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Intel Raises 4th-Quarter Sales Forecast Intel Corp.'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. | 3 |
Microsoft Files Seven New Spam Lawsuits <p></p><p> SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> filed sevenlawsuits against senders of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, fortransmitting messages without labeling them as sexuallyexplicit content, the world's largest software maker said onThursday.</p> | 3 |
Yankees and Mets Swap Relievers (Reuters) Reuters - The New York Yankees and New\York Mets have reportedly agreed on a deal to swap lefthanded\relievers. | 1 |
EBay Reorganizes Senior Management EBay Inc. announced a senior management reorganization Thursday, increasing international responsibilities for three executives and underscoring the significance of the company's tremendously profitable PayPal division. | 3 |
Comcast Plans Music Video-Web Offering Comcast Corp. plans to begin offering music videos on demand to its broadband Internet subscribers early next year, part of a multiyear deal with the television network Music Choice. | 3 |
High-Tech Publisher Tries 'Blogozine' After Red Herring sank into the dot-com morass last year, Tony Perkins considered resurrecting the magazine that helped establish him as a Silicon Valley sage. He changed his mind when his college-age daughter scoffed and told him "Red Herring is so 1990s." | 3 |
Appleby Leads Westwood at Nedbank Golf (AP) AP - Stuart Appleby of Australia was the only player to break 70 Friday, shooting a 3-under-par 69 that left him with a one-stroke lead over Lee Westwood of England halfway through the Nedbank Golf Challenge. | 1 |
Report: IBM Selling Personal Computer Unit International Business Machines Corp. has reportedly put its personal computer business up for sale in a deal that could fetch as much as \$2 billion and close an era for an industry pioneer which long ago shifted its focus to more lucrative segments of the computer business. | 3 |
Ukraine Supreme Court Invalidates Run-Off The Supreme Court declared the results of Ukraine's disputed presidential run-off election invalid and ruled Friday that a repeat vote should be held by Dec. 26, bringing cheers from tens of thousands of opposition supported massed in Kiev's main square. | 0 |
Three Arrested in Germany for Plot on Allawi German authorities arrested three Iraqis with alleged al Qaeda links on suspicion they were planning an attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi while he visited Germany on Friday, the country's chief prosecutor said. | 0 |
Appleby Takes Halfway Lead in Sun City SUN CITY, South Africa (Reuters) - Australia's Stuart Appleby carded a second round 69 to move to five-under par 139 and a one-stroke lead at the Sun City Golf Challenge on Friday. | 1 |
Chinese firm in trouble after losing \$550m in speculation A listed Chinese company that sources jet fuel is in deep trouble after losing \$550 million (R3.16 billion) in speculative oil trades, triggering concern over other China-linked stocks on the exchange. | 2 |
Telstra CEO steps down over #39;differences #39; The outgoing chief executive of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra said his departure was sparked by differences between him and the companys board of directors. | 2 |
Head of Calpers Pension Fund Ousted California officials on Wednesday voted to oust Sean Harrigan as president of Calpers, naming a former real-estate executive seen as more business | 2 |
Merck KGaA, Biomira Shares Gain on Cancer Study (Update1) Shares of Biomira Inc., a Canadian drug developer, jumped 94 percent and Merck KGaA, Germany #39;s fourth-largest drugmaker, rose as much as 6.4 percent after the companies said data from | 2 |
Halliburton shakes up its top ranks and NELSON ANTOSH. Halliburton on Thursday promoted the head of its KBR operation to the No. 2 job and announced that the highly regarded leader of its oilwell service group had resigned. | 2 |
Lycos screensaver for anti-spam vigilantes A screensaver that uses idle computing power to identify the sites of spammers and forward data traffic to them has been too successful, according to reports, generating so much traffic that the sites are being forced off-line. | 3 |
MSN is latest to move into world of blogging services LONDON - MSN is upping the stakes in the battle for online and desktop domination with the launch of a new set of communication services to include blogging and picture sharing. | 3 |
Skulls.B worm spreads on Series 60 via Bluetooth A new version of the Cabir quot;Skulls quot; malware program is on the lose. The first version, discovered only a few weeks ago, was a trojan horse program that blocked access to built-in applications and erased data. | 3 |
