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Mellor given chance to make Reds grade Neil Mellor #39;s sensational late winner for Liverpool against Arsenal on Sunday has earned the back-up striker the chance to salvage a career that had appeared to be drifting irrevocably towards the lower divisions. | 1 |
Wherever Pedro ends up, he stands to cash in Pedro Martinez had the last laugh in October. Now he #39;s going to have the last laugh and a very nice contract. Martinez covered the gamut of competitive and emotional experiences this October, from being a | 1 |
Microsoft Order Cancelled by Beijing (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Beijing's municipal government has stopped an order for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) software, apparently giving in to public sentiment after nearly two weeks of fierce criticism within China about the deal. | 3 |
Notre Dame Will Not Retain Willingham SOUTH BEND, Ind. (Sports Network) - The University of Notre Dame announced Tuesday that Tyrone Willingham will not be retained as the head football coach for 2005. The school has scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. EST. | 1 |
U.S. May Plan Offensive in Afghanistan (AP) AP - Thousands of U.S. soldiers are preparing an operation against Taliban insurgents to preempt an expected spring offensive which could upset plans for Afghan parliamentary elections, a senior American general said in an interview Tuesday. | 0 |
Q A: OMG member talks up UML 2.0 (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - The Object Management Group (OMG) is in the process of voting on whether to approve Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, the latest version of this specification for model-driven development. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill talked about the subject with Brian Selic, IBM Distinguished Engineer and co-chairman of the OMG task force on UML 2.0. | 3 |
Blockbuster Atlantic Hurricane Season Closes (Reuters) Reuters - Everything about the Atlantic hurricane\season was big -- lots of powerful storms that spawned hundreds\of deadly tornadoes, many deaths, an unprecedented onslaught on\Florida, a huge damage toll and millions evacuated. | 3 |
Hornets' Magloire Sidelined with Finger Injury NEW ORLEANS, La. (Sports Network) - New Orleans Hornets center Jamaal Magloire is expected to be sidelined for up to three months because of a dislocated right ring finger. | 1 |
Environmentalists See Trouble Ahead (AP) AP - Environmentalists see some of their worst fears playing out as President Bush moves to cement a second-term agenda that includes getting more timber, oil and gas from public lands and relying on the market rather than regulation to curb pollution. | 0 |
Swarms of locusts invade Canaries An estimated 100 million locusts force tourists and locals to abandon beaches in the Canary Islands. | 0 |
Tom Ridge Steps Down as Chief of Homeland Security Dept. The resignation would be effective Feb. 1, unless a successor was confirmed before then, Tom Ridge said. | 0 |
Notre Dame Fires Football Coach Notre Dame fired Tyrone Willingham as its football coach today after a 6-5 season that culminated with a 41-10 loss to top-ranked Southern Cal on Saturday night. | 0 |
Cuba Frees Dissident Writer Cuba's communist government freed writer Raul Rivero and another dissident from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island's human rights record. | 0 |
Broadband boost for rural areas A 40km stretch of road is being dug up over four months to bring high-speed internet access to Cumbria. | 3 |
TV in Hindi via the red button A BBC One documentary will be broadcast in both English and Hindi for the first time. | 3 |
U.S. Upholds Tariffs on Shrimp Imports (AP) AP - The Bush administration on Tuesday upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam, handing a victory to beleaguered U.S. shrimp producers. | 0 |
AIG to Pay \$126 Mln to Settle SEC Charges WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American International Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AIG.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AIG.N</A> agreed to pay \$126 million to settle charges it helped companies fraudulently inflate earnings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. | 2 |
EU Suspends Microsoft-ContentGuard Review 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. | 3 |
Philips Sees Flat Chip Market in 2005 EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Philips Electronics said on Tuesday it expected a flat global chip market next year, in line with market research forecasts but more cautious than many of its rivals. | 3 |
Lycos Offers Program to Attack Spammers At the risk of breaching Internet civility, Lycos Europe is offering computer-users a weapon against spam-spewing servers: a screen-saver program that automatically hits the offenders with data to slow them down. | 3 |
