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Photo Site a Hit With Bloggers Flickr, an online photo service that lets people share pictures, is gaining a strong following among bloggers and digital camera enthusiasts for its speed, simplicity and open standards. By Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
RSS: Show Me the Money Like it or not, ads are coming to RSS. Sending information only to those who want it might be a way to keep subscribers from rioting. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. | 3 |
Panel: Robot Won't Save Hubble A report commissioned by NASA says the space agency won't succeed in its plans to send a robot to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. Send humans instead, the report's authors recommend. By Amit Asaravala. | 3 |
Getting Burned? Put on a Shirt Sunscreen and floppy hats are the normal tools to fight UV radiation in Australia. Now you can add laundry detergent. By Stephen Leahy. | 3 |
Why Nerds Are Unpopular If you're too cool for school, you're probably not very smart. Some of us would rather build rockets than friendships. By Paul Graham from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Laptops a Hot Fertility Issue Researchers find that men who place portable computers on their laps are inadvertently raising the temperature of their scrotums -- and possibly damaging their sperm. By Amit Asaravala. | 3 |
This Genome Is Fowl Researchers have sequenced the genome of the chicken, and they hope it will increase understanding of embryonic development and help farmers breed disease-resistant birds. By Kristen Philipkoski. | 3 |
Semiconductor Sector Slides, Stocks Down NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led by a decline in the technology sector following a batch of sales warnings from chip makers and a jump in oil prices to nearly \$43 a barrel. | 2 |
Costco Disappoints on Profit, Stock Falls NEW YORK (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=COST.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">COST.O</A>, the largest U.S. warehouse club, on Thursday posted a 21 percent rise in quarterly profit but its shares fell after it failed to beat expectations. | 2 |
GM cuts 10,000 jobs in Germany General Motors #39; loss-making European division is to cut 12,000 jobs in a bid to save \$665m (347m) annually. The redundancies will affect a fifth of its workforce, with 10,000 positions going at Opel plants in Germany. | 2 |
WMC Announces AU\$1 Billion Payout WMC currently is fending off a AU\$7.4 billion takeover bid by Switzerland-based Xstrata PLC. The mining company upgraded its earnings forecast to around \$1.3 billion for the calendar year, above analysts #39; expectations. | 2 |
Ford President Scheele to Retire Ford Motor Co. President Nick Scheele will retire early next year after 38 years with the No. 2 US automaker, Ford said on Thursday. | 2 |
Iger: Disney Throws Weight Behind Blu-Ray DVD Format Once upon a time, Betamax was more than a winning answer in Trivial Pursuit: It was a real competitor with the VHS videotape format. | 3 |
Siemens claims gigabit wireless breakthrough German company Siemens has shown what it claims to be the fastest ever wireless network connection. The demonstration at its Munich laboratories on Tuesday reached speeds of 1Gbps, twenty times faster than | 3 |
White Sox sign OF Dye to two-year contract CHICAGO (USATODAY.com) - The Chicago White Sox did not offer arbitration to outfielder Magglio Ordonez. Evidently, it will be Jermaine Dye to pick up the slack. | 1 |
Rumsfeld tries to soothe angry U.S. troops (Reuters) Reuters - Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised on Thursday that more would be done to protect forces. | 0 |
Tyco Raises Dividend BOSTON (Reuters) - Tyco International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TYC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TYC.N</A> on Thursday raised its dividend for the first time in five years, the latest indication of change at the once scandal-tarnished diversified manufacturer. | 2 |
Ford's President and Vice Chairman to Retire; Padilla to Replace Scheele Ford Motor Co. announced the retirements of president Nick Scheele and vice chairman Allan Gilmour on Thursday, two company veterans tapped by Bill Ford to help the company emerge from a sea of red ink during the past three years. | 2 |
Palestinian presidential elections candidate beaten The independent candidate for the Palestinian Presidential elections Mustafa al-Barghouthi said he was beaten yesterday by the occupation soldiers at a military checkpoint near Jenin to the north of the West Bank. | 0 |
Stocks Rebound, National Semi Stock Up NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks recovered from earlier losses and rose early Thursday afternoon, with National Semiconductor Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NSM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NSM.N</A> shares surging after the chip maker said problems with excess inventory in the distribution channel are behind it. | 2 |
