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Napier's Chessboard Calculator Isn't Napier the logarithm guy? Yes indeed. A man of varied talents, he popularized the modern decimal point notation and argued that the Pope of 1593 was the Antichrist. And created one of the first devices to automate binary arithmetic. Using nothing more than a chessboard and some counters, he developed ways to multiply, divide and even find the square roots of binary numbers. | 3 |
Oracle buys PeopleSoft; Denver jobs might be affected Oracle Corp. #39;s acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday means about 2,000 Denver-area jobs hang in the balance. An analyst said Denver-area sales and marketing positions within the former JD Edwards line are among the most vulnerable. | 2 |
Tommy Hilfiger buys Lagerfeld trademarks Tommy Hilfiger Corp. - whose once-hot preppy clothing business has cooled - is making a play to rekindle growth by buying luxury brand Karl Lagerfeld. | 2 |
Parents Waiting for Waves to Return Kids (AP) AP - As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago. "They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them #151; one day," UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore. | 0 |
3Com to buy TippingPoint Officials at 3Com said today they have signed an agreement to acquire TippingPoint Technologies, a maker of intrusion-prevention systems. | 2 |
UnitedHealthcare to Settle Fraud Charges WASHINGTON - UnitedHealthcare will pay the federal government \$3.5 million to settle allegations of fraud stemming from mishandling of telephone calls involving the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced. | 2 |
Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray Microsoft (Quote, Chart) officials announced the release of its own desktop search application Monday, hoping to make up Google ground established two months ago. | 3 |
Ten Percent of Bird Species to Disappear - US Study Ten percent of all bird species are set to disappear by the end of this century -- and with them the services they provide such as cleaning up carcasses and spreading seeds, US researchers said on Monday. | 3 |
A three-for-one swap ANAHEIM, Calif. Carlos Lee has been traded from the Chicago White Sox to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Scott Podsednik (pahd-SEHD #39;-nihk), reliever Luis Vizcaino (loo-EES #39; vihs-ky-AY #39;-noh) and a player to be named. | 1 |
Video Games Go Live for Annual Awards Show LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A felon will host, a Playboy model will work the red carpet, and "the most destructive band in history" will play on the first major live video game awards show, airing on Spike TV on Tuesday. | 3 |
Jets Struggle Once More Against Elite Team (AP) AP - After another loss to a winning team, the New York Jets tried yet again to explain why they always come up short in big games. Reserve running back LaMont Jordan was quick with an answer. | 1 |
VoIP: Find Out More About 'Net Phone Calling Express features editor Holly Morris discusses Tuesday's special report about local providers of VoIP -- services that let you talk over the Internet with a regular phone and a broadband connection. | 3 |
Survival of software's fittest In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted. | 3 |
Security's disorderly mess Jon Oltsik explains why a new computing security conundrum presents CIOs with a problem that's not given to an easy solution. | 3 |
Borland details latest on JBuilder The software company reveals details of update to its flagship Java development tool, JBuilder 2005, available next month. \ | 3 |
Start-up salaries get reality check Honchos at new tech firms have to do more than show up to get the big bucks now, a new study says. | 3 |
Microsoft cuts OneNote price Software giant knocks \$100--half the original price--off its note-taking application. | 3 |
Open Text to acquire Artesia The planned buy is only the latest shakeup in the market for content management products. | 3 |
Found in translation: Microsoft tool talks pretty New Microsoft program smoothes transition from Chinese to English. | 3 |
Photos: Inside Dell's Austin assembly plant The 300,000-square-foot facility begins to buzz around 8 a.m. and churns continuously for a 10-hour shift (12 on the weekend). | 3 |
Mets Attract Martinez The New York Mets and free agent Pedro Martinez are close to finalizing a four-year contract for the 33-year-old pitcher. | 1 |
Nanosys yanks IPO Volatile capital markets cited as nanotech firm--losing money and with no products yet--withdraws initial public stock offering. | 3 |
Nobel laureate joins solar-cell firm Arno Penzias, who won a Nobel Prize for physics, is now a scientific adviser to Konarka. | 3 |
Mayo Clinic logs on to Blue Gene IBM supercomputer drafted to help do the math on genes connected to cancer, other diseases. | 3 |
Start-up to use genes to build better chips Can food-poisoning bacteria E. coli make chips better than humans? Start-up says yes, but primordial soup will take time to steep. | 3 |
White Sox Trade Carlos Lee to Milwaukee ANAHEIM, Calif. Dec 13, 2004 - Carlos Lee was traded from the Chicago White Sox to the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday for outfielder Scott Podsednik, reliever Luis Vizcaino and a player to be named. | 1 |
Coleman happy to mix with big boys Fulham boss Chris Coleman insists Monday night #39;s clash with Manchester United holds no fear for his Premiership strugglers. The Cottagers registered a stunning 3-1 victory over Sir Alex Ferguson #39;s men at Old | 1 |
