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Analysis: Bush's Daunting Task in the Mideast and North Korea Support from allies becomes crucial in solving crises | 0 |
Q amp;A: The Italian general strike Public services across part of Italy have been brought to a standstill as workers take to the streets to protest against the government #39;s economic policies. | 0 |
Singulus, Sony Team Up on Blu-Ray Development FRANKFURT/TOKYO (Reuters) - German compact disc and DVD equipment company Singulus and Japan's Sony have teamed up to develop a new technology for music and video discs, Singulus said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Philips Sees Flat Chip Market in 2005 EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Philips Electronics said on Tuesday it had trimmed its 2005 global chip market outlook to zero growth from a previous 5 percent rate forecast. | 3 |
Syneron Medical Shares Drop on Rejection Shares of Syneron Medical Ltd., a maker of cosmetic medical devices, plunged 20 percent Tuesday morning following regulators #39; rejection of its application for a cellulite-smoothing device. | 2 |
Telecoms Tie-Up Mobile phone group mmO2 and giant Japanese telecoms giant NTT DoCoMo joined forces to launch the i-mode internet service in the UK, Germany and Ireland. | 3 |
Services Buy Broadens Sun #39;s Software Support SevenSpace will be absorbed entirely into Sun #39;s Services operation. quot;It is growing more evident by the day that #39;one size fits all #39; outsourcing is history, quot; said Marissa Peterson, executive vice president at Sun Services. | 3 |
China #39;blocks Google news site #39; China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days. | 3 |
Sybase to make Big Blue databases Sybase said on Tuesday that it will partner with IBM to sell its Linux database software, potentially dealing a blow to Sun, another long-standing partner. | 3 |
MS to end Win2K support without SP5 Microsoft announced on Monday that it will not release a fifth service pack for Windows 2000, a popular version of the company #39;s operating system. | 3 |
US Davis Cup Brings 9-Year Title Drought to Final Versus Spain Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish and the Bryan brothers hope to add to Davis Cup lore this weekend when they assume the monstrous underdog role, facing Spain on their home red dirt in front of an expected record-setting crowd in Seville. | 1 |
FDA Reviewers Mixed Over Two New Cancer Drugs (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. Food and Drug Administration\staff reviewers on Tuesday questioned clinical data for\non-Hodgkin's lymphoma drug Marqibo, made by Inex\Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.. | 2 |
Economy Grows Faster Than Expected in 3Q (AP) AP - The economy #151; helped out by more brisk consumer and business spending #151; grew at an annual rate of 3.9 percent in the third quarter, a performance that was stronger than previously thought. | 2 |
Beijing Calls Off Controversial Deal with Microsoft quot;Procurement departments in some provinces and municipalities, regardless of national interests and information security, bought a lot of foreign software and did not procure, or procured only a little domestic software, quot; Li Wuqiang, deputy director of | 3 |
Dollar Drops to New All-Time Low Vs. Euro The U.S. dollar dropped to a new all-time low Tuesday against the euro, which rose to \$1.3335 even as new figures showed that U.S. economic growth in the third quarter was stronger than previously thought. | 2 |
Sony to launch its first MP3 hard-disk music player Sonyis broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too. | 3 |
Sony to pay \$40 million to Ampex Sonyand Ampexhave agreed to end their dispute over a patent covering thumbnail images in digital image storage and retrieval devices.<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p><p><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.ifw.general/solaris;sz=1x1;ord=200301151450?" width="1" height="1" border="0"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;12204780;10550054;n?http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;12165994;10522295;g?http://www.sun.com/solaris10">Solaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.</a><br/>Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more\reasons for the world's most demanding businesses\to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform.\Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications\side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R),\AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems.\Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move\your business ahead today.</p> | 3 |
DoCoMo, mmO2 confirm I-mode deal Mobile phone carrier mmO2 PLC will launch versions of NTT DoCoMo's I-mode mobile Internet service in the U.K. and Ireland in the second half of 2005 and in Germany in early 2006, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday. | 3 |
