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Carbon to Blame for Pollution Heart Damage -Study (Reuters) Reuters - Air pollution clearly causes\immediate damage to the heart, including heart attacks, but its\short-term effects on asthma and other respiratory symptoms are\harder to document, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Mount St. Helens Is State's Top Polluter (AP) AP - Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens. | 3 |
Groups Alarmed Over Delta Water Plan (AP) AP - A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat. | 3 |
Mount St. Helens Top Washington Polluter (AP) AP - Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens. Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze. | 3 |
Rogge hits out at 2012 bid rivals IOC president Jacques Rogge says the five cities bidding to host the 2012 OIympics must stop 'bickering'. | 0 |
Bush Visits Canada On Fence-Mending Tour US President George Bush is visiting Ottawa today, his first stop on a fence-mending tour that takes him to Europe early next year. This is his first official visit to Canada since becoming president four years ago. He skipped Canada in favour of visiting Mexico at the start of his first term in office, and cancelled a state visit to Canada last year, after Canadians got vocal about their opposition to the Iraq conflict. As CBC News reports, the purpose of this visit may be to smooth relations damaged by the war in Iraq and trade disputes over Canadian beef and softwood lumber. Bush is also expected to ask Martin for a stronger and longer commitment to peacekeeping in Afghanistan and help with organizing elections and rebuilding political institutions in Iraq. CBC News also speculates that Bush may offer a more definitive timetable for reopening the U.S. border to Canada's cattle. | 3 |
Itanium inventor bobs to surface as chip's savior? <strong>Exclusive</strong> Secure64 to the rescue | 3 |
Nintendo DS Game Player Draws Crowds on Japan Debut TOKYO (Reuters) - Eager crowds and stores that opened three hours early greeted the Japanese launch of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s DS video game player on Thursday, the latest entrant in an increasingly cut-throat market. | 3 |
XM CEO Sees Satellite Radio on Cell Phones LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=XMSR.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">XMSR.O</A> chief executive officer Hugh Panero on Wednesday said he expected satellite radio and cellphone services to converge within the next five years. | 3 |
Google CEO Says Company Proud of Auction-Style IPO SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executive of Google Inc. said the Web search company was "proud" of its recent auction-style initial public offering, but said he did not know if it would change the way companies choose to go public in the future. | 3 |
ESPN to Launch Mobile Phone Service in Sprint Deal LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co.'s <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=DIS.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">DIS.N</A> ESPN sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile telephone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=FON.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">FON.N</A> catering to sports fans with news and game highlights on a next-generation network, the companies said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Nintendo Sells 500,000 DS Handhelds in First Week NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.<A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=7974.OS qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">7974.OS</A> sold 500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of sales in U.S. stores for the new handheld featuring two screens for game playing, the Japanese game maker said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Headset Maker Plantronics Surfs on Games Wave MILAN (Reuters) - Blockbuster video games and cheap Internet phone calls are boosting demand for Plantronics' <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=PLT.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">PLT.N</A> headsets, the chief executive of the world's leading maker of phone headsets said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Cingular Raises Profit Outlook Cingular Wireless, the largest U.S. 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 #38;T Wireless Services Inc. | 3 |
Nintendo sells 500,000 DS Handhelds in First Week Nintendo Co. Ltd. sold 500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of sales in U.S. stores for the new handheld featuring two screens for game playing, the Japanese game maker said Wednesday. | 3 |
