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Paraguay Clashes Leave 1 Dead, 20 Hurt Clashes between landless farmworkers and Paraguayan security forces left a police officer dead and 20 other people injured in a resurgence of violence that has rattled Paraguay's government. | 0 |
#39;It #39;s high noon #39; for unions, airline A bankruptcy judge today begins hearings on US Airways #39; request to reject its union contracts and impose \$1 billion in wage and benefits cuts on 28,000 workers. | 2 |
Giuliani Opens Investment Bank, Looks To Cash In On Golden Aura Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is opening an investment bank, Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC. It will be a division of consulting firm Giuliani Partners LLC, according to a statement on Giuliani #39;s Web site. | 2 |
Supreme Court ponders IRA-bankruptcy case The Supreme Court considered Wednesday how much retirement savings people can shield when they file for bankruptcy, an important question as more Americans go into debt. | 2 |
#39;Blog #39; Is Runaway Word Of Year (CBS/AP) It #39;s possible you may have looked at a quot;blog quot; to help make your decision whether re-elect the quot;incumbent quot; during the recent quot;electoral quot; process. | 3 |
Apple opens iTunes Music Store in Canada After announcing on Wednesday that the Canadian iTunes Music Store had been postponed, Apple Computer Inc. has quietly launched the store. | 3 |
Milky Way May Have Stolen Other System #39;s Planet Imagine our sun snatching an alien planet from another solar system, four billion years ago. A team of scientists, including a Utah physicist, say it #39;s a possibility based on a wild new simulation. | 3 |
Notre Dame does deserve credit for ending hypocrisy In the wake of the uproar over the news that Notre Dame had fired football coach Tyrone Willingham, this headline appeared on the Internet. | 1 |
Dozen costs, dozen eggs cost The word dozen is similar to the words hundred, thousand and million. On their own, they are nouns, whose plural forms are the same as their singular forms (eg a dozen, two | 3 |
2 Giants to Introduce Enhanced Data Sharing Services on Net Google and Microsoft separately plan to introduce on Thursday enhanced information sharing services for Internet users. Microsoft plans for the first time to offer a | 3 |
Microsoft releases patch to plug IE vulnerability Microsoft today released an out-of-cycle security bulletin and patch for a critical hole in Internet Explorer that is already being widely exploited by attackers. | 3 |
Apache Software Foundation may hire full-time, paid staff The Apache Software Foundation, which now relies on volunteers to stay in operation, may soon have full-time, paid employees, including an executive director. | 3 |
Budget fight deals setback to Sharon The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was thrown into crisis last night after Israel #39;s parliament rejected the proposed 2005 budget and Sharon | 0 |
Belgrade attack #39;was road rage #39; A feared assassination attempt on Serbia #39;s President Boris Tadic was actually a case of quot;road rage quot; the interior minister has said. | 0 |
EU takes over Bosnia peacekeeping The European Union will begin its largest-ever peacekeeping operation on Thursday when it takes over from the Nato mission to Bosnia Hercegovina. | 0 |
IBM scores \$1B in Danish contracts IBM announced agreements with two Danish companies on outsourcing deals that together are worth more than \$1 billion over 10 years. | 3 |
CA picks SAP for ERP rollout Computer Associates will install an SAP ERP system to replace a collection of homegrown accounting systems. Accenture will help with the implementation. | 3 |
Yikes! I have to plan an IT project After covering technology for two decades, Computerworld's Sharon Machlis gets a taste of life on the IT side of the house when she joins a committee designing and selecting software for a content management upgrade. | 3 |
Lycos antispam screensaver draws fire Lycos Europe launched the "Make Love, Not Spam" screensaver, which repeatedly requests information from Web sites advertised in spam, reducing the performance of those sites. | 3 |
Gartner: Half of U.S. IT operations jobs to vanish in 20 years Gartner researchers believe that as many as 50 of the IT operational jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of coming improvements in data center technologies. | 3 |
Bringing .Net rules to light Products give business people and programmers a shared language that helps them implement changes quickly. | 3 |
