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Macworld.com - Even with Microsoft Zune looking to knock the iPod from its lofty perch, Apple’s portable music player is expected to remain at the top of the charts for MP3 players during the holiday shopping season. In fact, market-research firm NPD Group says the iPod will joins the ranks of plasma and LCD television... | 3Sci/Tech |
Businesses are starting to sour on Asia and turning to Latin America and the U.S. for IT services. | 3Sci/Tech |
The price of oil is on the rise as fears grow that Hurricane Ivan could disrupt oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico. | 0World |
A new report compiled by a wireless services consulting firm ranks Wi-Fi, WiMax, and third generation (3G) cellular networks in 16 North American cities. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led by a sharp decline in the tech sector as shares of online auctioneer eBay Inc. EBAY.O and wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O took a beating a day after both companies reported disappointing outlooks. | 2Business |
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - It began at a humble suburban cricket ground, has been played twice in New Zealand and was even once held in a zoo. | 1Sports |
Consumers flocked to department stores but largely shopped right past specialty clothing retailers. | 0World |
Dousing a flicker of hope that Las Vegas could land the Montreal Expos baseball team, the Washington, DC council on Tuesday finalized a last-minute deal to bring the franchise to the nation's capital. | 1Sports |
AP - Joey Graham had 20 points, and John Lucas added 17 Saturday night as No. 4 Oklahoma State remained undefeated with a 79-67 win over UNLV. | 1Sports |
She taught Jimmy to play and to win. | 1Sports |
Bureaucratic delay and red tape can endlessly snarl a building project, even one encouraged by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - The Far Eastern Economic Review will change its format from a news weekly to a monthly opinion journal in December, effectively marking the end of the region's leading English-language news magazine. | 2Business |
AP - Texas withstood foul trouble and the 3-point shooting of Chris Reaves for an 84-62 victory over Chaminade on Monday in the opening round of the Maui Invitational. | 1Sports |
Ford Motor Co. raised its forecast for third-quarter earnings by 10 cents a share and said it would end unprofitable Jaguar car production at a Coventry, England, plant and pull out of Formula One racing. | 2Business |
SIALKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan beefed up security Saturday as minority Shi'ite Muslims prepared to bury victims of a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the eastern town of Sialkot that killed at least 30 people a day earlier. | 0World |
Only the Giants seem to have noticed that other National Football Conference contenders, including the Cowboys and Packers, suddenly look vulnerable. | 1Sports |
Heat could be a major factor when the field tees up for the 2005 Dunhill Championship at the Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday, according to world number three Ernie Els. | 1Sports |
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turks began voting on Sunday in a referendum that will decide whether future presidents are elected directly by the people instead of by parliament. | 0World |
Urgent efforts are being made in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of people killed by Sunday's sea surges to prevent the spread of disease. | 0World |
Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. (NYSE: IWA) today announced its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.405 per share on Iowa Telecommunications common stock. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - News Corp. will not pull its television
shows from Apple's iTunes as rival media group NBC Universal
has done over a pricing dispute, President Peter Chernin said
in an interview on Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
The American League Gold Glove awards were announced Tuesday and two went to the Seattle Mariners. Seattle second baseman Bret Boone and Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki each were honored for the fourth time. | 1Sports |
SAN DIEGO ---- The Kevin O'Connell era has at least temporarily begun. On Monday, the La Costa Canyon High graduate was officially promoted to starting quarterback by San Diego State coach Tom Craft. | 1Sports |
AFP - Five Nordic nations held talks to try to salvage Sri Lanka's faltering ceasefire, as the slaying of a top army general underscored the threat of full-scale war. | 0World |
By Paul Taylor in New York and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world literature. | 3Sci/Tech |
Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism. | 0World |
AP - Jeff Weaver won his second straight outing after a dismal start to the season, pitching the Seattle Mariners to a 9-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night. | 1Sports |
Continental Airlines on Tuesday said it swung to a third-quarter loss from a year-ago profit primarily due to special charges related to the retirement of three leased MD-80 aircraft. | 2Business |
The 2004 Jaguar X-Type got the worst rating of any midsize sedan in side-impact crash tests conducted by the insurance industry. The X-Type, which starts at $31,000, fared worse | 2Business |
Sun City, South Africa, Dec. 6 - Retief Goosen showed his awesome class to run away from challengers Lee Westwood and Ernie Els to win the £630,000 Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City on Sunday, where a closing 69 gave him victory by six clear shots. | 1Sports |
BAGHDAD, Dec. 8. - Insurgents launched a string of assaults around Samarra today, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armoury, officials said. | 0World |