Japan's NTT DoCoMo sees Europe embracing hi-tech mobile phones (AFP) AFP - Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo believes Europe will embrace hi-tech telephones and expects a major boost in subscribers on the continent of its i-mode Internet service. | 0 |
Australian consortium buys UK broadcast business An Australian investment fund will spend more than \$3 billion buying into the broadcast operations of UK communications company NTL Incorporated. | 2 |
Microsoft sees blogs for the masses The company that helped push word-processing and graphical computing into the mainstream wants to do the same thing with weblogs. Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Philips to Nearly Double China R amp;D Staff 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 #39;s growing clout as a technology center. | 3 |
Amid hype over Wake-Illinois backcourt duos, Head emerges as star CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The clock read 4 am Wednesday in their apartment when Illinois guard Dee Brown turned to his roommate, fellow guard Luther Head, and said, quot;Do you know what #39;s going to happen tomorrow? | 1 |
India set sights on victory Kolkata - South Africa were bowled out for 222 after 72 minutes of play on the final day to set a 117-run target for India to win the second and final Test here on Thursday. | 1 |
Utah St. 71, BYU 57 Nate Harris scored 26 points and Spencer Nelson had 14 points and 11 rebounds in Utah State #39;s 71-57 victory over BYU on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Gun battle erupts as Powell visits Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - An intense gun battle broke out just outside Haiti #39;s presidential palace, injuring eight people as US Secretary of State Colin Powell met with interim government leaders, authorities said. | 0 |
Rwanda confirms Congo mission GOMA, Congo - Rwandan President Paul Kagame confirmed late yesterday that his country #39;s troops will begin an operation in pursuit of Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after UN troops spotted about 100 purported Rwandan soldiers | 0 |
The Search Engine Report - Number 97 Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from November 2004. | 3 |
Press Releases New Back Door To Search Engine Rankings Press Releases New Back Door To Search Engine Rankings\\Greg Jarboe, President and co-founder of SEO-PR revealed a blockbuster secret back door to top search engine ranking when he presented to a comparitively small share of attendees at WebMasterWorld.com World of Search #7 conference. Jarboe presented a case study of client ... | 3 |
Google PageRank is for Entertainment Purposes Only Google PageRank is for Entertainment Purposes Only\\This is shocking news, I mean, we all knew PageRank was not something to look at too closely these days, but for Google to come out and say "The PageRank that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is for entertainment purposes only", kind of ... | 3 |
Lycos Anti-Spam Make Love Not Spam Service Launched Lycos Anti-Spam "Make Love Not Spam" Service Launched\\Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars "It's payback time! Lycos Europe is distributing (for free) a screensaver that targets ... | 3 |
News: Hackers knobble Lycos anti-spam plan Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected. | 3 |
Columnists: Closed Source Hardware Trust with hardware vendors for open source systems is becoming a one-way street, where in exchange for support they offer a closed source binary solution with no provision to audit security. | 3 |
Hot Topic: Color Open your eyes to virtual color proofing. Explore the new pro/color site to learn how you can make your all-digital design workflow truly all digital. You #146;ll also discover what hues color the worlds of leading designers, tools and resources for achieving optimal color and more. Dec 01 | 3 |
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: A Clutter-free Application In the last tip you learned how to instantly clean up your desktop using Expos #233;. Did you know that you can use this nifty feature of Mac OS X to clean up the windows within an application? This week #146;s tip shows you how. Dec 01 | 3 |
I Want My Moscow TV A lone inventor with a colorful past has come up with a way to let you tap into your home TV reception anywhere in the world. | 3 |
High Rise, High Tech: Online Rant Control Complaints about apartment buildings have found a raucous new outlet as residents turn to online message boards to share gripes and gossip. | 3 |
LG.Philips to Spend \$5.1 Billion on New Flat-Panel TV Factory The LG.Philips LCD Company plans to spend a record 5.3 trillion won, or \$5.1 billion, to build the world's largest plant for flat-panel sets. | 3 |
Street Smarts: A Device to Help the Blind Find Crosswalks An electronic eye that can be fitted to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more safely. | 3 |
