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US, EU Put Airbus-Boeing Spat on Hold The United States and European Union called a temporary time-out on Thursday in a cross-Atlantic dispute over government support for Aviation rivals Boeing (BA. | 2 |
Fighting to Keep Smut-Spam in a Brown Wrapper Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has fired another salvo in its ongoing spam battle, this time against porn peddlers who don #39;t keep their smut inside the digital equivalent of a quot;Brown Paper Wrapper. | 3 |
Former Tottenham goalkeeper Bill Brown dies in Ontario at the age <b>...</b> SIMCOE, Ont. (CP) - Bill Brown, a former Scottish international goalkeeper who went on to play soccer and live in Canada, has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. | 1 |
Rover data makes return a must Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life. | 3 |
Industry 'denies chemical risks' Industry denies proven links between some chemicals and childhood illness, a senior WHO official tells the BBC. | 3 |
Fossil Egg Finds Yield Clues to How Pterosaurs Lived Two new fossilized pterosaur eggs have been discovered. The fossils suggest that the dinosaur-era flying reptiles lived in colonies and raised their young, experts say. | 3 |
Sun burn An Australian man found himself in hot water, when he was arrested for taking pictures of topless sunbathers with his camera phone. | 3 |
Oracle in merger talks with other firms Oracle is in merger talks with other technology companies as it awaits the outcome of its \$9.2 billion hostile takeover attempt for rival PeopleSoft. | 3 |
Lycos, spammers trade blows over screen saver Just days after releasing a free screen saver program that uses computer downtime to swamp Web sites associated with spam, Lycos Europe has found itself caught in a fight with spammers. | 3 |
Study: Managers misuse tech to control workers Managers with outdated notions are misusing technology to monitor and micromanage employees, according to a new study by the London School of Economics. | 3 |
Gartner: Lower prices, new users keep mobile phones hot In traditionally weak quarter, sales increased 26 compared to last year. | 3 |
Microsoft enters consumer Web logging market Company launches free test version of service that fosters popular Internet activity. | 3 |
Intel planning Centrino-like brand for desktops Corporate customers will be pitched PCs that can be centrally managed and partitioned, in addition to security features. | 3 |
NEC develops multicore cell phone processor Demo shows the chip running a Java applet, a browser and displaying some video at the same time. | 3 |
Microsoft, Sun claim progress on interoperability deal In a conference call yesterday, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems officials touted the progress they have made in the 10-year alliance they forged in April, but they offered no major announcements. | 3 |
IBM launches industry consortium for Power processors IBM has formed an industry consortium of 15 companies from the software, consumer electronics, automotive and networking industries to open up the process of building Power processors. | 3 |
ESPN to enter US mobile market SAN FRANCISCO - The sports media company ESPN will introduce a branded mobile service and cell phones next year in the U.S., becoming the latest in a growing number of companies entering the mobile market on the strength of established audiences. | 3 |
Oracle to tout business intelligence, content management Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco next week plans to focus on its Data Hub technology for business intelligence, content management for the masses, grid computing, and integration, an Oracle official said on Thursday. | 3 |
Deepnet browser guards against phishing SAN FRANCISCO - Internet users are getting more Web browser choices. On the heels of a new Netscape preview release and the launch of Firefox 1.0, a U.K. company on Thursday released a Web browser it claims is more secure than Internet Explorer (IE) or Firefox. | 3 |
Intel will exceed previous Q4 revenue expectations SAN FRANCISCO - Intel is planning for a happy holiday season this month, as it expects to exceed its previous revenue guidance and has made progress in reducing its inventory, the company said Thursday. | 3 |
Microsoft files suits against smut spammers Microsoftis again using the courts to pursue individuals allegedly responsible for spam e-mail campaigns, this time going after those who send out unsolicited and sexually explicit e-mail. | 3 |
