan's Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen ($788.7 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays. | 0World |
Glasgow Daily Record
SWIM ACE ON DRINK DRIVE RAP
The American swimmer, who won eight medals in Athens this year, was stopped by police after he sped through a stop sign. A state trooper in Salisbury, Maryland, saw signs of intoxication in the 19-year-old | 1Sports |
RedNova general
Stocks to Open Lower on Oil Concerns
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are seen slightly lower at the open Friday as oil's latest push into record territory continues to unnerve investors... | 0World |
Forbes
Shell And Dow Prepare $2.1 Billion Iraqi Petro Plan
The companies are rumored to be in talks to upgrade an Iraqi petrochemical plant. | 2Business |
Yahoo Politics
Kerry, Edwards Rarely Campaign Together (AP)
AP - Sen. John Kerry and running mate John Edwards rarely campaign together, but they talk daily, swapping ideas on everything from policy to strategy to staffing. Kerry insists on it, aides say, even if it puts his campaign behind schedule. | 0World |
CNET personal technology news
Photos: Pocket-size PCs
The 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U is powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Pentium M 733 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 20GB, 1.8-inch hard drive. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo World
Iran ignores powers, U.N. on enrichment
(AP)
AP - A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said. | 0World |
New York Times sports
BC rallies to stun Virginia Tech
For the first 56 minutes of last night's game at Virginia Tech, it appeared Boston College's dreams of dancing to Bourbon Street for a shot at the national championship were going to die. | 1Sports |
Guardian
Trinidad climbs off canvas to keep title options open
Felix Trinidad returned to the ring after more than two years to score a thrilling eighth-round stoppage of Ricardo Mayorga at New York's Madison Square Garden in a non- title bout being described as one of the fights of the year. | 1Sports |
Reuters
Jockey Fallon held in race-fixing probe
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon is among 16 people arrested as part of a police probe into suspicions of corruption and race-fixing. | 1Sports |
Channel News Asia
US dollar moves in tight range against major currencies in Asian <b>...</b>
SINGAPORE : The US dollar moved in a narrow range against the yen and euro in Asia on Monday as investors awaited US economic data and a speech by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan later this week. | 2Business |
New York Times world
Federer and Nadal Help Bring Back the Rivalry to Tennis
Attempt to put Roger Federerâs deepening rivalry with Rafael Nadal into historical perspective, and it is striking how few great rivalries tennis has had to choose from of late. | 0World |
Yahoo Sports
Rejuvenated Celtics expect happy new year
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Boston Celtics will hit the new year
with the NBA's best record and a belief that more is still to
come. "We haven't played our best basketball and I think most
of the guys in this locker room will say that," veteran guard
Ray Allen said recently after his team's home victory over the
Orlando Magic. | 1Sports |
CNET News.com
MP3 site settles for $10 million with RIAA
The Recording Industry Association of America has reached a $10 million legal settlement with a Spanish company that briefly offered MP3s online for just pennies a song. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters Sports
Australia's Eamon Sullivan breaks 50m record
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Eamon Sullivan broke Alexander Popov's eight-year-old world record for 50 meters freestyle on Sunday, instantly inheriting the title as the fastest swimmer in history. | 1Sports |
Apple Hot News
Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Two Problems. One Solution.
Researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals use Macs to discover small molecules that have the potential of solving big problems. Having phased out their aging SGI workstations in favor of Macs, they’ve streamlined their workflow by unifying all of their tasks on a single platform. | 3Sci/Tech |
Washington Post
Smaller Trade Gap Still a Chasm
The US trade deficit narrowed by nearly 9 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported yesterday -- but at $50.1 billion, the gap was still the second-largest on record. | 2Business |
RedNova technology
The Last Kiss (2006)
and a FREE DVD! rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) { nf='' } else { nf='NF/' }; document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/sk7653a.cgi/v=2.1S/sz=120x600A|160x600A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); The catchy pop ballads found on the soundtrack for Tony Goldwyn's The Last Kiss will break your heart in two. The movie these songs support only wishes it could make such a claim. Back to the music for a minute. Coldplay, Cary Brothers, Fiona Apple, Snow Patrol, and a smattering of other fashionable artists -- each handpicked by leading man Zach Braff -- croon (and sometimes whine) about infidelity, loss, and life-changing mistakes that target the love of your life. Sample lyrics include, "She's moving on... without you." Sentiments rarely deviate from this norm. It's a nice place to wallow on a rainy afternoon. Braff worked similar musical magic for his directorial debut Garden State. His ear for stirring, soulful melodies earned him a Best Compilation Soundtrack for a Motion Picture Grammy award. But where Braff's Garden mix tape enhanced his quirky and personal little comedy, this new song collection can't lift Goldwyn's somber material from the doldrums.Kiss remakes L'ultimo bacio, an obscure Italian drama about a twentysomething male who confronts a grass-is-always-greener quandary. Braff plays Michael, a likeable guy tentatively entering adulthood but unwilling to relinquish his adolescent freedom. He starts to question his ready-made future once he learns his girlfriend, Jenna (Jacinda Barrett), is pregnant. Bigger problems arise when Michael attracts the eye of sexy college minx Kim (worthy temptress Rachel Bilson), who comes on strong at the wedding reception of a mutual friend. To have such problems, right? Michael's love triangle seems quaint when compared to the troubles of his friends and family. Jenna's mother (Blythe Danner) has fallen out of love with her placid but faithful husband (Tom Wilkinson) and wants to start fresh with someone else. Michael's friends are equally bothered. Chris (Casey Affleck) can't cope with the demands of being a new father. Izzy (Michael Weston) pines for his ex (Marley Shelton) as he contemplates a road trip. And sexual predator Kenny (Eric Christian Olsen) struggles to remember the names of the girls that parade through his bedroom. Vastly overrated Oscar-winner Paul Haggis (Crash) pens the Kiss adaptation but doesn't understand these characters, leaving it up to the actors to flesh out their poorly written roles. Haggis wants to bring everything back to Michael, so he half-develops these fringe players and tacks on forced resolutions to conflicts we never once invested in. The meat of the movie remains with Michael and Jenna, so Braff and Barrett bring boxing gloves. Michael represents a variation of the emotional autopilot that Braff portrayed in Garden State. Where that character drifted through an unsatisfied life hindered by obstacles, this protagonist has disconnected because things are going too well. The actor is mundane when questioning his future and fiery when the film gets around to the inevitable screaming matches between mates. Things get depressing in Kiss. To its credit, the character arc that Michael and Jenna follow stays brutally honest. It just results in heaps of sadness for them and, in turn, us. At least we have to perfect soundtrack to match our mood. Sister can you spare a dime?RATING (out of 5)Director: Tony GoldwynProducer: Eric Reid, Terry A. McKay, Harley TannebaumScreenwriter: Paul HaggisStars: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Tom Wilkinson, Blythe DannerMPAA Rating: RYear of Release:2006Released on Video:Not Yet Available Buy this Poster from AllPosters.com | 3Sci/Tech |
Boston Globe sports
With Indiansâ Help, Red Sox Finish Another Comeback
Dustin Pedroia drove in five runs to help the Red Sox advance to their second World Series in four years. | 1Sports |
The Motley Fool
Timing Is Everything
"Star Wars: Battlefront" is the right game at the right time. | 2Business |
New York Times world
Bats Blog: Bats
What the players and owners need to do now. | 0World |
CNET enterprise hardware news
Sun starts bidding adieu to mobile-specific Java
As hardware gets more powerful, Sun expects the desktop version of Java to gradually replace the stripped-down mobile version. Will it un-fragment Java for gadgets? | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters Business
LSI Logic to buy Agere for about $4 billion
NEW YORK (Reuters) - LSI Logic Corp. , a maker of chips found in DVD recorders and hard drives, said on Monday it would buy Agere Systems Inc. for about $4 billion in stock, broadening LSI's reach into the market for mobile phone chips. | 2Business |
Yahoo World
Officials: 12 hurt, 28 dead in airstrike
(AP)
AP - Four Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables Friday near the Lebanon-Syria border and at least 28 people were killed, officials said. | 0World |
Reuters Tech
AT&T says plans to participate in wireless auction
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Friday it
plans to participate in an upcoming government auction of
airwaves in the 700-Megahertz spectrum band, but it is still
deciding whether to bid for a portion of the spectrum reserved
for open access. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo World
Powerful Typhoon Hits Southern Japan (AP)
AP - A powerful typhoon in southern Japan caused landslides and floods, left tens of thousands without power, and injured at least 23 people Monday. In the western part of the country, strong aftershocks rattled a region hours after two earthquakes injured 43. | 0World |
CNET security news
Dell to sell PCs at Staples
The PC maker expands its retail presence by offering a range of products at the office superstore. | 3Sci/Tech |
Ananova
3,000 New Jobs At Supermarket Giant
Supermarket group Sainsbury's is to create 3,000 in-store jobs in a bid to get more stock on the shelves. The plan is expected to form a key part of a strategy by chief executive Justin King to halt the group's decline. | 2Business |
Voice of America
Milosevic War Crimes Trial Resumes
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic on war crimes charges has resumed in The Hague with the former Yugoslav president launching a spirited defense. | 0World |
RedNova science
Region Roundup
By Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Dec. 19--BI | 3Sci/Tech |
New York Times Tech
Web Makeover for F.B.I.âs âMost Wantedâ
The bureau adds video clips to its Web site, puts up billboards and arranges for international outreach, but it seems that somebody forgot to call in the Web designers. | 3Sci/Tech |
Boston Globe sports
Prior Is Free of Pain During Workout With the Padres
Mark Prior did not experience pain in his surgically repaired right shoulder during his first spring workout with the San Diego Padres in Peoria, Ariz. | 1Sports |
The Register
Wanna buy a nice snap of a mugging victim?