Nokia and Microsoft bet on India Nokia and Microsoft both announced new ventures in India on Wednesday, underscoring the country #39;s increasing allure for high-technology companies. | 2 |
Web Positioning With Top Results Or The Ability To Attract More <b>...</b> If placing your website within the top search engine results, entering certain keywords in Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, or Alta Vista, has become your daily obsession, stop for a moment and reflect. | 3 |
SuperSonics Beat Jazz 129-119 in OT (AP) AP - Ray Allen scored a season-high 38 points, including nine in overtime, and the Seattle SuperSonics overcame Carlos Boozer's career-high 36-point performance for a 129-119 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Dascenzo: Willingham a victim of high demand for Meyer Urban Meyer is standing in what looks like an indoor football practice facility, I am assuming, somewhere on the campus of The University of Utah. | 1 |
FACTBOX-Anil Kumble factbox Factbox on leg spinner Anil Kumble, who took his 434th test wicket to equal Kapil Dev #39;s India record in the second test against South Africa on Thursday. | 1 |
No. 24 Virginia Nips Northwestern 48-44 (AP) AP - Elton Brown had 15 points and 12 rebounds to lead No. 24 Virginia to a 48-44 victory over Northwestern on Wednesday night. | 1 |
The only one we #39;ve got Like many organisations, the United Nations sometimes goes for clunky jargon and lowest common denominators when addressing important questions. | 0 |
Reports show jump in distillates, including heating oil SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Crude futures closed under \$46 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since late September and heating-oil and unleaded gasoline prices dropped more than 6 percent following an across-the-board climb in US petroleum inventories. | 2 |
Calpers Ouster Puts Focus on How Funds Wield Power The ouster of the president of California #39;s public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors will be able to keep wielding influence in corporate governance campaigns. | 2 |
Pencil in Illini for a No. 1 seed right now Seeing as how so many members of the NCAA Tournament selection committee are just good people, given how much they #39;ll have to squeeze into a single weekend next March, I thought it might be nice to take a little work off their hands. | 1 |
JEROME WILLIAMS - Charles Wenzelberg It was shaping up to be another mundane evening in the back-to-back life of an NBA team. The Knicks, pushed to the limit by the lowly Hawks in Atlanta on Tuesday, clearly were going through the motions early on against Memphis last night at the Garden. | 1 |
Clippers 88, Pacers 76 Elton Brand scored 27 points, Bobby Simmons added 20 and the Los Angeles Clippers barely held on to beat the short-handed Indiana Pacers 88-76 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory. | 1 |
Men #39;s Basketball News Update BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Playing in its first-ever Big Ten/ACC Challenge game at Assembly Hall, the Indiana Hoosiers put up a fight, but fell on the short end, 70-63, to No. | 1 |
E-Mails Provide A Glimpse Into 'Iron Triangle' "Everyone's nervous," Acting Undersecretary of Defense Michael W. Wynne warned in a confidential e-mail to Air Force Secretary James G. Roche on July 8, 2003. | 2 |
Lawmakers Ask Fannie To Explain Tainted Funds Three House Financial Services subcommittee chairmen yesterday called on Fannie Mae to answer allegations that the company failed to blow the whistle on a mortgage fraud scam and accepted \$6.5 million that it knew had been swindled from a government agency. | 2 |
Md. Senate Panel Relents on Medical Malpractice Reform A Senate commission studying Maryland's medical malpractice crisis gave some ground yesterday on legal changes sought by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) and endorsed the creation of a state fund that would subsidize doctors' insurance costs for the next four years. | 2 |
Loudoun Schools Gird For Growth Superintendent cites parental pressure to compete with Fairfax in proposed 17 percent budget increase. | 2 |
Warner, GOP Urge Funding Restraint RICHMOND, Dec. 1 -- The coalition of Virginia interest groups that helped push through a \$1.5 billion tax increase this year received a blunt message Wednesday from Gov. Mark R. Warner and senior Republican legislators who control the purse strings: Don't expect the same gift twice. | 2 |
Las Vegas Ads' Winning Streak Inspiration is an unruly beast. One day in late 2002, advertising copywriter Jason Hoff and his writing partner Jeff Candido were noodling with some concepts for a new tourism-promotion campaign for their client, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. There was, decidedly, not much inspiration. | 2 |
