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Intel sheds light on 2005 desktop strategy Company says that instead of just performance, customers now want manageability features and lower power consumption. | 3 |
Experts want more government focus on cybersecurity The Bush administration should spend more on cybersecurity research, share threat information with private-sector security vendors and set up an emergency computer network that would continue working during Internet blackouts, a computer security trade group said today. | 3 |
Oracle pushes on apps business again Oracle is taking the wraps off the next generation of its database and business application products at the Oracle OpenWorld 2004 user conference this week, even as it continues its quest to buy out rival PeopleSoft. | 3 |
IBM expands virtual resources for business partners IBM has unveiled virtual resources to help business partners more quickly build and deploy on-demand business applications tailored to customer requirements across all vertical industries. | 3 |
Oracle readies major app server upgrade Oracle plans tomorrow to introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, a significant upgrade with improvements in Java, Web services and identity management, as well as support for RFID technology. | 3 |
IMlogic unveils IM, P2P threat-detection network IMlogic and several partners today unveiled a threat center network to provide a central place for detecting and analyzing IM and peer-to-peer threats, including IM-borne viruses, worms, spam over IM and malicious code. | 3 |
Lenovo, IBM may soon reveal PC unit deal China's largest PC maker could announce as early as today that it is buying control of IBM's PC-making business for up to \$2 billion. | 3 |
Oracle pushes on BI Oracle unveiled Business Intelligence 10g at OracleWorld this week, surprising some of its customers with its entry into the BI market. | 3 |
Thunderbird 1.0 takes on Outlook Express, Eudora The Mozilla Foundation today is set to release Version 1.0 of its Thunderbird e-mail client, an open-source application aimed at competitors, including Microsoft's Outlook Express and Qualcomm's Eudora. | 3 |
Pixar, Disney delay release of #39;Cars #39; Companies say they are postponing release of the new animated film to June 2006 from November 2005. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. | 2 |
IOC Sets Up Probe Into Marion Jones Allegations International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced December 7, 2004 he had set up a disciplinary commission to investigate allegations made against US sprinter Marion Jones by BALCO chief Victor Conte. | 1 |
Champions League: AC Milan tops its group after 0-0 draw at Celtic AC Milan held host Celtic to a 0-0 draw in its final Champions League group match on Tuesday and finished at the top of the Group F standings. | 1 |
Cubs agree to terms with Garciaparra Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - The Chicago Cubs Tuesday agreed to a contract with shortstop Nomar Garciaparra. As per team policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. | 1 |
Classy Arsenal progress with big win Arsenal cruised into the knockout stage of the Champions League with a comfortable 5-1 win over a shell-shocked Rosenborg side at Highbury. | 1 |
Salmans century guides Pakistan to tour victory PERTH: A dashing century by opening batsman Salman Butt thrust him into pole position for a Test opening berth as Pakistan notched up their first tour win with a 43-run victory over a Cricket Australia Chairmans XI at the Lilac Hill ground here Tuesday | 1 |
Psychology professor gets key athletics job LONDON: Britains track amp; field association is turning to a psychology professor to help prepare elite athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. | 1 |
Empty stadium won #39;t affect Real, says Samuel Walter Samuel says Real Madrid will not be affected by playing their decisive Champions League match against AS Roma behind closed doors at Rome #39;s Olympic Stadium on Wednesday. | 1 |
Texans Safety Marcus Coleman Out for Year (AP) AP - Texans safety Marcus Coleman will miss the rest of the season with a right shoulder injury, | 1 |
MAFIA ARRESTS AFTER NAPLES RAIDS More than 50 Mafia suspects have been arrested in the southern Italian port-city of Naples after dawn raids carried out by hundreds of police and paramilitary Carabinieri forces. | 0 |
Pasqualoni Stays On Syracuse football coach Paul Pasqualoni has received a vote of confidence from athletic director Jake Crouthamel, and Chancellor Nancy Cantor announced Monday night that Pasqualoni would return in 2005 for his 15th season as head coach. | 1 |
Cubs sign shortstop CHICAGO The Chicago Cubs have come to terms on a one-year contract with shortstop Nomar Garciaparra. He joined the Cubs in a mid-season trade from Boston; it was part of a four-team deal. | 1 |
