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Supreme Court to Decide Cable Internet Case WASHINGTON (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. | 3 |
Court Says Interior Dept. Web Site Can Stay Online The U.S. Interior Department can keep its computers connected to the Internet despite the fact that hackers could manipulate royalty payments owed to American Indians for use of their land, an appeals court ruled Friday. | 3 |
IBM Putting PC Business Up for Sale International Business Machines Corp.'s possible exit from the personal computer business would be the latest move in what amounts to a long goodbye from a field it pioneered and revolutionized. | 3 |
High Court To Decide if Rivals May Use Cable for Web Access The US Supreme Court said today it will hear argument on whether online cable access must allow rivals to use its equipment. The case could ultimately decide whether cable operators must allow use of their | 2 |
White House: China Abides by Currency Law WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Friday that neither China nor any other major trading partner of the United States is violating a US law against currency manipulation to gain unfair trade advantages. | 2 |
Walgreen Quarterly Profit Rises (Reuters) Reuters - Walgreen Co. , one of the\largest U.S. drugstore chain operators, on Monday posted a 30.5\percent jump in quarterly profit, boosted by increased sales of\prescription drugs. | 2 |
Former cybersecurity czar: Code-checking tools needed DECEMBER 03, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - WASHINGTON - 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 US | 3 |
McLeish #39;s confidence tempered by Boumsong interest SIMILAR to the actors role, the art of supreme defending is all about timing. The maxim will not be lost on Jean-Alain Boumsong, who is already guaranteed to secure the vote of player of the year from virtually every Rangers supporter. | 1 |
Reports: Meyer accepts Florida job It looks like Florida is going to get its first choice this time. Turned down by Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan three years ago before | 1 |
History says UT could pull upset Auburn will enter Saturdays SEC championship game as a heavy favorite over Tennessee, and for good reason. While Auburn dominated opponents on its way to the SEC West title, Tennessee looked more vulnerable | 1 |
Eta explodes ceasefire hopes with five bombs in the Spanish <b>...</b> ETA, the Basque separatist organisation, detonated five small bombs in Madrid last night, signalling that, despite recent setbacks, it was not yet ready to renounce violence. | 0 |
Q A: ISS exec on security threat prevention Tom Noonan, the CEO of Internet Security Systems, talked with Computerworld about why companies need to stop simply reacting to security threats and focus on preventing them as well. | 3 |
Lack of tests could block virtualization Attendees at Gartner's annual data center conference said their packaged applications have to be tested on servers equipped with virtualization software before they can adopt the technology. But some vendors may not have the wherewithal to do the testing. | 3 |
Intel to exceed previous Q4 expectations Intel officials said yesterday that the company's fourth-quarter revenue will total between \$9.3 billion and \$9.5 billion, pushed up by demand for its desktop, notebook and server processors. | 3 |
HP drops plans to put Compaq technology into HP-UX Hewlett-Packard has dropped plans to add a number of technologies acquired in its purchase of Compaq Computer to its flagship HP-UX operating system, and will instead partner with Veritas Software on new file system and clustering capabilities. | 3 |
IDC: IT spending to grow 6 in 2005 In its annual predictions for the upcoming year, IDC predicted that worldwide IT spending would grow 6.1 in 2005, a year that will be marked by "enormous turbulence" as well as significant consolidation and realignment in several key sectors. | 3 |
Lycos pulls antispam screen saver from site Lycos Europe NV drew criticism from some members of the security community who said the company is engaging in vigilantism and crossing the line by launching what are essentially distributed DOS attacks on spammers' sites. | 3 |
Q A: IBM security chief puts focus on compliance, cyberattacks Stuart McIrvine, IBM's new director of corporate security strategy, said he's working to better align the company's various IT security offerings to help users cope with regulatory compliance requirements, cyberattacks and other issues. | 3 |
PLM vendors eye SMBs with alliances, tools A growing interest in product life-cycle management capabilities by small and midsize manufacturing companies is fueling vendor attempts to make PLM technologies easier to deploy and use. | 3 |