China keeps tight rein on credit China is planning to extend official policies clamping down on credit into 2005, to try to keep the economy from boiling over. | 2 |
Oil costs send stocks rising Buying takes off after the price of crude falls to \$45.49, giving S amp;P and Nasdaq one of their best days. By Michael J. Martinez / Associated Press. | 2 |
TiVo Untethered and Ready to Go A new portable service will allow people to transfer shows recorded by TiVo to PCs or laptops and take them on the road. But don't try sending programs over the web. | 3 |
Kennedy set to make swift million from clearing out the clutter CAROLINE KENNEDY is staging the ultimate yard-sale. She is clearing out paintings, furniture, horseriding gear and a mysterious photograph of a nude woman by a swimming pool from the attics and cupboards of several family homes. | 3 |
Eyewear to help you cross roads Crossing the road may soon be as straightforward -- and safe -- for blind and visually impaired people as it is for someone with good eyesight, thanks to a new device that acts as an quot;electronic eye. | 3 |
Willingham takes the blame Calm and composed as ever, Tyrone Willingham addressed his dismissal at Notre Dame on Wednesday. Willingham, fired as the school #39;s head football coach after three years on the job, didn #39;t lash out at his former employer. | 1 |
No. 24 Virginia 48, Northwestern 44 EVANSTON, Ill. Northwestern tied the game with less than two-and-a-half minutes left, but lost to Number 24 Virginia 48-to-44 tonight. | 1 |
COL BKB: North Carolina 70, Indiana 63 Rashad McCants produced 19 points Wednesday night to help No. 11 North Carolina outbattle Indiana, 70-63, for its fifth straight win. | 1 |
Commonor's Remote Control Castle The automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Massive task for Kallis and de Bruyn Master batsman Jacques Kallis #39;s ability to keep India at bay on Thursday seems likely to decide South Africa #39;s fate in the second test - and the series. | 1 |
Pollock joins elite list of Test all rounders Calcutta, India - South Africa #39;s Shaun Pollock became only the fifth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on the fifth day of the second and final Test against India on Thursday. | 1 |
Serb chief defiant after foiled attempt on his life Following an apparent attempt on his life, Serbia #39;s President Boris Tadic said yesterday that no threats would prevent him from quot;pursuing the mission of establishing democracy in the country quot;. | 0 |
Microsoft Unveils New Communication, Blog Tools (Reuters) Reuters - Microsoft Corp. unveiled on\Wednesday a new set of Web-based services allowing users of its\MSN service to publish and track each other's blogs, or online\journals. | 3 |
IBM Gathers Asian Backers for Its Power Chip Push (Reuters) Reuters - IBM plans to unveil on\Thursday a group of partners to promote its Power computer\chips in a range of electronics, seeking to bring the\community-minded innovation of Linux software to hardware. | 3 |
Sharon Battles to Save Government from Collapse JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Reeling from a parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared Thursday to open coalition talks to save his shattered government and avoid early elections that could stall his Gaza withdrawal plan. | 0 |
Ukraine appears set for new poll It looks likely that Ukraine will hold a new election as it awaits a supreme court verdict on electoral fraud. | 0 |
Prison confirmed for Lindh killer Sweden's Supreme Court rules the killer of politician Anna Lindh will serve life in jail, not in psychiatric care. | 0 |
Music honour for Beach Boy Wilson Beach Boys star Brian Wilson is honoured by the US Recording Academy, the body which awards the Grammys. | 0 |
Japan sentences web film pirate A businessman is sentenced to one year in jail in Japan for making a pirated film available on the internet. | 0 |
Anxiety increases over Iranian nuclear program VIENNA -- A year ago, nonproliferation officials were jubilantly hailing the triumph of diplomacy in reining in Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions. But many now fear that efforts to negotiate with Tehran have descended into a perilous diplomatic quagmire. | 0 |
In Mozambique, vote to bring change at top MAPUTO, Mozambique -- Mozambique's poor, many carrying small children, trudged along narrow dirt roads in oppressive heat yesterday to pick a replacement for the president who has ruled this downtrodden African country for the past 18 years. | 0 |
Iraqi president throws support behind Jan. 30 election BAGHDAD -- President Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support yesterday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter registration in some Sunni areas. | 0 |