AP - The Turkish media published photographs and video on Friday of police posing with a teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist, and newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a "hero." | 0World |
Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - The federal government is expecting a "significant increase" in revenues for the current fiscal year and next year, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday. | 0World |
Blog: Hackers offer their take on Google's Street View feature. | 3Sci/Tech |
Adobe says high dynamic range photography and panorama creation are in Lightroom's purview. Also: why the software development kit isn't as easy as you might think. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Federal Communications Commission said that, starting Wednesday, new rules will apply that will encourage more bidding and hasten the auctionâs end. | 3Sci/Tech |
Once every 10 years or so, something like this happens. | 2Business |
AP - Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice gave no ground in Senate confirmation questioning Tuesday, insisting the United States was fully prepared for the Iraq war and its aftermath and refusing to give a timetable for U.S. troops to come home. | 0World |
Reuters - Two astronauts floated out of the
International Space Station on Friday to complete work on new
solar energy panels in the third and final spacewalk of a
shuttle mission to restart construction of the half-finished
outpost. | 3Sci/Tech |
Everton manager David Moyes believes his "small and committed" squad have every right to be considered serious title contenders after they won a highly significant Merseyside derby against Liverpool. | 1Sports |
WALTHAM -- The education continues for the Celtics' second unit, primarily a collection of young, athletic, and energetic players taking a survey course in NBA basketball with every game. With midterms still months away, the reserves have proven themselves quick studies. | 1Sports |
AP - Consumers kept charging at a rapid pace on their credit cards in July although their overall borrowing slowed a bit. | 2Business |
Reuters - Kosovo's
general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky
endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.
protectorate in the heart of the Balkans. | 0World |
The rollout of new servers and networking switches in stores is part of a five-year agreement supporting 7-Eleven's Retail Information System. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Having served 17 terms, Illinois Rep. Phil Crane is the most senior Republican in the House. His quest for an 18th is proving difficult and has party strategists scrambling to fend off a challenge from Democrat Melissa Bean. | 0World |
Egypt is among the earliest Arab and African countries that gave special attention to the environment issue and enacted environmental laws, said Minister of State for Environment Affairs Maged George on Sunday. | 3Sci/Tech |
DUBAI (Reuters) - Never in his wildest dreams did Tiger Woods guess he would have 13 major championship titles at the age of 32, the world number one said on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
Green technology is clearly a hot area for new companies. What regions have had the most start-up activity so far? | 3Sci/Tech |
Real estate process explained clearly I just wanted to say that I thought Andrew Caffrey's article was the best I have read explaining the complex dynamics of the current real estate market ( "Who'll Blink First?" Nov. 26 ). There are so many factors that go into negotiating a deal on behalf of a buyer (or a seller), a... | 2Business |
( InfoWorld ) - The web site of Bank of India, one of India's leading banks, was restored early Tuesday. The bank had closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been hacked, and was dispensing malicious code.
Sunbelt Software Inc., a provider of security software in Clearwater, Florida, had on Thursday ... | 3Sci/Tech |
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Setting the stage for a contentious congressional debate over farm subsidies, a House panel voted unanimously yesterday to extend for five years the current system of payments to farmers and rejected a series of proposed changes. | 2Business |
BAGHDAD: At least 12 people, including an Italian hostage, were killed in Iraq on Thursday as violence continued. An Islamist group claimed that it had killed an Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro | 0World |
Reuters - While the Boston Red Sox celebrated
the end of 86 years of frustration by winning the World Series
on Wednesday, the St. Louis Cardinals had to deal with some new
frustrations of their own. | 1Sports |
The government says it will free an Algerian terror suspect held for more than two and half years under tough laws brought in following the September 11 attacks, after saying it can no longer justify holding the man. | 0World |
Michael K. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been at the forefront of efforts to get consumers to buy high-definition TVÂs. | 3Sci/Tech |
YESTERDAY Close $60.07 Change -$3.18 52-WEEK High $71.92 Low $54.97 Freddie Mac, the nation's number two buyer and backer of home mortgages, set aside more than $300 million in the second quarter to account for bad loans, contributing to a 45 percent drop in profit. | 2Business |
AP - Albert Pujols came off the disabled list Thursday and returned to the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup for their series finale against the Chicago White Sox. | 1Sports |
The United States, which sees China as a long-term strategic rival, has lobbied the EU against lifting the ban, citing a potential threat to Taiwan and to US interests in Asia. | 0World |
TOKYO -- Japan launched a satellite-based alert | 3Sci/Tech |
( InfoWorld ) - Developers have high hopes for Adobe's newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, but reservations remain about the technology's cross-platform capability and learning curve.
