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Ferguson ready for Arsenal youngsters Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson expects to face Arsene Wenger #39;s young Gunners when the fierce rivals meet again at Old Trafford on Wednesday. | 1 |
Bookies fear Chelsea clean sweep Jose Mourinho hailed Frank Lampard as he led Chelsea last night into the Carling Cup semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Fulham. Frank Lampard came off the bench at Fulham to score a late winner before next week | 1 |
Bolton back Diouf BOLTON striker El-Hadji Diouf can count on his club to provide all the help he needs after admitting a charge of improper conduct and expressing his regret for spitting. | 1 |
Follow along as ESPN The Magazine #39;s Buster Olney breaks down the <b>...</b> The Move: The Giants sign closer Armando Benitez to a three-year, \$21.5 million, plugging a hole that probably cost them the NL West title last season. | 1 |
Two Fans Banned After #39;Basketbrawl #39; Incident Two fans involved in the brawl at last month #39;s Pacers-Pistons game at the Palace in Auburn Hills have been banned from all events at the arena according to a spokesman for the Detroit Pistons. | 1 |
Car Attack on President Inflames Serb Suspicions BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian President Boris Tadic called for a rapid investigation on Wednesday after a man in a car tried several times to ram his limousine as it sped through the streets of Belgrade in a night-time convoy. | 0 |
Israeli PM loses key budget vote Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government could fall after his budget is vetoed by parliament. | 0 |
Emissions double heatwave risk Greenhouse gas emissions have doubled the risk of European heatwaves similar to last year's, a UK study says. | 0 |
Powell Meets With Haitian Leaders Secretary of State Colin Powell met on Wednesday with Haitian political leaders and other opponents of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide in what is likely his last visit to the destitute island nation as the United States' top diplomat. | 0 |
UPDATE 1-GMP says no further plans to pursue bid for Stelco GMP Capital Corp. (GMP.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it has no plans to make further bids to restructure Stelco Inc. | 2 |
Report: Delta pullout to cost North Texas North Texas and DFW International Airport will lose \$782 million annually when Delta Air Lines pulls out of the airport next year, economists say. | 2 |
Microsoft Files Suits Over Certificates of Authenticity Microsoft has filed its first lawsuits over allegedly counterfeit and illicit certificates of authenticity, the labels attached to software packages and computers to verify the legitimacy of the programs inside. | 3 |
Sony, Toshiba to Launch Digital Appliances With Super Chips in <b>...</b> Nov. 30--NEW YORK -- Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. said Monday they will launch digital consumer appliances with highly advanced semiconductors in 2006. | 3 |
GlobalFlyer Aims To Go Voyager One Better LucidBeast writes quot;We all remember Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world in 1986 on one tank of gas. Now Voyager pilot Steve Fossett plans to do it solo with a jet powered GlobalFlyer. | 3 |
Felony charge deferred based on behavior WASHINGTON, DC -- Denver Nuggets forward Rodney White has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor firearm charges in Washington DC after being arrested in September. | 1 |
Three more arrested in English race-fixing scheme English trainer Alan Berry, jockey Paul Bradley, and farrier Steve OSullivan were arrested Tuesday morning as a part of an ongoing race-fixing investigation being conducted by London police. | 1 |
Terrified Filipinos flee new typhoon Terrified survivors were yesterday fleeing the northeast Philippines as a new typhoon bore down on the stricken area where flooding and landslides have left over 400 people dead and 150 missing. | 0 |
Hamas to boycott elections A leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas announced Wednesday that its members will boycott presidential elections scheduled for January 9, reports the Associated Press. | 0 |
Manufacturing Speeds Up as Consumers Spend Away NEW YORK (Reuters) - The outlook for U.S. manufacturing improved in November as factories hired more workers in response to a jump in new orders, a national survey published on Wednesday showed. | 2 |
SkillSoft Learns the Hard Way A buyout of the online learning company looks like the best option for shareholders. | 2 |
Gazprom expands its oil business preparing to buy Yuganskneftegaz Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has announced its intention to be one of the bidders in the auction of the 76.8 stake in Yuganskneftegaz to be held on Dec.19. | 2 |
