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'Alternative Nobels' Awarded in Sweden The winners of this year's Right Livelihood Awards - dubbed the "alternative Nobels" - received their prizes Thursday from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony at parliament. | 0 |
Consumer Reports Adds Drugs to Price Comparison (Reuters) Reuters - Consumer Reports magazine, best\known for comparing the prices and performance of cars,\televisions and washing machines, is adding drugs to its\coverage to help Americans save money on their health care. | 2 |
America West: Will Not Bid for ATA (Reuters) Reuters - America West Holdings Corp. on\Thursday said it would not bid for assets of bankrupt carrier\ATA Airlines, saying the value does not justify the cost. | 2 |
Athlete's Foot Seeks Bankruptcy Protection (AP) AP - Sneaker retailer Athlete's Foot Stores LLC filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition Thursday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, according to court papers. | 2 |
Consumer Reports Adds Drugs to Price Comparison WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer Reports magazine, best known for comparing the prices and performance of cars, televisions and washing machines, is adding drugs to its coverage to help Americans save money on their health care. | 2 |
Stocks Rise on Sprint/Nextel Merger Talk NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended higher on Thursday as investors hoping for a year-end rally bought shares. | 2 |
Toll Brothers Profit Nearly Doubles NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toll Brothers Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TOL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TOL.N</A> on Thursday said quarterly profit nearly doubled and raised its outlook for the new fiscal year, citing strong demand for its luxury homes. | 2 |
National Semi Quarterly Profit Rises SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - National Semiconductor Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NSM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NSM.N</A>, a maker of chips used to manage power consumption in electronics, on Thursday said quarterly profit rose, helped by a one-time gain and a tax benefit, and it forecast a smaller-than-usual sales decline in the current quarter. | 2 |
Report: Robotic Hubble Mission Likely to Fail Description: NASA is considering an unprecedented robotic mission to save the Hubble Space telescope. But a final report from the National Academy of Sciences says the robotic mission probably won #39;t be ready on time to save the telescope. | 3 |
Is Intel Too Optimistic? Plus, Amazon's British invasion, it's showtime for Martha, and GM's desperation gets noisier. | 2 |
Ford Motor Co. announces changing of the guard DETROIT (AFP) - The Ford Motor Co. announced that two company veterans who were instrumental in the company #39;s turnaround will retire from the company in February. | 2 |
PalmSource Buy Yields New OS December 9, 2004 - PalmSource Inc. has purchased China MobileSoft Ltd., Nanjing, a vendor of mobile phone software and operating systems. | 3 |
ONE BILLION CHILDREN AT RISK One billion children - half the world #39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation. | 0 |
Stocks Rally, Sprint/Nextel Talk Helps Stocks rose on Thursday as investors bet on a year-end rally, while talk of a possible merger by telecommunications companies Sprint and Nextel and upbeat earnings from chip maker National Semiconductor Corp. | 2 |
Baxter shelves flu vaccine test In a setback for flu vaccine development, Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. said today it has suspended enrollment in a late-stage European trial for a cell-based flu vaccine. | 2 |
Stocks Flat; Higher Oil Limits Gains US stocks were little changed on Thursday as an upbeat earnings report from chip maker National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM) sparked some buying, but higher oil prices limited gains. | 2 |
Are you Chicken? Genome study shows we share half their genes! According to a recent study, a Chicken and a Human share half of their genes. Although the chicken genome contains considerably less DNA than the human genome, it has about the same number of genes. | 3 |
Amazon #39;s British Invasion The moment that DVD rental firms have been dreading is apparently close at hand. Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is launching a DVD rental service in the United Kingdom, beating Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) -- now officially a rival -- to the punch. | 3 |
Industry Leaders Partner With Oracle to Support First True <b>...</b> OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced evidence of strong support for its content management offering through partnerships with leading technology | 3 |