Microsoft investigates Windows server flaw Microsoft is investigating a security flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service that could allow an attacker to gain control over systems running the software. | 3 |
Microsoft enters consumer Web logging market Microsoft's MSN division will launch a test version of a free Web logging (blogging) service aimed at consumers on Thursday, Microsoft's first foray as a provider of this increasingly popular Internet activity for the mass consumer market. | 3 |
Microsoft, Sun tout progress on interoperability Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday provided a progress report on their interoperability efforts, touting ongoing cooperation on Web services standardization, deployment of Windows on Sun boxes, and other areas. | 3 |
Microsoft plugs IE hole with special patch Microsoft on Wednesday released an update to Internet Explorer (IE) to fix a security flaw that was discovered a month ago and has since been exploited to attack users. | 3 |
IBM gives CICS a boost In a move to modernize its venerable line of mainframe-based CICS middleware, IBM on Wednesday introduced an updated version of its CICS Transaction Server that enables corporate IT administrators to extend the product to work better with SOAs (service-oriented architectures) through Web services. | 3 |
Orange makes phones talk to the blind PARIS - Orange SA will offer blind customers a software application designed to make their mobile phones talk to them, as part of a new package of services for the visually impaired that will go on sale in France Thursday. | 3 |
MCI offers disk-based backup services MCI on Wednesday introduced a new fully managed data protection service based on disk backup designed to help companies with business continuity.<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 |
Consumer Electronics on Display in Vegas (AP) AP - With Christmas over and done with, it's time to get a look at what gadgets will be hot for next Christmas. | 3 |
U.S. Blue Chips Flat After Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips were flat on Monday after a report showing an unexpected drop in November construction spending offset a drop in oil prices, while a brokerage downgrade of Sun Microsystems <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SUNW.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SUNW.O</A> hurt Nasdaq. | 2 |
Hudec delighted by top 10 at Lake Louise Jan Hudec thought he knew what it would be like. Turns out he was wrong -- its even better. Hudec, a Banffite, came out of the darkness that is the 62nd starting position | 1 |
No. 9 North Carolina 70, Indiana 63 Rashad McCants scored 19 points and Raymond Felton added 18 points as No. 9 North Carolina fought off Indiana 70-63 on Wednesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. | 1 |
Los Angeles Lakers Team Report - December 1 (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Lakers go for their third straight victory and seventh in nine games this evening, when they battle the listless Chicago Bulls at the United Center. | 1 |
Game Quotes On Stephon Marbury: He got into a rhythm and it was a nice zone to be in. His shot looked good and he had good form. He hit big shots and it helped change the game. | 1 |
Carter suffering through miserable season Quite possibly the only NBA player to have a worse start to the season than Ron Artest is Toronto Raptors guard Vince Carter. While Artest is off promoting his R amp;B | 1 |
For Jordan, Future Is Looking Bright Eddie Jordan checked out of the hospital yesterday. He ended up there after Washington Wizards trainers examined his swollen left calf on Thanksgiving morning and immediately recommended that the team #39;s head coach see a physician. | 1 |
No. 22 Alabama 114, East Tennessee St. 77 Earnest Shelton scored 24 points and Ronald Steele had a school-record 18 assists to lead No. 22 Alabama to a 114-77 rout of East Tennessee State on Wednesday night. | 1 |
New Tricks for Palm Tungsten, Dell Axim The Tungsten T5 and the Axim X50v provide impressive extras for PDA fans who want more. | 3 |
New Steganos Pro: Less Anonymity Than Expected In some instances, this privacy software may tell you that you're protected when you aren't. | 3 |
AutoSketch Makes 2D Drawings Easier The AutoSketch 9 program supports powerful tools for drafting and other precise drawing. | 3 |
Good Scans Made Slowly For low-volume users who don't plan to rely on their scanner to do extensive photo restoration work, Visioneer's Xerox 6400 has lots of appeal. | 3 |
MyDVD 6: Better--but Not Best--Burning Sonic's latest version of its DVD burning software improves on its predecessor but still trails the latest offerings from Ahead Software and Roxio. | 3 |
