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Hhg Offloads Pearl and London Life Financial group HHG today announced the 1.03 billion sale of its UK life insurance business, which includes the Pearl and London Life brands. | 2 |
IBM #39;s cash-balance move could start trend IBM #39;s (IBM) decision to drop cash-balance plans for new hires could put pressure on other companies to close similar programs amid lawsuits and attacks from critics who say the plans hurt older workers. | 2 |
Kings Stop Spurs Peja Stojakovic's long-range shooting and Mike Bibby's big second half catapults the Kings over the Spurs, 86-81, on Sunday night. | 1 |
Miles to LSU? A source close to the negotiations says Oklahoma State football coach Les Miles will take over for Nick Saban in Baton Rouge. | 1 |
Stoudemire Soars The Suns move their league-leading record to 26-4 behind 50 points from Amare Stoudemire to blow by the Portland Trailblazers on Sunday night, 117-98. | 1 |
Jim Mora Jr., Tom O #39;Brien are top Washington candidates It looks like the Washington Huskies search for a new head football coach has picked up in the last several days. Reports from around the country have stated that Washington has met with or contacted former | 1 |
Price rises prompt exodus from British Gas Shares in Centrica have fallen by 7 per cent after the energy company revealed that its British Gas business was to limit rises in bills after losing 900,000 this year. | 2 |
Michoud cheers support for space shuttle NASA #39;s decision to reconsider using a space shuttle to repair the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is potentially good news for the eastern New Orleans plant that makes external fuel tanks for the shuttle, a plant spokesman said Thursday. | 3 |
Oracle Expands Beyond Databases Oracle announced the creation of Oracle Collaboration Suite, a real-time toolkit enabling enterprises to collaborate and manage content in whole new ways. | 3 |
Klitschko has long climb to top When Vitali Klitschko lost to Lennox Lewis on cuts last year, it was a fumbling attempt at passing the heavyweight torch. Klitschko was ahead on the judges #39; cards when his face got | 1 |
Finley moving down the freeway The Angels have reached agreement on a two-year contract with former Dodgers outfielder Steve Finley, who provides a more cost-efficient, shorter-term solution to their gap in center field than top free agent Carlos Beltran. | 1 |
Napster Entering Ringtone Market (Reuters) Reuters - Online music service Napster on\Thursday said it reached a deal to enter the ringtone market\with mobile content publisher Dwango Wireless . | 3 |
HP Rolls Out Ultra-Low Priced PC in China (Reuters) Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co. , the\world's number-two PC maker, said on Friday it has launched a\3,999 yuan ( #36;483) computer in China, turning up the heat in the\intensely competitive market. | 3 |
UK initiative on climate change Tony Blair is to host a major scientific conference on climate change in February as part of an attempt to create an international consensus on the science involved and so lock the US and the G8 group of industrial nations into action beyond the Kyoto | 0 |
Israel readying to turn over northern Gaza security to <b>...</b> JERUSALEM Israeli security officials say the nation is preparing to hand over security in the northern Gaza Strip to Palestinians well before Israel withdraws from the area in mid-2005. | 0 |
Red Hat, IBM Partner In ISV Certification (TechWeb) TechWeb - IBM and Red Hat will work together in helping independent software vendors get application certification on Red Hat's Linux server software. | 3 |
IBM Updates TotalStorage SAN Software Suite (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - The company says the new version of its SAN virtualization manager can handle all of rival EMC's arrays. | 3 |
IBM Product to Challenge Data Storage Leader EMC (Reuters) Reuters - IBM on Friday will take\aim at the heart of data storage equipment leader EMC Corp.'s\ market with a product that will allow EMC buyers to\switch to IBM. | 3 |
Whale Shark Finds New Friends in Indian Fishermen (Reuters) Reuters - A few weeks ago, the crew of an\Indian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea thought they had the\biggest catch of their lives. | 3 |
Old News.... REALLY Old News! The video archives of Pathe News are online, covering the late 1890s through to the 1970s. Pathe News was one of the earliest video news services in Britain and one of the best remembered. | 3 |