Siemens Clocks Record Speed in Wireless Race quot;There #39;s a whole lot of factors that impact statements on speed, and the companies never include them. How far was it transmitted? | 3 |
Home Theater Maker Kaleidescape Hit with Copyright Suit Gartner #39;s research indicates that US consumers have certain expectations as to what fair use really is. quot;When we #39;ve surveyed teens and adults, we #39;ve found that at least 60 percent of both groups | 3 |
Food running low aboard station; Crew ordered to cut calories KENNEDY SPACE CENTER The crew of the international space station has been ordered to cut calories because the food supply is running low. | 3 |
Gerrard playing for his future Steven Gerrard #39;s thunderous volley against Olimpiakos Piraeus may have secured Liverpool #39;s progress in the lucrative and prestigious UEFA Champions League, but it also virtually ensured the skipper #39;s Anfield exit during the summer transfer window. | 1 |
Attention to detail makes Manning great It #39;s very easy to reel off the options Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has at his disposal. Soon-to-be free-agent WRs Marvin Harrison and Brandon Stokley, RB Edgerrin James, and TEs Dallas | 1 |
D-Backs get Glaus PHOENIX The Arizona Diamondbacks have worked out a four-year deal with third baseman Troy Glaus. The 2002 World Series MVP hit just .251 with 18 homers and 42 RBI #39;s in 58 games this year, missing much of the season due to shoulder surgery. | 1 |
Sharon Wins Key Vote on Alliance for Gaza Plan Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon #39;s Likud party agreed on Thursday to a possible alliance with opposition Labour in a vote that averted a snap election and strengthened his Gaza withdrawal plan. | 0 |
North Jersey Media Group A SMALL but loud chorus of conservative voices is calling for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. They say he is tainted by the UN oil-for-food scandal and should step down. | 0 |
DreamWorks Shares Dip on #39;Shrek #39; Delay Shares of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. dropped 6 percent Thursday after the Hollywood studio told Wall Street it will push back the release of its next quot;Shrek quot; movie until the summer of 2007. | 2 |
Harley-Davidson CEO to retire in April Jeffrey Bleustein, Harley-Davidson Co. chief executive officer, is retiring in April after 30 years with the company. Bleustein, 65, announced his retirement this afternoon at a company board meeting. | 2 |
Baxter puts flu vaccine tests on hold DEERFIELD, Ill. - Medical products maker Baxter International Inc. said Thursday it suspended flu vaccine testing being conducted in Europe after more participants than expected came down with mild fevers. | 2 |
Mystery tremors may portend California quakes deeper than most quakes. Some began just before a relatively large quake last September, they report in this week #39;s issue of the. | 3 |
Oracle boosts content management in the enterprise As expected, the company unveiled Files 10g, part of the Oracle Collaboration Suite product line, at the OpenWorld user conference here. | 3 |
Space crew #39;using up food supply #39; It seems someone on the International Space Station has been super-sizing their meals: food is running so low that evacuation has been considered. | 3 |
Bracewell sceptical about pitch New Zealand coach John Bracewell is sceptical about the preparation of the pitch for the Chappell-Hadlee Series decider, suggesting the Australians want to neutralise Black Caps spinner, Daniel Vettori. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Tuncay hat-trick sinks Manchester United Tuncay Sanli scored a classy second-half hat-trick to earn Fenerbahce a 3-0 win over a depleted Manchester United team in their final Champions League Group D match on Wednesday. | 1 |
Country lags behind in saving #39;children from deprivation #39; The country representative of the United Nations Children #39;s Fund (UNICEF), Morten Giersing, sought cooperation Thursday from the rich of the society for the wellbeing of the children. | 0 |
US welcomes Japan #39;s decision to extend forces in Iraq The United States welcomed on Thursday Japan #39;s decision to extend the deployment of its forces in Iraq for an additional 12 months. | 0 |
Shiite Groups Unite to Run in Iraq Elections Next Month Iraq #39;s leading Shiite political groups formally announced today that they had formed an alliance to run in the national elections set for late January, saying their | 0 |
Harley CEO Taking Off You could say it #39;s been quite a ride for Harley-Davidson #39;s (HDI:NYSE - news - research) Jeffrey L. Bleustein. The motorcycle company said Thursday that Bleustein, 65, will retire as CEO, effective April 30, but continue as chairman. | 2 |
