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Kashmir is key to peace, says Pakistani PM NEW DELHI: quot;Who could say some 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall would be a thing of the past, quot; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told his Pakistan counterpart Shaukat Aziz on his arrival on Tuesday. | 0 |
Indonesian police to investigate bribery allegations Indonesia #39;s chief of police is to investigate allegations that the most wanted terrorist in the country, Dr Azahari Husin, escaped arrest by bribing a policeman. | 0 |
Letter from Jerusalem THIS WEEK, we #39;ve had snow in the north and of locusts in the south, which seems like a pretty fitting illustration for the extremes that exist in this small sliver of the globe. | 0 |
Bahrain offers to play host as Baghdad urged to expand dialogue Bahrain yesterday offered to host a national conference for Iraq as the interim Iraqi government came under international pressure to broaden dialogue | 0 |
Mbeki Plans 3-Day Mission to Ivory Coast--Aide South African President Thabo Mbeki is determined to work hard to end the conflict in Ivory Coast and is likely to spend up to three days there next week, his spokesman said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Desiring Stability Redskins coach Joe Gibbs expects few major personnel changes in the offseason and wants to instill a culture of stability in Washington. | 1 |
Jerusalem Unimpressed with Assads Statements (IsraelNN.com) Officials in Jerusalem responding to statements quoting Syrian President Bashar el-Assad report there is nothing new in Syrias position. | 0 |
Report: Microsoft paid CCIA official The antitrust settlement between Microsoftand the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) announced earlier this month included a payment of \$9.75 million to the CCIA's president, according to a report published Wednesday. | 3 |
Microsoft offers to replace fake copies of Windows XP Software pirates' increasing skill at creating counterfeit versions of Windows XP has prompted Microsoft to introduce a pilot program that offers to verify whether consumers' software is legitimate and replace fake versions with authentic goods. | 3 |
Intel ramps up support for Linux in Asia Intelhas released its Quick Start Kit for Linux, stepping up support for Asian system integrators that offer Linux-based desktop PCs. | 3 |
Linux Server Sales Hit a New High For the first time, sales top \$1 billion in one quarter, researcher says. | 3 |
E-Voting Problems Found in Maryland Reported incidents were likely a small percentage of actual problems, group says. | 3 |
Report Identifies Dangerous Toys There are still lots of dangerous toys lurking on store shelves across the United States, says a nationwide survey released Tuesday by the US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG). | 2 |
Call Service with a Sneer (Reuters) Reuters - Score one for the faceless functionary\on the other end of the telephone line. | 2 |
BEST OF ECT NEWS Biometrics: ThinkPad and Beyond quot;Everything is a trade-off, and the techniques used to find the bad guys will be balanced by our democracy and drive for rights of privacy, quot; said security expert Evan Scott. | 3 |
France and Russia head for final MOSCOW, Russia -- France and Russia both secured two singles victories apiece in their Fed Cup semifinals against Spain and Austria on Wednesday to edge closer to a final showdown. | 1 |
Dodgers ink Tracy for two more years Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed manager Jim Tracy to a two-year contract extension, keeping him with the club through the 2006 season. | 1 |
Rangers #39; chief speaks in fans #39; defence Rangers chairman David Murray tonight hit back at Celtic manager Martin O #39;Neill #39;s claims that the Ibrox fans are racist and reminded officials at both clubs of their #39;responsibility in ensuring safety and fair play #39;. | 1 |
NFL THANKSGIVING DAY FIXED ODDS BETTING PREVIEW On Thursday evening, Sky Sports viewers can tuck into two Thanksgiving Day NFL games. First up is Indianapolis Colts at Detroit Lions, which is then followed by the slightly less appealing Chicago Bears at Dallas Cowboys. | 1 |
Google and the History of Link Building Google and the History of Link Building\\I can't begin to tell you how sick I am of reading articles and posts that mention the two words "Google" and "penalty" in the same sentence!\\So many webmasters are walking on eggshells these days when it comes to Google, and it just doesn't ... | 3 |
Ask Jeeves and Lycos Enter the Search Engine Optimization Field Ask Jeeves and Lycos Enter the Search Engine Optimization Field\\In a highly surprising move, two well known smaller search engines have entered the organic search engine optimization market! Ask Jeeves and Lycos are both offering services in a sector has traditionally maintained a symbiotic but arm's-length relationship with search ... | 3 |
