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RFID Signal Strong in 2005 Radio Frequency Identification technology is going to ring in the new year in more ways than one. | 2 |
Power.org Initiative to Advance Community of Electronics <b>...</b> In a step sure to spark major innovation in the design of consumer electronics, networking, automotive, and IT systems, 15 companies today announced their intention to form Power. | 3 |
Nadal gets to play, Ferrero out SEVILLE: Mardy Fish will play Carlos Moya in todays opening singles of the Davis Cup final between Spain and the United States. | 1 |
Bellion sounds United charge DAVID Bellion scored after 19 seconds as Manchester United #39;s back-up team edged out Arsenal #39;s youngsters 1-0 to reach the semi-final of the English League Cup at Old Trafford yesterday. | 1 |
In court vs. in the dugout When Jason Giambi admitted to a federal grand jury in San Francisco in December 2003 that he had taken steroids and human growth hormone, he had been granted immunity from prosecution if he told the truth but faced a perjury charge if he did not. | 1 |
5 Ways to Wreck Your Retirement In the retirement game, sometimes the best offense is a good defense. | 2 |
US Construction Spending Down in Nov <p>\</p><p> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending fell\unexpectedly by 0.4 percent in November, as a cooling in\residential construction overpowered a small rise in public\spending, a government report showed on Monday.</p> | 2 |
Fratello Hired As Grizzlies #39; Coach Mike Fratello was hired as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday, leaving the TV booth and replacing friend and mentor Hubie Brown, who retired last week for health reasons. | 1 |
Manufacturing Activity Expands in December Manufacturing activity expanded for the 19th consecutive month in December, a new report said Monday, suggesting that the industrial sector entered the new year with solid strength behind it. | 2 |
UPDATE 2-Fifth Third balance sheet fix to cut profit Fifth Third Bancorp, the ninth largest US bank, on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit will fall well short of analyst forecasts, as it takes \$340 million of | 2 |
Firefoxs biggest obstacle is lazy programming The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming - not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE. | 3 |
Rwanda Urged to Show Restraint in Congo (AP) AP - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council urged Rwanda on Thursday to refrain from any military action in Congo after reports as many as eight battalions of Rwandan troops may be in Congo. | 0 |
Jones was #39;drug cheat #39; MARIO JONES received illegal performance-enhancing drugs before winning five medals at the Sydney Olympics, according to accused steroid distributor Victor Conte. | 1 |
Dan Olsen leads PGA qualifying school Dan Olsen of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., shot a 7-under 65 Thursday to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the PGA Tour qualifying tournament. | 1 |
An angry Galloway wins 150,000 damages from the Telegraph GEORGE Galloway yesterday scored another major libel victory, winning 150,000 damages over a newspaper #39;s claims that he was in the pay of Saddam Hussein. | 0 |
Bronner: US Airways To Seek Injunction If Unions Walk; UAL Flight <b>...</b> US Airways Group (otc: UAIRQ - news - people ) on Thursday said it #39;ll seek a court injunction to prohibit a strike by disaffected unions. | 2 |
NHLPA requests meeting with NHL next week Not likely, but at least it looks like there might finally be some negotiations about ending the NHL lockout. The National Hockey League Players #39; Association confirmed that NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow | 1 |
Bush Calls for Full UN Oil-For-Food Probe The Bush administration made clear on Thursday it would not take a position on whether UN Secretary General Kofi Annan should resign as it awaited the results of an investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal. | 0 |
Crude Oil Ekes Out Small Bounce (Reuters) Reuters - Battered oil prices struggled on\Friday to shake off this week's #36;6 slump, edging up from a\12-week low after a massive round of selling triggered by\easing worries about winter supply. | 2 |
At Citigroup, a Shifting in Strategy at a Core Unit The chief executive of Citigroup has taken a number of symbolic steps to address concerns by investors that his company is too immense to manage. | 2 |
More Data Sought on Drug for Sex Drive An advisory panel said that the first drug to enhance the sex drive of women should not be approved because of a lack of information about its long-term safety. | 2 |
Tokyo Stocks Climb to a Two-Week High (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo stocks climbed to a two week high\on Friday after Tokyo Electron Ltd. and other chip-related\stocks were boosted by a bullish revenue outlook from industry\leader Intel Corp. | 2 |
Music Industry Turns to Napster Creator for Help Major record corporations say that a licensed file-sharing system could bolster their position in their fight against piracy as well as increase digital music sales. | 2 |
Intel Forecasts Greater Revenue for 4th Quarter Intel raised its revenue forecast for the fourth quarter, citing surprisingly strong demand across its line of chips for personal computers. | 2 |
Tax talk not on Brown #39;s lips Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has told parliament he is meeting his fiscal rules but analysts say he is cutting it too close with public finances to call his approach prudent. | 2 |