Former cybersecurity czar: Code-checking tools needed Software vendors need automated tools that look for bugs in their code, but it may be a decade before many of those tools are mature and widely used, said the former director of cybersecurity for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). | 3 |
Lycos, spammers trade blows over screensaver Lycos is caught in a tit-for-tat struggle with spammers, just days after releasing a free screen saver software program that uses computer down time to swamp Web sites associated with spam campaigns. | 3 |
Infineon Executives Guilty of DRAM Price-Fixing Court documents say Dell, Gateway, and other major PC vendors were affected. | 3 |
MSN Spaces Blog Service Launches MSN Spaces Blog Service Launches\\What better day to announce a new blogging service than the day when we all learned that "blog" was the most popular word for an online dictionary. Was 2004 the year of the blog? If it was, MSN has found a great way to end it ... | 3 |
Samsung Bullish On 2005 Samsung Electronics expects profit from mobile devices to pick up next year, despite a rating cut issued by an investment bank. During a presentation at the UBS investor conference in Seoul, Samsung | 2 |
Wagers on oil price prove a slippery slope for CAO State-owned, running a monopoly on imports of jet fuel to China #39;s fast-growing aviation industry and a prized member of Singapore #39;s Stock Exchange. | 2 |
Stock Fund's 5.27 Gain In Nov. Biggest In A Year (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - U.S. stock funds in November posted their best month in a year and made it three up months in a row, as stocks resumed their climb after a poor showing in the first half . | 2 |
Americans sink or swim with Fish quot;Take a hard hat and a pair of ear plugs, quot; was Lleyton Hewitt #39;s laconic advice to the United States team before they set off for the Davis Cup final against Spain. | 1 |
Miller #39;s Winning Streak Ends at Three BEAVER CREEK, Colo. - Bode Miller #39;s three-race winning streak ended Thursday, but the American still added to his commanding lead in the World Cup overall standings by finishing second to Austria #39;s Stephan Goergl in a Super G. | 1 |
Westwood rises above hot odds Lee Westwood fought the heat, a brutal course and the inexperience of a part-time caddie to shoot a two-under-par 70 for a four-way share of the lead after the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa yesterday. | 1 |
Iraqi Sunnis threaten civil war Iraq #39;s largest party of Sunni Muslims has warned of civil war if elections scheduled for Jan. 30 aren #39;t moved back six months, The Times of London reports. | 0 |
Syria dismisses Israel #39;s conditional talks offer Syria has dismissed an offer by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to meet with President Bashar al-Assad under quot;certain conditions quot; as falling short of a proposal from Damascus. | 0 |
News: Senior Republican charged in phone jamming plot A former Bush campaign official has been charged with plotting to jam the phone networks of political opponents during the November 2002 election.\ | 3 |
News: UK police fingerprint system collapses Computer problems have left police forces in England and Wales unable to run national fingerprint checks for more than a week. | 3 |
Canadian iTunes Music Store Apple launched its revolutionary iTunes Music Store in Canada, giving music fans in Canada the same innovative features and breakthrough price of \$.99 CDN per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. Dec 02 | 3 |
Speaking Naturally, Anew How does version 8 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software stack up? | 3 |
Dollar hits record low vs. euro TOKYO (CBS.MW) - The dollar hit a record low against the euro for a second straight Asian session Thursday, as investors continued to test the resolve of the monetary authorities in Japan and Europe to try to stem the weakening dollar trend. | 2 |
Intel Raises Quarterly Revenue Target Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world #39;s largest maker of microchips, on Thursday raised its quarterly revenue outlook, citing strong worldwide | 2 |
Two young stars scuffle According to Kenyon and Bromley #39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun #39;s birth. | 3 |
Scientists confident liquid water once flowed on Mars After studying thousands of images from Mars, scientists now are convinced that liquid water once flowed on the surface of the red planet, increasing the odds that life may have existed there in the distant past. | 3 |
AOL Launches Presence-Based Voice Conferencing In yet another product move designed for consumers, but sure to make enterprise IT and telephone services folks go nuts, AOL has introduced Consumer AIM Voice Conferencing, a service that | 3 |