OPEC consensus emerging to cut oil over-production CAIRO (AFP) - OPEC oil producers appeared set to agree on a reduction in crude output by stepping up quota compliance to thwart a feared drop in prices as global energy demand slows next year. | 2 |
France sells 17.7 percent of Air France The French government has announced its selling 17.7 percent of Air France-KLM Group, the manager of the sale said. France is going to sell 693 million of the Europe #39;s biggest airline, or \$922 million of | 2 |
Ford #39;s Scheele to Retire as President on Feb. 1 (Update2) Ford Motor Co. President Nick Scheele, who postponed his retirement three years ago after being called to the US to help stop losses, will retire Feb. 1. He turns 61 next month. | 2 |
Tyco Raises Dividend Tyco International Inc. (TYC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday raised its dividend for the first time in five years, the latest indication of change at the once scandal-tarnished diversified manufacturer. | 2 |
Eli Lilly expects earnings growth in 2005; accelerated newer drug <b>...</b> NEW YORK, December 9 (newratings.com) - Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.NYS) guided to earnings growth in 2005 today, driven by the accelerating sales of its newer drugs. | 2 |
Hyatt to Buy AmeriSuites Hotel Chain Hyatt Corp. on Thursday said it agreed to buy AmeriSuites, an upscale limited-service hotel chain that it said would complement its full-service portfolio. | 2 |
Panel Wants People, Not Robots, To Fix Hubble That #39;s the recommendation from a panel from the National Academy of Sciences concerning a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. | 3 |
Wireless network smashes world speed record A new world record has been set for transmitting data across a wireless network, claim researchers in Germany. A team at Siemens Communications research laboratory in Munich, have transmitted one gigabit (one | 3 |
Oracle Tackles Unstructured Data With New Content-Management <b>...</b> Oracle revealed Wednesday an ambitious content-management system to help its customers branch out into managing unstructured data, such as E-mail, Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheet documents | 3 |
Samsung ships 512 Mbit GDDR3 memory Samsung announced that it doubled the density of graphics DDR3 memory and has begun shipping samples to graphics card and game console manufacturers. | 3 |
IT heavyweights line up on MegaGrid quot;A-list quot; IT suppliers Oracle Corp, EMC Corp, Dell Corp, and Intel Corp have banded together to forge an alliance to develop the grid computing systems of tomorrow. | 3 |
U.K., U.S. to Share Anti-Terror Technology (AP) AP - The British government announced Thursday it had struck a deal to share counterterrorism technology and information with the United States. | 3 |
Angulo apologizes for conduct in Champions League game Valencia #39;s Miguel Angel Angulo apologized Thursday for his bad behaviour during his team #39;s stormy Champions League match with Werder Bremen and said he was prepared to suffer the consequences of his actions. | 1 |
Hamm cements her legacy She began her career as Mia Hamm, and ended it as Mia Garciaparra, wearing the last name of her shortstop husband on the back of her jersey for the first time during the second half of her final match on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Amazon UK Launching DVD Rental Service (Reuters) Reuters - The UK Web site of\Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVD rental service, the\online retailer's first foray into a market pioneered by U.S.-\based Netflix. Inc. | 3 |
Analysis: Will Subscriptions Drown Out iTunes? (MacCentral) MacCentral - It wasn't hard to figure out which company was on the minds of most of the attendees at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles Wednesday. Whether representing record labels or online retailers, speakers at the digital music confab couldn't praise Apple enough for the success enjoyed by the company's iTunes Music Store -- that is, when those same speakers weren't predicting the store would soon tumble from its spot at the head of the online music market. | 3 |
HP Embraces Open Source as Well as Linux (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - HP's worldwide director of Linux marketing sees HP embracing open-source software and exploring the Linux desktop. | 3 |
McDonald Takes One-Shot Lead at Dunhill (AP) AP - Bruce McDonald of Zimbabwe shot a 6-under 66 Thursday to take a one-shot lead over South Africa's Ernie Els at the PGA European Tour's season-opening Dunhill Championship. | 1 |
Priest Holmes Placed on Injured Reserve KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Sports Network) - Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes will miss the remainder of the season after being placed on injured reserve Thursday. | 1 |