Calpers begins its search for new leader By Sundeep Tucker in London and Scott Morrison in San Francisco. The board members of Calpers, the Californian state pension fund, will this morning start the process of choosing a new president following this week #39;s abrupt ousting of Sean Harrigan. | 2 |
Steel crisis leaves Nissan output #39;at risk #39; The steel crisis at Nissan Motor might force the carmaker to reduce production by a further 15,000 vehicles next March on top of the 25,000 that have been | 2 |
Update 4: Intel Raises 4th-Quarter Sales Forecast Intel Corp. #39;s fourth-quarter sales are on track to break a company record as demand for the chips that power computers was stronger than originally expected in the weeks leading up to the holiday buying season. | 2 |
Travel group widens horizons to compete online Coming out of the lift on the 37th floor of Cendant #39;s New York office, visitors are greeted with a breathtaking view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. | 2 |
8 Accused of Inflating Kmart Profit The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed civil fraud charges against three former Kmart Corp. executives and five employees of companies that supplied the Troy, Mich. | 2 |
British Insurers in Turmoil Over Incentive Fees The investigation of insurance practices by the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, is causing wide ripples in the British market, the cradle of the industry. | 2 |
UPS to take control of Sinotrans for \$100m United Parcel Service, the US delivery company, is to take direct control of its core international express operations in China, paying US\$100m to buy out its local partner, Hong Kong-listed Sinotrans. | 2 |
The Times Company Lowers Its Forecast for 2004 Earnings The New York Times Company said yesterday that its profit for the year would fall short of what it had initially forecast, a casualty of higher costs and of advertising revenue that has | 2 |
Salvation Army Seeks Online Holiday Donations SAN FRANCISCO -- The Salvation Army is counting on tech-savvy Bay Area residents to help the organization meet its holiday fundraising goals with as much clicking of the mouse as clinking of coins. | 2 |
Dollar Holds Gains After U.S. Factory Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded on Monday after a heavy selloff last week, but pared some gains after a U.S. factory report showed employment was down in December. | 2 |
KMart Same-Store Sales Fall 4.6 Percent NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kmart Holding Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KMRT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KMRT.O</A> on Monday said sales at stores open at least a year fell 4.6 percent in the November-December period -- an improvement from declines earlier in the year. | 2 |
Dollar Builds on Gains Versus Yen TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar edged up against the yen on Friday, building on a rebound from a five-year low ahead of closely watched U.S. jobs data. | 2 |
Microsoft Unveils Blog Service MSN Spaces debuted in its test form as Microsoft became the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. MSN Spaces, which allows users without highly technical skills to set up Web journals, is targeted | 3 |
Water on Mars #39;but not life #39; Scientists analysing data from the Mars exploration Rover missions believe water was involved in the formation of rocks on the planet. | 3 |
Microsoft and Sun #39;s difficult dance news analysis Microsoft and Sun Microsystems may be going steady, but they aren #39;t quite sure where the relationship is headed. | 3 |
Agencies Find What They #39;re Looking For When computer users hunt for information on the Internet, they typically turn to Google or Yahoo. When analysts working for US intelligence look for documents and data stored on computers | 3 |
iPod: How Long Will It Reign? You don #39;t have to look around for long to see that Apple #39;s (AAPL ; S amp;P investment rank, 3 STARS, hold; recent price, \$67.21) iPod digital music player has made waves in pop culture. | 3 |
AOL debuts voice conferencing for consumers The AIM Voice Conferencing service incorporates AIM Instant Messenger #39;s quot;presence quot; technology, which allows people to see if friends and family are online and available to chat. | 3 |
W3C focuses on future at 10th anniversary meeting Internet luminaries gathered in Boston Wednesday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), honor its founder, Director and Web inventor | 3 |
Speculation Grows on Early Exit by Snow WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Expectations that U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow would survive President Bush's Cabinet make-over for at least six months are rapidly yielding to a belief he may make a hastier exit, people close to the Bush administration said on Thursday. | 2 |
Tampa #39;s Fish Gets First Shot At Spain The odds are long, but in a year that has seen the Lightning emerge from obscurity to drink from Lord Stanley #39;s Cup, who is to say the US team can #39;t | 1 |
Spurs coach Jol: Arsenal have calmed Van Persie! Tottenham coach Martin Jol says Arsenal firebrand Robin van Persie is already a calmer player than he was at Feyenoord! Jol said: quot;At 18, Robin was in the first team at Feyenoord. | 1 |
Benfica, Alkmaar Reach Last 32 of UEFA Cup Soccer Tournament Benfica beat Beveren 3-0 and Alkmaar of the Netherlands defeated Rangers 1-0 to advance in European soccer #39;s UEFA Cup. Italy #39;s Lazio was eliminated. | 1 |