First Look: Netscape's New Browser Still in beta form, new browser allows you to view pages as they would appear in IE. | 3 |
Democrats to oppose Telstra sale as search begins for a new CEO The Australian Democrats has not changed its position on the full sale of Telstra and will continue to oppose any moves by the federal government to sell its remaining 51.8 per cent stake in the telco. | 2 |
US Airways goes to court to void labor contracts US Airways (UAIRQ.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) goes to court on Thursday to throw out labor contracts and union pension plans to save \$750 million annually and survive past January. | 2 |
Drop in oil price lights fire under market The biggest one-day drop in the price of crude oil in more than three years ignited a rally Wednesday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up by more than 160 points. | 2 |
Are IRAs safe from creditors in bankruptcies? The US Supreme Court wrestled yesterday with a question of interest to millions of Americans mired in debt -- whether tax-deferred Individual | 2 |
Gates: Microsoft To Test MSN Spaces Blog Thursday Vox populi, 2004 style. Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) on Wednesday said it will offer blogging to the online many-headed. | 3 |
NTT DoCoMo Seals Deal with MmO2 for I-mode Launch DoCoMo and mmO2 said the service in Britain and Ireland would start in the second half of 2005. A similar service will begin in Germany in 2006. | 3 |
The Future of Team Ninja Itagaki shares his thoughts on DOA Ultimate and reveals new info on Dead or Alive 4. December 01, 2004 - Dead or Alive Ultimate shipped in late October, proving itself to truly be among the ultimate fighting games on Xbox. | 3 |
Barghouthi to contest poll RAMALLAH: The wife of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi said last night she was registering him to run for president to succeed Yasser Arafat. | 0 |
Macquarie Buys NTL #39;s Tower Assets for 1.27 Bln Pounds (Update1) A Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group-led consortium bought NTL Inc. #39;s antenna towers business in the UK for 1.27 billion pounds (\$2.47 billion). | 2 |
There's No Accounting for Goodyear The world's largest tire maker delays filing annual financial reports -- again. | 2 |
Microsoft Unleashes New MSN Services Late Wednesday, Microsoft announced three updated MSN services that are designed to make email, instant messaging (IM) and online sharing more integrated experiences. | 3 |
Lycos Strikes Back At Spammers With DoS Screensaver com. Lycos Europe took the fight to the enemy Monday, by launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service (DoS) attack against sites selling products marketed via spam. | 3 |
500,000 NDS #39; Sold With Nintendo DS sales moving faster than anticipated, some locations have reported sellouts, and Nintendo predicts the initial North American supply will be depleted within days. | 3 |
Schalke trying to hold off Feyenoord in UEFA Cup Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Sports Network) - A top of the table clash between Schalke of the German Bundesliga and Dutch power Feyenoord highlights Matchday 4 of the UEFA Cup group stage. | 1 |
TEST COMES SATURDAY Come Saturday, time to step it up. Coppin State, Ball State, Georgia State, all just bricks in the Kentucky wall. North Carolina is a Heel of a different color. | 1 |
Knicks declaw Grizzlies Stephon Marbury made five three-pointers in the second quarter to help put the Knicks ahead for good, and New York received a fourth-quarter boost from Jerome Williams in a 90-82 victory Wednesday night over the Memphis Grizzlies. | 1 |
For grandpa FULHAM fans would have been singing the late Elvis #39; hit #39;The wonder of you #39; to their player Elvis Hammond. If not for Frank Lampard spoiling the party, with his dedication to his late grandfather. | 1 |
Wizards 95 Nets 68 WASHINGTON Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison led Washington to its fifth victory in six games, a 95-to-68 blowout over New Jersey. | 1 |
No. 22 Alabama Tops East Tennessee State Earnest Shelton scored 24 points and Ronald Steele had a school-record 18 assists to lead No. 22 Alabama to a 114-77 rout of East Tennessee State on Wednesday night. | 1 |
No. 11 Ohio St. 107, Ohio 37 Ohio State matched the record for the most lopsided victory in the women #39;s program when the 11th-ranked Buckeyes defeated Ohio 107-37 Wednesday night. | 1 |