Update: IBM's PC business reportedly for sale IBM is discussing selling its PC business to Lenovo Group Ltd., China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer, according to The New York Times. | 3 |
Apple releases December Security Update Apple yesterday released a 12.7MB security update that consists of several revised components including Apache, AppKit, HIToolbox, Kerberos, Postfix, PSNormalizer, Safari and Terminal. | 3 |
Update: AOL to adapt WebEx services for AIM consumers America Online and WebEx Communications are evaluating ways to adapt some of the online meeting services they currently offer to business users of AOL's AIM instant messaging network to make these services appealing to AIM consumers. | 3 |
Update: TheGlobe.com subsidiary guns for IM interoperability Voiceglo, a subsidiary of TheGlobe.com, has released a test version of an application designed to create interoperability among four major consumer instant message (IM) networks. | 3 |
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Sun submits mystery license to open source group A Sun Microsystems engineer chartered with directing the engineering effort to open source Solaris has published a new software license that could be used for the open-source release of Sun's Unix operating system. Though Sun is vague on details about the license, called the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), it is incompatible with Linux's software license. | 3 |
Bush signs Internet tax moratorium WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush on Friday signed into law a three-year moratorium on Internet access taxes. | 3 |
Supreme Court To Hear Cable Modem Case It is unfair that DSL products deemed telecom services have been regulated much more tightly than the primary competition -- cable modems -- telcos have complained. | 2 |
Dickau sent to New Orleans The Dallas Mavericks, seeking depth at point guard, will acquire veteran Darrell Armstrong from New Orleans in a trade for the inexperienced Dan Dickau, the Mavs announced Friday. | 1 |
Selling Advertising on Your Website Selling Advertising on Your Website\\The number of sites on the Web today is almost infinite, with new ones popping up every day. There are multiple types of sites: portals, "brochureware," content sites, directories, search engines, and ecommerce sites, to name a few. Those that do not sell product or services ... | 3 |
Getting Listed in Netscapes Open Directory Project Getting Listed in Netscape's Open Directory Project\\When you are deciding on the major search engine directories that you want your website to be listed in, you should not overlook one of the most important ones: the DMOZ (short form for Directory Mozilla). DMOZ is just another name for the Open ... | 3 |
Napster Creator Unleashes New File Sharing Service Napster Creator Unleashes New File Sharing Service\ | 3 |
Blog Declared Word of the Year Blog Declared Word of the Year\\US Dictionary Merriam-Webster rsquo;s has announced that the word #8220;blog #8221; is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. Webster rsquo;s defines a blog as #8220;a Web site that contains ... | 3 |
MSN Spaces Blog Service Review MSN Spaces Blog Service Review\\This review started nearly 10 hours ago when MSN Spaces first went live, and its taken this long to complete due to the continual downtime of the site. It was originally going to be longer and in more depth, but I rsquo;d didn rsquo;t have all day and ... | 3 |
World of Warcraft Immerse yourself in the World of Warcraft, released simultaneously by Blizzard for both Mac and PC and get ready to play one of the years most anticipated games, released simultaneously for Mac and PC. Dec 03 | 3 |
.Mac Affiliate Program Partner with .Mac #151; Apple #146;s suite of Internet essentials #151; as a .Mac affiliate. More than half-a-million people use .Mac to make the Internet the ultimate experience. Learn how your customers can, too. Dec 03 | 3 |
Chancellor reveals pension rises Poorer pensioners will get an extra 4 a week from April - or 6.10 more for couples - according to figures in the Pre-Budget report. | 2 |
Lycos Europe Pulls Spam-Fighting Screensaver Analysts say a new twist on the war against spammers in Europe isn #39;t likely to spill across Unites States borders, but is rather an opening salvo more likely to fizzle than to explode. | 3 |
Universal on Board with Napster Founder #39;s New Venture Shawn Fanning #39;s latest peer-to-peer (P2P) venture, Snocap, may have a long way to go to prove its success in the current online music landscape. | 3 |
Blog Declared Word of the Year US Dictionary Merriam-Websters has announced that the word blog is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. | 3 |
