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Lacy: Sears Sales Show Holiday Surprise Christmas came early for some retailers: While Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and Limited Brands (nyse: LTD - news - people ) were having a slow start to the holidays, Sears, Roebuck amp; Co. | 2 |
Price will be right for checking credit report Here #39;s a great way to better manage your finances in 2005: Get a free copy of your credit report. Beginning in March, Illinois residents will be entitled to one free credit report from each of the three major | 2 |
Report: Giambi Admits to Using Steroids (Reuters) Reuters - According to a report, New\York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi claimed in his grand\jury testimony that he took a human growth hormone in 2003 and\also used steroids for at least three seasons. | 1 |
Scotland Hires Smith As Soccer Coach (AP) AP - Walter Smith was hired Thursday as the national soccer coach of Scotland, which failed to qualify for the Euro 2004 championship and stands little chance of making it to the 2006 World Cup. | 1 |
Fish, Roddick Set for Davis Cup Final (AP) AP - American Mardy Fish will play Spain's Carlos Moya on Friday in the opening singles match of the Davis Cup final. | 1 |
IBM's PC unit lost money from 2001 onwards IBM's personal computer business racked up \$965 million in losses between Jan. 1, 2001, and June 30, 2004, the company said last week in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group. | 3 |
Sports Focus: Radio/television You can tear up Keith Jackson #39;s invitation to your friendly local Friends of the Fighting Irish pub. News of Tyrone Willingham #39;s ouster after three years at Notre Dame barely had hit the airwaves Tuesday when quot;Mr. | 1 |
US Treasuries Cut Losses on Job Woes Hint NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasuries trimmed early losses on Monday as evidence of sluggish hiring by U.S. manufacturers suggested little need for the Federal Reserve to be more aggressive in hiking interest rates. | 2 |
Violence flare in east DRC, locals flee Thousands of civilians were on Thursday fleeing clashes near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Goma between Rwandan Hutu rebels and unidentified opponents, a senior UN official told AFP. | 0 |
Two Suspect Iranian Sites Pose Headaches for IAEA Iran may be hiding equipment bought by its military that could be used to make nuclear-weapons-grade uranium despite its recent agreement to freeze all such programs and place them under UN supervision, diplomats said Thursday. | 0 |
Rising Chinese business star hit by RM2.09 billion loss SINGAPORE: The career of a fast-rising Chinese expatriate businessman once listed among Asia #39;s future leaders has been brought to a halt after his Singapore-based firm lost 550 million US dollars (RM2.09 billion) speculating in the volatile oil market. | 2 |
quot;Blog quot; takes #1 word of 2004 The folks at Merriam-Webster (publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary) have released their Top Ten list for 2004. Topping the list is the word quot;blog, quot; which most of us know all about from firsthand experience. | 3 |
Anti-spam plan overwhelms sites A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control. Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites. | 3 |
Bhopal disaster: Your views Friday 3 December marks the twentieth anniversary of the world #39;s worst industrial accident in Bhopal, India. Nearly 3,000 people died after a gas leak at a chemical factory owned by the US company Union Carbide. | 0 |
Pongolle keeps his cool to send Liverpool through Florent Sinama Pongolle converted two penalties to send Liverpool into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The striker had ensured a shootout with his 117th-minute penalty and then decided | 1 |
No sign season will get started During the NHL work stoppage in 1994, Doug Wilson worked for the players #39; association and was intimately involved in the process of getting a new deal. | 1 |
Nokia reclaims mobile phone market share The Finnish company sold approximately 51 million handsets in the third quarter, or 30.9 per cent of sales worldwide, after falling below 30 per cent for the last two quarters. | 2 |
Telstra shares up on Ziggy #39;s exit Shares in Telstra rose slightly following the news chief executive Ziggy Switkowski would step down - but the focus remains on who will step up to take the job. | 2 |
UPS to Pay \$100 Million for China Network United Parcel Service Inc. said on Thursday it will pay \$100 million to take over most of the international express delivery operations of its Chinese partner, Sinotrans. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Pathmark loss widens, hires investment bank Pathmark Stores Inc. (PTMK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the Northeast grocery chain beset by falling sales and increased competition, on Thursday reported a wider quarterly loss | 2 |