Middlesbrough hold on for vital win Mark Viduka and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink found their touch in front of goal to fire Middlesbrough to victory over Manchester City. The Australian produced two exquisite finishes nine minutes into either half | 1 |
Comment was picked up by courtside microphone MINNEAPOLIS -- The NBA suspended Timberwolves swingman Latrell Sprewell on Tuesday for one game without pay after reviewing comments he made to a female heckler during Minnesota #39;s overtime victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday. | 1 |
Miami Dolphins player pleads innocent to airport assault BURLINGTON, Vt. - Miami Dolphins wide receiver David Boston pleaded innocent Tuesday to striking a ticket agent at the Burlington International Airport. | 1 |
House Expected to Pass Intelligence Bill This Evening The vote would send the intelligence overhaul bill to the Senate, which is expected to pass it on Wednesday. | 0 |
Kanye West Leads Grammy Nominations Alicia Keys and Usher received eight Grammy nominations each on Monday and Ray Charles, who died in June, received seven. | 0 |
Colgate to cut about 4,400 jobs NEW YORK - Colgate-Palmolive Co, which makes consumer products like Colgate toothpaste and Ajax detergent, plans to cut its work force by about 4,400 jobs as part of a restructuring plan aimed at boosting its sales and profits around the world. | 2 |
IBM to Sell PC Business to Lenovo? Lenovo Computers, Chinas largest computer maker, said it is in acquisition talks with a major technology company - at the same time that IBM says it is in talks with a major Chinese player to sell its PC making business. | 2 |
China Aviation May Face Liquidation Suit in Singapore Court China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp. faces a liquidation application as early as tomorrow unless it pays debt owed to Standard Bank London Ltd. | 2 |
Intel CEO: Company recovered from product missteps SANTA CLARA, Calif. Intel chief executive Craig Barrett says his company has quot;recovered quot; from product missteps that plagued the chip maker during the first half of the year. | 2 |
Sprint and Lucent sign 3G network agreement Lucent Technologies and Sprint announced a contract renewal agreement - expected to exceed \$1.5 billion over three years - to enhance Sprint #39;s nationwide PCS wireless network and support the deployment of 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology. | 2 |
Group will fight IM threats with honeypots IMlogic and other security vendors announced a consortium Tuesday to fight IM and P-to-P (peer-to-peer) viruses, worms and unwanted spam. | 3 |
Summary Box: Saving Hubble will be costly OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost \$2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working. | 3 |
Nintendo DS Sells Well in Japan Nintendo announced today that it has sold roughly half a million units in Japan, bringing global sales of its new handheld over its goal of one million units. | 3 |
Microsoft Nears Release of 64-bit Windows December 07, 2004 - CNet reports that Microsoft is almost ready with the final release candidate of Windows 64. Here #39;s a clip: The company said it has reached the quot;release candidate quot; stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003. | 3 |
Filtering still flawed, expert says NO filtering system could ever completely stop the trade in pirated music on the Kazaa file sharing system, an expert witness for the recording industry has admitted. | 3 |
Jones maintains innocence as IOC begins BALCO probe SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Marion Jones again denied taking banned drugs to help win five gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, her latest statement coming hours after the International Olympic Committee announced a steroid probe. | 1 |
Werder #39;s Valdez Victorious In Valencia German champions Werder Bremen squeezed Spanish counterparts Valencia out of the Champions League after an absorbing and sometimes fractious clash at the Mestalla on Tuesday evening. | 1 |
Ronaldo told to make friends Cristiano Ronaldo might be the world #39;s second-most expensive teenage footballer - after team-mate Wayne Rooney - but the Portugal international was also reminded that if he wants | 1 |
Red Sox offer arbitration to Martinez, Varitek, six others The Red Sox are offering arbitration to pitcher Pedro Martinez and seven other free agents, General Manager Theo Epstein said Tuesday, meaning the club would receive draft choices if they sign with another team. | 1 |