Java Java Java... and Coffee \\Great writeup from Tim Bray WRT Dynamic Java ...\\Here's the funny part. Whats up with all the damn coffee in these pictures?\\One can only come to the conclusion that caffeine makes you smart as hell!\\caption: Coffee\\caption: Coffee and Java\\caption: Java and Coffee\\ | 3 |
Metamorphosis of Narcissus \\Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus is one of my favorite paintings. I actually\own a print in my bedroom.\\I was amazed at how well Google image search did on this query \\Literally 90 of the images are perfect captures of the painting...\\ | 3 |
Hi-tech posters guide commuters Interactive posters at 25 underground stations are helping Londoners travel safely over Christmas. | 3 |
Robots rejected for Hubble rescue Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading the ailing Hubble Space Telescope than robots, say experts. | 3 |
EU probes mobile phone call costs The amount consumers are charged for making mobile phone calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators. | 2 |
1st US Jet Since War to Land in Vietnam For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet was on its way to Vietnam on Friday. United Flight 869 took off from San Francisco | 2 |
Group to focus on fund management HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- London-based financial services group HHG surged Friday after agreeing to sell its life insurance and pensions business to private equity investors for 1.025 billion pounds (\$1.96 billion) in cash. | 2 |
Former Congresswoman Chisholm Dies at 80 (AP) AP - Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died Saturday near Daytona Beach, friends said. She was 80. | 0 |
Eurostocks open higher PARIS: European shares opened higher on Friday, led by oil heavyweights such as BP ahead of an expected decision by Opec to trim its output. | 2 |
Community Coffee to hike price Citing sharp increases in commodity costs, Community Coffee will increase prices on its trademaker Red Bag coffee for the first time in seven years, the company said. | 2 |
Napster to enter ringtone market with Dwango MUMBAI: Napster today announced that it has forged an agreement with Dwango Wireless, a leading mobile developer and publisher of entertainment content to launch Napster Mobile across major North American carriers. | 3 |
Panel recommends manned mission to repair Hubbble!: World News: Washington, Dec 10 : A National Academies #39; panel has ruled out sending a robotic mission to mend the Hubble Space Telescope, citing fears that a robot might crash into Hubble instead of fixing it. | 3 |
Simians are experts too in the use of tools!: World News: London, Dec 10 : Cambridge University researchers have concluded that use of tools is habitual in monkeys after collecting the first hand evidence on this score. | 3 |
Ninty boss slams PSP as DS shipment target raised Sony #39;s forthcoming PlayStation Portable handheld will fail to attract newcomers to gaming, according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, whose comments come as shipment targets for the DS are raised once again. | 3 |
MSA welcome British GP deal. The Motor Sports Association, the governing body of motorsport in the UK, has welcomed yesterday #39;s announcement that a deal has been agreed to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the next five years. | 1 |
Artest testifies about basketball brawl NBA Indiana Pacers #39; Ron Artest and three teammates testified about the basketball brawl. Ron Artest took the witness stand and described, in his words, one of the worst brawls | 1 |
NHL players offer 24 percent rollback of salaries As promised, the NHL Players Association on Thursday delivered its strongest proposal to end the lockout. In a move even NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow admitted | 1 |
NZ coach launches pre-game tirade New Zealand coach John Bracewell did his best yesterday to create a siege mentality for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy decider in Brisbane today by accusing the media and the Gabba curator of skulduggery. | 1 |
meetings start with bang Baseball officials streamed into the winter meetings hotel all day. Troy Glaus was done for \$45 million before most arrived, Jeff Kent after arrivals. | 1 |
PEACE ON EARTH As the holiday season approaches, there is no greater hope for Peace on Earth and Goodwill to men than this months awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kenyan conservationist Wangari Maathai, who has become a symbol of peace and harmony between Man and | 0 |