Locust swarm invade Canaries An estimated 100 million locusts force tourists and locals to abandon beaches in the Canary Islands. | 3 |
How Long Will Cheap Oil Last? Global thirst for crude oil keeps growing, despite high prices. Just how much oil does the world have left, and what will happen when demand begins to outstrip supply? | 3 |
New strain of Skulls Trojan hits smart phones Mobile phones running Symbian's Series 60 operating system are being targeted by a new strain of the Skulls Trojan horse, which can spread to other phones within reach of Bluetooth broadcasting range, according to F-Secure. | 3 |
Brief: IBM to market Sybase Linux database IBM and Sybase have agreed to add support for Sybase's database software on IBM's eServer OpenPower Linux servers, and the two companies will jointly sell and market each other's products. | 3 |
Sun acquisition to boost IT services portfolio Sun Microsystems has agreed to purchase IT services company SevenSpace Inc. The move takes Sun further away from its traditional focus on supporting only its Solaris operating system platform. | 3 |
Q A: OMG member talks up UML 2.0 The Object Management Group (OMG) is in the process of voting on whether to approve Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, the latest version of this specification for model-driven development. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill talked about the subject with Brian Selic, IBM Distinguished Engineer and co-chairman of the OMG task force on UML 2.0. | 3 |
Gazprom to bid for production unit of Yukos Gazprom, Russia #39;s state-controlled gas monopoly, on Tuesday said it would bid for the main production unit of Yukos, the country #39;s embattled oil | 2 |
Angels Change Name to Include Los Angeles (Reuters) Reuters - Los Angeles officially\now has two major league baseball teams. On Monday, the Anaheim\Angels announced they have changed their name to the Los\Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This change is effective\immediately. | 1 |
Is Priceline out of the Cold? Plus, one ripe Rule Breaker, an earnings pig-out, and focus on future dividend yields. | 2 |
NuSearch Offers Java Enhanced Search Engine NuSearch Offers Java Enhanced Search Engine\\Once you perform a search on NuSearch, you'll see that there is a slight difference with other search engines. NuSearch utilises a Java (TM) Applet which is embedded in the web page which users do have to opt-in to download. NuSearch kind of reminded ... | 3 |
Sortprice Shopping Search Engine Includes 1000 Merchants Sortprice Shopping Search Engine Includes 1000 Merchants\\SortPrice.com announces reaching 1000 merchants with over 10 million product listings which ranges from small retailers to industry giants including companies such as Target, Buy.com and Office Depot. Launched in 2003, SortPrice.com was created to provide free listings for merchants and an easy to ... | 3 |
MSN Search Engine Uses Basis Technology for Natural Language Processing MSN Search Engine Uses Basis Technology for Natural Language Processing\\Basis Technology announced this week that Microsoft Corp. has chosen the Rosette Linguistics Platform to support Web searches in its new MSN search engine. The companies have entered into a multi-year agreement in which Microsoft has the option to utilize all ... | 3 |
Domain Popularity By Alan Webb Domain Popularity By Alan Webb\\This article was contributed by Alan Webb from ABAKUS Internet Marketing, a long time friend of mine in this industry with a unique grasp of the International Search Marketing Industry. A buzz phrase for some time now in SEO circles has been 'Link Popularity'. Rightly so ... | 3 |
Stocks Finish Lower, Retail Sector Weighs NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday, after data indicated that the critical holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start for retailers. | 2 |
Commerce-ial appeal Carlos Gutierrez, or, as hes becoming known, The American Dream Personified, starts out a Cuban refugee in Miami. He grows up to drive a Kelloggs truck, becomes Kelloggs CEO in 1999, and yesterday | 2 |
Newsview: Iran's Zig-Zags Show Rifts (AP) AP - First, Iran backed down before the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Then it set last-minute conditions, called the retreat only temporary and claimed victory over Washington. | 0 |
White House Plans Push for Intel Overhaul (AP) AP - Former members of the Sept. 11 commission met Tuesday with Vice President Dick Cheney, and President Bush planned talks with leaders of Congress in an attempt to gain passage for an intelligence reorganization bill this year. | 0 |
Rwandan Troops Enter Congo, Congo Officials Say KINSHASA/KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan troops have killed at least 19 civilians in an attack on a town in eastern Congo, a Congolese commander said on Tuesday, after Rwanda said its forces may have launched an attack in pursuit of Hutu rebels. | 0 |