Consumers Fuel Faster Economic Growth WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robust consumer spending on cars, furniture and food in the third quarter helped the U.S. economy advance more quickly than first thought, a government report showed on Tuesday, while underlying inflation was the tamest in decades. | 2 |
FDA Reviewers Mixed Over Two New Cancer Drugs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Tuesday questioned clinical data for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma drug Marqibo, made by Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.. | 2 |
Fannie, Freddie Loan Cap to Rise in 2005 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal regulators on Tuesday allowed U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy larger individual mortgages next year following a jump in home prices, a move that would lower borrowing costs for buyers of more expensive homes. | 2 |
Wal-Mart to Cut Prices After Poor Sales NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A>, the No. 1 U.S. retailer, on Tuesday signaled it will cut prices through Christmas after holding back deep discounts on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season. | 2 |
Gazprom to Bid for YUKOS Key Oil Unit MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom said on Tuesday it will bid for embattled oil firm YUKOS' main unit next month, as the Kremlin seeks to turn the world's biggest gas producer into a major oil player. | 2 |
Where the Rubber Meets the (Virtual) Road In the second part of his car show-inspired hunt for investment ideas, Jeff Hwang tosses up three video game publishers and a tire maker. | 2 |
Breaking Rules and Saving Lives Cord blood offers an ethical means of using stem cells to heal illness. | 2 |
US consumer confidence slips in November On the same day that a report credited strong consumer spending for fuelling the US economy, a separate report found sentiment among those very consumers waned in November. | 2 |
Philly Broadband Clash Pits City Against Telcos Philadelphia officials have laid the groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access anywhere in the city, but their plan could be scotched under a state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday. | 2 |
Singulus, Sony Team Up on Blu-Ray Development German compact disc and DVD equipment company Singulus and Japan #39;s Sony have teamed up to develop a new technology for music and video discs, Singulus said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business. | 3 |
Cisco revamps Catalyst switch range Cisco today unveiled what it claimed is the world #39;s first Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) enabled IP phone, in addition to a raft of enhancements to its Catalyst switching range designed to boost security, availability and performance. | 3 |
Tanker #39;s hull was pierced twice US Coast Guard officials still have not determined what caused a Greek-owned tanker to leak 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River Friday, but did reveal Monday | 1 |
Ukraine Opposition Pulls Out of Talks KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's opposition on Tuesday pulled out of talks to try to end a confrontation over last week's disputed presidential election and vowed to use "people power" to secure victory. | 0 |
Super Bowl Advertisers Still in Game After Scandal NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advertisers may have been bitten once by an indecency scandal at the 2004 Super Bowl, but they are not shy about getting back into the game for the next U.S. football championship. | 1 |
US 'hurting' anti-mine campaign Anti-landmine activists meeting in Nairobi say the US is setting a bad example by not joining a worldwide ban. | 0 |
Cropp Wants Changes D.C. Council Chair Linda Cropp has filed an eleventh-hour proposal that would significantly alter a plan to build a baseball stadium. | 1 |
Job cuts eat into RBC #39;s Q4 earnings TORONTO - Royal Bank said Tuesday the cost of eliminating 1,660 jobs pushed its fourth-quarter earnings down 31 per cent to \$518 million. | 2 |
NHL Won't Consider Proposed Luxury Tax (AP) AP - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated the league's position that it won't consider the players' proposed luxury tax. | 1 |
MmO2 to bring i-mode to three European markets I-mode services are coming to the competitive UK market, in addition to Ireland and the second such service in Germany, through a new deal between UK-based MmO2 plc and Japan #39;s NTT DoCoMo Inc. | 3 |
Games developer wins cyber caf copyright fight Games company Valve yesterday announced that it had won a court order prohibiting publisher Vivendi Universal Games from distributing Valves games, which include the Half-Life series, through cyber cafs. | 3 |
New strain of Skulls Trojan hits smart phones NOVEMBER 30, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Mobile phones running Symbian Ltd. #39;s Series 60 operating system are the target of a new strain of the Skulls Trojan horse program. | 3 |