Newcastle boss Souness watched Rangers #39; Boumsong Newcastle United boss Graeme Souness attended Rangers #39; UEFA Cup clash at AZ Alkmaar last night. Souness was checking on the form of Gers defender Jean Alain Boumsong, who will attract a serious offer from Newcastle when the January transfer window opens. | 1 |
Tsunami Steals a Generation and the Future (Reuters) Reuters - It took just a few seconds\for Shiva Shankari, like her village, to lose her future. | 0 |
After 0-13 season in #39;03, Ross #39; Black Knights hope to mimic <b>...</b> For the 10th consecutive year, tickets for the Army-Navy game have sold out, and for good reason. Countless aspects of this 105-year-old rivalry command respect, from the thrill-inducing pageantry of the pregame | 1 |
RAIDERS NOTEBOOK Schweigert might get start against Chiefs One week after making his first NFL start, opening last Sunday #39;s 25- 24 win at Denver in the Raiders #39; 4-1-6 defensive package in place of strong safety Marques Anderson, rookie Stuart Schweigert may get the opportunity to start in the base defense as well | 1 |
Fed Sees Growth, Measured Rate Hikes (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. economy should grow about\4.0 percent next year, giving the Federal Reserve room to\continue raising interest rates at a measured pace, \Philadelphia Fed President Anthony Santomero said on Friday. | 2 |
OPEC Can't Rule Out Oil Production Cuts (Reuters) Reuters - OPEC cannot rule out cutting oil\production if oil prices slide further before the producer\group meets next Friday, a senior OPEC delegate said on Friday. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Launches Rare Newspaper Ad Blitz (Reuters) Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , hurt by\sluggish sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on Friday\launched a rare advertising blitz in newspapers around the\United States focusing on its price cuts. | 2 |
ECB lowers its growth forecasts BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank has lowered its growth forecast for the eurozone economy this year to 1.8 from a previously projected 1.9, and to 1.9 from 2.3 in 2005, sources close to the ECB said. | 2 |
Judge: Boston Scientific Violated Deal NATICK, Mass. - Boston Scientific Corp. violated its agreement with an Israeli company and acted in quot;bad faith quot; when it set up a secret stent-making operation in Ireland, according to a federal judge who ordered the companies to reach a settlement. | 2 |
BT inks E3.75m contract with Nortel BT has signed a E3.75m deal with Canadian firm Nortel for the supply of IP telephony equipment for a major new #39;virtual #39; contact centre. | 3 |
Rescue Teams Discover Magnitude of Philippines Storms Disaster Soldiers who reached an isolated Pacific Ocean village in Aurora province reported finding about about 100 dead. In the worst-hit town of Real, in nearby Quezon province, TV images showed bodies buried under | 0 |
China Mulls Measures After Textile Quotas Scrapped China will consider adopting measures to protect its interests and those of its trading partners once global textile quotas are scrapped at the end of this month, a government spokesman said on Friday. | 0 |
Attacker slashes twelve Chinese children, cuts own throat BEIJING (AFP) - A man forced his way into a northeast China primary school and slashed 12 young children before cutting his own throat. | 0 |
China Rules in Favor of Corning NEW YORK (Reuters) - Corning Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GLW.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GLW.N</A> said on Monday the Chinese Ministry of Commerce ruled that the company had not dumped standard single-mode optical fiber into the Chinese market. | 2 |
Oil Slides Again on Weak U.S. Jobs Data LONDON (Reuters) - Battered oil prices fell again on Friday, extending this week's 14 percent slide, as disappointing U.S. jobs data deepened a slump driven by easing worries about winter supplies. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Launches Rare Newspaper Ad Blitz 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>, hurt by sluggish sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on Friday launched a rare advertising blitz in newspapers around the United States focusing on its price cuts. | 2 |
Christopher Banks Disappoints The women's apparel retailer surprised investors with surprisingly bad Q4 guidance. | 2 |
Gaining an Investment Edge Whitney Tilson demonstrates how to beef up your portfolio and beat the market. | 2 |
Iomega rolls out low-end NAS Iomega on Friday introduced a new network-attached storage appliance for Windows networks in small and midsized businesses. | 3 |
Mobile phones: An ear full of worms They're coming to mobile phones -- those nasty viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses that have, on more than one occasion, crippled PCs. No doubt about that. The question is: Will they be as bad? | 3 |