Survey Says Political Parties Seen as Most Corrupt Institutions Political parties are seen as the institutions most afflicted by corruption, according to a survey released by a non-governmental organization that monitors corruption. | 0 |
More than thirty miners killed in China blast At least 33 miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a Chinese coal mine northern Shanxi province. 71 miners were in the mine when the blast exploded, the officials said. | 0 |
France backs Turkish EU talks for late-2005 BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (AFP) - France wants the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey at the end of next year or early 2006, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Thursday. | 0 |
Slip a Geek Book Under the Tree Tech gifts needn't be electronic. Geeks and non-geeks alike can enjoy the old-fashioned pleasure of curling up by the fire with a good read. Michelle Delio reviews a passel of new books just in time for the holiday season. | 2 |
GM to cut jobs in Europe Automaker, unions agree to eliminate up to 12,000 workers to curb losses and save \$665 million a year. By Ed Garsten / The Detroit News. | 2 |
Tough times for British Gas British Gas owner Centrica says that soaring energy prices will hit margins in some of its key businesses, sending its shares sharply lower. | 2 |
Nextel, Sprint in talks Sprint, the No. 3 US mobile- phone company, and Nextel Communications are in early talks about a possible merger, people familiar with the matter said. | 2 |
Losses rise at British Energy after nuclear shutdowns British Energy, the nuclear generator, said its first-half losse had tripled following the unexpected closure of two nuclear power plants. | 2 |
Napster Entering Ringtone Market Online music service Napster on Thursday said it reached a deal to enter the ringtone market with mobile content publisher Dwango Wireless (DWGN. | 3 |
Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories gollum123 writes quot;CNN and others are reporting that food is running so low aboard the international space station that both the crew members have been asked to cut their calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks. | 3 |
Oracle boosts enterprise content management Oracle has launched new content management software, offering file management, security and event-driven workflows. As expected, Oracle unveiled Files 10g at this week #39;s OpenWorld user conference in San Francisco. | 3 |
Finley set to be an Angel The Angels have reached agreement on a two-year contract with former Dodger Steve Finley, who provides a more cost-efficient, shorter-term solution to their gap in center field than top free agent Carlos Beltran. | 1 |
Bad sign? Meetings don #39;t make much sense ANAHEIM - The Los Angeles Dodgers last season had the best double-play combination in baseball, so naturally they went out yesterday and signed an All-Star second baseman who admits his glove is merely apparel. | 1 |
Sprint, Nextel in merger talks: reports (AFP) AFP - US mobile telephone groups Sprint and Nextel are engaged in merger talks which could create the third-biggest US mobile operator worth some 30 billion dollars, according to reports. | 3 |
Beijing urges rethink on protests \China's security chief tells officials to pay more attention to people's grievances, in the wake of increasing protests. | 0 |
Iranian film wins Indian honour Iranian movie Beautiful City scoops the main prize at the International Film Festival of India. | 0 |
EU probes mobile phone call costs The amount consumers are charged for making mobile calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators. | 3 |
Madrassas hit by sex abuse claims A Pakistani minister reveals hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at religious seminaries, or madrassas. | 0 |
US Flight Lands in Vietnam After 30 Years Late on Friday, an United Airlines plane will arrive in Vietnam #39;s Ho Chi Minh City, marking the first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing in the country since the Vietnam War. | 2 |
Wall Street stocks end higher on strong company earnings Wall Street stocks rose Thursday as National Semiconductor Corp. #39;s strong earnings results soothed investors #39; worries over higher jobless rate and rising oil prices. | 2 |
Sprint, Nextel in merger talks: reports WASHINGTON (AFP) - US mobile telephone groups Sprint and Nextel are engaged in merger talks which could create the third-biggest US mobile operator worth some 30 billion dollars, according to reports. | 2 |
Napster eyes ring tone market Digital music provider Napster on Thursday teamed up with Dwango Wireless, hoping to corner a slice of the booming ring tone market. | 3 |