Disney gives first dividend rise for six years Walt Disney, the US media and entertainment group, yesterday announced its first dividend increase in six years following sharply improved earnings. | 2 |
A promising leader for UNC North Carolina would be foolish to let Erskine Bowles disappear into private life. He has far too much to offer the state. Though he would have made a fine US senator, maybe it #39;s just as well that Mr. | 1 |
Celtics 101 Edge Bucks 101-100 Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce, right, hangs on to Milwaukee Bucks center Zendon Hamilton (31) while fouling on a dunk in the second half in Boston, Wednesday Dec. 1, 2005. | 1 |
Bush pushes for cooperation, stands ground President Bush on Wednesday outlined a second-term foreign policy that would make international cooperation his administration #39;s top priority but put responsibility | 0 |
Americans are big underdogs in Spain SEVILLE, Spain - It #39;s been a very satisfying year for US Davis Cup Captain Pat McEnroe #39;s rapidly evolving team. Andy Roddick has been nails at No. | 1 |
Dollar Crumbles to Record Low Vs Euro (Reuters) Reuters - The dollar sank to a record low against\the euro on Thursday and stood near a 12-year low versus the\pound after a round of robust U.S. economic data failed to\dispel souring sentiment on the U.S. currency. | 2 |
Nikkei Up 1.6 Percent by on Wall St Jump (Reuters) Reuters - Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.62 percent\by midsession on Thursday as investors, cheered by a jump in\U.S. stocks, bought a broad range of shares including those\they had avoided recently due partly to doubts about U.S.\demand. | 2 |
Dollar Crumbles to Record Low Vs Euro TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar sank to a record low against the euro on Thursday and stood near a 12-year low versus the pound after a round of robust U.S. economic data failed to dispel souring sentiment on the U.S. currency. | 2 |
Nikkei Up 1.6 Percent by on Wall St Jump TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.62 percent by midsession on Thursday as investors, cheered by a jump in U.S. stocks, bought a broad range of shares including those they had avoided recently due partly to doubts about U.S. demand. | 2 |
Philips to Nearly Double China R D Staff SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Dutch electronics firm Philips said on Wednesday it plans to almost double its research and development staff in China to 1,300 over the next 2 years, underscoring the country's growing clout as a technology center. | 2 |
Oil Prices Steady Above #36;45 a Barrel (Reuters) Reuters - Oil prices steadied above #36;45 a\barrel on Thursday, attempting to put a floor under a 7.4\percent tumble after a big increase in U.S. heating oil stocks\eased worries of a winter supply squeeze. | 2 |
Ziggy #39;s Mission Impossible The chief executive officer of Telstra saw his tenure cut short this week amid preparations for the AU\$30 billion sale of the remainder of the telecommunications heavyweight, likely in early 2006. | 2 |
Guest editorial: The holiday shopping season While economic policymakers like to chew over weighty issues like current accounts deficits and overnight funds rates, the truth is that the economy rests heavily on everyday | 2 |
Giuliani looks to Wall Street Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may have set aside any immediate Washington aspiration, concentrating instead on Wall Street. | 2 |
Savings in bankruptcy at issue at court The US Supreme Court considered yesterday how much retirement savings people can shield when they file for bankruptcy, an important question as more Americans go into debt. | 2 |
Microsoft Debuts MSN Spaces for Bloggers (AP) AP - Hoping to keep more Internet users in its branded universe, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. | 3 |
Google Enhances Discussion Groups (AP) AP - Google Inc. is improving on the discussions its popular Web site hosts, hoping the upgrades will spur more online banter and make its market-leading search engine a richer destination. | 3 |
REVIEW: Music Player Measures Running Pace (AP) AP - It's been a few decades since anyone recorded my mile splits as I bounded over hill and dale, immersed in running's intoxicating rhythm. | 3 |
High-Tech Eye to Help Blind Cross Streets (AP) AP - Equipped with a tiny camera, a high-tech device that recognizes the white stripes of a pedestrian crosswalk and reads traffic lights could tell a blind person when it's safe to cross the street, researchers say. | 3 |
EU takes over Bosnia peacekeeping from NATO (AFP) AFP - The European Union's biggest military operation began in Bosnia as the 25-nation-bloc takes over peacekeeping duties from NATO, nine years after the end of the bitter inter-ethnic war in the Balkan country. | 0 |