success story Born in Cuba only a few years before Fidel Castro and his Communist regime came to power, Carlos Gutierrez has reached a destiny that is the stuff of which impossible dreams are made. | 2 |
Update 1: Blockbuster May Raise Offer for Rival Blockbuster Inc., locked in a bidding war for Hollywood Entertainment Corp., announced Wednesday that it may sweeten its offer for the rival video renter. | 2 |
Western Digital Outlook Spurs Sector Disk drive makers were on a roll Wednesday morning after industry giant Western Digital Corp. upped its outlook for the current quarter. | 2 |
Stocks Surge on Energy Inventory Buildup Stocks soared Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials rising more than 120 points, as a large buildup in the nation #39;s energy inventories and increased consumer spending sent stock buyers back to the market. | 2 |
NTT DoCoMo, mm02 Bring I-Mode to Europe DoCoMo has been offering its Internet capable i-mode mobile service in Japan since 1998. Now, under a new agreement, mm02 will provide DoCoMo #39;s i-mode technology to its 22 million customers in Britain, Germany and Ireland. | 3 |
Man Mostly to Blame for 2003 Heatwave Human activity has increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and more than doubled the risk of record-breaking hot European summers, like that of 2003, according to a new study by Peter Stott from the Met Offices Hadley Centre, and Daithi Stone and | 3 |
Canadian iTunes Music Store postponed Apple Computer Inc. confirmed for MacCentral on Wednesday that the Canadian iTunes Music Store has been delayed. Company representatives declined to comment on a specific timeframe for the store, but said in a statement that it would be very soon. | 3 |
Technology ; Sybase Partners with IBM to Sell Database Software Sybase will have an opportunity to increase database software sales by teaming up with Big Blue, which has made a big push into Linux in recent years. | 3 |
Cisco adds video to conferencing suite com December 1, 2004, 10:19 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning | 3 |
Salina chosen as launch site for around-the-world solo flight SALINA - An unprecedented attempt at a solo, around-the-world, nonstop, unrefueled flight will have a distinct Kansas flavor. The around-the-world flight of the GlobalFlyer will begin and, if things go right, finish at the Salina Municipal Airport. | 3 |
Tick #39;s Blick 1 Dec. 2004 quot;You can go this far and no further quot; or quot;When I say no, I mean no quot; or maybe, quot;Don #39;t you dare to question my decisions! | 1 |
Fergie dismisses Arsenal challenge Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has raised the stakes ahead of Wednesday night #39;s Carling Cup clash with Arsenal by claiming that Chelsea are now the team to beat. | 1 |
After 12-2 opening, three straight losing seasons Brigham Young was expected to announce the firing of Gary Crowton as football coach Wednesday, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report. | 1 |
Manufacturing Activity Expands in December (AP) AP - Manufacturing activity expanded for the 19th consecutive month in December, a research group reported Monday, suggesting that the industrial sector entered the new year with solid strength behind it. | 2 |
Sinn Fein rejects quot;humiliation quot; deal The leader of Sinn Fein, the political ally of the IRA guerrillas, says agreement to seal a peace settlement in Northern Ireland was possible but could not be based on quot;humiliation quot;. | 0 |
Sharon Coalition in Jeopardy After Loss in Budget Vote (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\crashed to defeat in a parliamentary budget vote on Wednesday\likely to shatter his coalition and endanger his plan to\withdraw from occupied Gaza. | 0 |
Ukraine's opposition agrees to lift siege of government buildings in Kyiv (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko signed a compromise agreement Wednesday that obliged his supporters to lift their siege of government buildings, but he said they would stay in the streets until a deal is reached on a new vote. | 0 |
Bush Courts Canadians, but Without Budging on Iraq The president sought to mend fences while unambiguously re-embracing a course that most Canadians have condemned. | 0 |
Ford November Sales Fall 4.3 Percent Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that US sales fell 4.3 percent in November as car sales continued to decline and truck sales edged lower despite the continued popularity of its F-Series truck. | 2 |
Global Warming Has Doubled Risk of Fatal Heat Waves, Study Says Global warming caused by human activity has more than doubled the risk of summers as hot as in 2003, when thousands of people in Europe died of heat-related causes, according to a UK study published in the journal Nature. | 3 |