Microsoft helps in bogus degrees case Some sleuthing by software giant Microsoft Corp. helped track down two brothers who authorities say sold bogus college degrees over the Internet, including an MBA that was issued to a housecat. | 3 |
Sonics soar past Mavs, improve to 17-3 This is why the Seattle SuperSonics have become the team to beat in the NBA. One night after Ray Allen helped Seattle become the first team to win in San Antonio this season, Rashard Lewis did | 1 |
Viewpoints: Tackling climate change If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right, our planet is heading for some big upheavals. By 2100, they predict, global sea levels will have risen by 9cm to 88cm, and average temperatures will be about 1.5 to 5.5C higher than now. | 0 |
EU sure of deal on status of Cyprus The European Union presidency yesterday expressed optimism that a deal could be struck over Turkey #39;s refusal to recognize Cyprus in the lead-up to next weekend #39;s EU summit, which will decide whether to give Ankara a date for the start of accession talks. | 0 |
NBA Wrap: McGrady Leads Rockets to Stunning Win Tracy McGrady hit a running 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds left on the clock to give the Houston Rockets a dramatic 81-80 win over the San Antonio Spurs in National Basketball Association play Thursday in Houston. | 1 |
Bush Administration Gives Annan Vote of Confidence The Bush administration has expressed confidence in United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, despite calls for his resignation from several US lawmakers over a scandal involving the UN-administered oil-for-food program for Iraq. | 0 |
UN Agency Accused of Putting Children #39;s #39;Rights #39; Above Their <b>...</b> The UN children #39;s agency has come under fire from critics who say it has prioritized children #39;s quot;rights quot; over their survival. | 0 |
PowerPoint Message Is the Medium A competition tries to elevate the dreaded PowerPoint presentation to an artful endeavor, but many participants poke fun at the program instead of exploiting its features. By Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
Handheld Gaming Goes Wireless After flocking to design games for the Nintendo DS, developers are eager to exploit the device's wireless capabilities. First up are local network multiplayer games; in the pipeline is wireless gameplay over the net. By Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
Keeping Love Connections Open When choosing a mate, we often look for financial, moral, physical and emotional compatibility. Add one more characteristic to the list: connectivity. Commentary by Regina Lynn. | 3 |
The End of TV as We Know It Sit back on the sofa and get ready for packetized, on-demand, digital broadcasts. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine. | 3 |
British Gas loses a million users British Gas has lost almost one million customers this year, its parent company Centrica has revealed. The gas and electricity provider, which has put up prices twice in 2004, lost 290,000 customers in the first half of the year and 630,000 in the second. | 2 |
Philips halves stake in Atos Origin Royal Philips Electronics continued its withdrawal from non-core stakes on Friday by slashing its stake in Atos Origin by more than half. | 2 |
Customer Service: The Hunt for a Human In the Internet age, making telephone contact with a human for customer service is a daunting task. Some companies no longer disclose phone numbers. But some consumers have found ways around the blockade. | 3 |
Disney backs Sony in DVD format battle Disney announced yesterday that it would release its films on Sony #39;s Blu-ray DVD format - a week after three other Hollywood studios backed rival Toshiba #39;s HD-DVD. | 3 |
Consoles in terribly short supply THIS YULE is all about console supply and there #39;s precious little units around, it has emerged. Nintendo has announced that it is going to ship another 400,000 units of its DS console to the United States to meet the shortfall there. | 3 |
Man Builds 7 foot Grandfather Clock from Lego Grotius writes quot;As reported in CNET, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the court that hears patent appeals) heard oral argument in an appeal from a \$565 million award against Microsoft for infringing patent rights held by the | 3 |
Owners plan Silverstone facelift The British Racing Drivers #39; Club plan to begin work towards improving Silverstone now they have the security of a five-year grand prix contract in place. | 1 |