Diouf suspended for spitting London - Senegal World Cup striker El Hadji Diouf will miss Bolton #39;s next three games after he admitted a misconduct charge on Tuesday for spitting in an opponent #39;s face. | 1 |
Dein - no crisis at Highbury (Getty Images) The Gunners will be looking to an inexperienced reserve side to restore their battered morale and reputation at Old Trafford. But even though Arsenal have been hit by injuries to key players, as well as a | 1 |
Former Princess Diana Bodyguard Disproves Claim The late Princess Dianas former bodyguard, Ken Wharfe, dismisses her suspicions that one of her lovers was bumped off. Princess Diana had an affair with Barry Mannakee, a policeman who was assigned to protect her. | 0 |
OECD says UK needs four rate increases The Bank of England should raise interest rates four more times by the end of next year, taking its main interest rate to 5.75 per cent, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. | 2 |
New Rainbow Six targets next spring Next chapter in Ubisoft #39;s Tom Clancy anti-terrorism FPS to feature darker storyline, optimized graphics for PS2, new gear, and more. | 3 |
Cisco Cooks up New Catalysts, GbE IP Phone Touting improved security, availability and network-wide 10 GbE speeds, Cisco today unveiled a slew of upgraded Catalyst switches that are set to ship in December and early 2005. | 3 |
New Zealand bad for business SO another series is over and more bouquets deservedly are coming the way of this redoubtable Australian cricket team. Yesterday, Ricky Ponting held aloft the Trans-Tasman Trophy after another | 1 |
Consumers Fuel Faster Economic Growth WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robust consumer spending during the third quarter helped the U.S. economy advance faster than first thought, a government report showed on Tuesday, while underlying inflation was the tamest in decades. | 2 |
United Airlines Unions Seek Up to \$1 Billion in Skipped Pension Payments The trustee firm representing employee pension funds at United Airlines sought a court order Tuesday that the carrier be required to make up hundreds of millions of dollars in skipped pension contributions before exiting bankruptcy. | 2 |
Homeland Security Chief Ridge resigns He becomes the seventh cabinet member to resign since the election. A White House spokesman insists it #39;s nothing more than second term turnover. | 2 |
2004: The Year Global Warming Got Respect Despite some media assertions to the contrary, the world's scientific community has reached consensus that human-induced climate change is real, a review finds. | 3 |
Consumers Fuel Faster Economic Growth Robust consumer spending during the third quarter helped the US economy advance faster than first thought, a government report showed on Tuesday, while underlying inflation was the tamest in decades. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Bankrupt UAL posts \$114 mln net loss in October Bankrupt UAL Corp. (UALAQ.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) , parent of United Airlines, on Tuesday reported a net loss of \$114 million, including \$14 million in reorganization expenses. | 2 |
Updates: AIG, Time Warner, CalPERS American International Group, Inc. reported that AIG Financial Products Corp., a subsidiary, has reached an \$80 million settlement with the Department of Justice concerning charges that stemmed from structured | 2 |
Diamonds used in swindle to be auctioned Diamonds are forever. And for restitution, too. Martin Frankel, the Greenwich, Conn., financier who swindled millions from insurance companies, converted his ill-gotten gains into diamonds before fleeing the country in 1999. | 2 |
Universal Green-lights HD DVD Universal Pictures is among the first Hollywood studios to announce its support for HD DVD, the high-definition optical disc format backed by a coalition of technology companies led by Toshiba. | 3 |
Firefox Emerges as Credible Threat in Internet Browser Battle By day, Alexander Vincent is a mild-mannered secretary for a Vallejo real estate broker. By night, he #39;s an online crusader protecting users of a new Internet browser from glitches and security bugs. | 3 |
Premiership: Ban Diouf, for a long time If the FA had anything about them at all, which is a separate debate, they would slap a hefty ban on Boltons El-Hadji Diouf, for spitting in the face of Portsmouths Arjan de Zeeuw. | 1 |
Fergie on United kids It is the first time Ferguson and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger have faced each other since October 24 in a Barclays Premiership match which was riddled with bad blood and accusations. | 1 |
Expect more discipline, warns Windies #39; CEO AS the West Indies players gather in Barbados for their three-week camp ahead of the short tour to Australia, an official of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has warned the players to expect | 1 |
Barcelona assured of safety in Ukraine Next week #39;s Champions League match between Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk will go ahead as scheduled in Ukraine after authorities guaranteed security for the game. | 1 |