Bonds Could Have Unknowingly Taken Steroids Barry Bonds took creams and oils that could have contained steroids, but did so unknowingly out of blind faith in his trainer and best friend, the baseball player #39;s lawyer said on Friday. | 1 |
Villeneuve the fastest in test session LONDON: Canadian Jacques Villeneuve set the pace for Sauber while Germanys Nick Heidfeld did his best to impress Williams in a wet and windy Formula One test session at Jerez on Thursday. | 1 |
Olazabal in hunt for US invitation Jose Maria Olazabal has revealed that his participation on next year #39;s regular US Tour now hinges on receiving sponsors invitations. | 1 |
No Kidd-ing, Jason Back? com. Two Eastern Conference Championship banners hung by the rafters with care in hopes that Jason Kidd soon would be there. Nets fans have been singing this twist on the old holiday | 1 |
Series of small explosions shake Madrid The explosions hit five gas stations simultaneously, after a telephone warning from the armed Basque separatist group ETA. Two police officers were slightly wounded by one of the bombs. | 0 |
Scramble to Reach Philippine Survivors MANILA, 4 December 2004 - With floods receding, rescuers raced to deliver food to famished survivors in northeastern Philippine villages isolated by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and almost 400 missing. | 0 |
Reporter finds poor security at Heathrow Sky News reports its undercover look at security shortcomings at London #39;s Heathrow Airport has sparked a government investigation. | 0 |
Oil prices continue pullback New York - Oil prices continued to plummet on Thursday, falling almost five per cent to hit a 12-week low. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the January contract for light sweet crude was down \$2.24 US | 2 |
Employers Add 112,000 New Jobs in Nov. Employers slowed their hiring as they headed into the holiday shopping season, adding just 112,000 new jobs in November for the weakest gain in five months. | 2 |
Forecast for next year: fewer nasty hurricanes Storm weary residents of Florida and the rest of the Southeast can take a little consolation from the first forecast of tropical weather for next year. | 2 |
Microsoft rolls out blogging service Microsoft #39;s entry into the blogging realm with MSN Spaces will cause an exponential growth in popularity for the Web-based communications technology. | 3 |
International track body meets to choose 2009 World Championships <b>...</b> The International Association of Athletics Federations will select the venue of the 2009 world track and field championships from three bidding European cities during its two-day meeting this weekend. | 1 |
Hornets trade Armstrong for Dallas #39; Dickau Hornets general manager Allen Bristow said the move would allow the Hornets, off to a 1-13 start, to give more playing time to new, younger guards Junior Harrington and Alex Garcia. | 1 |
American Lindsey Kildow wins first downhill, Turgeon top Canadian <b>...</b> LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - Lindsey Kildow of Vail, Colo., won her first World Cup downhill race Friday, continuing the American domination of the early part of the ski season. | 1 |
Former rebel leader elected Kosovo prime minister The Kosovo parliament on Friday elected former rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj, an ethnic Albanian, as prime minister of the UN-controlled southern Serbian province. | 0 |
Hamas May Accept Statehood in West Bank (AP) AP - The militant group Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a long-term truce with Israel, a leader said Friday, apparently softening Hamas' hardline stance and boosting hopes for renewed peace efforts after Yasser Arafat's death. | 0 |
Supreme Court to Hear ISP, Cable Dispute (AP) AP - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether cable companies must open their high-speed lines to rival Internet providers. | 0 |
134 Nations Drop Death Penalty; 62 Still Have It UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A total of 134 countries have given up capital punishment, 10 more than had done so at the start of 2003, a campaigner against capital punishment reported on Friday. | 0 |
Wal-Mart, fending off rivals, slashes prices on 24 items Bruised by aggressive promotional pricing by competitors over the Thanksgiving weekend, Wal-Mart on Thursday announced a counterattack. | 2 |
Microsoft Bends On NT Support Faced with continued customer foot-dragging on license renewals and deployment, Microsoft said Friday has decided to offer quot;custom quot; Windows NT 4.0 support contracts to enterprises that still haven #39;t migrated to later versions of the network operating | 3 |