Formerly called Apollo, AIR is described by the company as a cross-OS runtime enabling developers to use existing W... | 3Sci/Tech |
ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse made the surprise appointment of investment banking head Brady Dougan as new chief executive after posting stronger-than-expected results on Thursday, sending its shares sharply higher. | 2Business |
AP - A French newspaper claimed Friday that Lance Armstrong admitted to doping three years before the first of his seven Tour de France wins in 1999. | 1Sports |
Reuters - A Japanese company has developed "smile
checker" software that can tell whether someone looks happy,
sad or somewhere in between. | 3Sci/Tech |
Medarex (Nasdaq: MEDX) is best known for being a leader in antibody technology with its capabilities for generating human antibodies in mice. | 2Business |
The nationalisation of Russian oil major YUKOS's main unit has cast doubt over the timing of plans to create a huge state energy holding and liberalise trade in the shares of gas monopoly Gazprom, analysts said on Friday. | 2Business |
Yahoo shareholders reject plans for the company to adopt a policy opposing censorship on the internet. | 3Sci/Tech |
As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game. | 3Sci/Tech |
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - South African Tim Clark held on to a one-shot lead as the water-logged second round of the Colonial Invitational tournament finally finished on Saturday, nearly 24 hours behind schedule. | 1Sports |
As fans and pundits plunged into a fourth day of dissecting the player-fan brawl that shook the sports landscape, Ron Artest took refuge in a radio studio. | 1Sports |
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen took hostage up to 250 Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with police, officials said. | 0World |
We zero in on some of the best values around today. | 2Business |
A lucky escape for the rest of us?
Comments Friday again, folks, and you, our very own chattering masses, have been pressing enter like crazy. We'll start with an issue that seemed to unite us all for a few days.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report. | 0World |
The expectations have been tempered by a season filled with "what ifs." Six losses in an 11-17 season of 4 points or fewer; five of those one-possession games in the final seconds. | 1Sports |
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Americans are more likely to get their news from local TV and newspapers than national sources, according to a Gallup Poll released today. But of all sources, only news on the Internet is gaining in popularity. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were mourned worldwide Saturday, but in the Middle East, amid sympathy for the dead, Arabs said Washington's support for Israel and the war on terror launched in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse have only fueled anger and violence. | 0World |
AP - When Joe Tiller came to Purdue in 1997, he was told his high-octane offense would never work in the Big Ten. | 1Sports |
Affordable health, dental, and life insurance for you and your family. Ideal for self-employed, small business owners. Fill out our form for a competitive quote. | 2Business |
Using the photosynthesis of spinach to produce electric current. | 3Sci/Tech |
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's autocratic former president Suharto, whose legacy was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, will be give state funeral in royal city of Solo on Monday. | 0World |
AFP - Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Eclipse Foundation is developing an open source SOA framework intended for applications ranging from enterprise environments to embedded systems. | 3Sci/Tech |
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese author of a book about long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger to the ruling Communist Party's censors, daring them on Friday to explain their secretive ways before the law. | 0World |
For Web video, lunchtime has become the new prime time, and media companies have started responding. | 0World |
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck Indonesia's Mollucas islands, but no tsunami warning has been issued, the country's meteorology and geophysical agency said on Tuesday. | 0World |
T-Mobile is adding a high-end model, the Sidekick LX, with a screen with more than twice the resolution of the previous top-of-the-line model, the Sidekick 3. | 3Sci/Tech |
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The European telecoms industry is
looking for new, higher frequencies to make up for a shortage
of airwaves that can be used to enable consumers to watch
television on the go. | 3Sci/Tech |
TechWeb - Analytics: The next stop for open source? | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Republicans are holding their national convention at Madison Square Garden for one reason, and it is four miles away at Ground Zero. | 0World |
The flaw exploited by the most recent versions of the worm such as Santy.C or Santy.E is more general than the original, and can occur anywhere a site designer has left the door open for the inclusion of arbitrary files into PHP scripts, reports IDG News | 3Sci/Tech |
Those dealer contracts have to be broken or skirted for electric cars to get to the mass market. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into Google's plan to purchase DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion, The New York Times said. | 3Sci/Tech |
But on Friday evening he was escorted, handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof jacket, by heavily armed police to a Bogota police airport and handed to US Drug Enforcement Administration officers. | 0World |
Exquisite colour images of the Martian surface give a tantalising glimpse into the Red Planet's watery past. | 0World |
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, strikes gold at the US and Canada box office. | 0World |
AFP - Arsene Wenger insisted the pressure is all on Manchester United after Arsenal preserved their two-point lead over their Premier League title rivals with a 2-0 victory over West Ham on New Year's Day. | 1Sports |
They came out wanting to set a tone. They wanted to keep the hostile crowd of 56,135 as quiet as possible. More than anything, the Red Sox wanted to jump out front in this | 1Sports |
Mortgage rates are at record lows. Save $1000s on your mortgage payment. Free quotes. | 2Business |
Is it for real, or is it spam? | 2Business |
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