Prosecutor: Pacers Players to Be Charged An unidentified fan holds a sign referring to the season-long suspension of Indiana Pacers #39; Ron Artest during a game in Seattle between the Pacers and the Seattle SuperSonics Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004, at Key Arena in Seattle. | 1 |
Impotence Rules in the UN Response Rarely has the impotence of the international community #39;s response to the crisis in Sudan #39;s Darfur province been so exposed as during the past week. | 0 |
Thirteen Children Die in Honduras Fire (AP) AP - Honduran children hunting rabbits who were running from a burning sugarcane field were caught in the blaze themselves. Thirteen youngsters were killed, and a man and a 14th child were severely burned. | 0 |
Crude Futures Fall Ahead of Weekly Stocks Report Crude oil futures prices fell Tuesday as concerns about reduced output in the North Sea were offset by expectations that an upcoming government report would show rising inventories of heating oil. | 2 |
Russian Duma Deputies Submit Anti-Terror Proposals MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian deputies submitted a draft anti-terrorism law to parliament on Tuesday in the latest security measure after attacks such as the Beslan school massacre in which more than 330 people were killed. | 0 |
Vermeil Figures on Coming Back Next Year (AP) AP - The coach who made burnout a part of sports lexicon is 68 and enduring one of the most disappointing years of a long, distinguished career. | 1 |
American and Caribbean region qualify for the 32-country field at <b>...</b> in Germany, the fourth-place team will play the No. 5 nation in Asia in a. on the road. The Americans reached the World Cup for the first time in 40 years. | 1 |
Hornets' Magloire fined for throwing ball at coach (AFP) AFP - New Orleans Hornets center Jamaal Magloire, who is expected to miss three months of the National Basketball Association season with a dislocated finger, will have to find a way to open his wallet. | 1 |
Harmony Puts Brave Face On 11 Percent HARMONY Gold, which has managed to acquire only 10,8 of Gold Fields in the first stage of its hostile takeover bid, put a brave face on its offer yesterday, saying it would immediately launch the second part of its offer for the remaining shares. | 2 |
GM to Lay Off 950 at New Jersey Truck Plant General Motors Corp. on Tuesday said it will lay off about 950 workers at its Linden, New Jersey, truck plant early next year and cease production of the two sport utility vehicles manufactured at the facility. | 2 |
US upholds tariffs on shrimp imports The Bush administration on Tuesday upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam, handing a victory to beleaguered US shrimp producers. | 2 |
Forecaster says nation #39;s luck ran out with this year #39;s hurricane <b>...</b> MIAMI The nation #39;s top hurricane forecaster says this year #39;s deadly storm season was a case of the nation #39;s luck running out -- adding that future years will likely bring more frequent and more powerful storms. | 2 |
Chico #39;s 3Q Profit Surges; Shares Climb Women #39;s clothing retailer Chico #39;s FAS Inc. on Tuesday posted a 39 percent jump in third-quarter profit, helped by sharply higher sales and improved margins. | 2 |
US labour relations board hits Quebecor with unfair labour charges NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CP) - Quebecor World Inc., targeted by labour allegations of union-busting tactics, has been named in more charges from the National Labor Relations Board in the United States. | 2 |
Handicapping The Drug Stocks Two prominent players and widely held stocks in the group, Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), have been especially battered of late. | 2 |
Lycos Europe Aims To Thwart Spammers with DDoS Attacks quot;It #39;s not going to work, quot; said Laura Atkins, President of the SpamCon Foundation. quot;Spammers will start putting in garbage URLs, and most of those will belong to innocent bystanders. | 3 |
MMO2 Teams Up With DoCoMo to Bring i-mode to UK Under the terms of the agreement, O2 is licensed by DoCoMo to offer the i-mode capability to the 22 million customers of its 2/2.5G and 3G mobile communications networks. | 3 |
UbiSoft Get Ready With The Next Rainbox Six Installment Ubisoft today announced its plans to launch the next installment in the Tom Clancys Rainbow Six franchise in Spring 2005. The next Rainbow Six game follows Team Rainbow, the worlds most | 3 |
Diana thought she was #39;thick #39; London - Princess Diana was self-conscious about her intelligence, or lack of it, according to videotapes broadcast in the United States. | 0 |
Annan hurt by son : UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said yesterday he was disappointed his son did not tell him the full story of his ties to a firm involved in the UN oil-for-food programme, now under investigation. | 0 |