Hornets trade Armstrong to Mavericks for Dickau (AFP) AFP - The New Orleans Hornets, who have the worst record in the National Basketball Association, looked to the future as they traded Darell Armstrong to Dallas for Dan Dickau, the Mavericks said. | 1 |
Drugs in sport: Jones denies fresh Conte claims over injecting <b>...</b> Marion Jones denied the allegations that emerged yesterday from Victor Conte, the man at the centre of the Balco doping scandal, who claimed that he had witnessed her injecting performance-enhancing drugs he supplied. | 1 |
Bonds Could Have Unknowingly Taken Steroids OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Barry Bonds took creams and oils that could have contained steroids, but did so unknowingly out of blind faith in his trainer and best friend, the baseball player's lawyer said on Friday. | 1 |
Kettle crew not on Target The Salvation Army #39;s red kettles are being banned from collecting outside Target #39;s 1,313 stores nationwide, costing the charitable organization an estimated \$9 million in holiday donations and | 2 |
NTL to sell broadcast business for 1.84bn UK media company NTL has entered into an agreement to sell its broadcast business to a consortium led by Australian firm Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG) and other third party investors for a purchase price of 1.84bn. | 2 |
Moya lands opening point for Spain SEVILLE, Spain (AFP) -- Carlos Moya fired Spain into a 1-0 lead on Friday at Seville #39;s Olympic Stadium, defeating Mardy Fish of the United States 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 in 1hr 57min. | 1 |
F1: Button #39;misguided #39; over move FORMULA One star Jenson Button admits his attempts to secure a move to Williams were quot;misguided quot;. The 24-year-old declared his intention to leave BAR in August to rejoin his first team but the move was blocked | 1 |
Area sports in brief One of the people free-agent right-hander Carl Pavano wanted to talk to on his trip to Detroit was Tigers pitching coach Bob Cluck. | 1 |
Weak employment report casts doubts over US economic strength (AFP/File) AFP/File - A weaker-than-anticipated report on the US labor market, showing just 112,000 jobs added in November, cast fresh doubts over the pace of growth of the world's largest economy. | 2 |
US Study Says Sage Grouse Not Endangered 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. | 2 |
Music industry asks Napster founder, former arch foe, for help LOS ANGELES: The recording industry has turned to its former arch-nemesis, the founder of online music file-swapping service Napster, to help it beat the piracy that it once accused him of spawning. | 3 |
Germany #39;thwarts attack on Iraqi premier #39; BERLIN: German authorities arrested three Iraqis yesterday on suspicion that they planned an attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi while he was visiting Germany, the country #39;s chief prosecutor said. | 0 |
Deliberations Begin in Air India Bomb Trial VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Nearly two decades after Air India Flight 182 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean killing 329 people, the fate of the two Sikh extremists charged with the bombing is finally in hands of a judge. | 0 |
Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Houston (Reuters) Reuters - An explosion at a southwest Houston\chemical plant was felt as far as 15 miles away on Friday\night, witnesses told Reuters. | 2 |
Possible boycott at Target stores due to opposition of holiday <b>...</b> (December 3, 2004, 7:38 pm) Target stores may soon be the focus of a boycott because of a new holiday policy. In January, Target officials informed the Salvation Army that their holiday bell ringers could | 2 |
Conte blows the whistle on Jones After 18 months of leaks, slurs and broken reputations the biggest doping scandal in sports history took its most dramatic twist yesterday when the man at the centre of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation claimed he had devised and | 1 |
Drugs in Sport: Baseball rocked by Bonds and Giambi admissions The ever-widening Balco scandal has sent new shockwaves through baseball, as it emerged that Barry Bonds, arguably the best player in the game, had used suspicious substances | 1 |
Norgren on the move at PGA Swedish golfer Marcus Norgren picked up three shots through five holes in today #39;s third round of the Australian PGA Championship on Queensland #39;s Sunshine Coast. | 1 |
Amateur body pencils Bolton hero into plans for a golden future Amir Khan will be the favourite to win gold in the lightweight division at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang City, China, next November - assuming, that is, that the three-time champion and double Olympic gold medallist Mario Kindeln | 1 |