Ask Jeeves Asks Googles AdWords Ask Jeeves Asks Google's AdWords\\Have you ever spoke with an expert in a field and asked them a question about a topic they should have the answer to, but they respond that they need to ask someone else? Well, what about Ask Jeeves? You do a search at Ask Jeeves, ... | 3 |
MSN Search Beta Not Ranking MSN Search Blog MSN Search Beta Not Ranking MSN Search Blog\\Ok, I lied in the title of the thread (original title was "penalizing MSN Search Blog"), but it did get you to click over from your RSS feed aggregator, didn't it? ;) But there is some truth to this title, MSN Search Beta ... | 3 |
Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser Market Share Gains to 7.4 Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser Market Share Gains to 7.4\\The latest survey from OneStat.com shows what was expected. Firefox is gaining on Internet Explorer and pretty rapidly. As per the reports, Mozilla Foundation has taken a 7.4 market share gaining more than 5 since May. Microsoft rsquo;s Internet Explorer has dropped down ... | 3 |
Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sells on eBay for \$28,000 Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sells on eBay for \$28,000\\Remember the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich that was put up on eBay and hit bids up to \$16,000 last week. Well, the bidding in finally done on the miracle hot lunch and the final bid on the blessed sandwich came in ... | 3 |
News: Poison applet peril affects IE, Opera and Firefox A vulnerability in a Java plug-in from Sun Microsystems used by most web browsers poses a risk for users of IE and alternative browsers alike. | 3 |
News: Career database 'wide open' to hijacking An on-line database containing the career and contact details of over 22 million business people can be edited by anyone. | 3 |
Airlines Cough Up Passenger Data After initial complaints about the government order, U.S. airlines finally comply, turning over a massive amount of information about travelers so the feds can test a screening system. By Ryan Singel. | 3 |
Playing the Touching Game Its touch panel makes the Nintendo DS a unique and fun gadget, although the system and the current crop of games don't use it to its fullest. By Chris Kohler. | 3 |
Newspapers Should Really Worry It's no secret that the internet threatens the newspaper business. But there's increasing evidence that young people are dumping print in favor of screens at a faster clip than anyone suspected. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. | 3 |
Dive! Dive! Dive! Next fall, a team will venture to the Mariana Trench to drop a remotely operated camera system 7 miles down to the bottom of the deepest spot on Earth. Here are some milestones on the voyage to the bottom of the sea. By Michael Menduno from Wired magazine. | 3 |
The Drive to Discover The need to push our boundaries is in our DNA. We can't afford not to go to Mars -- or anyplace else, for that matter. By James Cameron for Wired magazine. | 3 |
Database Flawed, Not Malevolent Although Florida election officials are chastized for being lax in monitoring the company that built a lousy database for tracking felons and dead voters, an internal audit concludes that there was no intent to disenfranchise anyone. | 3 |
Retailers Hope to Lure Shoppers Into Malls (AP) AP - The nation's retailers are hoping furry ponchos, fur-lined flip-flops, and sweater sets adorned with multiple broaches will excite shoppers this holiday season and lure them into stores and malls earlier than in previous years. | 2 |
Falluja Rebels Had Enough Arms to Rule Iraq -U.S. (Reuters) Reuters - Arab militants and\insurgents who ruled the volatile city of Falluja before a\U.S.-led offensive this month had enough weapons to take over\all of Iraq, Marine officers said on Wednesday. | 0 |
US consumer confidence falls short in November US consumer sentiment improved at a slower pace than expected in November despite an improving labour market and easing energy prices. | 2 |
Cavaliers Activate Forward Luke Jackson (AP) AP - Cavaliers forward Luke Jackson was activated Wednesday after missing five games because of tendinitis in his right knee. Cleveland also placed forward Sasha Pavlovic on the injured list. | 1 |
Cassini captures Tethys in all her glory In a portrait of perfect composition, Saturns moon Tethys has been captured hanging suspended in space just below the planets horizon. | 3 |
AMD #39;s Mobile Sempron Takes On Intel AMD #39;s latest Mobile AMD Sempron 3000 is set to go head to head with Intel #39;s high-end Centrino CPUs. The AMD processor offers Enhanced Virus Protection designed to prevent the spread of malicious viruses when | 3 |
Add-ons Extend Firefox Growth The recent success of the Firefox movement -- thousands of volunteers spreading the Gospel of Mozilla to every corner of the Internet -- is spawning a new kind of growth. | 3 |