Software helps users fight spammers THE spammed can now hit back at the spammers with new software from Lycos called Make Love, Not Spam. The software sits on your PC and when the machine is not in use, it generates traffic on the sites of known | 3 |
I #39;m going nowhere - Neville Manchester Uniteds Phil Neville is determined to tough it out at Old Trafford and win back a regular place in the team. The 27-year-old made only his fifth start of the season when he captained the side | 1 |
League Cup still last on Benitez #39;s trophy list Liverpool may have battled back from the brink of defeat to book a League Cup semi-final berth but a penalty shoot-out win against Tottenham did nothing to alter manager Rafael Benitez #39;s view of a competition his club have won a record seven times. | 1 |
Willingham surprised, but takes blame for firing South Bend, IN (Sports Network) - Tyrone Willingham admitted he was surprised at his sudden firing as Notre Dame head coach, but at a news conference Wednesday took blame for the Irish #39;s shortcomings in his three seasons. | 1 |
Stat attack: Kumble better than Kapil The assassin has done it again, equaled the great all-rounder Kapil #39;s record of 434 wickets. It doesn #39;t get better than that! | 1 |
College Basketball: Illinois Defeats Wake Forest CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (Sports Network) - Roger Powell Jr. scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead fifth-ranked Illinois to a lopsided 91-73 win over No. | 1 |
Mubarak predicts Abbas winning Palestinian elections: TV Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that Mahmoud Abbas would probably win the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections, Egyptian television reported. | 0 |
Thousands flee Congo clashes: UN Thousands of civilians are fleeing clashes between Rwandan Hutu rebels and unidentified opponents near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Goma, a senior UN official says. | 0 |
Mugabe Urges Party Unity Amid Succession Struggle Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe called for unity on Thursday amid rare public jostling within his ruling ZANU-PF party over who will eventually succeed the controversial 80-year-old leader. | 0 |
China Aviation seeks rescue plan Collapsed jet fuel supplier China Aviation Oil launches a rescue plan after running up \$550m in trading losses. | 2 |
USA: Wal-Mart posts 8.7 rise in November sales US retail titan Wal-Mart has reported an 8.7 increase in total company sales for November. The company said sales for the four weeks to 26 November were US\$23.5bn, compared to \$21.7bn in the corresponding period of the previous year. | 2 |
Diplomats: U.N. Lacks Right to Inspect Sites in Iran (Reuters) Reuters - Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear\watchdog would like to visit a military complex in Iran that an\exile group said housed a nuclear weapons site, but they lack\the legal authority to go there, U.N. diplomats said. | 0 |
Report: Notre Dame Contacts Meyer (AP) AP - Notre Dame has contacted Utah coach Urban Meyer about its coaching vacancy and was to meet with him Thursday, The New York Times reported. | 1 |
Bin Laden Contacted Indonesia's Bashir, Court Told (Reuters) Reuters - Fugitive al Qaeda leader Osama bin\Laden once invited Indonesian preacher Abu Bakar Bashir to live\in Afghanistan, a young militant jailed over the bombing of a\Jakarta hotel told the cleric's terrorism trial on Thursday. | 0 |
Brown Makes Season Debut for Wizards (Reuters) Reuters - Former No. 1 overall pick\Kwame Brown returned from an off-season foot injury in\Washington's 95-68 rout of New Jersey Wednesday night. | 1 |
Conviction of American in Peru Upheld (AP) AP - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has upheld the conviction of an American woman imprisoned in Peru for terrorist collaboration with Marxist guerrillas, President Alejandro Toledo confirmed Thursday. | 0 |
DR Congo vice president warns Rwanda over rebels (AFP) AFP - Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa accused neighbouring Rwanda of deploying troops in the eastern DRC to flush out Hutu rebels and demanded their withdrawal. | 0 |
Missouri Pulls Video Games From Prison (AP) AP - Prison officials are no longer allowing Missouri's most violent criminals to have access to video games with titles like "Hitman: Contracts." | 3 |
MS moves to can more spammers Microsoft announced today that it has filed seven lawsuits against spammers who failed to label their junk mail as sexually explicit - in contravention of the US #39;s CAN-SPAM law. | 3 |
Off-piste action After waiting an entire summer for the snow to fall and Beaver Creek to finally open, skiers from around the planet are coming to check out the Birds of Prey World Cup action Dec. 1 - 5. Although everyones | 1 |