Early goal ends Rangers #39; run RANGERS #39; 16-match unbeaten record was brought to an end with this UEFA Cup defeat in Holland today. Danny Landzaat grabbed the only goal of the game after just seven minutes, finishing off a move which involved Stein Huysegms and Martijn Meerdink. | 1 |
Rogge orders bid cities not to fight dirty Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, is getting tough with the cities - including London -ho are bidding to host the 2012 Olympics. | 1 |
NHL, Union to Resume Talks Next Week The NHL and the players #39; association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season. After nearly three months of silence on and off the ice | 1 |
US to favour #39;hottest #39; players Still smarting from their 18-9 drubbing by Europe in September #39;s Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills, the Americans have decided to overhaul the way they pick their team for the next meeting, at the K Club in Ireland in 2006. | 1 |
Jihad Will Boycott Palestinian Election GAZA CITY, 3 December 2004 - Islamic Jihad said yesterday it would boycott a Jan. 9 Palestinian presidential election for a successor to Yasser Arafat. | 0 |
Defiant Sharon vows Gaza pullout Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he will complete his plan to disengage from Gaza next year, despite losing a key coalition partner. | 0 |
Giants Place Bromell on Injured Reserve (AP) AP - Lorenzo Bromell was placed on injured reserve by the New York Giants on Thursday, joining the team's growing list of defensive linemen whose season has been ended by injury. | 1 |
Marines Find Alleged Iraqi Torture Chamber (AP) AP - Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, U.S. Marines descended Thursday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They found bloodstains and a single bloody hand print on the wall #151; evidence of the horrors once carried out in this former insurgent stronghold. | 0 |
Rogge raps Olympic rivals The organisers of the London bid and its four rivals will be told this morning at a breakfast meeting here with the president of the International Olympic Committee to stop sniping at each other in the campaign to host the 2012 games. | 1 |
Former Scotland goalkeeper Brown dies at 73 Bill Brown, former goalkeeper of theScottish national soccer team, has died at the age of 73. Brown, a member of Tottenham Hotspur #39;s 1961 double-winning side,died at Simcoe, Ontario | 1 |
Harbhajan leaves South Africa to lick their wounds South Africa will go into the five-Test series against England a fortnight today on the back of their worst sequence of results for three years. | 1 |
Defending champion Shabana crashes out of World Open squash <b>...</b> Australia #39;s former champion DavidPalmer came back from two games down to beat holder Amr Shabana ofEgypt in the quarter-finals of the World Open squash championship in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday. | 1 |
Typhoon Forces Evacuation in Philippines (AP) AP - A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines Friday, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people. | 0 |
Australia's biggest city up in arms over "politically correct" Christmas (AFP) AFP - The Lord Mayor of Sydney has sparked outrage among citizens of Australia's largest city by decorating town hall with a single tree in a modest "generic" festive show aimed at not offending the immigrant non-Christian community. | 0 |
Kerik Named to Lead Homeland Security (AP) AP - President Bush has chosen former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped direct the emergency response to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes against the Twin Towers, to lead the Homeland Security Department, charged with safeguarding Americans from future attack, administration officials said Thursday. | 0 |
Bush Adamant on Iraq Election Schedule (AP) AP - President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month's Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip much of the country. | 0 |
Kerry Campaign Keeping Eye on Ohio Cases (AP) AP - John Kerry's campaign has joined a lawsuit by third-party presidential candidates seeking a recount in Ohio. A lawyer for the campaign said Thursday the campaign does not question the Democrat's loss but wants any counting to take place statewide. | 0 |
Corzine Announces Bid to Be N.J. Governor (AP) AP - Four years after spending more than #36;60 million of his own money to get elected to the Senate, Democrat Jon S. Corzine announced Thursday that he is running for governor in 2005. | 0 |