Rafter dies in Grand Canyon National Park GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. - A 62-year-old man from Phoenix died after his boat overturned on the Colorado River, a Grand Canyon spokeswoman said Wednesday. | 3 |
The sun sets on the VCR The likely death of the video recorder - as reflected in the decision of Dixons not to stock them any more because of the popularity of DVDs - will come as a post-dated relief for millions of adults who claimed never to be able to programme them in the | 3 |
Report Shows Uptick in Automated Phishing eBay, PayPal, Microsoft and others -- is increasing. The report gave greater focus to the server side of | 3 |
Ryanair, easyJet expand flights to Italy after Volare bankruptcy (AFP) AFP - Ryanair and easyJet both announced plans to expand in the Italian market following the collapse of the low-cost airline Volare, which has declared insolvency and suspended flights and ticket sales. | 0 |
Davidson #39;s F1 test with Williams in limbo According to some reports, Honda are prepared to put their foot down on Davidson #39;s planned outing with the rival F1 team next month in Jerez, Spain. | 1 |
Freed UN hostages meet Karzai, prepare to head home (AFP) AFP - Three UN workers freed after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan met President Hamid Karzai and said freedom felt "wonderful" as the first of them flew home for a reunion with his family. | 0 |
Deputy Director: CIA Not 'Dysfunctional' (AP) AP - Countering severe criticism of the CIA, the agency's departing deputy director called for an end to the "tirades and hyperbole" that he said are hampering constructive debate about needed intelligence reform. | 0 |
Israel offers UK key peace role The UK can play a "key role" in helping Israel and the Palestinians achieve peace, Israel's Foreign Minister says. | 0 |
Roethlisberger, Vilma See Early Successes (AP) AP - Rookie quarterbacks don't have immediate success in the NFL. Neither do first-year middle linebackers. The positions simply are too complicated and too critical, and coaches won't trust them to the novice. | 1 |
No cherries at Pak PMs breakfast The accent betrays his days as a banker in New York. The subject of his opening comments-the possibilities on trade, South Asias poor record on human development despite its rich human potential, etc sounds almost like Manmohan Singh. | 0 |
US sweeps Iraqi Sunni #39;hotspots #39; More than 5,000 US-led forces are sweeping through lawless hotspots in an area south of Baghdad known as Iraq #39;s quot;triangle of death quot;. | 0 |
Sirius Shares Fall on Analyst Downgrade Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. slipped more than 10 percent in Wednesday trading after a J.P. Morgan analyst downgraded the stock and told investors to take profits following a three-month run-up. | 2 |
Update 1: Judge Won #39;t Approve PeopleSoft Settlement A proposal to settle a lawsuit brought last year by shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc. failed to clear court Wednesday after a judge found it unfairly cut off their right to sue over the company #39;s resistance to a takeover by Oracle Corp. | 2 |
Cingular To Cut Jobs By 10 The CEO of Cingular acknowledged earlier this week that it expects to cut up to 10 percent of its 68,000-person workforce in the next year and a half. | 2 |
Report: Time Warner Near Deal With SEC There #39;s a report that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Time Warner are close to a settlement over accounting questions at the media giant #39;s America Online unit. | 2 |
Nortel attempts to calm fears of possible stock delisting Nortel Networks Ltd. said both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange are not considering delisting the company as yet. | 2 |
Ryanair, easyJet expand flights to Italy after Volare bankruptcy LONDON (AFP) - Ryanair and easyJet both announced plans to expand in the Italian market following the collapse of the low-cost airline Volare, which has declared insolvency and suspended flights and ticket sales. | 2 |
Nets' Jefferson Helps Handicapped Girl (AP) AP - Richard Jefferson hasn't forgotten the lessons taught by his missionary parents. A couple of hours before a brawl between Indiana and Detroit gave the NBA a black eye last week, Jefferson quietly showed the charitable side of the league's players. | 1 |
Casino pays \$28,000 for Holy toast An internet casino has purchased a grilled cheese sandwich on eBay that bears the image of the Virgin Mary. Despite being 10 years old and having one bite taken out of it, the slice of Heaven has, perhaps miraculously, stayed free of mould. | 3 |
Microsoft Offers Olive Branch to XP Counterfeit Users Microsoft Corp. is offering an olive branch to users of pirated versions of the Windows XP operating system. The software giant on Wednesday unveiled the Windows XP Counterfeit Project in the UK, offering | 3 |
