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Apple Falls After Analyst Cuts Rating Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) shares fell 4 percent after a Needham amp; Co. analyst lowered his investment rating on the stock to quot;hold, quot; saying | 2 |
Arbitrator to Hear Artest Appeal Petition (AP) AP - An arbitrator ruled Friday that he has jurisdiction to decide whether the brawl-related suspensions given to Ron Artest and other NBA players can be appealed to someone other than commissioner David Stern. | 1 |
Lycos UK turns anti-spam vigilante Internet firm Lycos UK released free screensaver software that allows users to attack spammers using the same mass mailing techniques the spammers themselves use to fill up the worlds inboxes. | 3 |
European broadband access up 60 on 2003 In the past 12 months, the number of people actively surfing the web from home each month in Europe has grown by 12 per cent to 10m, according to numbers from internet research firm Nielsen NetRatings. | 3 |
Prince of Persia 2 on shelves Young royal returns to adventure in Ubisoft #39;s Warrior Within; darker storyline and new fighting system highlight the multi-console title. | 3 |
SI.com #39;s BJ Schecter breaks down the SEC Championship Game Auburn has won nine of its 11 games by 18 points or more. The Tigers are averaging 419.2 yards per game and will pound teams on the ground before going for the kill through the air. | 1 |
UN seat yes, veto no While India and Russia signed a joint declaration signalling a push to their strategic partnership on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired a Brahmos on the issue of #39;veto #39; for new UNSC members which India is seeking. | 0 |
Mullah: Iran bids to join nuclear tech club Mullah Rafsanjani said here Friday that Tehran expects it would become a member of the club of countries possessing nuclear technology. | 0 |
Bedding Blip? Rest Assured Just as you are getting comfortable, Select Comfort's stock collapses. But don't let Mr. Market's nightmares scare you away. | 2 |
Oil prices pause for breath after two-day rout London - Oil prices edged lower on Friday after a two-day rout that saw the value of crude drop 12 percent amid easing fears over a northern winter supply shortage, traders said. | 2 |
Blair backs Brown Tony Blair has given his staunch backing to Gordon Brown #39;s pre-Budget report, insisting that its spending pledges are quot;fully-funded quot;. | 2 |
US job creation disappoints The US jobless rate dropped in November, but analysts are surprise and disappointed by the weak job creation numbers reported by the US Labour Department. | 2 |
Cable Internet case goes to Supreme Court The US Supreme Court will decide whether cable operators that provide high-speed Internet connections, like Time Warner Inc., should be required to open their networks to other Internet service providers. | 2 |
Southwest Air Traffic Jumps Southwest Airlines (LUV:NYSE - news - research) said demand for tickets outstripped increasing supply in November, allowing the carrier to fill more seats on its planes than a year ago. | 2 |
Its Sno Napster Napster founder Shawn Fanning tries to convince record companies and peer-to-peer networks to switch from lawsuits to making money on downloads. | 3 |
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Ships Ubisoft has announced that its sequel to the amazing Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within has shipped and is now available at retailers. | 3 |
HP drops plans to put Compaq technology into HP-UX Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has abandoned plans to integrate a number of advanced technologies it acquired in its 2002 purchase of Compaq Computer Corp. | 3 |
Meyer attends practice Utah football coach Urban Meyer was just where he was scheduled to be Thursday, at practice with his team. The New York Times reported earlier in the day that Meyer had been contacted by Notre Dame and that he would meet with school officials. | 1 |
England clinch sevens title England tonight won their first ever Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens title by beating a fiery Fijian side 26-21 in a pulsating final. | 1 |
NCAA probation for little engine that could ROMEOVILLE, Ill. The Division Two school that won an NCAA Division One championship in volleyball last year is on NCAA probation for four years. | 1 |
30 killed in insurgent attacks in Baghdad; Two US soldiers die in <b>...</b> In the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks, militants stormed two police stations and a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing 30 people. | 0 |
California Diocese Settles Abuse Cases for Record Amount The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County, Calif., has reached a settlement with 87 victims of abuse by priests and lay employees that includes the largest payment ever agreed to by the church. | 0 |