Sen. Boxer Tries Her Hand at Fiction (AP) AP - Infighting and power, alliances and revenge #151; it's just another day in the Capitol. California Sen. Barbara Boxer has mined her workplace for a suspense novel in which the main character is an activist senator who does battle with right-wing ideologues. | 0 |
Central American Street Gangs Spread Across Mexico MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Violent gangs with roots in U.S. crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday. | 0 |
Brazil Rejects U.S. Call for Haiti Crackdown BRASILIA, Brazil, (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti will not respond to international pressure to "use violence" against armed gangs and will rebuild the country as a "peacekeeping force, not an occupying force," the mission's Brazilian commander said on Thursday. | 0 |
Rover data makes return a must Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its unique landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life, scientists say. | 0 |
CalPERS boss given marching orders Sean Harrigan, the President of Americas biggest pension fund, California Public Employees #39; Retirement System (CalPERS), has been removed from his post. | 2 |
US holiday sales launch flops Sales of major store chains rose just 1.7 percent in November from a year ago, said a survey sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), after a year-earlier gain of 3.7 percent. | 2 |
The Word of the Year is: Blog Yes, boys and girls, the word for this year is #39;blog #39;--that #39;s blog as in #39;a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks. | 3 |
XM CEO Sees Satellite Radio on Cell Phones XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. XMSR.O chief executive officer Hugh Panero on Wednesday said he expected satellite radio and cellphone services to converge within the next five years. | 3 |
Harbhajan spins India to victory CALCUTTA: Off spinner Harbhajan Singh took seven wickets as India crushed South Africa by eight wickets to clinch the two-Test series 1-0 yesterday. | 1 |
Former NBA star Jayson Williams to be retried Former NBA star Jayson Williams,who was charged in the shotgun slaying of a limousine driver at his mansion, will be retried, a judge ruled on Thursday. | 1 |
Intel lifts forecast SEMICONDUCTOR giant Intel has dramatically raised the range of its fourth-quarter sales forecast as it benefited from strong holiday demand for microprocessors. | 2 |
Dhamija nets 85m by selling Ebookers Ebookers, the travel website, is being sold to US hotel and car rental giant Cendant in a 209m deal that means a huge windfall for chief executive Dinesh Dhamija. | 2 |
Four Infineon execs heading to jail on price-fixing charges Four Infineon executives will serve jail time after pleading guilty to being part of an quot;international conspiracy quot; to fix the price of computer memory, the US Department of Justice announced today. | 3 |
IMPlanet Weekly News Break The free, hosted MSN Spaces service is Microsoft #39;s first consumer foray into providing a blogging platform. Spaces will enable MSN members to maintain a blog and control it with some sophisticated features that are not typical of all blogging services. | 3 |
Microsoft amp; Sun Get All Luvvy Dubby Microsoft and Sun held a conference call yesterday to update the industry on where they are at in terms of their agreement to work together and interoperate more. | 3 |
Smith Upbeat About Playing Sunday (AP) AP - Fifteen years in the NFL have taught Emmitt Smith more than just how to slip tackles. He's also become an example of how to fight through injury. | 1 |
Rangers slip up in Holland Rangers fall to second in Uefa Cup group F after losing 1-0 away to Dutch side AZ Alkmaar. The home side looked impressive as their slick passing opened up the Rangers defence early on allowing Danny Landzaat to fire home past Stefan Klos. | 1 |
Time is of the essence in this latest round Next Thursday and Friday NHL executives, including commissioner Gary Bettman, will meet with their counterparts from the National Hockey League Players #39; Association in Toronto to determine the fate of the NHL season. | 1 |
Nets G Zoran Planinic has hand surgery EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - New Jersey Nets guard Zoran Planinic had surgery to repair a broken left hand on Thursday and will be sidelined indefinitely. | 1 |
Internet Could Spark Rise in Suicide Pacts -Expert (Reuters) Reuters - The growing popularity of the Internet\could lead to a rise in suicide pacts in which several people\kill themselves together, a leading psychiatrist in Britain\said on Friday. | 3 |
Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims (PC World) PC World - Medical research team believes units could be modified to 'print' new skin. | 3 |