Update: Four Infineon executives jailed for DRAM price-fixing Four executives at German memory vendor Infineon Technologies and its U.S. subsidiary have pled guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. | 3 |
HP drops plans to put Compaq technology into HP-UX Hewlett-Packard(HP) has abandoned plans to integrate a number of advanced technologies it acquired in its 2002 purchase of Compaq into its flagship HP-UX operating system. The Palo Alto, California, computer maker has instead decided to partner with Veritas Software to bring new file system and clustering capabilities to its Unix software, the two companies announced Thursday. | 3 |
Report: IBM's PC business up for sale IBM has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on Web site of The New York Times. | 3 |
Report: IBM Selling Its PC Business China's largest maker of PCs is one of the potential buyers, newspaper says. | 3 |
ESPN Eyes Mobile Phone Market Sports media company teams with Sprint to offer a branded cell phone service. | 3 |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: The Great SEO Myths of our Time - Let's Test Hijacking A Google Listing - Internet Searches Getting Re-directed - Search Engines Offering SEO Services? - Shopping Search Arrives as an Important Vertical - Is Having A Yahoo Directory Listing A Hindrance? - Google Not Reporting All Backlinks | 3 |
News: Phishing losses overestimated - survey Fraud losses from email phishing attacks will hit \$137m globally in 2004, according to a study from research and consulting firm TowerGroup. | 3 |
News: Lycos antispam site taken offline Lycos Europe appears to have taken down its controversial MakeLoveNotSpam site - temporarily, at least. | 3 |
IBM Hires Merrill Lynch to Find Buyer for PC Unit, Person Says International Business Machines Corp., seeking to exit an industry it helped pioneer two decades ago, hired Merrill Lynch amp; Co. | 2 |
Napster Creator Stands Atop Snocap Napster creator Shawn Fanning is back with a new, legal file-sharing service called Snocap. The P2P service reportedly is close to signing a licensing deal with Universal Recording Group. | 3 |
Berners-Lee returns to UK p2pnet.net News - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, is going home to England where he #39;s been appointed a professor at Southampton University. | 3 |
Germany Says Thwarts Attack on Iraq PM, 3 Arrested (Reuters) Reuters - German police arrested three Iraqis in a\series of raids on Friday and the federal prosecutor said he\believed they were planning an attack on visiting Iraqi Prime\Minister Iyad Allawi. | 0 |
New Jersey Supreme Court Cancels Bear Hunt TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey #39;s top court shot down plans Thursday for next week #39;s bear hunt. The Supreme Court says the six-day hunt can #39;t take place because the state lacks a proper management program for the animals. | 1 |
High Court to Hear ISP, Cable Dispute (AP) AP - The Supreme Court said Friday it would consider whether Internet providers should be allowed to sell their high-speed service over the cable television system. | 0 |
Germany Stops Assassination Attempt on Allawi Three Iraqi citizens with alleged terrorist ties were arrested in Germany today under the suspicion that they were going to try to kill Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during his visit to Germany. | 0 |
Summit hopes for mine-free world It is in the nature of international conferences, like the one that has occupied 1300 delegates in Nairobi this week, for a final declaration to have been written long before the conference starts. | 0 |
Israel's Peres Urges Likud Hardliners to Back Coalition JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Labour Party chief Shimon Peres appealed to hard-liners in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud on Friday to drop their opposition to forging a unity coalition seen as vital to keeping Israel's Gaza withdrawal on track. | 0 |
Hamas Hints It Is Open to Deal on Truce, Statehood RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Hamas leader said the militant group could accept creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and a long-term truce with Israel, signaling a possible new overture to end hostilities. | 0 |
Weak employment report points to still-sluggish US economy (AFP) AFP - A weaker-than-anticipated report on the US labor market, showing just 112,000 jobs added in November, disappointed some but confirms a still-sluggish pace of US economic growth, analysts said. | 2 |
Halliburton Says Settlement on Track Petroleum and energy services giant Halliburton Co. on Friday said that a district court judge has signed an order that will allow its settlement of asbestos lawsuits to take effect by the end of this month. | 2 |
Retailers Seek To Block US Curbs on Chinese Textiles The New York-based Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel argued the government #39;s Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements accepted petitions by textile makers based on arbitrary factors. | 2 |