Consumers snap up credit reports online Credit reporting agencies reported a rush of traffic and a few glitches as a new federal law requiring free access to credit data went into effect. | 2 |
Napster Star Changes His Tune Napster creator Shawn Fanning, who turned the music industry on its head with his file trading technology, has re-emerged with a new company that hopes to facilitate agreements between peer-to-peer services and the record companies, making it easier for | 3 |
Internet Explorer Loses European Share to Firefox Firefox is the second most popular Web browser in Europe, with 5.51 percent of the market share at the end of November, according to Adtech. | 3 |
US finishes 1-2 in World Cup downhill Beaver Creek - In an unprecedented result for American men in World Cup skiing, Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves finished first and second in today #39;s World Cup downhill race on Beaver Creek #39;s Birds of Prey course. | 1 |
Arbitrator Sets Hearing An arbitrator rules that he has jurisdiction to decide whether the brawl-related suspensions given to Ron Artest and other NBA players can be appealed to someone other than commissioner David Stern. | 1 |
Big Blue news a sign of PC market #39;s graying temples While taking a back seat to software and security efforts, hardware is still a big time concern according to our survey. Organizations are taking the opportunity to consolidate their environments as they replace | 2 |
Oil Futures Drop Below \$43 Around noon on the New York Mercantile Exchange, benchmark January crude futures were down 50 cents to \$42.75 a barrel, well off their intraday low of \$42.05, a three-month low, but still a sharp decline on the day. | 2 |
Select Comfort down; lowers sales expectations NEW YORK - Select Comfort Corp. stock fell after the bed maker lowered is sales forecast, citing slow sales during the Thanksgiving weekend. | 2 |
Radio Stocks Fizzle on Analyst Downgrade Shares of radio station operators sank in Friday trading, saddled by a report raising concerns that future growth could be limited as advertising demand wanes amid fierce competition from personal media players and satellite radio. | 2 |
#39;Morning Edition #39; Returns: Webster #39;s Most Wanted Description: The most requested word on Merriam-Webster #39;s Web site isn #39;t in the dictionary yet. The word is blog. It will be in the next edition. | 3 |
Roddick played well in Friday #39;s loss Andy Roddick has never fought harder in a Davis Cup match and has never experienced a team loss like he did in his 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-6 (6) 6-2 defeat to Spanish 18-year-old Rafael Nadal on Friday in the US-Spain Davis Cup final. | 1 |
Utah #39;s Meyer to pick Florida over Notre Dame today? Maybe Urban Meyer is notheaded to Notre Dame after all.According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, Meyer has beenmade an offer to replace Ron Zook as Florida #39;s coach and isexpected to accept it as early as Friday afternoon. | 1 |
Clubs hit back over match fixing claims The two clubs at the centre of a UEFA investigation into an alleged match fixing scam angrily denied any wrongdoing. European football #39;s governing body announced they were opening an inquiry into Wednesday #39;s | 1 |
Bad-news West good for Hawks The NFLs meekest division is in no position to contest the issue, and thats fine by the Seattle Seahawks. Were in first place despite the general feeling you get when people talk about us, quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said Wednesday. | 1 |
Russia #39;s Putin Calls US Policy #39;Dictatorial #39; Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of pursuing a dictatorial foreign policy and said mounting violence could derail progress toward bringing peace and democracy to Iraq. | 0 |
Somalia plans landmine ban, seeks patience Somalia, one of Africa #39;s most landmine infested countries, said on Friday it was considering signing a treaty aimed at banning the deadly devices, but asked the international community to be patient as it rebuilds its war | 0 |
India and Pakistan agree to reopen second rail link ISLAMABAD : Pakistan and India have agreed to restore a second rail link between the countries which was severed nearly 40 years ago. | 0 |
Man knifes 12 primary school children in north-east China : Beijing, Dec 3 : A man intruded into a primary school in north-east China #39;s Jilin province today and slashed 12 grade one pupils, four of them seriously. | 0 |
Arms sales ban at the centre of China-EU talks Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The EUs ban on arms sales to China will be the main topic at next week high-profile diplomatic talks between China and Europe. | 0 |
Dollar Dives to New Lows NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slid to a new record low against the euro on Friday amid disappointing U.S. jobs data and a perception that the United States was in no hurry to stem the dollar's fall. | 2 |