Pockmarked face of Saturn #39;s icy moon The Cassini spacecraft has returned the best-ever view of the icy Tethys, one of the moons of Saturn, depicting its battered 1060km-diameter surface in this photograph released by Nasa. | 3 |
IBM signs 100 software vendors to Workplace platform NOVEMBER 24, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - IBM yesterday announced that 100 independent software vendors have signed on to use software from its Workplace initiative, a new client computing model that gives employees a single way to access, share and manage | 3 |
Magnetic Beaks Help Birds Navigate, Study Says The findings add to the debate over whether pigeons and other birds chart their flight paths by using a magnetic sense or by following scent clues in the atmosphere. | 3 |
AMD #39;s Mobile Sempron Chips Away at Centrino The AMD processor, which is designed to compete with Intel #39;s high-end Centrino chips, offers extra protection against the spread of malicious viruses when enabled by Microsoft Windows XP SP2. | 3 |
Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser Market Share Gains to 7.4 The latest survey from OneStat.com shows what was expected. Firefox is gaining on Internet Explorer and pretty rapidly. As per the reports, Mozilla Foundation has taken a 7.4 market share gaining more than 5 since May. | 3 |
Arctic Council shies from warming recommendations Faced with fresh evidence of rapid warming at the top of the globe, members of the Arctic Council on Wednesday shied from making any commitments to combat the problem. | 3 |
Grand Canyon torrent begins GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - Scientists flooded the Grand Canyon yesterday to restore beaches and save fish and plants that have been disappearing since sediment-free water began flowing from a dam 40 years ago. | 3 |
Many underage boys have little trouble buying M-rated games The Minneapolis-based National Institute on Media and the Family has just released its annual video game report card in Washington. | 3 |
Jaguar workers to vote on strike action, stage protest (AFP) AFP - Thousands of Jaguar car workers will begin voting next week on strike action over plans to halt production at a British plant with the loss of over 1,000 jobs, union leaders said. | 0 |
New Mexico State Fires Coach Tony Samuel (AP) AP - New Mexico State coach Tony Samuel was fired Wednesday after leading the Aggies to just two winning seasons in eight years. | 1 |
New Computer Associates CEO to Get Bonus (AP) AP - Computer Associates International Inc., a business software company embroiled in an accounting scandal, is giving its new chief executive, John Swainson, a pay package that totals more than #36;8.6 million in salary, signing bonuses and stock. | 3 |
NBA #39;s Stern is self-serving quot;It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. quot;. In the wake of one of the more violent incidents in National Basketball Association | 1 |
Champions League: Bayern beats Maccabi Tel Aviv 5-1 to advance Bayern Munich booked a place in the second round of the Champions League by strolling past Maccabi Tel Aviv 5-1 on Tuesday. Claudio Pizarro, Hasan Salihamidzic and Torsten Frings scored in a first half dominated by Bayern. | 1 |
ICC monitoring developments as England stay in SAfrica The International Cricket Council (ICC) is continuing to monitor developments over England #39;s tour of Zimbabwe after the players were told on Wednesday to stay in South Africa overnight. | 1 |
Cricket: Black Caps offered help from Greg Chappell ADELAIDE - New Zealand cricket coach John Bracewell has not ruled out tapping the knowledge of former Australian captain Greg Chappell as the tourists plot to avoid a repeat of their first test humiliation. | 1 |
Jim Tracy to Return As Dodgers Manager LOS ANGELES - Dodgers manager Jim Tracy agreed Wednesday to a two-year contract after leading Los Angeles to its first postseason appearance in eight years. | 1 |
Rangers Fans Unhappy With O #39;Neill Rangers fans have reacted angrily to suggestions from the Celtic manager Martin ONeill that his midfielder Neil Lennon was the victim of sectarian and racial abuse during the Old Firm game at the weekend. | 1 |
Air-India Plans to Buy 50 New Aircraft (AP) AP - The board of national carrier Air-India on Wednesday approved the purchase of 50 new aircraft as part of an ambitious expansion program, an airline spokesman said Wednesday. | 0 |
Musharraf formula not for India: Aziz India News New Delhi, Nov 24 Giving a decent burial to Gen Pervez Musharraf #39;s controversial seven-region formula on Kashmir, India and Pakistan today decided to operationalise the much talked about Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service as early as possible and hold the | 0 |
Blast kills two US soldiers in Afghanistan Two US soldiers were killed and one wounded on Wednesday in a blast caused by an improvised bomb while they were on patrol in central Afghanistan, the US military said. | 0 |