Sinama-Pongolle Wants Repeat Liverpools Carling Cup hero Florent Sinama-Pongolle has urged manager Rafael Benitez to stick with the youngsters for next months semi-final against Watford after the Reds rookies sent Tottenham crashing last night. | 1 |
Bhajji scripts 1-0 Test series win against Proteas Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh took seven crucial wickets to guide India to an 8-wicket win over South Africa today in Kolkata. With the first Test having ended in a draw, India won the Test series 1-0. | 1 |
Apple iTunes to Carry New Band Aid Single (AP) AP - The new Band Aid charity single will be sold on Apple's popular iTunes online music service, with the company subsidizing the retail cost of the track. | 3 |
Clarion to integrate iPod with car stereos (MacCentral) MacCentral - Clarion Corp. is the latest aftermarket automobile entertainment system manufacturer to step up to the plate with iPod support. The company announced Thursday plans to unveil a new in-dash DVD player/monitor for automobiles that will feature full iPod integration. Clarion also announced plans to introduce a new CD receiver with similar capabilities. Both new products will debut at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in January. | 3 |
Verizon deal lets Philadelphia move with wireless plan (MacCentral) MacCentral - The city of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with Verizon Communications Inc. that will let the municipal government deploy a citywide Wi-Fi network, but a carrier-backed bill that would let incumbent carriers block such projects has been signed into law by Pennsylvania's governor. | 3 |
Mozilla Previews Thunderbird E-Mail App (PC World) PC World - Final version is expected this month; software will compete with Outlook express. | 3 |
Telegraph surrounded story with #39;blizzard #39; of comment The Daily Telegraph applied quot;spin quot; to its presentation of documents alleging that the ex-Labour MP George Galloway was in the pay of Saddam Hussein and its coverage went beyond mere reporting, a high court judge ruled today. | 0 |
Zimbabwe #39;s Mugabe rules out regime change; slams Britain HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe ruled out any regime change in this southern African country as his ruling ZANU-PF party held a congress to renew the party #39;s leadership. | 0 |
Microsoft Issues Special Patch for IE Hole (PC World) PC World - Users should install the critical fix as soon as possible, software giant says. | 3 |
IBM discloses details of chip (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - When IBM gave a sneak peek at its new Cell microprocessor this week, it was short on specifics about what it calls a supercomputer on a chip. But details are leaking out thanks to a recent patent awarded to IBM and Big Blue's own disclosures for an upcoming conference. | 3 |
Heatwave Study May Fuel Global Warming Lawsuits (Reuters) Reuters - A study of a 2003 heatwave in Europe may\give Pacific islanders and environmentalists new ammunition for\legal cases blaming the United States for global warming,\advocates said on Thursday. | 3 |
Panel Calls for Sweeping U.N. Reform (AP) AP - A high-level panel called for sweeping reform of the United Nations in the wake of bitter divisions over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, with proposals to expand the Security Council and to give the powerful body clear guidelines for authorizing preventive military attacks. | 0 |
Putin Critical of New Ukraine Vote Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sharply criticized the Ukrainian opposition's proposal to hold a repeat of the nation's disputed presidential runoff, telling Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma that a revote "would yield nothing." | 0 |
Calpers President Voted Out Sean Harrigan was ousted from his post as president of the \$177 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System. In a 3 to 2 vote in San Francisco, the California state Personnel Board pulled Harrigan from Calpers, where he had served for five years. Elected as Calpers board president in February 2003, Harrigan is a longtime union official and an advocate for corporate governance reform. He persuaded institutional investors to withhold votes for Walt Disney's Michael D. Eisner as board chairman, and he led a drive to withhold votes for Safeway chief executive Steven A. Burd while the union was on strike against the company. Ron Alvarado will succeed Harrigan beginning Jan. 1, a board spokeswoman said. | 0 |
'Serious incident' reported between Darfur truce monitors, Sudan army (AFP) AFP - A "serious incident" has occurred between soldiers from the Sudanese army and members of a commission, led by Chad, monitoring a ceasefire in Sudan's Darfur region, corroborating sources said. | 0 |