Fed: Inflation Not Setting Off Alarms PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, while remaining watchful as prices and interest rates tick higher, is holding to its mantra that rate increases will be "measured," senior Fed officials indicated on Friday. | 2 |
Treasuries Rally on Weak Jobs Report NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasury debt prices soared on Friday after the latest employment figures suggested U.S. job creation continues to lag, soothing worries the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates more aggressively. | 2 |
Fla. Businessman Sues Ex-NYSE Director MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida businessman has sued former New York Stock Exchange director Kenneth Langone for \$1.8 billion, claiming he made false statements about data management company Seisint in hopes that ChoicePoint Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CPS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CPS.N</A> could buy it for a low price. | 2 |
Halliburton: Court Clears Asbestos Deal HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HAL.N</A> on Friday said a federal court had signed an order that would end the company's asbestos liability later this month, clearing another hurdle for two of its subsidiaries to emerge from bankruptcy. | 2 |
Snow says strong dollar quot;foundation quot; of US policy WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary John Snow said a strong dollar is the quot;rock solid foundation quot; of US policy, but its value is best set in open currency markets. | 2 |
Star elephants aid Thai clean-up Six elephants from the film Alexander join rescue teams to clean up debris-strewn forests in parts of Thailand. | 0 |
Lycos Pulls Anti-Spam #39;Vigilante #39; Campaign Just days after Lycos Europe #39;s launch of an anti-spam DDoS tool raised eyebrows in the security space, the company appears to have scrapped the campaign. | 3 |
Swiss Blocks Accounts in Oil Co. Probe (AP) AP - Swiss justice authorities have blocked bank accounts containing #36;100 million in an investigation of an alleged bribery scandal tied to a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., the oil services company formerly headed by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. | 0 |
Appleby breaks 70 to lead in Sun City Stuart Appleby got his putter working to score a 69 and take the lead at 5-under-par after the second round of the Sun City Golf Challenge in South Africa on Friday. | 1 |
Lincou seals world squash triumph DOHA, Qatar -- Thierry Lincou has become the first Frenchman ever to win the world squash title. Lincou beat top-seeded Englishman Lee Beachill 5-11 11-2 2-11 12-10 11-8 on Friday, saving a match point at 9-10 in the fourth game. | 1 |
Rwanda singled out as Great Lakes peace threatened (AFP) AFP - The EU added its voice to a chorus of international concern over the presence of Rwandan troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that threaten to undermine the fragile peace in the region. | 0 |
China Launches New Class of Nuclear Sub (AP) AP - China has launched the first submarine in a new class of nuclear subs designed to fire intercontinental ballistic missiles, U.S. defense officials said Friday. | 0 |
BALCO Head Conte Admits Role as Steroid Mastermind SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Victor Conte, the head of BALCO lab at the center of a global doping scandal, has detailed his role in doping some of the top names in sport. | 1 |
Davis Cup: Spain Leads U.S. 2-0 as Roddick Loses SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Teenage rookie Rafael Nadal blunted the world's fastest serve Friday to stun Andy Roddick and give Spain a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup final. | 1 |
Triumph for People Power After Ukraine Vote Annulled KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared victory in an "orange revolution" on Friday after the ex-Soviet state's top judges annulled a rigged election and ordered a new vote on Dec. 26. | 0 |
Thousands Uprooted by Clashes in East Congo - U.N. GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence. | 0 |
United Airlines to Cut Up to 825 Jobs CHICAGO (Reuters) - UAL Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UALAQ.OB target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UALAQ.OB</A>, parent of United Airlines, on Friday said it would lay off up to 825 ramp and customer service workers as the airline continues its fight to emerge from bankruptcy. | 2 |
Cocoa Up on Fund Buying, Ivorian Tensions NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cocoa prices rose 3.5 percent on Friday as commodity funds bought on technical signals, a falling dollar and prospects of more political violence in Ivory Coast, grower of 40 percent of the world's cocoa. | 2 |