America West: Will Not Bid for ATA America West Holdings Corp. (AWA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it would not bid for assets of bankrupt carrier ATA Airlines, saying the value does not justify the cost. | 2 |
Amazon.com Begins DVD Rental Service on UK Site (Update2) Amazon.com Inc., the world #39;s biggest Internet retailer, began offering a DVD-rental service in the UK that will probably increase traffic on its site and could compete with Netflix Inc. | 2 |
Banks, Law Agencies Team Up To Fight Phishing Digital PhishNet is the latest effort to share information that leads to immediate action against phishers. By Thomas Claburn. A group of businesses and law-enforcement agencies Wednesday announced the establishment | 2 |
Summary: Bush Has Full Agenda for January (AP) AP - FIRST ON TAP: President Bush was meeting Monday with nine new senators and 41 new representatives joining the 109th Congress in a session that a spokesman said was aimed at "coming together." | 0 |
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan A malicious email purporting to offer a link to download Lycos #39; controversial spam busting screensaver is infecting users with a Trojan - proving that the fall out from the botched and now ditched service will continue to cause users pain. | 3 |
Frozen heavenly body hints at a warm heart The outer solar system may not be a cemetery full of dead, frozen bodies, suggest new observations of a large object called Quaoar. | 3 |
Amazon adds DVD rental service to UK store Amazon.co.uk has added a rental service to its DVD tab allowing customers to rent six DVDs a month for 9.99 or four DVDs for 7.99 additionally rental members will save an extra 10 per cent off of Amazons DVD prices. | 3 |
OPEC may cut oil output OPEC oil producers have said they will rein in oversupply to bolster falling prices and that the cartel would have to reduce output quotas early next year. | 2 |
Icahn Blasts Mylan Board on King Deal Veteran financier Carl Icahn said it was quot;reprehensible and insulting quot; that the board of drug maker Mylan Laboratories Inc. | 2 |
Powell Bids Nostalgic Farewell to NATO (Reuters) Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell bid a\nostalgic farewell on Thursday to the NATO Western security\alliance he first served as platoon commander facing down the\Soviet army 46 years ago. | 0 |
Correction: Morehead-St-Kentucky Story (AP) AP - In a Dec. 8 story about the Morehead State-Kentucky basketball game, The Associated Press reported erroneously that in a 71-40 loss, Morehead State scored its fewest points in a game since early in the 1978-79 season, when the Eagles had 37 in a loss to Indiana. Morehead State scored 32 points in a 1995 loss to Kentucky. | 1 |
Australia training its spies in Middle East: espionage chief (AFP) AFP - Australia is sending its domestic intelligence agents to the Middle East for specialist training as part of a major effort to boost the fight against terrorism, the head of the country's main spy agency said. | 0 |
Israel's Sharon Wins Crucial Likud Vote -Official TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the opposition Labour party into government, officials said. | 0 |
Rio Fights Rampant Street Crime as Tourists Fly In RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Police armed with rifles and wearing flak jackets manned checkpoints across Rio de Janeiro on Thursday to prevent muggings and other violence as tourists flocked to the ocean city for the holiday season. | 0 |
Crude oil prices rise on concern about less OPEC output Crude oil prices rose for the second day Thursday as traders worries that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) might trim excess oil output. | 2 |
Baxter pulls flu vaccine from British test Baxter International has pulled its flu vaccine from a clinical trial in Britain because of side effects. Baxter, of Deerfield, Ill. | 2 |
Harley-Davidson CEO Bleustein to Retire Harley-Davidson Inc. on Thursday said Jeffrey L. Bleustein will retire from his position as chief executive on April 30 after 30 years at the company. | 2 |
Oracle Rolls Out Collaboration Suite 10g Oracle today announced Oracle(r) Collaboration Suite 10g with new real-time collaboration tools and enterprise content management capabilities. | 3 |
Most Browsers Vulnerable to Pop-Up Attack Five advisories issued by security firm Secunia warn that a pop-up attack could expose users to phishing scams on most Web browsers. | 3 |
EU safer internet plans approved The EU Council of Ministers has today approved plans for Safer Internet Plus - a programme designed to make the internet safer for children by tackling illegal, unwanted and harmful content -ncluding spam - to promote awareness. | 3 |