Lycos Offers Revenge for the Spammed Lycos #39; quot;Make Love, Not Spam quot; screensaver targets sites on secure international blacklists. quot;We cannot use this software to bring the spammers #39; sites down entirely, as that would be illegal, quot; says Malte Pollman of Lycos Europe. | 3 |
HD-DVD format gains major backing Let the format wars begin ... again. As if Beta versus VHS wasn #39;t bad enough, and if you just couldn #39;t get enough of DVD versus Circuit City #39;s DivX format, you #39;re sure to love HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray. | 3 |
Crowton out as Brigham Young coach Embattled BYU coach Gary Crowton will be relieved of his coaching duties Wednesday, the Salt Lake Tribune is reporting. BYU administrators have called a noon news conference to quot;address the state of the football | 1 |
These matchups don #39;t happen often If this matchup was left up to Illinois and Wake Forest, it might not have happened. Certainly not on the first day of December. Sure, big-time Top 25 games can be booked as home-and-home series. | 1 |
Dolphins LB Thomas Out for Sunday's Game DAVIE, Fla. (Sports Network) - Miami Dolphins linebacker Zach Thomas will miss Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills with a hamstring injury. | 1 |
Crude oil prices fall as US government reports growing supplies Oil prices fell below \$48 US a barrel Wednesday after the US government reported increases in the US supply of crude oil and distillate fuel, which includes heating oil. | 2 |
Oil Sheds \$3 Heating Oil Supplies Rise LONDON (Reuters) - World oil prices fell nearly \$3 a barrel on Wednesday, shedding 6 percent, as a larger-than-expected build in U.S. heating stocks soothed worries about a winter fuel deficit. | 2 |
Dollar General's 3Q Profit Drops 9 Percent (AP) AP - Dollar General Corp. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profits dropped nearly 9 percent amid high gas prices and reduced spending by its core, low-income customers. The discount retailer also lowered its forecast for the rest of the year. | 2 |
Fed Beige Book: Economic Growth Continued WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy continued its expansion over the past month, with labor market conditions improving and business lending on the rise, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Oil Falls \$3, Winter Fuel Inventories Up LONDON (Reuters) - World oil prices slid \$3 a barrel on Wednesday, shedding nearly 7 percent, as a larger-than-expected build in U.S. heating stocks soothed worries about a winter fuel deficit. | 2 |
Stocks Shoot Higher as Oil Slumps NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks shot higher on Wednesday as oil prices tumbled by more than \$3 a barrel, easing worries about the impact high energy costs have on corporate profits and consumer spending. | 2 |
IOC Still Concerned About Turin Housing (AP) AP - The IOC expressed renewed concern Wednesday about housing at the 2006 Winter Olympics but expects Italian organizers to be ready when the games begin in 14 months. | 1 |
Handhelds a Hit For Thanksgiving With the unveiling of the new Nintendo DS handheld system, consumers were greeted with what has been touted as the most innovative gaming technology we #39;ve seen this generation. | 3 |
AOL revamps multimedia search engine com December 1, 2004, 10:30 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients. | 3 |
ATI Announces New X850 and X800 Cards December 01, 2004 - ATI Technologies today officially unveiled its new lineup in its RADEON X800 family of add-in graphics boards, including both a new flagship board as well as new, more wallet-friendly incarnations of its current crop. | 3 |
Google in China: Politically Correct? One of the best things I like about the Internet is the boundary-less nature of this amazing network. I can check out user views of people (from here in India) around the world on the India issues. | 3 |
Phonak Rips Apart Before Thanksgiving, I wrote about the potentially far-reaching effects of Tyler Hamilton #39;s drug case. As of yesterday morning, some of the potential became actual, as the | 1 |
Jailed Palestinian leader #39;will now run in elections #39; The jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind again and pledged to run in the January presidential election, officials said. | 0 |
Cingular Tips Hand On Wireless Broadband, 3G Plans Cingular will not only roll out a 3G UMTS cellular data network next year, but it also will use even faster wireless technology that will compete, at least in part, with wireless broadband technologies like WiMAX. | 2 |
Costello Says Telstra Corp. Made Unwise Investments in Asia Australian Treasurer Peter Costello said Telstra Corp., the nation #39;s biggest phone company, made unwise #39; #39; investments in Asia. | 2 |