Cyclical pressures likely to weigh heavily on tech in 2005 and <b>...</b> Technology stocks have underperformed the rest of the market this year, and professional investors have reduced their commitment to the industry as a growing number of analysts question the outlook for the sector. | 2 |
FDA Chief to Meet with Top Lawmaker Regarding Vioxx US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford on Friday agreed to meet with a top Republican lawmaker about the agency #39;s handling of safety concerns over Merck amp; Co Inc. | 2 |
Spam the spammers: Lycos p2pnet.net News:- If you #39;ve wondered just how much people hate spam, wonder no more. A couple of days back, Lycos Germany launched a vigilante screen-saver to beat people sending out advertiusing junk mail at their own game. | 3 |
UN #39;s Kofi Annan Under Fire for Oil-for-Food Scandal Description: A US senator is calling for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Annan is being accused of fraud and lack of oversight in the Iraq oil-for-food program. | 0 |
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 companies like Time Warner | 2 |
Supreme Court to Hear ISP, Cable Dispute (AP) AP - The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether Internet providers should be allowed to sell their high-speed service over the cable television system. | 3 |
An Invisible Technology May Slow Piracy (AP) AP - Invisible technology could soon point the finger toward the camcorder-wielding pirates responsible for that bootleg copy of "The Incredibles" hawked on the street or posted on the Internet. | 3 |
High-Tech Publisher Tries 'Blogozine' (AP) AP - 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 |
Napster Back In Music Scene Napster founder Shawn Fanning has returned to the online downloading arena with the approval of some significant members of the music industry. | 3 |
Infineon Execs Plead Guilty in DRAM Price-Fixing, Face Jail Time Four executives at Infineon Technologies AG and its US subsidiary, Infineon Technologies North America Corp., are to plead guilty to participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said | 3 |
Skulls mobile trojan learns Bluetooth The Skulls trojan horse we warned you about last month didnt do much since users had to install it themselves (thats why its called a trojan). | 3 |
U.S. Dad Wins Custody Battle in France (AP) AP - A 4-year-old girl at the center of a trans-Atlantic custody battle that drew attention at the highest levels of French government was turned over to her American father on Friday. | 0 |
WADA chief wants hearing into Jones doping CBC SPORTS ONLINE - World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound thinks allegations that Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones used steroids are serious enough to warrant a hearing. | 1 |
Bush Signs Internet Tax, Special Ed Bills (AP) AP - State and local governments will be barred from taxing connections that link people to the Internet for the next three years under legislation signed Friday by President Bush. | 3 |
Baldauf, Bergqvist to Leave Nokia Posts (AP) AP - A pair of top executives in charge of the networks division at mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. are leaving the company for personal reasons, the Finnish company said Friday. | 3 |
Mozilla Outfoxing Microsoft (The Motley Fool) The Motley Fool - Firefox is catching fire -- pardon the pun -- and for good reason. Web surfers looking for a reliable alternative to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) Internet Explorer have been busy over the last month downloading the new version of the Web browser. The Mozilla Foundation, a network of programmers jointly developing open-source technology, reports more than 8 million people have downloaded the program since early November. | 3 |
Reports: Blasts Rock Madrid Gas Stations MADRID, Spain - Spanish media are reporting that at least one explosion -- and possibly as many as four blasts -- have gone off in Madrid following a warning from a Basque (search) group. | 0 |
Danforth Says No Tension with Washington Over UN Job US Ambassador John Danforth dismissed suggestions on Friday he resigned from his UN post after just five months because he bridled at orders from the Washington | 0 |
Kosovo elects ex-rebel as PM Kosovo #39;s Albanian-dominated parliament has elected former rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister, ignoring Western concern that he may be indicted for war crimes any day now. | 0 |
Dog released by Calgary pound to new owners back with original family (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - Zack the dog was home with his original family Friday, but it's not a happy ending for everyone involved. | 0 |