A More Efficient Way to Produce Hydrogen Nov. 30 - So far they #39;ve done the recipe only on a small scale in an Idaho laboratory. The ingredients are water, electricity and extreme heat. | 3 |
Belichick feels Daviss pain FOXBORO - Sundays upcoming matchup between the Browns and Patriots features a rare twist - two head coaches who know what its like being on the hot seat in Cleveland while presiding over a floundering team. | 1 |
Michigan State DURHAM, North Carolina (Ticker) -- Two of the top coaches and programs square off when No. 9 Michigan State tangles with 10th-ranked Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. | 1 |
High Hog Prices Boost Smithfield Foods CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SFD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SFD.N</A>, the largest U.S. pork producer, on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings jumped 61 percent on high hog prices, strong pork exports and the acquisition of a pork processor. | 2 |
Stocks Fall, Wal-Mart, Oil, Dollar Weigh NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A> extended their losses, oil prices held near \$50 a barrel and the dollar hit a record low against the euro. | 2 |
Audit Finds Hoy Overstated Circulation NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tribune Co.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TRB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TRB.N</A> Hoy newspaper, one of several U.S. papers caught up in a circulation scandal, overstated circulation at its New York edition by more than 46 percent last year, an industry monitoring group said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Glum US shoppers push dollar down An unexpectedly weak reading for US consumer confidence pushes the dollar to a fresh low against the euro. | 2 |
Abbey cards in net security scare Abbey bank cancels about 1,000 credit and debit cards after receiving a security warning over an online merchant. | 2 |
Kazaa launches file-swap defence Lawyers for file-swapping software firm Kazaa launch their defence in a landmark Australian internet music piracy case. | 2 |
Yahoo Offers Real-Time Traffic Reports Largely overlooked during the holiday craziness last month, Yahoo introduced real-time traffic information for 70 major U.S. cities. | 3 |
Consumer Confidence Drops In November _ Consumer confidence declined in November for a fourth consecutive month, a private research group reported Tuesday, reflecting doubts about the economy once the holidays are past. | 2 |
Economy grows at a 3.9 percent pace in third quarter, faster than <b>...</b> The economy -- helped out by more brisk consumer and business spending -- grew at an annual rate of 3.9 percent in the third quarter, a performance that was stronger than previously thought. | 2 |
High Hog Prices Boost Smithfield Foods Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD), the largest US pork producer, on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings jumped 61 percent on high hog prices, strong pork exports and the acquisition of a pork processor. | 2 |
Scotiabank profits rise to \$708M, full-year earnings jump to \$2.9B TORONTO (CP) - Bank of Nova Scotia reported record annual profits Tuesday and raised its dividend after the bank benefited from solid gains in mortgage and consumer lending as well as international operations. | 2 |
Philly Broadband Clash Pits City Against Telcos (Reuters) Reuters - Philadelphia officials have laid the\groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access\anywhere in the city, but their plan could be scotched under a\state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday. | 3 |
Novartis Withdraws Application for Prexige (AP) AP - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG said Tuesday it is temporarily withdrawing an application for European Union approval of its painkiller Prexige, but added that it will present new data this week to prove the safety and effectiveness of the drug. | 0 |
Singulus, Sony Team Up on Blu-Ray Development (Reuters) Reuters - German compact disc and DVD\equipment company Singulus and Japan's Sony have teamed up to\develop a new technology for music and video discs, Singulus\said on Tuesday. | 3 |
MmO2 Offered I-Mode Phones DoCoMo #39;s service allows users to send e-mails, chat, play games, download ring tones and access content from more than 70,000 Web sites. | 3 |
HP Links Business Processes And IT Management Hewlett-Packard #39;s new OpenView software is designed to help companies automate IT responses to business events, such as a jump in order-processing transactions. | 3 |
Cisco Retools Catalyst Switch Line Cisco today revamped its Catalyst Switch line with 10-gigabit speeds, enhanced security, and high availability, designed to bring high speed, security, and availability to the network edge. | 3 |