Analysts Say Kremlin Seeks Control Of Oil Sector Through Yukos <b>...</b> Russia #39;s state-owned Gazprom monopoly has announced it will bid for Yukos #39;s main oil production unit, which is being auctioned off by the government. | 2 |
Starbucks Sales Up 13 Pct, Shares Rise Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least 13 months rose 13 percent in November, helped by the coffee shop chain #39;s early launch | 2 |
Synopsys Loses \$28.4M on 4Q Sales Drop Synopsys Inc., which makes software used in the design of microchips, on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter sales slumped 27 percent, triggering a loss for the period. | 2 |
Samsung Beats Motorola In Market Share CHICAGO - Catching Nokia has been an obsession at Motorola. But is the Schaumburg, Ill.-based handset maker catching the Asian flu? | 2 |
Bush plan on dams rekindles salmon debate Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. | 2 |
Cingular Raises Profit Outlook Cingular Wireless, the largest US wireless phone company, said Wednesday it expects to report a profit and positive cash flow in 2005, one year earlier than planned, following its \$41 billion purchase of AT amp;T Wireless Services Inc. | 2 |
GMP Securities pulls out of Stelco effort to restructure and <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - A Bay Street investment dealer has dropped out of the battle to refinance Stelco Inc., saying it can #39;t compete in a sales process that favours the Hamilton steelmaker being taken over by an industry player. | 2 |
Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army Internet portal Lycos Europe has denied that its quot;Make love not spam quot; Web site was hacked into and defaced last night. The company said that an e-mail that contained an apparent mirror image of the Web site being hacked was a hoax generated by spammers. | 3 |
Microsoft releases patch to fix severe Internet Explorer flaw SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. released a critical security patch Wednesday to fix a flaw in its Internet Explorer Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on another person #39;s computer. | 3 |
DVD battle a fight to the death THE fight over what #39;s going to replace your DVDs has heated up as three major movie studios announce support for one of two competing next-generation formats. | 3 |
ATI launches X850, X800-XL graphics processors ATI today added the X850 series of graphics processors as a new high-end version for its desktop product line. The X800-XL takes the X800 family to an entry level price point. | 3 |
Human Activity Tied to Deadly Heat Waves While human activity probably isn #39;t directly responsible for the 2003 heat wave that caused thousands of deaths in Europe, British researchers say human influence on the | 3 |
Nintendo Sells 500,000 DS Handhelds in First Week Nintendo Co. Ltd.(7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) sold 500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of sales in US stores for the new handheld featuring two screens | 3 |
Kirkland company sued by Microsoft KIRKLAND -- A local company is one of several across the country targeted by Microsoft Corp. in a spate of copyright and trademark infringement lawsuits filed Monday. | 3 |
DoCoMo to come to UK No sooner than weve all got used to the idea of 3G services in the UK, mm02 has teamed up with NTT DoCoMo to allow 02 to launch the I-mode internet service in Britain, Germany and Ireland. | 3 |
IBM Supports Sybase for Linux IBM has decided to extend its support for Sybase, a competing database product to its DB2 database package, to present a Linux server-software package. | 3 |
Canceled Contract Clouds China #39;s IT Procurement Policies On 28 November 2004, Beijing #39;s municipal government announced the cancellation of a \$3.6 million contract, awarded without tender on 18 November, that would have allowed it to use Microsoft software for a period of 3 years. | 3 |
Fish agency lets dams off hook Columbia River Basin dam operations don #39;t jeopardize imperiled salmon and steelhead, according to a new biological opinion released Tuesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service. | 3 |
Google #39;s China Filtering Draws Fire quot;China is censoring Google News to force Internet users to use the Chinese version of the site which has been purged of the most critical news reports, quot; said a statement from Reporters Without Borders. | 3 |
Fired Willingham blames only himself SOUTH BEND, Ind. - One day after being dismissed as Notre Dame football coach, Tyrone Willingham admitted that he failed to live up to his own expectations. | 1 |
Mississippi fires Cutcliffe after 4-7 season Mississippi coach David Cutcliffe was fired Wednesday after his first losing season in six years with the Rebels. Ole Miss officials informed Cutcliffe of the decision early Wednesday and Cutcliffe met with the team before an afternoon news conference. | 1 |