UK.gov IT: it's broke, how can we fix it? <strong>Letters</strong> Readers debate how we lost our way | 3 |
Microsoft unveils Welsh software Welsh language campaigners welcome Microsoft's move to run Windows XP and Office 2003 in Welsh. | 3 |
Broadband Pushes Europe Web Users to 100 Million AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - More than half of Europe's Internet surfers now have a high-speed broadband connection at home, which has helped to push the number of Web users in Europe through the 100 million mark, a survey found on Thursday. | 3 |
Microsoft Hopes Its Blogs Will Hunt Microsoft is throwing its hat into the blogosphere, a move seen as another attempt to catch competitor Google in the services-and-search race and an effort to woo more customers to its Internet services. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Fast Internet Service for The People For the millions of people who cannot afford high-speed Internet access, some local officials think they've hit on the answer: Build government-owned networks to provide service at rates below what big telecommunications companies charge. | 3 |
Where the Game Is the Medium The co-founder of game producer WildTangent Inc. is a booming bear of a man who clobbers you with one grand pronouncement after another. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT> | 3 |
Cut-Down Windows Eyes More Markets <p></p><p> By Jennifer Tan</p><p> SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday itwill begin shipping a low-cost version of its Windows XPoperating system to three Asian countries and Russia byearly-2005, tapping developing markets as growth slowselsewhere.</p> | 3 |
Google Enhances Discussion Groups 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 |
'Blog' Most Popular Word on Web Dictionary The most requested online definition this year was "blog" - a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says. | 3 |
Review: Music Player Measures Running Pace 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 |
UK to invest long-term in science Chancellor Gordon Brown announces a long-term plan for investment in science education and hi-tech industry. | 3 |
Farming 'must embrace the new' UK farming must embrace new ideas and scientific developments to survive the next few decades. | 3 |
Eggs 'fertilised' without sperm A way of 'tricking' eggs to divide without being fertilised may aid stem cell and IVF research, say scientists. | 3 |
Update 2: European Central Bank Keeps Rates Steady The European Central Bank left interest rates untouched Thursday, with bank president Jean-Claude Trichet saying Europe #39;s modest recovery remains on track but will slow next year due to high oil prices. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Bank of America vice chairman to retire Bank of America Corp. (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday vice chairman James Hance will retire at the end of January 2005. | 2 |
IMF says talks with Argentina to follow debt swap The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it expects to resume formal loan talks with Argentina following the completion of the country #39;s delayed debt exchange deal with private creditors. | 2 |
Microsoft Now Offers Blogging Tools A new free new tool lets people easily set up personal journals, often called blogs, on the World Wide Web. MSN Spaces, which debuts in test form Thursday, is aimed at home users who want to share things such | 3 |
League Cup still last on Benitez #39;s trophy list LONDON (AFP) - Liverpool may have battled back from the brink of defeat to book a League Cup semi-final berth but a penalty shoot-out win against Tottenham did nothing to alter manager Rafael Benitez #39;s view of a competition his club have won a record | 1 |
Are Tobacco #39;s Days Numbered? Peru recently made a decision that appears destined to result in the equivalent of a global quot;no smoking quot; sign, a development that spells yet more trouble for tobacco companies. | 0 |
Mugabe urges ruling party unity Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called for unity in his ruling party amid deep splits and jostling over the succession of power. | 0 |
Managers misuse tech to control workers, study says Managers with outdated notions about controlling workers are misusing technology to monitor and micromanage employees, according to a new report. | 3 |
Ukraine's Kuchma Calls for Foreign Help (AP) AP - Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma accused the opposition Saturday of reneging on compromise agreements and called for quick foreign mediation of his nation's post-election political crisis. | 0 |
Dell signs big desktop contract with Philips Dell has won a large global contract from Dutch electronics giant Koninklijke Philips Electronicsto provide hardware and managed desktop services. | 3 |