Emulex Debuts 4-Gbps Fibre Channel Silicon Emulex Corp. unveiled Tuesday its new FibreSpy switch-on-a-chip SOC 804 family of embedded storage for OEM customers looking to build to the new 4-gigabit Fibre Channel standard. | 3 |
US Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Research The conversion rate of water into hydrogen ranges between 45 and 50 percent in high temperatures, compared with about 30 percent in electrolysis, researchers said. | 3 |
Congo Official: Rwanda Troops Attacking (AP) AP - A senior Congolese official said Tuesday his nation had been invaded by neighboring Rwanda, and U.N. officials said they were investigating claims of Rwandan forces clashing with militias in the east. | 0 |
PluggedIn: Mobile Operators Seek Higher Sound Quality (Reuters) Reuters - Ring tones on mobile phones were once\considered cool if they simply sounded musical. Then phones\starting ringing to the tune of a pop song, giving way to "ring\songs." | 3 |
EU Suspends Microsoft-ContentGuard Review (Reuters) Reuters - The European Commission has stopped\the clock on its review of Microsoft and Time Warner's purchase\of U.S. anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a spokesman\for the EU executive said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Gough named new Livingston boss Livingston, Scotland (Sports Network) - Livingston hired former Scotland and Rangers defender Richard Gough to be its new head coach on Tuesday. | 1 |
Sheffield United target keen to stay at Anfield Neil Mellor is prepared to play in the reserves in order to remain a Liverpool player despite interest from Sheffield United Football Club. | 1 |
Bettman still holding his ground Edmonton, AB (Sports Network) - Speaking at a function in Edmonton on Tuesday, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman held firm on his stance against the NHLPA #39;s luxury tax plan. | 1 |
Let the Bidding Begin Wasting little time, Omar Minaya has reportedly offered Pedro Martinez a three-year, \$37.5 deal, with an option for a fourth season. | 1 |
Ukraine Unrest Worries Barcelona Soccer FC Barcelona players Samuel Eto #39;o, center, from Cameroon and Ronaldinho, second left, from Brazil argue with Getafe players Vivar Dorade, left, from Spain and Mariano Pernia, right, from Argentina during their Spanish League soccer match in Getafe, Spain | 1 |
Olympic Swimmer Phelps #39; DUI Trial Set SALISBURY, Md. Nov 30, 2004 - Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps #39; drunken driving trial was set for Dec. 29. Phelps, 19, was stopped by a state trooper on Nov. 4 for running a stop sign in Salisbury. | 1 |
Argentine Protesters Want Mayor to Resign Argentines irate over perceived security lapses in a nightclub fire that killed 188 people, many of them teenagers, banged pots and pans in protest Monday and vowed to march against city officials. | 0 |
Supercomputer for the Home (The Motley Fool) The Motley Fool - It's rare to hear the words "innovation" and "big company" in the same sentence. During the 1980s, IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) was a visionary in the PC revolution -- but gave away the profits to upstarts like Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - News). | 3 |
Study: Nuclear Medicine Can Trigger Security Alarms (Reuters) Reuters - Patients treated with radioactive\material face an increased risk of triggering security alarms\because more guards are being equipped with sensitive radiation\detectors, a report said Tuesday. | 3 |
Iran Boasts of Victory Over US on Nuclear Case Iran boasted on Tuesday it had defeated US efforts to send its nuclear case to the UN Security Council while warning that its uranium enrichment freeze would only last for a few months. | 0 |
10 dead, 50 hurt in Indonesian plane mishap Jakarta: At least 10 people were killed and almost 50 injured when a passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked runway and seven crew aboard the plane operated by budget airline Lion Air, which was landing at Adisumarno airport in the city of Solo after a | 0 |
Sudan Postpones Decision to Expel Oxfam and Save the Children Sudan has decided to postpone a decision to expel the heads of two British aid agencies - Oxfam and Save the Children - citing administrative difficulties and humanitarian grounds. | 0 |
WVU Launches New Brain Surgery System (AP) AP - West Virginia University's neurosurgery department has launched a new system to help surgeons view brain disorders and diseases more precisely. | 3 |
Vaccine for Food Poisoning Possible (AP) AP - Washington University researchers are the first to grow a common cause of diarrhea, vomiting and other stomach problems in a lab, a move that a North Carolina expert said could speed along development of a vaccine, the university said Monday. | 3 |
Scientist Finds Moon Rock on Antarctica (AP) AP - University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren Antarctica landscape is special. | 3 |