Microsoft Sues Spammers over Porn E-Mails Laws require that sexually oriented solicitations be marked with a label warning users of the content in both the subject line and the initially viewable area of the message. | 3 |
Spammers get taste of their own medicine Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal. | 3 |
Jail terms for DRam price fixers Four executives at German memory supplier Infineon and its US subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. | 3 |
Mobile phones: An ear full of worms They #39;re coming to mobile phones - those nasty viruses, worms and Trojan horses that have, on more than one occasion, crippled PCs. | 3 |
Survey: More than 54 million broadband connections in Europe today According to a survey conducted by the market research agency Nielsen/Netratings these days more than half of European Internet users are surfing the Net via a high-speed connection. | 3 |
Murphy trial testimony ends; jurors to return Testimony in the sexual abuse trial of former Houston Rockets star Calvin Murphy ended this morning. Jurors will hear closing arguments and begin deliberations Monday, state District Judge Michael McSpadden said. | 1 |
BBC says it was tricked into bogus story The BBC admitted Friday it was tricked into reporting that a US company accepted responsibility for the world #39;s worst industrial accident. | 0 |
30 killed in attacks on Iraq police REBELS launched two major attacks on police stations in Baghdad today, killing 30 people including at least 16 police officers. The attacks took place in the western Amil district and in the Sunni Muslim stronghold | 0 |
US expresses #39;deep concern #39; over Suu Kyi #39;s extended detention WASHINGTON - The United States expressed quot;deep concern quot; Thursday over reports that Myanmar #39;s ruling junta has extended the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for up to a year from September this year. | 0 |
Khokhrapar-Munabao rail link to reopen, no timeframe: World News: Islamabad, Dec 3 : Pakistan and India agreed Friday to an early resumption of the Khokhrapar-Munabao rail link but failed to agree on a time frame for this, Online news agency reported. | 0 |
ABA Not Catching On An attempt to bring back the American Basketball Association hasn't succeeded, as the league loses teams and changes cities weekly. | 1 |
IBM Said to Be Leaving the PC Business The company that has been synonymous with the term quot;PC quot; since it was first created is getting out of the PC business. According to a report in the New York Times, IBM is in talks with China #39;s largest maker | 2 |
Intel stock up on positive 4Q outlook Intel Corp. #39;s shares climbed nearly 6 percent Friday after saying its fourth-quarter sales are on track to break a company record because demand for the chips that | 2 |
Oil prices fall below \$43 in fourth day of selling The selloff in crude oil futures continued for a fourth straight day Friday, with prices skidding below \$43 a barrel to roughly 14 percent below where they were at the beginning of the week. | 2 |
Samsung phones outsell Motorola #39;s Samsung is now the world #39;s second-largest mobile phone maker, behind Nokia. According to market watcher Gartner, the South Korean company has finally knocked Motorola into third place. | 2 |
Weak Job Data Won #39;t Deter Fed The sluggish pace of job growth in November hasn #39;t changed the odds for a quarter point interest rate hike later this month, but maybe it should. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Launches Rare Newspaper Advertising Blitz Wal-Mart Stores Inc., hurt by sluggish sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on Friday launched a rare advertising blitz in newspapers around the United States focusing on its price cuts. | 2 |
Biomira Shares Skyrocket on Promising Data Shares of biotech company Biomira Inc. soared as it and a development partner, German drug maker Merck KGaA, reported Friday that the median survival in a study involving a lung cancer vaccine has yet to be reached after 23 months in a subset of patients. | 2 |
Supreme Court to Decide Cable Internet Case The US Supreme Court said on Friday it would decide what regulations should apply to high-speed broadband Internet service offered by cable television companies like Time Warner Inc. | 2 |
Edwards Sees Delay in Approval of Trial Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (EW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it does not expect the US regulators to provide an answer by the end of the year on whether it can conduct a clinical | 2 |
Nortel Wins \$5 Million Contract for BT Virtual Call Center Nortel said that the Internet-protocol infrastructure at BT will reduce costs and boost efficiency by making it easier to operate agents across multiple sites, quot;allowing dispersed teams to seamlessly work together as if in a single contact center location | 3 |