Oil Chemical Cleared of Damaging N.Sea Fish-Study (Reuters) Reuters - Water spilled into the North Sea from\offshore oil and gas drilling is less of a threat to fish than\previously thought, a Norwegian study showed on Thursday. | 3 |
Who's Left From Bush's First-Term Cabinet (AP) AP - A look at the six people in President Bush's 15-member Cabinet who will remain in the administration in the second term: | 0 |
Iraq's Neighbors Get #36;2.9 Billion for Clean-Up (Reuters) Reuters - The United Nations approved paying #36;2.9\billion to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Thursday for\environmental projects to clean up oil lakes and other\pollution from Iraq's 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait, a\spokesman said. | 3 |
Angry Forest Workers Cut Off Toe of Italy (Reuters) Reuters - Angry forest service workers blocked\highways, halted trains and forced an airport to shut down on\Thursday, effectively cutting off the southern toe of Italy in\a protest against spending cuts that could cost hundreds of\jobs. The demonstrations across Calabria, the region that makes\up the tip of the Italian boot, are the latest by state sector\workers upset by the belt-tightening 2005 budget and follows a\general strike last week. | 3 |
'Alternative Nobels' Awarded in Sweden (AP) AP - The winners of this year's Right Livelihood Awards #151; dubbed the "alternative Nobels" #151; received their prizes Thursday from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony at parliament. | 3 |
quot;Shrek 3 quot; Swamped Until 2007 Bad news for Shrek fans--a certain green ogre will not be emerging from his swamp anytime in the near future. On the heels of Pixar and Disney #39;s decision to push back the release of Cars from | 2 |
IBM Could Lose Half Its PC Prospects To Dell, HP Almost half of the US enterprises who were IBM PC prospects said that they #39;re ready to consider Dell or HP now that the Armonk, NY-based giant is dumping its desktop and laptop business, a research firm reported Thursday. | 2 |
Update 4: GM Europe Offers Generous Buyouts in Deal General Motors Corp. offered German workers generous buyouts Thursday to pave the way for up to 12,000 job cuts in Europe, where the world #39;s largest automaker is struggling to end years of losses amid fierce competition and weak demand. | 2 |
Harley-Davidson CEO dismounts CHICAGO - Harley-Davidson Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bleustein will retire from his CEO post effective April 30 and be replaced by Chief Financial Officer James Ziemer, the motorcycle maker said Thursday. | 2 |
France Sells Half Its Holding in Air France-KLM (Update12) France reduced its stake in Air France-KLM Group, Europe #39;s biggest airline, by more than half, taking advantage of the carrier #39;s rising stock to pay off debt. | 2 |
Update 2: China Aviation Oil Chief Faces Police Police questioned the suspended chief of China Aviation Oil #39;s Singapore unit for a second day Thursday as a probe continued into trading losses of more than half a billion dollars by China #39;s largest jet fuel buyer. | 2 |
Update 1: Altera, Xilinx Warnings Slam Sector Shares of chip makers sank in Thursday trading after two US firms lowered their quarterly sales expectations, but the sector saw some relief after National Semiconductor Corp. | 2 |
Boeing Gets \$4.1B Order From Singapore Aerospace giant Boeing Co. on Thursday said it finalized a \$4.1 billion order from Singapore Airlines Ltd. for 18 of its 777-300 extended-range jetliners, following through on an initial agreement between the two companies in August. | 2 |
Baxter Ends Flu Vaccine Trial; Cites Side Effects Troubled hospital products maker Baxter International Inc. on Thursday said it halted a late-stage European trial of its experimental flu vaccine because of higher-than-expected rates of fever. | 2 |
Update 4: Hyatt Purchasing AmeriSuites in \$600M Deal Hyatt Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to buy the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain in an estimated \$600 million-plus deal that analysts said makes the luxury hotel company more of a well-rounded rival to much bigger Marriott International Inc. | 2 |
Clemens Leaning Toward Retirement (AP) AP - Right now, Roger Clemens is leaning toward retirement. Fortunately for his Houston Astros, he's still making up his mind. | 1 |
Ohio State Bans Postseason Basketball (AP) AP - Ohio State imposed a one-year ban on postseason play by its men's basketball team in response to #36;6,000 the university said former coach Jim O'Brien gave a recruit who never played for the school. | 1 |
Bettis, Martin May Hit Milestone Together (AP) AP - Curtis Martin and Jerome Bettis have the opportunity to go over 13,000 career yards rushing in the same game when Bettis and the Pittsburgh Steelers play Martin and the New York Jets in a big AFC matchup Sunday. | 1 |