Hughes returns to lead in Melbourne Australian Bradley Hughes leads by four shots after round two of the Australian Masters in Melbourne. Hughes, who won here in 1993 and 1998, carded rounds of 64 and 66 for 14-under 130 to lead defending champion Robert Allenby. | 1 |
Wenger: No Plans to Buy New Keeper Arsene Wenger moved to underline his faith in keepers Jens Lehmann and Manuel Almunia ahead of Sundays clash against Chelsea by pledging not to sign a replacement in the January transfer window. | 1 |
Thursday #39;s NBA Roundup (CP) - With their depth and determination, there is little surprise the Seattle SuperSonics are the best team in the NBA. One night after Ray Allen helped Seattle become the first team to win in San Antonio | 1 |
Colombia Paramilitary Fighters to Disarm (AP) AP - Crosses, burned vehicles and blown-up bridges mark the narrow road that runs from a provincial capital to this village near the Venezuelan border #151; the scars of a protracted and bitter battle between a right-wing paramilitary group and Marxist rebels for control of the region's cocaine industry. | 0 |
EU Invites UN #39;s Annan to Summit to Show Support The European Union has invited Kofi Annan as a special guest to its summit next Friday, a Dutch presidency spokesman said, demonstrating support for the UN secretary-general amid a campaign in the United States to | 0 |
Rumsfeld Visits India, Delhi Frets on Arms Sales The United States will build stronger defense ties with India, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vowed on Thursday, but New Delhi said proposed US arms sales to Pakistan could affect relations with Washington. | 0 |
Philips slashes stake in Atos Origin by 50 per cent Amsterdam (pts) - Dutch electronics company Philips http://www.philips.com has announced today, Friday, that it has cut its stake in Atos Origin by more than a half. | 2 |
Amazon.com enters UK DVD market Amazon.com made its anticipated entry into renting DVDs on the Internet on Thursday, launching a service in the United Kingdom that it says will charge as much as 30 percent less than its competitors. | 2 |
For coffee drinkers, grind of rising prices Java lovers, hold onto your nickels and dimes. Months after retail coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks raised the cost of their caffeine concoctions, the price of coffee is still on the rise. | 2 |
Yahoo! to launch desktop search in the New Year Internet portal Yahoo! says it will release a desktop search in the New Year some three months after Google. Desktop search is the latest battleground between the major search engines as they seek to gain | 3 |
#39;Chatter #39; may predict quakes Los Angeles - Deep rumblings many kilometres below the San Andreas fault in California could offer a way to predict earthquakes, US scientists said in a study released on Thursday. | 3 |
MS Eolas appeal begins Microsoft began its appeal yesterday against a \$565m judgment that it infringed on a patent held by Eolas, a University of California spin-off. | 3 |
11am Market Update European stock markets rose in early trade this morning after a late chip-inspired rally on Wall Street nudged investors towards a positive frame of mind. | 2 |
IBM closes pension Employees #39; chances of retiring with a guaranteed pension suffered another setback this week with IBM announcing it was closing its cash-balance pension plan to new employees - fueling concerns that other companies would follow suit. | 2 |
Wall St. Expected to Open Slightly Lower (Reuters) Reuters - Wall Street was expected to open\slightly lower on Friday but United Technologies Corp. may\climb after its chief executive gave an upbeat outlook. | 0 |
Hollywood split as Disney backs Blu-ray With the Blu-ray Disc Association securing non-exclusive backing from Disney, the major Hollywood studios are split down the middle over next-generation DVD. | 3 |
Space Station Crew May Have to Return Home MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with | 3 |
NHL finds hope After three months of darkness and silence, there seems to be a glimmer of hope for the NHL. In a meeting Thursday at the league #39;s Toronto offices, the players #39; union presented an in-depth proposal | 1 |
Failed Road Test After winning 13 in a row and 21 of 22 in the series, many by lopsided margins, the seventh-ranked Huskies found themselves locked in a 40-minute struggle. | 1 |
McGrady saves Houston Houston guard Tracy McGrady has scored 13 points in the final 35 second of the match against San Antonio, to hand his side an 81-80 victory. | 1 |
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