Syrian - Egyptian summit held Syria #39;s President Bashar al-Assad and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday held talks in Sharem al Sheikh. Before the summit, there were erports that during the meeting, Mubarak will offer Assad | 0 |
Stocks Off as Employment Data Disappoints NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slipped on Monday, reversing an early rally, after disappointing U.S. employment data rekindled investor worries about weak economic growth and lackluster corporate profits. | 2 |
Euro drifts back from another all-time dollar high LONDON (AFP) - The euro drifted back from another all-time high against the dollar as dealers booked profits following the sharp appreciation in the currency in the wake of comments from European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet and weak US | 2 |
US Upholds Tariffs on Shrimp Imports The Bush administration on Tuesday upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam, handing a victory to beleaguered US shrimp producers. | 2 |
Powell and Governor of Florida Arrive in Bangkok The four-day trip through the region is designed to assure nations devastated by the tsunami of the United States' support. | 0 |
United unions seek up to \$1 billion in skipped pension payments The trustee firm representing employee pension funds at United Airlines sought a court order today that the carrier be required to make up hundreds of millions of dollars | 2 |
Pfizer Sales to Be Hurt in Next 2 Years NEW YORK - Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. reiterated Tuesday it would meet its 2004 earnings target but said over the next two years it would lose \$14 billion in revenues because of patent expirations. | 2 |
29 Brokerage Firms Fined In today #39;s fines, Merrill Lynch amp; Co. was hit with the second largest, at US\$1.6 million, followed by American Express Financial Advisors, at \$700,000. | 2 |
Natural gas giant Gazprom to participate in Russian auction of key <b>...</b> The nascent petroleum division of natural gas giant Gazprom will bid for the crown jewels of the battered Yukos oil empire, its chief said Tuesday - a widely anticipated move that could put the heart of the company jailed billionaire Mikhail | 2 |
Truth in Lending #39; Damages Limited by Top US Court (Update1) The US Supreme Court, siding with the financial services industry, tightened the limits on damages consumers can get from companies that violate the federal Truth in Lending Act. | 2 |
Sony launches iPod killer <a href="http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04113013.htm">Sony vs. Big Apple</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Motley Fool</nobr> | 3 |
Navigator #39;s Beta Nods to IE, Firefox America Online (Quote, Chart) released an updated prototype of its Netscape Navigator browser today to a limited number of beta testers. | 3 |
Cisco Unveils Advanced IP Phone, Catalyst Switch Improvements 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 |
Red Hat Preps Enterprise Linux 4 CRN India: Red Hat aims to more deeply penetrate the enterprise by launching its first Linux distribution based on the Linux 2.6 kernel. | 3 |
UConn accepts bid to Motor City Bowl Connecticut is headed to the Motor City Bowl, the Huskies #39; first postseason as a Division IA team. The Huskies (7-4) will play the winner of Thursday night #39;s Mid-American Conference title game between Toledo (8-3) and Miami of Ohio (8-3). | 1 |
Senior Fatah Official Shot Dead in Nablus (AP) AP - Gunmen shot and killed a senior official from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said. | 0 |
Cuban dissident freed, recounts grueling ordeal Cuban authorities on Tuesday released Ral Rivero, a dissident poet and journalist who spent 20 months and 6 days behind bars for conspiring with the US government to overthrow President Fidel Castro. | 0 |
Human rights group sues Rumsfeld for alleged war crimes A US human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accusing him and other senior US officials of war crimes and torture at Baghdad #39;s Abu Ghraib prison. | 0 |
The Wal-Mart Holiday Shopping Song: Online and Off According to data from Nielsen//NetRatings #39;, Holiday eShopping Index, which tracks shopping activity at over 100 retail and shopping Web sites across ten categories, the number of unique online shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving jumped 11 compared to | 2 |
Gazprom to Bid at Auction of Yukos #39;s Oil Assets In an attempt to create a state energy leviathan, Russia #39;s natural gas monopoly Gazprom said Tuesday that it would bid for the prize oil assets of the crumbling oil giant Yukos, the country #39;s No. | 2 |
Hurricane Season Ends The hurricane season is finally over today. Seven storms hit the Southeast, three indirectly affecting us. The worst hit Florida. Mother Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne made their presences known in there | 2 |
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