Skeleton in Mo. Came From Ancient Mammoth (AP) AP - Everything about the bones that turned up in a Grain Valley back yard last summer suggested to scientists that they came from a 50,000-year-old mastodon. But evidence yielded by additional digging has led the experts to conclude they were off-base. The remains are actually those of a mammoth that lived 500,000 to 1 million years ago, according to the scientists. | 3 |
115 Whales, Dolphins Die After Beaching (AP) AP - A total of 115 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto beaches on two southern Australian islands, authorities said Tuesday as the search continued for more pods in danger. | 3 |
Phelps' Trial Set 19-year-old Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps' drunken driving trial is set for Dec. 29. | 1 |
Oligarchs still control Russia: Putin (AFP) AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin conceded that oligarchs who made their billions in the first hectic days of post-Soviet reform still held a grip over the state despite his efforts to sideline them from power. | 2 |
Colo. Wal-Mart Makes Effort to Unionize (AP) AP - In a move that has been unsuccessful elsewhere in the United States, 17 workers at a Wal-Mart Tire amp; Lube Express have taken the first step to unionize at the world's largest retailer. | 2 |
FDA Reviewers Mixed Over Two New Cancer Drugs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers on Tuesday questioned clinical data for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma drug Marqibo, made by Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. . | 2 |
EU Suspends Microsoft-ContentGuard Review <p>\</p><p> By David Lawsky</p><p> BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has stopped\the clock on its review of Microsoft and Time Warner's purchase\of U.S. anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a spokesman\for the EU executive said on Tuesday.</p> | 3 |
Gold Offer Loses Shine South African gold miner Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY) officially made its much-anticipated quot;tender offer, Part I quot; yesterday, and received a remarkably lukewarm response from shareholders of rival Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI). | 2 |
Consumers Fuel Faster Economic Growth Robust consumer spending on cars, furniture and food helped the US economy advance faster than first thought in the third quarter, a government report showed, while underlying inflation was the tamest in decades. | 2 |
Reliance asks directors who quit to reconsider The board of Reliance Energy, a unit of Reliance Industries, said the six directors, all long-time employees of the group, would resume their normal duties and that it continued | 2 |
Lycos Europe: quot;Make love not spam quot; In a new take on fighting spam, Web portal Lycos Europe has launched a screensaver designed to bombard Web sites promoted in unsolicited e-mail. | 3 |
Al Bello/Getty Images Let #39;s go straight to the latest hot stove news. The Daily Blog #39;s reviews of Allure #39;s new Chapter III album and Christmas with the Kranks will have to wait until next week. | 1 |
EU eyes #39;new chapter #39; in Iran ties, but tensions remain BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU hailed a quot;new chapter quot; in ties with Iran and confirmed plans to resume trade talks rapidly, after a UN-brokered deal under which Tehran pledged to freeze uranium enrichment activities. | 0 |
Cuba releases leading dissident Cuba has freed one of the country #39;s best-known dissidents, the acclaimed poet and journalist Raul Rivero. The 59-year-old was among 75 people arrested in a huge government crackdown last year and given long prison terms. | 0 |
S amp;P affirms rating on Pinault Printemps Redoute Standard amp; Poor #39;s on Tuesday affirmed its ratings on French retailer Pinault Printemps Redoute SA (PRTP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) after the group entered exclusive talks to sell its Rexel(CDME. | 2 |
Audit Finds Hoy Overstated Circulation by 46 Pct Tribune Co. #39;s Hoy newspaper, one of several US papers caught up in a circulation scandal, overstated circulation at its New York edition by more than 46 percent last | 2 |
Another Upgrade Boosts Red Hat Red Hat (NOVL:Nasdaq - news - research) got its second upgrade in two week Tuesday, and promptly leaped northward. In recent trading, shares of the Linux Vendor were up \$1.42, or 10.6, to \$14.84 in heavy volume. | 2 |
Tapes reveal more from Princess Diana Princess Diana continues to fascinate her fans around the world even seven years after her tragic death. In an NBC News exclusive, for the first time, revealing new tapes are coming to light. | 0 |
Beware Confirmation Bias If your knee-jerk reaction to a negative opinion is to attack the source, your chance of investing success is reduced. | 2 |
Update 1: Syneron Medical Shares Drop on Rejection Shares of Syneron Medical Ltd., a maker of cosmetic medical devices, plunged 20 percent Tuesday morning following regulators #39; rejection of its application for a cellulite-smoothing device. | 2 |
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