Klitschko-Williams: A Preview. Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Danny Williams. Hypocrisy is a harsh term to level at anyone, but its like the Arsenal football shirt paraded around by Williams in Las Vegas, with its precision creases | 1 |
Els in Dunhill contention South African Ernie Els fired a bogey free - five under par 67 to leave him one shot off the lead in the Dunhill Championships. The World number three teed off at 0645 local time starting from the ninth, but | 1 |
Don #39;t look back o Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says his sport must get serious about steroid use. And now the players #39;union says it #39;s ready to talk about a testing plan. | 1 |
Zimbabwe okays electoral reforms ZIMBABWE #39;S ruling party used its parliamentary majority today to pass electoral reforms the opposition said did not go far enough, and ban foreign-funded rights groups, a move critics say would stifle dissent. | 0 |
Money Funds Rose in Latest Week (AP) AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by #36;7.25 billion in the latest week to #36;832.87 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. | 2 |
U.N.: Mobile Phones Gaining Revenue (AP) AP - Mobile phones are expected to generate greater revenue this year than traditional land lines with the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America driving growth, a U.N. agency said Thursday. | 3 |
Militant Chief Wounded in Israeli Strike in Gaza (Reuters) Reuters - A militant leader survived an Israeli\missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel's first\assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since\Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital. | 0 |
Illicit Cameraphone Clicks Could Mean Jail (AP) AP - Camera phones may make great Christmas gifts, but people better not use them for peeping-Tom photos on federal property. | 3 |
Opec prepares to support oil price by enforcing quotas OPEC oil ministers yesterday backed steps to end overproduction when members of the oil cartel meet in Cairo today. Saudi Arabia and others were authorised to open the taps in August as | 2 |
France to sell 700m holding in airline A 700 million (484 million) stake in Air France-KLM was put up for sale by the French Government yesterday, as part of an effort to more than halve its holding in the carrier to below 20 per cent. | 2 |
Proctor amp; Gamble, National Semiconductor move market higher By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Stocks moved higher late in the session on Thursday after Procter amp; Gamble (NYSE: PG) released a positive forecast for sales and profits. | 2 |
GPS Used to Track Teens' Driving (AP) AP - Retired Gen. Tommy Franks has signed on to be the spokesman for a company that uses global positioning system technology in teens' cell phones to let parents know how fast they're driving. | 3 |
Steelers' Burress to Miss Game With Jets (AP) AP - Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress was ruled out of Sunday's game against the Jets after missing practice with a sore hamstring Thursday, a day after he felt confident he was close to returning. | 1 |
Samsung ships samples of world #39;s first 512Mb GDDR3 South Korean semiconductor maker Samsung Electronics has begun shipping the world #39;s first 512-megabit (Mb) GDDR3 memory device, a graphics double-data-rate synchronous DRAM for graphics card makers and electronic game console manufacturers. | 3 |
T-Mobile USA Sees High-Speed Network 2 Years Off (Reuters) Reuters - T-Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless unit\of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE), does not expect to offer\broadband mobile data services for at least the next two years,\its chief executive said on Thursday. | 3 |
Artest, other suspended players meet with arbitrator; NBA stays <b>...</b> An arbitrator heard six hours of testimony Thursday in a grievance hearing that the NBA refused to attend about the Pacers-Pistons brawl-related suspensions issued by commissioner David Stern. | 1 |
Dress-up day is ratings winner The four blokes in flowing dresses at the back of the eighth hole certainly didn #39;t think so. They were among the first arrivals yesterday to catch the action at Huntingdale, adding their own bit of colour | 1 |
2006 World Cup: Japan drawn with North Korea in qualifiers KUALA LUMPUR: Japan are faced with the task of having to travel to North Korea after being handed a tricky draw in the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup finals here Thursday. | 1 |
Researcher Warns Male Laptop Users of Infertility Risk (PC World) PC World - Heat generated by notebook use may harm reproductive health, study says. | 3 |