Players lose in college coaching carousel College footballs annual parade of the dead is in full march, and look whos watching from the back row again without so much as a folding chair. | 1 |
PGA overhauls system for Ryder Cup points With the US team coming off its worst loss in the 77-year history of the Ryder Cup, it was expected the PGA of America would make some significant changes to its point-selection system. | 1 |
Shockey Gives the Giants a Blast From the Present Tight end Jeremy Shockey, as flustered as anyone with the Giants #39; four-game losing streak, said Thursday that he had made a magnanimous offer to any teammate who thinks the Giants cannot make the playoffs. | 1 |
Gradkowski stars despite injuries DETROIT -- A broken hand and separated shoulder were not enough to stop Bruce Gradkowski from lifting Toledo to the Mid-American Conference championship. | 1 |
Tokyo Stocks Climb to a Two-Week High TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks climbed to a two week high on Friday after Tokyo Electron Ltd. and other chip-related stocks were boosted by a bullish revenue outlook from industry leader Intel Corp. | 2 |
India, Russia aim to improve trade, military ties President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi early on Friday for talks with leaders of India #39;s new communist-backed government amid expectations that India and Russia will bolster trade and military ties. | 0 |
Two Iranian sites pose headaches for IAEA VIENNA: Iran may be hiding the equipment its military bought and could be used to make nuclear-weapons-grade uranium, despite its agreement to freeze all such programmes and place them under UN supervision. | 0 |
Mugabe calls for party unity amid suspensions President Robert Mugabe called for unity in his ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday despite suspending six senior party officials over who will succeed the 80-year-old leader. | 0 |
CIVILIAN KILLED: Mortar barrage rocks Baghdad A barrage of mortar fire Thursday ended a brief period of relative calm in Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding more than a dozen, while insurgents continued | 0 |
A Rough Ride for Schwinn Bicycle The rise and fall of companies such as Schwinn help explain why the economy has become less forgiving of workers who lack higher education or specialized skills. | 2 |
Oil Prices Take Another Deep Drop Crude oil futures nose-dived for a second day in a row yesterday, briefly dipping below \$43 a barrel, as traders focused on rising fuel supplies and mild fall weather in the Northeast and Midwest. | 2 |
Blair to back 'optimistic' Brown Tony Blair is set to back Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report, amid concern over some of its forecasts. | 2 |
Walgreen Profit Rises 30.5 Pct, Shares Up CHICAGO (Reuters) - Walgreen Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WAG.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WAG.N</A> on Monday posted a 30.5 percent jump in quarterly profit, its largest increase in four years, boosted by sales of generic drugs and digital photo processing. | 2 |
U.S. Embassy Bans Use of Airport Road Citing security concerns, the U.S. Embassy on Thursday banned its employees from using the highway linking the embassy area to the international airport, a 10-mile stretch of road plagued by frequent suicide car-bomb attacks. | 0 |
Another Soldier From Md. Is Killed in Iraq Erik W. Hayes told friends and family that he joined the U.S. Army to help save money for his future. And just last week, that future seemed more certain: He sent an e-mail from Iraq telling friends that he wanted to become an emergency medical technician when he returned to Maryland. | 0 |
Distinct Men, Bound Now at Arlington The medals and the American flag were almost too much for Kiona Bryant to hold as she sat yesterday at the grave of her high school sweetheart. | 0 |
Microsoft Files Seven New Spam Lawsuits SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MSFT.O</A> filed seven lawsuits against senders of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, for transmitting messages without labeling them as sexually explicit content, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday. | 3 |
Napster Creator Unveils Online Music Technology LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shawn Fanning, once reviled by record labels as the creator of renegade song-swap service Napster, on Thursday launched a new service designed to turn the threat of still popular peer-to-peer services into an opportunity for music companies and artists. | 3 |
Ukraine awaits court poll ruling Ukraine's Supreme Court is due to rule on whether to overturn the result of the disputed presidential poll. | 0 |
Venezuela's Chavez Says Bush Knew of Coup President Hugo Chavez charged Thursday that the United States had been aware that dissident military officers were planning a coup in 2002. | 0 |
Colombia Leader Pardons 23 Jailed Rebels President Alvaro Uribe pardoned 23 jailed Marxist rebels Thursday as a goodwill gesture and said he hoped guerrilla leaders will respond by freeing hostages, though the leaders previously have said they would not reciprocate. | 0 |
New dinosaur uncovered in Brazil Scientists in Brazil find the bones of a new species of dinosaur that may be related to some found in Europe. | 0 |
Landslide buries Chinese village A landslide engulfs a village in southern China, leaving 65 people missing, state media reports | 0 |
Conte Accuses Jones Track star Marion Jones used a steroid and other banned drugs leading up to the 2000 Summer Games, according to BALCO founder Victor Conte, Jr. | 1 |