Petrino tries to end rumors, says he #39;s staying at U of L Trying to put rumors about his candidacy for other coaching jobs to rest and quiet speculation among recruits that he wouldn #39;t be at U of L much longer, Petrino Tuesday afternoon issued his most definitive statement yet about the situation. | 1 |
Veteran signs one-year deal to remain in Seattle com. The last link to the Mariners #39; first playoff team is returning for at least one more season. Catcher Dan Wilson agreed to a one-year contract on Tuesday, several hours before the Mariners | 1 |
Texas Instruments Cuts Forecast LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TXN.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TXN.N</A>, the world's largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Tuesday said it expects fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share at the mid range of its previous estimates, as order trends remain soft and an inventory correction continues. | 2 |
Cheney: #39;We #39;re going to get it done #39; in Iraq With a low-profile, tightly secured arrival at Bagram Air Base, Vice President Dick Cheney became the highest-ranking United States official to visit Kabul since the Taliban #39;s overthrow. | 0 |
Hamas attack kills Israeli soldier, ends lull in Gaza violence Egypt has brokered an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, the official Egyptian news agency said Tuesday. | 0 |
Charles Jenkins arrives in Japan, says last chapter in his life is <b>...</b> SADO, Japan The American who deserted the Army and spent four decades in North Korea says today marks the next and last chapter in his life. | 0 |
Unit killed Iraqi civilians: marine A FORMER US Marine said today his unit killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days, in graphic testimony to a Canadian tribunal probing an asylum claim by a US Army deserter. | 0 |
The suicidal left In late 1991, then-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir appeared to be drifting a bit to the left. After many years in which the Labor Party had called for an international conference to be held, Shamir gave his consent. | 0 |
Traumatised tsunami survivors to take years to heal (Reuters) Reuters - Millions of people may have survived the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply traumatised it will take years for them to heal, if ever, medical experts said on Monday. | 0 |
Seagate Hikes Profit, Sales Outlook SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seagate Technology <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=STX.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">STX.N</A> on Tuesday raised its quarterly revenue and profit forecasts for the December quarter on strong seasonal demand for newer products, surpassing analysts' forecasts and sending its shares up more than 12 percent. | 2 |
Baseball Puts Bonds Homer Campaign on Hold (AP) AP - Baseball's plans to market Barry Bonds' pursuit of the home run record have been put on hold, fallout from the release of his grand jury testimony about steroids. | 1 |
Garciaparra Re-Signs With Chicago Cubs (AP) AP - Nomar Garciaparra enjoyed his brief stay with the Chicago Cubs so much he's coming back. | 1 |
Soccer: Ugly scenes overshadow Bremen triumph in Spain VALENCIA : German champions Werder Bremen booked their place in the last sixteen of the Champions League with a 2-0 triumph over Valencia on Tuesday but the match was overshadowed by a series of ugly scenes in the final minute. | 1 |
Celtic exit Europe after Milan draw GLASGOW (AFP) - Celtic crashed out of European competition for another season with a goalless draw at home to AC Milan leaving them bottom of Group F in the Champions League. | 1 |
Psychologist to step up at UK Athletics British athletics is set to spring a major surprise today by naming a virtually unknown psychologist as its new performance director. | 1 |
M #39;s sign Dan Wilson to one-year deal Only hours before Dan Wilson might have become an ex-Mariner today, Seattle re-signed the veteran catcher to a one-year contract. Financial figures were not released, nor was any word about the status of ongoing | 1 |
AWOL US soldier seeks refugee status in Canada TORONTO - A US soldier who walked out on the 82nd Airborne Division and fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq is seeking refugee status. | 0 |
Barghouti: A High Profile Expression of Rift in Fatah As if the Palestinian Authority was the pinnacle of good governance, with a shining proud record of the all-encompassing democracy, fiscal transparency and national unity, until Marwan Barghouti, the spoiler emerged from his prison cell and wickedly | 0 |
Chemicals exporter faces genocide charges AMSTERDAM A Dutch businessman will face genocide charges for allegedly supplying Saddam Hussein #39;s government with chemicals used to make poison gas that killed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, prosecutors said Tuesday. | 0 |