Atkins Gets Tech-Savvy to Reach More Dieters (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. dieters will soon be able to\count their carbs on mobile phones, the company behind the\Atkins Diet said on Thursday. | 3 |
US weapons for Pakistan will hurt peace talks: India NEW DELHI: India on Thursday expressed concern over US arms sales to Pakistan, saying the India-Pakistan composite dialogue process poised at a sensitive juncture would be seriously affected. | 0 |
IBM Halts Pension Plan for New Hires (Reuters) Reuters - IBM will offer future\employees a 401(k) pension plan instead of a fixed pension, the\company said on Thursday, backing away from a controversial\policy that reduced retirement payouts and stirred employee\ire. | 3 |
President Prays at Menorah Lighting (AP) AP - At a menorah-lighting ceremony Thursday on the third night of Hanukkah, President Bush prayed for the safety and quick return of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq. | 0 |
Space Telescopes Spy Dusty Debris of Planets (Reuters) Reuters - Planet-building is dusty work, and\now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic\construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the\same size as our sun. | 3 |
Mysterious Tremors May Portend California Quakes (Reuters) Reuters - Low-pitched rumbles from deep under\California's San Andreas fault may offer a way to predict\future earthquakes, U.S. geologists said on Thursday. | 3 |
EU Agrees Deal on Punishing Ship Pollution (Reuters) Reuters - EU member states backed tough measures\against ships polluting European waters on Thursday to try to\head off any repetition of a disaster in 2002 that caused one\of Europe's worst oil slicks. | 3 |
NY Bird Lovers Want Pale Male's Nest Restored (Reuters) Reuters - The abrupt removal of the nest\belonging to Pale Male, a famous red-tailed hawk who lived on a\tony Manhattan apartment building, had bird lovers up in arms\on Thursday and demanding his home be restored. | 3 |
OPEC Thwarts Climate Aid for Poor Nations - WWF (Reuters) Reuters - OPEC nations and Saudi\Arabia in particular are standing in the way of getting\financial help to developing countries to cope with global\warming, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Thursday. | 3 |
Food Running Low Aboard Space Station (AP) AP - Food is running so low aboard the international space station that the two crewmen have been instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks, NASA said Thursday. | 3 |
Moral clarity blurs in Darfur crisis Talks between Sudan's government and two rebel groups to resolve the nearly two-year battle resume Friday. | 0 |
Japan beefs up its defense stance With an eye to North Korea and China, Prime Minister Koizumi's Cabinet is set to pass new guidelines. | 0 |
Ukraine's presidential campaign, Part II: a cleaner run? A flood of foreign observers is expected for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote. | 0 |
Why does Asia get all the cool stuff first? Also: Congress OKs private spaceflight bill. News.com Extra | 3 |
Offshoring gains momentum Down Under New report on offshoring points to greater acceptance among Australians. | 3 |
Game for a new tune? It's not hip-hop. It's blip-pop. That's what the Gameboyzz Orchestra Project calls the sounds it squeezes out of a half dozen Game Boy consoles. Missing Links | 3 |
Visiting Indian delegation gets earful Visiting Indian delegation gets earful from U.S. workers dislocated by outsourcing. | 3 |
McNealy innovates in trade-show theatrics Scott McNealy for years has relied on Top 10 lists for comic relief during his tech show keynote speeches, but at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Wednesday, he tried a new stunt. Missing Links | 3 |
HDS slides into midrange storage market Hitachi has released its first all Serial ATA array and has bundled it with switches and network interface cards to create a preconfigured low-to-midrange SAN that competes with products from EMC and IBM. | 3 |
Novell to support Netline's Open-Xchange Server Novell Inc. will no longer sell its branded version of SUSE Linux Open-Xchange Server next year and will instead provide its global maintenance and support services to users of Netline Internet Services' flagship Open-Xchange Server. | 3 |
Tech groups praise parts of intelligence bill Technology trade groups cheered parts of a comprehensive intelligence reform bill passed by Congress yesterday, but said the government's chief cybersecurity official should have a more prominent position. | 3 |
Digital PhishNet launched to combat phishing scams Several major industry players and law enforcement agencies are collaborating in a new effort to respond to the rapidly growing phishing problem. | 3 |
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