Miami's Mama's Boy Miami's Devin Hester -- one of the most exciting and dangerous players in college football -- would not be where he is today without his mother's guidance and inspiration. | 1 |
Meyer a Wanted Man Utah Coach Urban Meyer met with Notre Dame officials about the school's head coaching vacancy Thursday, and he is expected to meet with Florida's AD on Friday. | 1 |
Agencies Find What They're Looking For While the high-profile battle between the major search engines that scour the Web rages on, Convera Corp. in Northern Virginia has quietly carved out a niche for itself: selling software that helps U.S. and foreign intelligence agents search their databases.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
D.C.'s Cogent Expands in 23 Markets The business-internet firm plans to announce Friday the latest move in a recent buying spree, a deal the company said will give it 2,400 new business customers for its high-speed Internet service.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
Buffalo's Gamble Pays Buffalo's decision to draft running back Willis McGahee in the first round of the 2003 draft is finally paying dividends. | 1 |
Williams Stays Retired Retired running back Ricky Williams has no immediate plans to resume his NFL career with the Dolphins, his attorney said. | 1 |
'Future' Now for Hokies For Virginia Tech's corps of freshman wide receivers -- Josh Hyman, Eddie Royal, Josh Morgan and Justin Harper -- the future seems very much in the present. | 1 |
Nowitzki Breaks Out Dirk Nowitzki sets a Mavericks franchise record with 53 points to lead host Dallas to a 113-106 overtime victory against Houston. | 1 |
US Construction Spending Down in Nov WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending fell unexpectedly by 0.4 percent in November, as a cooling in residential construction overpowered a small rise in public spending, a government report showed on Monday. | 2 |
Bush Set to Name Ex-Chief of Police for Top Security Post Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, has been picked by President Bush to replace Tom Ridge. | 0 |
Putin Backs Ukrainian Leader, Dismissing Call for New Runoff The Russian president rejected the idea of new Ukrainian elections and criticized European efforts to mediate. | 0 |
The Lesson for Today Is in Spanish El Museo del Barrio's eye-opening survey of Latin American portraiture covers an exhausting tract of cultural ground. | 0 |
Corzine to Run for Governor of New Jersey The announcement by Jon S. Corzine, whose riches helped make him a U.S. senator, was widely anticipated. | 0 |
This lens sheds a tear According to an article on The Register, camera phones will soon have lenses made from nothing more than drops of oil and water. | 3 |
Pace of U.S. Factory Growth Climbs in Dec NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pace of growth at U.S. factories picked up in December, boosted by an increase in new orders and despite a decline in employment, a report showed on Monday. | 2 |
Three amp; Out Two out of 117, do you like those odds? Thats 1.7 percent. Im not going to preach about the lack of minority head coaches in Division IA, but I just think if you sit back and try to comprehend that number | 1 |
US Airways gets cuts from union A union representing nearly 6,000 US Airways workers yesterday said it has struck a tentative concession deal with the airline, easing the likelihood | 2 |
IBM reportedly puts PC business on the market IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said Thursday. | 2 |
Oil Down \$2 as U.S. Winter Stays Mild NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid \$2 on Monday on expectations that more mild U.S. weather at the start of the New Year will limit heating oil demand. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Give Retailers Upbeat '05 Start NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A>, 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. | 2 |
US Construction Spending Down in Nov (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. construction spending fell\unexpectedly by 0.4 percent in November, as a cooling in\residential construction overpowered a small rise in public\spending, a government report showed on Monday. | 2 |
Says hundreds of thousands of e-mails sent illegally LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said it filed seven lawsuits against so-called spammers who allegedly sent hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit e-mails to Internet users in violation of federal laws. | 3 |
Microsoft gets into blog role contest Microsoft Corp. #39;s MSN Internet division late Wednesday debuted a preliminary version of MSN Spaces, designed to bring blogs to the masses. | 3 |
IBM launches Power chip alliance IBM has launched an alliance with 14 other companies to make Big Blue #39;s Power processor more adaptable and widely used. The partnership, called Power. | 3 |
Bush: Fighting won #39;t stall Iraq vote President Bush said Thursday that the United States was committed to having elections take place as planned late next month in Iraq, despite reports that Iraqi security forces | 0 |
US dollar tumbles against euro The US dollar yesterday dropped to a record low against the euro in Tokyo and fell to its lowest level in nearly five years against the Japanese yen. | 2 |
NHL GMS HUDDLE Only Gary Bettman knows whether he in fact will be willing to in fact negotiate a CBA that does not contain absolute cost-certainty. | 1 |
RedHawks Fall to Toledo, 35-27, in MAC Championship Game - The loss ended Miami #39;s six-game winning streak and prevented the Red and White from repeating as MAC Champions for the first time since 1973-75. | 1 |
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