Disney to go with Blu-ray next-gen DVD The battle for supremacy in the realm of the next-generation DVD heated up Thursday as The Walt Disney Co. announced that it will distribute its features on the Blu-ray format. | 3 |
Nintendo zaps handheld video game shortage com December 9, 2004, 9:37 AM PT. Video game systems maker Nintendo said it will increase North American shipments of its popular DS handheld by 40 percent in order to address a shortage of the devices. | 3 |
Mysterious Tremors May Portend California Quakes Low-pitched rumbles from deep under California #39;s San Andreas fault may offer a way to predict future earthquakes, US geologists said on Thursday. | 3 |
Panel Nixes NASA #39;s Hubble Fix NASA #39;s plan to send a robot to do an astronaut #39;s job is too expensive, technically risky and too time-consuming to develop, said a scientific panel that | 3 |
Amazon has launched its DVD Rental Service in the UK Amazon.com announced to today that they have launched their DVD Rentals service for its UK customers. The service offers to plans right now. | 3 |
Probably the simplest phishing trick in the world Many popular browsers are affected by a vulnerability that makes it easy to spoof the content of websites, security firm Secunia warns. | 3 |
A Favorite Emerges A company with close ties to White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a leading candidate for a contract to help plan Washington's new stadium. | 1 |
Food running so low aboard station that crew ordered to cut back <b>...</b> Food is running so low aboard the international space station that flight controllers have instructed the two crewmen to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks. | 3 |
Huawei wins 3G contract from Telfort Huawei Technologies, China #39;s leading telecommunications equipment maker, will build a third-generation network for Telfort, the Dutch mobile operator, its first such contract in Europe. | 3 |
Kazaa talked to record firms about music swaps - court SYDNEY: Kazaa, the world #39;s most popular internet file-swapping system, told a court yesterday it was worried about users exchanging unauthorised files and held talks with record companies in the United States about the problem. | 3 |
AMD releases details of 90 nm Opterons, multicore chips AMD quietly published first specs of the first 90 nm Opteron processors and talked about Opterons with up to eight cores during a conference with analysts. | 3 |
Shaq, McGrady pace NBA best-seller list (AFP) AFP - Shaquille O'Neal's new Miami Heat uniform is the most popular selling replica jersey among all National Basketball Association players, the league announced. | 1 |
How the British GP was saved The British Grand Prix has been confirmed with a five-year deal between the British Racing Drivers #39; Club - owner of the Silverstone circuit - and F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone. | 1 |
McDonald takes one-shot lead over Els in Dunhill Championship Bruce McDonald of Zimbabwe shot a 6-under 66 Thursday to take a one-shot lead over South Africa #39;s Ernie Els at the PGA European Tour #39;s season-opening Dunhill Championship. | 1 |
Black Caps duo cleared to play Australia BRISBANE: Brendon McCullum and Scott Styris were last night forgiven for expressing pent-up frustration at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday night and cleared to play the Chappell-Hadlee | 1 |
Hughes picks up where he left off at Masters Play has begun in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale in Melbourne with around half the field of 120 players completing their first rounds. | 1 |
NHL-NHLPA talks break down in Toronto At about 3:20 pm, the NHL Players #39; Association left the building and the negotiations ended. They met for about four hours, apparently breaking for lunch during that time. | 1 |
Holmes hurt knee against the Bucs The Kansas City Chiefs put running back Priest Holmes on the injured reserve list with an injured knee Thursday. quot;Priest Holmes is making steady progress on the rehabilitation of his right knee, quot; team president Carl Peterson said. | 1 |
Arizona sends a message of hope with Glaus signing The stewards of the Diamondbacks kept saying in recent months that they intend to field a contending team in 2005. It #39;s just been a little hard to hear them. | 1 |
Buckeyes won #39;t play in NCAA or NIT tourneys COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio State has sanctioned its men #39;s basketball team, barring the Buckeyes from playing in the NCAA or NIT tournaments this season. | 1 |
Four finalists selected in bids for 2009 Super Bowl Atlanta, Houston, Miami and Tampa, Fla., were selected as the four finalists for the 2009 Super Bowl. The four were recommended by a committee of owners at a meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday. | 1 |
Arizona Signs Glaus All-Star third baseman Troy Glaus agrees to a four-year, \$45 million contract with the Diamondbacks. | 1 |