No great miracle here What is left of this interesting and repulsive week after the dust settles is not the lies, the ostensibly sudden betrayals, the payments to the ultra-Orthodox, the sleazy style, or even Ehud Barak #39;s horror show or Shimon Peres #39; maneuvers. | 0 |
Japan Will Act on Yen Gains If Necessary #39;, Tanigaki Says Japan will take action if necessary #39; #39; to stem the yen #39;s gains against the dollar and is keeping a close watch on currency markets, Japan #39;s Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said. | 0 |
Object database goes open source (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Startup company db4o #160;bjects next week is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open source format, with the product now available either under the GPL via open source or commercially as embeddable software. | 3 |
Tokyo Stocks Advance in Early Trading (AP) AP - Tokyo stocks were higher early Friday as the U.S. dollar rebounded against the Japanese yen, following through its strength in New York where players reduced heavy dollar-bearish positions. | 0 |
Apple releases December Security Update (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday released its December security update. The 12.7MB download consists of several updated components including Apache, AppKit, HIToolbox, Kerberos, Postfix, PSNormalizer, Safari and Terminal. | 3 |
U.N. Reports Suspicious Activity in Congo (AP) AP - U.N. air and ground patrols have photographed freshly made encampments and unidentified well-equipped troops in east Congo, U.N. officials said Thursday, bolstering suspicions #151; still unconfirmed #151; that Rwanda is making good on its threat to send troops into its larger, weaker neighbor. | 0 |
US leisure firm to buy Ebookers US hotels and car-hire firm Cendent is to buy UK internet-based holiday company Ebookers for \$404m (201.2m). | 2 |
Falluja Data Said to Pressure Guerrillas Documents and computers found in Falluja are providing clues to the identity of home-grown opponents of the new Iraqi government. | 0 |
NASA, Russians forging a deal for rides NASA officials have confirmed Russian reports about an outer-space swap worth an estimated \$60 million or more. If approved by the US government, the deal could put off a looming | 3 |
US manufacturing expands Industrial output in the US has beaten forecasts in December, increasing for the 19th month in a row. | 2 |
The Bambino strikes again Of the roughly 300 people who filled the large auction hall at Sotheby #39;s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, only two had come to bid on the bat. | 1 |
Nets guard Planinic has hand surgery New Jersey Nets guard Zoran Planinic had surgery on his broken left hand Thursday and will be out indefinitely. Planinic broke his hand in Wednesday #39;s game against the Washington Wizards. | 1 |
Philippines battered by another typhoon after storm kills more <b>...</b> A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines Friday, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people. | 0 |
Chirac considers early vote on EU after Socialist #39;yes #39; President Jacques Chirac was considering bringing forward the date of France #39;s national referendum on the EU constitution yesterday after a resounding victory for the quot;yes quot; camp | 0 |
Top College Programs Focus on Bottom Line Maybe it's finally time for every college with a big-time football program - or big-time basketball program for that matter - to turn pro. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Strike ballots sent to UAL flight attendants-union The Association of Flight Attendants on Thursday mailed 21,000 strike authorization ballots to flight attendants at United Airlines, setting the stage for a work stoppage if the bankrupt airline repeals a collective bargaining | 2 |
Update 1: EBay Shuffles Positions of 3 Executives EBay Inc. said Thursday that it shuffled the positions of three senior vice presidents, promoting each in title and creating new heads for PayPal, eBay International and eBay North America. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Give Retailers Upbeat '05 Start <p>\</p><p> By Belinda Goldsmith</p><p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <WMT.N>, the\world's biggest retailer, on Monday said December sales would\be at the top end of its outlook on better-than-expected\post-Christmas spending, sending its shares up 2 percent.</p> | 2 |
Marsh cleared of allegations on kickbacks Executives at the British operations of Marsh amp; McLennan, the world #39;s largest insurance broker, breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after law firm | 2 |
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