'Blog' Most Popular Word on Web Dictionary (AP) AP - The most requested online definition this year was "blog" #151; a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says. | 3 |
Kennedy jumble sale at Sotheby #39;s Nothing is too small or mundane when you attach the name Kennedy to it. Among the items listed in the latest Sotheby #39;s auction of the contents of the Kennedy family homes are a fibreglass kitchen tray, some old suitcases, chipped china and a few tumblers. | 3 |
Computer Q amp;A: Latest action in music wars is down under For many of us, it seems like a long time since the battle of the bands was waged on the front pages of the media. It started with Napster, an illegal file sharing service that made it possible | 3 |
Brazil Amazon Deforestation Jumps, Data Show An area of Amazon jungle larger than the US state of New Jersey has been destroyed this year and work on a new highway is mainly to blame, environmental group Friends | 3 |
Online Holiday Shopping Starts with a Bang (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. consumer Web spending rose\30 percent on the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is\traditionally seen as the start of the online holiday shopping\season, comScore Networks said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Apple opens iTunes Music Store in Canada (MacCentral) MacCentral - After announcing on Wednesday that the Canadian iTunes Music Store had been postponed, Apple Computer Inc. has quietly launched the store. Apple CEO announced the Canadian store would open in November at the iPod event in October that also launched the EU iTunes Music Store, which added Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain to the countries that already had the music store in Europe (United Kingdom, France and Germany). | 3 |
Notre Dame #39;s firing isn #39;t case of black, white Now that Notre Dame has fired Tyrone Willingham, that #39;s how many black head coaches there are at America #39;s 117 Division IA universities. | 1 |
No. 9 North Carolina 70, Indiana 63 North Carolina was ready for its test Wednesday night. Rashad McCants and Raymond Felton made sure the Tar Heels passed. McCants scored 19 points and Felton added 18 to lead the No. | 1 |
Els makes intentions clear for Sun City Sun City - Ernie Els says the longer, toughened-up Gary Player Country Club course - venue for the Nedbank Golf Challenge beginning on Thursday - will not yield the low scores seen in the past in Africa #39;s quot;Major quot;. | 1 |
Martnez and Mets in Waiting Game As the Mets continued waiting for a counterproposal from the three-time Cy Young award winner Pedro Martnez yesterday, it became obvious that they may need more than money to lure him. | 1 |
Former Pakistan captain Latif banned for six months over walk-out (AFP) AFP - Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has been handed a six-month ban from first-class cricket after walking out on a domestic match last week, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said. | 0 |
Customers Win in Database Vendors' Race to Linux (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Opinion: Linux is profoundly shaking up the database market, hopefully to customers' benefit. | 3 |
Jailed Palestinian Leader to Run for President The Palestinian political scene is in turmoil today after jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, in a last-minute reversal, entered the race for president to replace Yasser Arafat, challenging the establishment candidate. | 0 |
Microsoft, Sun tout progress on interoperability (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday provided a progress report on their interoperability efforts, touting ongoing cooperation on Web services standardization, deployment of Windows on Sun boxes, and other areas. | 3 |
Canadian iTunes Music Store postponed (MacCentral) MacCentral - 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 |
Humans Raise Risk of Europe Heatwaves -Scientists (Reuters) Reuters - Human activity has raised the risk of\more heatwaves like last year's, which gave Europe probably its\hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Brazil Amazon Deforestation Jumps, Data Show (Reuters) Reuters - An area of Amazon jungle\larger than the U.S. state of New Jersey has been destroyed\this year and work on a new highway is mainly to blame,\environmental group Friends of the Earth and the government\said on Wednesday. | 3 |
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