Apple Falls After Analyst Cuts Rating (Reuters) Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. \shares fell about 4 percent on Friday after a Needham Co.\analyst lowered his investment rating on the stock to "hold,"\saying much of the potential upside to the company's business\is reflected in the current stock price. | 3 |
U.S. Study Says Sage Grouse Not Endangered (Reuters) Reuters - A government study has concluded the\greater sage grouse is not an endangered species, a finding\ranching and oil and gas interests in the West had lobbied hard\for, a congressional spokesman said on Friday. | 3 |
UN Talks to Review Where 'Dangerous' Warming Starts (Reuters) Reuters - A decade after the world pledged to\prevent "dangerous" global warming, 194 nations meet next week\to review whether rare heatwaves and a fast Arctic thaw may\signal that the planet is nearing the brink. | 3 |
Forecaster Sees Fewer Atlantic Hurricanes in 2005 (Reuters) Reuters - Next year's Atlantic hurricane season\will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a\repeat of this year's disaster, a noted storm forecaster said\on Friday. | 3 |
King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine (Reuters) Reuters - The gilded treasures of King\Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what\could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business. | 3 |
Rare Event: Jupiter to Hide Behind the Moon (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A rare and spectacular event will occur in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 7 when the brilliant planet Jupiter and three of its largest satellites pass behind Earth's Moon. | 3 |
Supreme Court to Decide Cable Internet Case (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on\Friday it would decide what regulations should apply to\high-speed broadband Internet service offered by cable\companies like Time Warner Inc., a key case that could decide\whether such lines must be opened to competitors. | 0 |
What Do You Say to An Extraterrestrial? (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I'd venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant. | 3 |
Smithsonian Exhibit Explores Orchid Lore (AP) AP - An oversized model train speeds over the heads of visitors to guide them through 200 species of orchids. | 3 |
Experts Nix Endangered Status for Grouse (AP) AP - Interior Department biologists have recommended against adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list, a determination that could wind up benefiting natural gas and oil producers but add to environmentalists' concerns. | 3 |
Major Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast (AP) AP - Hurricane forecasters are calling for an above-average Atlantic hurricane season again next year after one of the most destructive seasons on record. | 3 |
U.S., Iran Join in Rare Gulf Security Conference MANAMA (Reuters) - A conference on regional security threats opened in Bahrain on Friday, in a rare gathering of senior officials and strategists from Gulf Arab states as well as Iran, Iraq and the United States. | 0 |
Quirkiest News of 2004: Flatulent Fish and Beyond See our top ten picks of the oddest and most unexpected discoveries of the year, from cat cloning to hobbit-like humans to bloodsucking bedbugs. | 3 |
"I Am David" Film Puts Human Face on Refugee Crisis Opening in the U.S. today, the movie <i>I Am David</i> depicts a Bulgarian refugee's struggle in post-World War II Europe. The film is being used by the UN to highlight the plight of current-day refugees. | 3 |
Price of 5 Golden Rings Plummets The cost of Christmas rose this year, but some surprising elements got cheaper. | 2 |
Analysts: Lenovo an Odd Inquirer for IBM #39;s PC Biz A report in The New York Times that IBM is poised to sell off its PC unit has provoked mixed reactions and tentative interpretations from analysts who follow the historic company. | 2 |
World oil prices slip, capping sharp weekly decline NEW YORK (AFP) - Global crude prices fell, capping a 13-percent, three-day plunge triggered by news of an unexpectedly sharp gain in US petroloeum stockpiles. | 2 |
Russia welcomes oil firms to bid for Yukos NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 3: Thanks to his old hand in oil diplomacy, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was able to reap as much as possible from a brief 12-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. | 2 |
High court agrees to hear dispute over cable Internet access WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of whether cable-based broadband is a telecommunications service that makes it subject to the same FCC rules that apply to phone companies. | 2 |
McDonald #39;s CEO Vows to Build on Momentum McDonald #39;s Corp. #39;s second new CEO in eight months pledged Friday to keep up the fast-food giant #39;s momentum with more new menu items and a continued focus on restaurant improvements, adhering to a course that has reinvigorated the burger chain #39;s sales and | 2 |
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