The Bolton Evening News can oblige
Thanks very much to reader Neil for pointing us in the direction of his local rag The Bolton Evening News , which is offering readers the chance to buy a snap of this poor bloke:⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
San Francisco Chronicle
Cardinals clinch NL Central with 15 games to spare
Having accomplished so much with what generally was thought to be the NL Central's third-best roster entering the season, the St. | 1Sports |
The Motley Fool
Globecomm Rounding the Bases
Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results. | 2Business |
Washington Post Tech
On Local Sites, Everyone's a Journalist
Several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news. -Leslie Walker | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters Sports
Woods celebrates 60th win
LEMONT, Illinois (Reuters) - Tiger Woods celebrated his 60th career title on Sunday and is showing no signs of slowing down. | 1Sports |
Reuters Sports
Ichiro signs contract extension with Seattle
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Seattle Mariners have signed Japanese center fielder Ichiro Suzuki to a five-year contract extension reported to be worth more than $100 million. | 1Sports |
Reuters Tech
Nintendo Wii Japan sales beat Sony PS3 in January
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 (PS3) by
nearly three to one in January, Japan's largest video game
magazine publisher, Enterbrain, said on Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters World
New Ukraine Poll Looks Likely Way Out of Crisis
KIEV (Reuters) - A new Ukrainian poll of some sort looks increasingly likely once again on Thursday as parliament and the Supreme Court press ahead with efforts to resolve a national crisis over a disputed presidential election. | 0World |
InfoWorld news
Barcelona delay could hurt AMD earnings
( InfoWorld ) - AMD will delay its launch of the Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip from its expected date in July until October, setting the company back in its effort to compete with new processors from Intel, according to analyst reports.
Processor companies make more money selling server chips than desktop or laptop chips, so the move will hit AMD's 2007 earnings hard, pushing the company to lose $2.59 per share instead of only $2.48 per share, according to a report released Tuesday by Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung.
"Barcelona is generally viewed to be AMD's best opportunity to stem server share loss to Intel. While AMD's recent notebook win at Toshiba may balance any negative revenue implications to our current model, Barcelona's delay has negative implications for AMD's gross margin," Yeung wrote.
His estimate is a larger loss than the consensus Thomson Financial forecast that AMD will lose $2.47 per share for 2007.
The news comes at a bad time for AMD, which has promised for months that it would launch the chip in the second half of 2007, helping the company to rebound from the effects of a price war with Intel. AMD is already hurting, posting a $611 million first-quarter loss  in April, following on the heels of the $574 million loss reported in January  for fourth quarter earnings last year.
Barcelona is the key to taking that fiscal burden off AMD's shoulders, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said on May 3 at the company's annual shareholder meeting . Although Intel is several quarters ahead in improving its chip manufacturing capabilities, AMD stays competitive by creating more innovative designs, he said. AMD claims Barcelona will deliver better performance on memory-intensive applications than Intel's Clovertown quad-core Xeon server chips that have been on the market since November.