African Union Forces to Deploy Fully in Darfur by Yearend KHARTOUM, 5 December 2004 - African forces should be fully deployed to Sudans troubled Darfur region by the end of the year despite some delays in building the infrastructure to house them, the new head of the African Union mission said yesterday. | 0 |
Vancouver man is victim of shoddy FBI investigation: lawyer (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A Vancouver man wanted by the U.S. for the 30-year-old murder of an American Indian Movement activist is being persecuted based on a faulty FBI investigation and the word of a troubled drug addict, says the lawyer defending his so-called partner in crime. | 0 |
Candidates Officially Request Ohio Recount (AP) AP - With support from John Kerry's campaign, two third-party candidates for president officially asked on Tuesday for a recount in Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top in November. | 0 |
Giambi's Agent Breaks Silence In the days after the report that the Yankees' Jason Giambi admitted to using steroids in testimony before a federal grand jury, Giambi's agent, Arn Tellem, was silent. | 1 |
Ukraine in election law deadlock Ukrainian MPs will make a new attempt on Wednesday to agree reforms ahead of the election re-run. | 0 |
Former EU Trade Chief Lamy Wins Backing for WTO Job Under WTO rules, candidates for the organization #39;s top job must formally submit their bids before January, with the 148-nation WTO expected to select Supachai Panitchpakdi #39;s replacement by the end of June. | 2 |
Hub spoke at OracleWorld com December 6, 2004, 2:13 PM PT. This priority jumped up two spots into second place as CRM returns into the spotlight among top software initiatives alongside directory services and open source. | 2 |
Johnson amp; Johnson May Buy Guidant for \$24 Billion, People Say Johnson amp; Johnson, the world #39;s biggest maker of medical devices, may buy defibrillator maker Guidant Corp. for \$24 billion, people familiar with the situation said today. | 2 |
Sprint unveils \$3bn plan to roll out 3G Sprint, the third largest US mobile phone network operator, has announced details of its plan to spend \$3bn over the next three years to upgrade its network infrastructure and roll out third-generation services. | 2 |
Texas Instruments Narrows Its 4th-Qtr Sales Forecast (Update2) Texas Instruments Inc., the world #39;s biggest maker of mobile-phone processors, narrowed its fourth- quarter sales forecast because industrial customers for its chips continue to reduce inventory. | 2 |
Zook Not Going to Bowl Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong will coach the Gators in the Peach Bowl, taking a spot left vacant because Ron Zook is leaving for Illinois and Urban Meyer wants to coach Utah through its postseason game. | 1 |
How a safe haven could help save Hubble An out-of-the-box plan to put a new space habitat in orbit could be a leading contender for saving the Hubble Space Telescope, private-sector analysts say in a proposal being prepared for NASA. | 3 |
Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 1.0 Mozilla has released Thunderbird 1.0, an open-source e-mail client that complements its Firefox Web browser. Mozilla says the e-mail program will help users avoid spam and viruses, and | 3 |
BEA Systems Dances At Oracle #39;s Party BEA Systems Inc. chose the opening day of competitor Oracle #39;s annual user conference in San Francisco to talk about its next version of the BEA WebLogic Application Server platform. | 3 |
IBM Extends Chip Performance with Germanium Layering Technique IBM today said it has demonstrated a technique that triples the performance of a standard semiconductor transistor with a process that is compatible with conventional CMOS technology. | 3 |
Dell cuts prices on many corporate products 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 | 3 |
Man held over Iraq gas deaths A businessman wanted by the US for allegedly shipping thousands of tonnes of chemicals to Saddam Hussein has been detained by police in Holland and accused of complicity in the poison gas attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. | 0 |
Tuesday #39;s Sports Transactions Dec 7, 2004 - ATLANTA BRAVES Named Tim Conroy special assistant to the general manager-major league scout. CHICAGO CUBS-Agreed to terms with SS Nomar Garciaparra on a one-year contract. | 1 |
REVIEW: 'EverQuest', 'Warcraft' Polished (AP) AP - If my experiences with two new massively multiplayer online role-playing games have taught me one thing, it's that if I really wanted, I'd never have to interact face-to-face with another person again. I have all the friends and enemies I can handle thanks to "EverQuest II" and "World of Warcraft." | 3 |