NBA Sues to Stop Review of Brawl Suspensions The National Basketball Association has filed a lawsuit to block the players #39; union obtaining an independent review of the lengthy suspensions which followed the mass brawl in last month #39;s game between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit | 1 |
Notre Dame Says Coach Search Is Ongoing (AP) AP - Notre Dame's Plan 'A' appears to be heading to Florida. | 1 |
China #39;s Risk of Hard Landing #39; for Economy Remains, US Says China #39;s policy of fixing the value of its currency to the dollar has made government efforts to slow its economy more difficult, the US Treasury Department said in a semi-annual report | 2 |
Bush Signs Internet Tax Moratorium (PC World) PC World - Action doesn't cancel existing taxes on Internet sales, however. | 3 |
Rise Of Virtual Wireless Firms (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - Operating a wireless phone company is hardly a license to print money. Many wireless firms struggle to generate cash flow. It normally takes years to break even. | 3 |
IBM Reportedly Set To Sell Its Personal Computer Business (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - Big Blue might be ready to lose another key link to its hardware legacy. | 3 |
Studies: Captive Elephant Breeding Hard (AP) AP - Elephants in zoos are living as long as those in the wild, but their population in captivity is dwindling because it is so difficult to breed them, according to studies released Friday. | 3 |
Putin Accuses U.S. of Double Standard (AP) AP - Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Friday, accusing it of a double-standard in fighting terrorism and questioning whether any election in Iraq can be democratic when fighting is raging in the country. | 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, but it was unclear who was behind the violence. | 0 |
Salvation Army Bell Ringers Welcomed Back To Mervyn #39;s MONTEREY, Calif. -- Salvation Army bell ringers will be back in time for the holidays, at least at one nationwide store chain that had banned them. | 2 |
Bush Signs Internet Tax Moratorium President George Bush on Friday signed into law a three-year moratorium on Internet access taxes. The law extends a ban on Internet taxes that expired on November 1, 2003. | 2 |
Prince Of Persia Returns Ubisoft has released its holiday flagship title, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for all major consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube. | 3 |
Busch Picks Up Honors at NASCAR Awards (AP) AP - Kurt Busch's busy week of celebration was capped Friday night with his acceptance of NASCAR's Nextel Cup championship trophy. | 1 |
Bonds Tries to Clear His Name Barry Bonds -- the biggest name in baseball -- has now been smeared by the steroid scandal known as Balco, and the San Francisco Giants superstar tried to clear his image through his attorney Friday. | 1 |
Williams suffer fresh bout of road rage If Sir Frank Williams hoped a complete change of drivers for 2005 would eradicate the tensions that raged so publicly between Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya last season, the British team principal appears mistaken. | 1 |
Princeton #39;s Steep Climb Finally Ends Having established itself as a women #39;s soccer power in the Ivy League, Princeton made a significant leap into the NCAA #39;s upper echelon this year by reaching the College Cup for the first time. | 1 |
Hearing set for Pacers #39; Artest CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Suspended Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest will take the first steps in hopes of saving his NBA season next week. | 1 |
Transmeta licenses low-power technology to Fujitsu Transmeta has licensed its LongRun2 power management technology to Fujitsu, the second customer to purchase the rights to use the technology, Transmeta said Thursday. | 3 |
States Begin Security Checks of Driver's License Photos Fraud crackdown begins with with photo comparisons and invisible security numbers. | 3 |
AOL to Adapt WebEx Services for AIM Consumers Voice over IP, online presentations, and multiparty video conferencing under consideration. | 3 |
Napster founder goes legit Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster and former scourge of the music industry, has set up his own firm in an attempt to legitimise online file-sharing. | 3 |
Tigers, Pavano optimstic after visit com. Free agent pitcher Carl Pavano, whose visits to five American League cities in a week will set up the most talked-about pursuit at the Winter Meetings, left the Motor City on Friday | 1 |
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