AMD stuck to its guns on Wednesday, insisting that it is still on schedule, and pointing as evidence to its demonstration on Tuesday of prototype Barcelona chips in servers  from infrastructure partners Supermicro Computer, Tyan Computer, and Uniwide Technologies at the Computex trade show in Taipei .
"We remain on track for a summer 2007 launch with partners shipping platforms in the third quarter," said AMD spokeswoman Marian Kelley. She blamed the delay rumors on Cray's announcement Monday that it expects revenue to drop because of a delay in shipping its quad-core Cray XT4 systems. In fact, Cray was referring to AMD's midrange Budapest processor, not Barcelona, she said.
"The guidance that we've been giving and that we're sticking to is that Budapest will follow Barcelona in the second half of 2007," Kelley said.
Despite AMD's assurances, other analysts echoed the Citigroup report, saying they have heard similar news from server vendors, distributors and board makers.
On May 30, another report called AMD's promise to launch Barcelona in mid-2007 "a head fake" since the chip will not be available at full volume until August at the earliest, according to a note from analyst Patrick Wang at Thomas Weisel Partners.
In contrast, Intel is expected to succeed in shipping its Penryn processors in the late third quarter or early fourth quarter. That timing will allow Intel to essentially catch up to AMD and soften the blow of losing sales to customers who see a performance advantage in Barcelona, Wang said. | 3Sci/Tech |
Independent
Champion jockey among 16 held by police in race-fixing inquiry
At six o'clock yesterday morning, Kieren Fallon should have been thundering along the scenic gallops above Newmarket at the start of another ordinary but enriching day at the peak of British horse racing. | 1Sports |
Yahoo World
Nepal PM invites Maoist rebels for new talks on bloody insurgency (AFP)
AFP - Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has invited Maoist rebels to resume negotiations that broke down over a year ago but said he would only offer a key concession if the guerrillas agreed to talk. | 0World |
The Motley Fool
Not All Pharmaceutical Markets Are the Same
The case of China's former FDA leader highlights the issues facing the country's pharmaceutical industry. | 2Business |
Yahoo Tech
Google appeals Brazilian order on Orkut
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. appealed on Thursday a federal judge's order to turn over information on users of the company's Orkut social-networking service. | 3Sci/Tech |
AL.com
NASA throws a DART
Huntsville engineers are hoping bad weather won't put off the launch today of a satellite that could lead to completely automatic spaceflight and docking. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Register
UK2.net hack cuts off email
Pulling the plug
Cut-rate internet host UK2.net has become the subject of a hacking attack, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their email.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Boston Globe business
Court: Search of e-mail was illegal
Federal investigators overstepped constitutional bounds by searching stored e-mails without a warrant in a fraud investigation, a federal appeals court ruled yester day. | 2Business |
Yahoo Science
Report: China had pollution deaths nixed
(AP)
AP - Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo Business
Toyota tops GM in 2006 global sales: Automotive News
(Reuters)
Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp. edged past General
Motors Corp. to become the world's biggest automaker by sales
volume in 2006, leading industry paper Automotive News said. | 2Business |
Reuters Sports
Cotto stops Judah to retain welterweight crown
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Miguel Cotto retained his WBA welterweight championship with an 11th-round stoppage of Zab Judah in front of a capacity crowd of more than 20,000 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. | 1Sports |
New York Times sports
Feehan seizes South crown
CAMBRIDGE -- Kyle Van Den Berghe could sense it. The second-year Bishop Feehan swimming coach felt his troops needed a boost in morale as the back-and-forth battle for first place with BC High waged on, so 10 minutes before his 400-yard freestyle relay team hit the pool for the final race of the day, he flip-flopped the middlemen in his ... | 1Sports |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Kite leads final Champions Tour event
Tom Kite, his round highlighted by an eagle at the 16th, fired an 8-under 64 Thursday to lead after one round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. | 1Sports |
Boston Globe sports
The Quad: Road Trip: Miracle Finish
Cornell won the first game of its weekend road trip by erasing a 5-point deficit in the waning moments, beating Harvard 72-71. | 1Sports |
Albuquerque Tribune
Wide kick gives Pats narrow win
New England linebacker Tedy Bruschi figures the defending Super Bowl champs were starting from scratch in the NFL season opener. "No one cares about last year," Bruschi said. | 1Sports |
New York Times Business
Stricter System to Trim Carbon Emissions Is Considered in Europe
European Union officials this week will aim to reduce corporate influence and make polluting more expensive. | 2Business |
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