WADA Chief Calls for Hearing Into Jones Doping World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound has called for a hearing into allegations former Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones used steroids. | 1 |
Williams to take second look at Heidfeld. Nick Heidfeld #39;s pace on his first two days of running with the Williams-BMW team appear to have increased his chances of being included in next year #39;s race line-up, after the team confirmed that it would inviting him back for a second run next week. | 1 |
Texas freshman awaits eligibility decision Texas coach Rick Barnes says the school could find out from the NCAA on Friday when freshman Mike Williams will be eligible to compete for the Longhorns. | 1 |
Packers seek NFL revenge on high-flying Eagles WASHINGTON (AFP) - Revenge is on the mind of the Green Bay Packers as they enter a pivotal National Football League game Sunday at Philadelphia, where the Eagles made an amazing rally to oust them in last season #39;s playoffs. | 1 |
Baghdad violence kills at least 25 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed. In a second dawn attack in the capital on Friday, guerrillas killed at | 0 |
Explosions in Madrid After ETA Bomb Threat - Radio (Reuters) Reuters - Four explosions were reported at petrol\stations in the Madrid area on Friday, Spanish radio stations\said, following a phone warning in the name of the armed Basque\separatist group ETA to a Basque newspaper. | 0 |
Stocks Rise; Gains Trimmed on Oil Worry NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks trimmed gains on Friday after a senior OPEC delegate said the producer group cannot rule out cutting oil production if oil prices slide further. | 2 |
U.S.-Bound German Plane Lands in Dublin After Alert DUBLIN (Reuters) - A Lufthansa plane heading to the United States from Germany made an unscheduled landing in Ireland on Friday after the airline received a call saying there was a suspect device on board, Dublin airport authority said. | 0 |
3 Arrested in Suspected Plot to Attack Iraqi Prime Minister German police today arrested three Iraqis who appeared to have been planning an attack on Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who is visiting Berlin today. | 0 |
Crude Oil Prices Slip Below \$43 a Barrel Crude oil fell 55 cents to \$42.70 per barrel in early trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Inventories grew by 900,000 barrels last week to 293.3 million. | 2 |
Singapore investigates China firm SINGAPORE China Aviation Oil (Singapore), which this week asked Singapore #39;s high court for protection from creditors after disclosing \$550 million of losses, is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department, Singapore #39;s white-collar crime unit | 2 |
Non-Farm Payrolls Grow by 112,000 The Labor Department said the unemployment rate in November declined to a three-month low of 5.4 percent from 5.5 percent. Wall Street economists were expecting non-farm payrolls to rise by 200,000 -- nearly | 2 |
Expert Expects More Hurricanes Again Next Year FORT COLLINS, CO -- Hurricane forecaster William Gray expects an above-average Atlantic hurricane season next year. Gray said he thinks next year will continue a trend of increased hurricane activity in the | 2 |
Pats to test Browns defense again While wondering if the Cleveland Browns (3-8) can hold their opponents under 60 points for a second consecutive week, in their defense it has to be said they #39;re in the tougher of the two conferences. | 1 |
Bookies convinced UEFA Cup betting coup took place Bookmakers are convinced a betting coup took place surrounding Tuesday #39;s UEFA Cup match between Greek side Panionios and Georgia #39;s Dinamo Tbilisi. | 1 |
Nairobi summit reaffirms commitments to end landmine-caused <b>...</b> The Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World concluded here Friday with 144 states that have banned antipersonnel mines reaffirming their commitments to end sufferingcaused by the deadly weapons. | 0 |
Bonds Said Unknowingly Used BALCO Supplements SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds told a grand jury last year that he unknowingly used substances at the heart of the BALCO steroid scandal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday. | 1 |
WADA Chief Calls for Hearing Into Jones Doping LONDON (Reuters) - World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound has called for a hearing into allegations former Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones used steroids. | 1 |
Nadal Nails Roddick to Give Spain 2-0 Lead SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Teenage rookie Rafael Nadal blunted the world's fastest serve on Friday to beat Andy Roddick and give Spain a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup final. | 1 |
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