WRAPUP 1-Feyenoord, Steaua reach last 32 in UEFA Cup Feyenoord won the battle of the former winners to reach the last 32 of the UEFA Cup on Wednesday after a 2-1 victory over Schalke 04. | 1 |
Jags sign Freeman, Allen as injury replacements The Jacksonville Jaguars signed defensive end Eddie Freeman on Wednesday and re-signed running back David Allen. The team also placed defensive end Rob Meier on injured reserve and released linebacker Jimmy McClain. | 1 |
Gators accept Peach Bowl invite Florida has officially found its bowl. Now, it just needs to find its coach. The Gators accepted an invitation to play either Virginia Tech or Miami in Atlanta #39;s Peach Bowl on Dec. 31. | 1 |
Gugliotta returns to Celtics lineup CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Boston Celtics added a healthy Tom Gugliotta and deleted injured Delonte West. Gugliotta, 34, was activated Wednesday from the injured list after missing seven games because of lower back pain. | 1 |
Business Community Applauds Baseball Plan Business leaders are applauding the DC Council #39;s revised plan to build a stadium for the soon-to-be Washington Nationals. They say Council Chairman Linda Cropp #39;s amendments Tuesday will help | 1 |
CA picks SAP for ERP rollout Computer Associates International (CA) has selected SAPas its vendor for a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system to replace a collection of homegrown accounting systems. Services firm Accenturewill assist with the implementation, CA said Wednesday. | 2 |
Martin: Partnership #39;even more important #39; Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin recounted Wednesday the hospitality Canadians displayed to stranded travelers after US airspace closed in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. | 0 |
Gunfire erupts in Haiti, Powell amp; entourage safe WASHINGTON - Gunfire erupted outside Haiti #39;s presidential palace in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday as US Secretary of State Colin Powell met with senior Haitian officials, CNN reported. | 0 |
Turmoil in Jerusalem as Sharon breaks up coalition. . . ARIEL SHARONS shaky government was in turmoil last night after the Israeli Prime Minister sacked the junior partner from his ruling coalition. | 0 |
Global effort to curtail smoking hits milestone On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris #39;s masculine image of a smoker. Television stations in | 0 |
Iraqi Premier and Sunni Leaders Meet in Jordan to Discuss Election The interim prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, met here today with Sunni Arab leaders to try to persuade them to take part in the Iraqi elections planned for late next month. | 0 |
Burma exiled government denounced over continued detention of <b>...</b> Exiled - National Coalition of Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) on 30 November strongly denounced Burmas military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) for extending the house arrest of democracy leader and Nobel laureate Daw Aung | 0 |
IBM scores \$1B in Danish contracts IBM said Wednesday that it has sewn up outsourcing deals with two Danish companies valued at more than \$1 billion over 10 years, reinforcing its strength in Europe.<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p><p><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.ifw.general/sbcspotrssfeedgimme;sz=1x1;ord=200301151450?" width="1" height="1" border="0"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;11714788;10469367;q?http://infoworld.com/spotlights/sbc/main.html?lpid0101035400730402idlp">White Paper: Converged Services Spell Relief</a><br/>Discover why technical decision makers are turning to IP telephony and VPNs to increase worker productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line.</p> | 2 |
Oil Drops, Markets Climb The Dow Jones industrials shot up more than 160 points Wednesday, enjoying one of its best days of the year as crude prices plummeted on a weekly government report on oil inventories. | 2 |
Deutsche Bank to axe 1,920 jobs Germany's biggest banks is to cut 1,920 positions over the next two years as part of an ongoing reorganisation. | 2 |
UN Confirms Rwandan Troops Have Entered Congo The UN confirmed today that Rwandan troops have crossed the border into Congo in pursuit of rebel forces and was investigating reports that villages had been set ablaze. | 0 |
"King Tut" Treasure to Return to U.S. in 2005 After 26 years, treasures of Pharaoh Tutankhamun are returning to America. The boy king's artifacts anchor a new museum tour of objects from ancient Egypt's "golden age." | 3 |
Melting Arctic Bogs May Hasten Warming, Study Says In Siberia the world's largest peatlands absorb greenhouse gasses. But could global warming thaw and dry the bogs, turning them into greenhouse gas faucets? | 3 |
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