Sprint upgrades mobile network NEW YORK - Sprint Corp. said on Tuesday it would spend \$US3 billion (\$NZ4.2 billion) over the next three years to upgrade its mobile network including the development of high-speed Internet services. | 2 |
Crude slumps below \$42 OIL prices fell more than a dollar to a three-month low yesterday as mild winter weather sapped demand in the heavy energy consuming north-east of the United States. | 2 |
Dating Site Seeks Lasting Impression (AdWeek.com) AdWeek.com - Euro RSCG 4D executive creative director Arthur Ceria is joining OgilvyOne's San Francisco office, which opened last Tuesday to service the Yahoo! online advertising account, a new assignment, the agency said. | 3 |
Update: OpenWorld Notebook -- database, grid control, integration improved (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Oracle at the OpenWorld conference on Tuesday is making several product rollouts, including a new version of its database and grid computing enhancements. | 3 |
Dell Touts Grid Computing Over Proprietary Systems Michael Dell has seen the future and it #39;s a 128-node quot;MegaGrid quot; running the Linux operating system on Dell servers at Dell #39;s lab in Austin, Texas. | 3 |
Two NCSSM Students Win National Team Science Competition DURHAM, NC -- Two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics will split \$100,000 in scholarship money. The award is a prize for their cancer research. | 3 |
Trend Micro Offers Virus Scanning for Smart Phones Amid reports of Trojans and worms squirming through mobile devices, Trend Micro Inc. says it will roll out anti-virus and anti-spam protection for users of data-centric smart phones. | 3 |
Euro's Kemp Sees 'Challenge' At BBDO (AdWeek.com) AdWeek.com - Marcus Kemp said his new job as vice chairman and chief creative officer at BBDO in Atlanta "has all the challenges in our industry"--including building a brand with the shop's largest account (Cingular) following a major acquisition (AT T Wireless). | 3 |
Preparing athletes for Beijing 2008 is academic DAVE Collins, a professor at Edinburgh University, has been charged with the task of preparing Britains elite athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. | 1 |
Durham provides Dark Blues masterclass Oxford, the pre-match favourites, reclaimed the MMC Trophy in one of the better Varsity matches for some time here yesterday. But this, the 123rd staging of the annual amateur | 1 |
Garciaparra stays with Cubs short time I was there, #39; #39; he said. I just felt Chicago is the best place for. me. I #39;m looking forward to going out there and, hopefully, turning this into a. 182 home runs and 710 RBIs. | 1 |
A Pair of Linux Stocking Stuffers (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Opinion: Want a quick and easy introduction to Linux? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers two reading suggestions that will help get you started. | 3 |
Oracle Vows 'Oversupport' for PeopleSoft Customers (Reuters) Reuters - Business software maker Oracle\Corp. on Tuesday promised to do everything it can to\keep PeopleSoft Inc.'s giant customer base, whose\departure could threaten the financial success of its proposed\ #36;9.2 billion takeover of PeopleSoft. | 3 |
Summary Box: Saving Hubble Will Be Costly (AP) AP - OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost #36;2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working. | 3 |
An Apple rumor a day Now that Apple Computer has its shitake mushrooms together, it apparently is being coveted by IBM. Missing Links | 3 |
Chairwoman of Civil Rights Panel Resigns (AP) AP - Mary Frances Berry, blunt-spoken chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, resigned Tuesday after more than two decades of criticizing the governments, both Democratic and Republican, that she served. | 0 |
San Diego's Incumbent Mayor to Be Sworn In (AP) AP - A state appeals court on Tuesday lifted an order that had stopped San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy from being sworn in for a second term. | 0 |
Mid-East peace claims 'premature' Israel dismisses reports from Egypt that a peace plan has been agreed with the Palestinians as premature. | 0 |
Lead exposure link to cataracts Accumulated lead exposure may increase the risk of developing a cataract, research suggests. | 0 |
Nortel makes security push Nortel Networks is pushing its security features to the forefront with a series of updated products and a new relationship with security vendor Symantec. | 3 |
Tech Firms Urge Bush to Focus on Cybersecurity Security alliance asks for more funding for cybersecurity research and development. | 3 |
First Look: Affordable TiVo With DVD Burning Humax offers solid box with built-in DVD recorder and 80 hours of storage. | 3 |
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