Powell Criticizes Some European Allies on Iraq In a fresh sign of lingering tensions over the Iraq war, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell Thursday rapped European allies who declined to assist a NATO-led Iraq training | 0 |
Sharon Wins Vote to Rescue Gaza Pullout Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks to reporters after casting his ballot at the Likud party meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday Dec.9, 2004. | 0 |
US denies push to oust Annan The Bush administration is not seeking to push UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan out of office over an investigation into the world body #39;s handling of the Iraq oil-for-food program, the US ambassador to the United Nations has said. | 0 |
PM to Rumsfeld: we can do a lot more if Pak builds on trust NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that India was ready to do more in taking forward the peace process with Pakistan if President Musharraf were to stick to his commitment on checking cross | 0 |
Nobel peace laureate: Struggle for peace, environmental <b>...</b> Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended her selection as the first environmentalist to win the prestigious award, saying Thursday it would help others understand that the struggle for peace begins with protecting the | 0 |
Only invitation entitles observers to Zimbabwe #39;s parliamentary <b>...</b> Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reiterated on Thursday that foreign observers to next year #39;s parliamentary election will come in strictly on the basis of invitation. | 0 |
Berlusconi says he won #39;t get convicted Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is confident a court will not convict him on charges of bribing judges. quot;I don #39;t think there will be a conviction, quot; he said at the presentation | 0 |
Mortar attack wounds Iraqi guards Eight Iraqi National Guard members have been wounded in a mortar attack on their base in Baghdad, police said. Police said five mortars landed on the base in the al-Waziriya neighborhood of the capital on Thursday. | 0 |
Peterson Could Break New Heisman Ground (AP) AP - Adrian Peterson's arrival at Oklahoma was accompanied by impossible expectations. Before he even stepped on a practice field, he was hyped as one of the nation's best runners who would carry the Sooners to greatness. | 1 |
Ohio St. Extends Matta's Contract, Bans Postseason Play COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sports Network) - Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger announced a one-year contract extension for men's head basketball coach Thad Matta as a direct result of the school imposing a ban on postseason play for 2004-05. | 1 |
Official: OPEC to Cut Production Next Year OPEC will cut back on oil production early next year in a bid to stave off a further decline in the world price, Kuwait's oil minister said Thursday. | 2 |
Yukos Subsidiary Tomskneft Gets \$114 Million Tax Bill Russian authorities have assessed a new tax claim for \$114 million on one of Yukos' smaller subsidiaries, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, in the latest legal assault against the embattled Russian oil giant. | 2 |
Mexico Seeks to Clean Up Shoddy Rights Record MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government plans sweeping reforms to end rampant human rights violations, but experts complain the plan lacks the teeth to stop police torture and other abuses. | 0 |
Ecuador judges' lock-in protest Supreme Court judges in Ecuador lock themselves inside their offices in protest at a decision to sack them. | 0 |
Bush vows action over troops' kit President Bush says claims that US troops going to Iraq have poor armour protection are being addressed. | 0 |
Guitarist killer's motive unknown US police say they still have no idea why a gunman shot and killed guitarist Darrell Abbott and three others at a rock concert. | 0 |
A Bit of Self-Promotion Worldwide Restaurant Concepts sounds like a company that is putting itself up for sale. | 2 |
Hollywood, But Holly Shouldn't Hollywood Entertainment's board wants shareholders to accept the lowest buyout offer. That's called negotiating? | 2 |
Intel: The Return of Stuart Smalley Intel smiles and proclaims all is well. Or is it a daily affirmation designed to keep angry investors at bay? | 2 |
Firefighter Killed in Iraq Is Recalled as a Hero Sgt. Christian Engeldrum, a New York firefighter who responded to the World Trade Center attack and died in Iraq, was mourned today in the Bronx. | 0 |
Rio Fights Rampant Street Crime as Tourists Fly In <p></p><p> By Andrei Khalip</p><p> RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Police armed with riflesand wearing flak jackets manned checkpoints across Rio deJaneiro on Thursday to prevent muggings and other violence astourists flocked to the ocean city for the holiday season.</p> | 0 |
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