Samsung Faces Concerns Over Margins Concern over falling profit margins at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. grew on Thursday as the company said it was spending more on handset marketing and a top broker issued a sell #39; #39; rating on its stock for the first time in years. | 2 |
Update 2: Accountants Sift Aviation Oil #39;s Books Financial experts combed records Thursday at China Aviation Oil, the Singapore-listed jet fuel supplier that this week sought court protection from creditors after admitting crushing losses from speculative trading. | 2 |
Macquarie buys TV towers for 1.27bn CABLE firm NTL has agreed to sell its broadcast infrastructure business to a consortium led by Australia #39;s Macquarie Bank in a deal worth 1.27bn, and could return the money to shareholders through a special dividend. | 2 |
Calpers President Voted Out Sean Harrigan was ousted from his post as president of the \$177 billion California Public Employees #39; Retirement System. In a 3 to 2 vote in San Francisco, the California state Personnel Board pulled Harrigan | 2 |
Yukos assets...ONGC may bid with Gazpromneft ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) could emerge as the favored partner of Russian gas firm Gazpromneft in the latter #39;s bid for the assets of the beleaguered Russian oil giant Yukos. | 2 |
Income, Consumer Spending Up Rocky Mountain vacation resorts said their advance ski season sales are up from a year ago, while Texas retailers reported a recent run on high-definition televisions. | 2 |
Ford, GM report slow month; Japanese carmakers gain The nation #39;s two largest automakers said Wednesday they will reduce production in the first quarter of 2005 after reporting weak November sales. | 2 |
Stocks soar on plunging oil prices The biggest drop in oil prices in three years lit a fire under stocks yesterday, boosting the markets near their 2004 highs. Crude plummeted \$3.64 to \$45.49 a barrel after the government reported | 2 |
ESPN dials a cell deal Listen up sports fans, ESPN #39;s about to bring its news, stats, scores, and video - to cell phones. The Disney-owned cable TV powerhouse has inked a deal with Sprint to launch the first ESPN-branded cell phone. | 2 |
Rudy tries investment banking The one-time federal prosecutor, who in the 1980s went after crooked deal-makers at investment banks, is starting one of his own. Dubbed Giuliani Capital Advisors Llc, the Times Square | 2 |
Spanning the Globe Check out those electromagnetic dampers! A user's guide to the five coolest bridges on earth. By David Goldenberg from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Stalking the Wild Wi-Fi Network Several devices on the market will help you find a Wi-Fi network, but the same price doesn't mean the same performance. Product review by Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
Posting Straight Facts on Cancer Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski. | 3 |
All terror attacks use false passports, claims Interpol chief Please buy my international lost and stolen database | 3 |
Sun may have captured other system #39;s asteroids The sun may have captured millions of asteroids from another planetary system during an encounter more than 4 billion years ago, astronomers report today. | 3 |
Nintendo Says DS Selling Faster Than Anticipated #39; in US Nintendo Co., the world #39;s biggest maker of hand-held game machines, said US sales of its DS hand-held console were faster than anticipated #39; #39; in the first week. | 3 |
Apple opens Canadian iTunes store Apple missed its own deadline by a day or two, but nonetheless Canadians yesterday will awake today to find their local iTunes Music Store up and running. | 3 |
Sun and Microsoft bury the hatchet Taking an intentionally cautious tone, Microsoft and Sun executives said Wednesday that the first eight months of their 10-year partnership have yielded small, but significant progress. | 3 |
Microsoft Sues Software Pirates This week Microsoft launched nearly 80 lawsuits against resellers it claims were distributing used or fake certificates of authenticity. | 3 |
Historic flight will take off from Salina A two-mile runway, favorable weather and a central location make Salina the best place for the Global-Flyer #39;s early January record attempt, participants say. | 3 |
CE Players Unveil Broadband on a Chip Four consumer electronics companies are moving into production of a new 64-bit chip for non-PC devices in a bid to address the next generation of broadband services piped into the home. | 3 |
Microsoft squeezed by contract law Microsoft has been dropped from a \$3.6m contract in China because the government broke strict procurement rules, designed to give national firms an edge in securing software deals. | 3 |
3G phones 'bad value' says Which? Consumer group Which? warns against buying 3G handsets in the UK due to a limited network. | 3 |
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