NEC develops multicore cell phone processor Engineers at NEC have developed a processor for cellular telephones that includes three ARM processor cores in a single chip, a moved aimed at improving the multimedia capabilities of cell phones. | 3 |
Google opens Tokyo research center TOKYO -- Search-engine provider Google opened a research and development center at its Tokyo offices this week, the company said Thursday. | 3 |
Verizon deal lets Philadelphia move ahead with wireless plan The city of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with Verizon Communications that will let the municipal government deploy a citywide Wi-Fi network, but a carrier-backed bill that would let incumbent carriers block such projects has been signed into law by Pennsylvania's governor. | 3 |
Mozilla Previews Thunderbird E-Mail App Final version is expected this month; software will compete with Outlook express. | 3 |
Philadelphia Wi-Fi Plans Move Forward Agreement with Verizon will allow deployment of a citywide wireless network. | 3 |
Intel Plans Centrino-Like Brand for Desktops Chip maker wants you to know about the benefits of a wireless network. | 3 |
Microsoft Issues Special Patch for IE Hole Users should install the critical fix as soon as possible, software giant says. | 3 |
Google Groups Launched Out of Beta Google Groups Launched Out of Beta\\Google today launched Google Groups out of beta testing on the 'Groups' link of the Google home page at www.google.com. This enhanced product enables users to create, manage, search and browse web-based groups, as well as subscribe to and track favorite groups. Building on the ... | 3 |
Gamers Eye Open Virtual Worlds Fans of open-source programming and multiplayer gaming explore ways to bring the concept of the metaverse -- an infinitely expandable virtual world -- closer to fruition. By Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
Gifts to Sate Your Technolust The holidays may mean food and decorating to some, but for the geek crowd, they're just another excuse to buy gadgets. Here's a collection of cool ones. By Xeni Jardin. | 3 |
A Kinder, Gentler Type of War World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer game, so you should expect some dying, but Blizzard has managed to make even that pleasant. Game review by Lore Sjberg. | 3 |
Her So-Called Digital Life Internet consultant Mary Hodder spends most of her life online. She has gone almost entirely digital. It may not be long before you do, too. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. | 3 |
They've Got Your Number Coming soon to a phone near you: spam, scams and viruses galore. Your text messages, address book and calls could be up for grabs. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Sex Patch Cools FDA's Ardor Questions about the effectiveness and long-term safety of a testosterone patch designed to boost a woman's sex drive has federal regulators wondering whether to approve the product at all. | 3 |
Calpers president dismissed Sean Harrigan, president of Calpers, California #39;s largest public pension fund, was removed on Wednesday. The California Public Employees Retirement System, or Calpers, manages \$178 billion of retirement money. | 2 |
Britain hits economic growth target: Brown British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said Thursday the government had hit its economic target set for 2004. Delivering his pre-budget report to the House of Commons | 2 |
US Factory Orders, Jobless Claims Up Booming orders for new military aircraft boosted overall orders to US factories by 0.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted \$371.51 billion in October, the Commerce Department | 2 |
Canadian Imperial 4th-Qtr Net Falls on Enron Charge (Update2) Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the country #39;s fourth-largest bank, said fourth-quarter profit fell 14 percent after the lender took a provision for legal costs related to Enron Corp. | 2 |
Miss World beauties defend relevance of contest (AFP) AFP - Miss World contestants united in defending the pageant's relevance and angrily denied it degraded women. | 0 |
No decline in Amazon deforestation BRASILIA, Brazil - Nearly 9,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed this year, the government said on Wednesday, while an environmental group blamed work on a new highway as the chief reason. | 3 |
Wireless-J standard opens Japan to the Wi-Fi world The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a wireless standard that will expand international Wi-Fi roaming to Japan. | 3 |
Van Persie will not face FA charge LONDON, England -- The English FA will not take any action against Arsenal #39;s young striker Robin van Persie for aiming an elbow at Manchester United #39;s Kieren Richardson during Wednesday #39;s League Cup quarterfinal at Old Trafford. | 1 |
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