Paisley Sincere About Deal with Republicans - Ahern Irish premier Bertie Ahern said tonight he was confident the Rev Ian Paisley was sincere about striking a deal with republicans. He said he could understand the rationale behind the Democratic | 0 |
French action in Ivory Coast a mistake, says Kadhafi PARIS, Nov 24 (AFP) - France #39;s military intervention in Ivory Coast was a mistake, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said Wednesday in an interview published ahead of President Jacques Chirac #39;s visit to Tripoli. | 0 |
Laser Technique Used to Treat Bad Breath (Reuters) Reuters - If brushing and mouthwash don't improve\bad breath, an Israeli scientist may have the solution -- laser\treatment. | 3 |
Ukraine opposition calls strike Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko calls for a general strike as he rejects the presidential poll result. | 0 |
Aziz Says Pakistan Wants Peace With India (AP) AP - Insisting it was time for peace between Pakistan and India, Pakistan's prime minister said Wednesday that the two nuclear-armed rivals had the chance to "prove the pundits of gloom and doom wrong." | 0 |
Brazil Says Gets UN Go-Ahead for Uranium Enrichment <p></p><p> BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil said on Wednesday itgot a go-ahead from the U.N. nuclear watchdog to crank up itsuranium enrichment plant this year after months of negotiationsover access for nonproliferation inspectors.</p> | 0 |
Brazil Says Gets UN Go-Ahead for Uranium Enrichment <p></p><p> RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's uraniumenrichment plant in Resende will start working before the endof the year after getting a go-ahead from the United Nations'nuclear watchdog, the country's Science and Technology Ministersaid on Wednesday.</p> | 0 |
Sirius Shares Fall on Analyst Downgrade Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. slipped more than 10 percent in Wednesday trading after a JP Morgan analyst downgraded the stock and told investors to take profits following a three-month run-up. | 2 |
#39;Skulls #39; Virus Disables Smartphone Apps A malicious code dubbed quot;Skulls quot; was launched from Web sites that offered phone users downloads of wallpaper, games and ring tones. | 3 |
S.C. Assistants Asked to Stay on Staff (AP) AP - Three of Lou Holtz's assistant coaches will remain at South Carolina under new coach Steve Spurrier, though their assignments may change. | 1 |
AN INDIAN JOURNEY Kanpur: Thankfully not a metropolis One thing you learn over the years is how Indian spectators love to get involved, even when the match is as dead as this one. It places them in a unique position and the pity is that a game that offered so much turned out the way it did. | 1 |
Explosion kills 2 US soldiers in southern Afghanistan A bomb exploded near a US patrol in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing two American soldiers and wounding another, the military said. | 0 |
Phishing on the increase, group says Online phishing schemes increased significantly in October as financial institutions struggled to combat attempts to steal private account information from online consumers, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). | 3 |
SAP expands offshore to cater to growth markets BANGALORE, INDIA - SAPplans to more than double the number of staff at its software development centers in Bangalore, India, and Shanghai by 2006, and is also considering setting up a new development center in Eastern Europe, according to a company executive. | 2 |
Judge backs PeopleSoft shareholders A PROPOSAL to settle a lawsuit brought last year by PeopleSoft shareholders has failed to clear court, after a judge found it unfairly cut off their right to sue over the company #39;s resistance to a takeover by Oracle. | 2 |
Recording companies sign deal to sell songs over new file-sharing <b>...</b> Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from rival | 2 |
Sony TV, China Film Unveil Joint Venture The television unit of Japan #39;s Sony Corp and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures. | 2 |
Boyd Gaming Buys Land Next to Stardust Las Vegas Boyd Gaming has acquired 13 acres adjacent to the southwest side of its Stardust Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, the casino operator said in a regulatory filing. | 2 |
ArvinMeritor Sells Coil Coating Unit Auto and Truck component supplier ArvinMeritor Inc. on Wednesday said it sold its Roll Coater Inc. coil coating unit for about \$162.5 million to an affiliate of private equity firm Willis Stein amp; Partners. | 2 |
US Travelers Face Weather Delays on Holiday Journey (Update3) Travelers faced weather delays across the US as they took to the highways and airways today to begin what industry experts say will be the biggest Thanksgiving travel weekend since 2000. | 2 |
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