Intel awaits government move on expensing options Figuring it's had enough of fighting over options, the chip giant is waiting to see what Congress comes up with. | 3 |
Update: Darfur peace talks suspended as rebels pull out The third round of peace talks aimedat ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan #39;s troubled Darfur region has been suspended after the rebels accused government forces of continuing attacking them. | 0 |
Sun shuffles sales execs Executive vice president of sales becomes Sun's executive vice president for strategic development and Sun financing.\ | 3 |
Gateway returns to PC roots Company discontinues many consumer electronics lines to focus on PCs--and profitability. | 3 |
Internet threats a bleak picture of human future Biological and genetic weapons should take cue from online viruses and worms, British doctors say. | 3 |
U.S. boosts homeland security budget in 2005 President Bush signs the 2005 budget for funding the Department of Homeland Security, allocating some \$40.7 billion to that agency, an increase of 6.6 percent over 2004. | 3 |
Report: ZigBee wireless set to swarm The wireless automation technology will see explosive growth over the next few years, a new study predicts. | 3 |
Honor your sysadmin...be quiet Did you feel that extra jolt of electricity in the air when you arrived at work today? Yes, it's... | 3 |
Juniper poaches Cisco execs Juniper Networks lands two top Cisco Systems executives to lead a newly developed channel program. | 3 |
ICANN readies for next-generation Net International body in charge of doling out IP addresses is set to give out new IPv6 addresses. | 3 |
Earnings reports hint at IP networking growth Juniper Networks sets tone for earnings season--analysts expect strong growth in IP networking. | 3 |
Routing's rock star Tony Li helped develop some of the most sophisticated Internet Protocol routers in the world for Cisco and Juniper. Now he's ready to dish on his ex-employers. | 3 |
Photo: Weather data to your desktop This WeatherBug Backyard weather station, dubbed the Wireless Vantage Pro2, streams meteorology data to a desktop. | 3 |
Photo: XM's portable satellite radio XM Satellite Radio Holdings introduced a handheld portable version of its satellite radio. | 3 |
Microsoft releases desktop search suite to testers Microsoft today joined the desktop search fray by releasing the beta-test version of a suite of tools designed to let users find information stored in their PCs. | 3 |
3Com to buy TippingPoint for \$430M The deal will add TippingPoint's UnityOne line of network-based intrusion-prevention system hardware and software to 3Com's stable of enterprise security products. | 3 |
IBM, AMD develop new use of strained silicon IBM and AMD have jointly developed a new method for implementing strained silicon technology on both positive and negative transistors, a technique they said could improve transistor speeds by as much as 24. | 3 |
Software revenue pushes up Oracle's Q2 earnings Oracle reported second-quarter 2005 earnings that beat analyst expectations today, thanks to new software revenue and continued gains from license updates and product support. | 3 |
Update: Oracle signs deal to buy PeopleSoft for \$10.3B Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for about \$10.3 billion, the companies said this morning. | 3 |
HIPAA security guidelines being readied A working group made up of members from three organizations plans this month to release guidelines for complying with the data security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). | 3 |
US Air Flight Attendants Ready for Strike WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flight attendants at bankrupt US Airways Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UAIRQ.OB target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UAIRQ.OB</A> have authorized their union to call a strike should a federal court allow airline management to void their contract, the Association of Flight Attendants said on Monday. | 2 |
Microsoft MSN Desktop Search Out Today? Microsoft MSN Desktop Search Out Today?\\Microsoft's MSN division will be holding a teleconference today at 1 pm EST to announce their newest addition to the MSN network. Will it be that MSN Search Beta is going live and full blown? Did they find a new actor to play the butterfly? ... | 3 |
Stocks: Shares gain as deals encourage investors NEW YORK US stocks rose Monday after the software maker PeopleSoft accepted Oracle #39;s buyout offer and data showed better-than-expected November retail sales, signaling an uptick in consumer spending. | 2 |
A Pitcher Hopes to Hop Off the Injury Treadmill Jeff Zimmerman's recent baseball biography reads like a broken record, or in a more modern idiom, "Groundhog Day." | 1 |
UPDATE 1-UAL sets salary cuts; aims for \$112 mln savings UAL Corp. (UALAQ.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday announced new cuts in employees #39; salaries as the parent of United Airlines looks to make \$112 million in annual savings and emerge from bankruptcy protection. | 2 |
Virginia Tech Women Upset No. 17 Maryland (AP) AP - Carrie Mason had 16 points for Virginia Tech, which hung on to upset No. 17 Maryland 77-67 in the Hokies' Atlantic Coast Conference debut on Sunday. | 1 |
IBM #39;s storage software owns all of EMC kit IBM has infiltrated deeper into EMC #39;s storage line with a new version of its SAN (storage area network) Volume Controller software. | 3 |
Woods Wins Exhibition Tournament to End Slump American Tiger Woods has won the annual exhibition golf tournament he hosts, posting a two-stroke victory over Padraig Harrington of Ireland at the Target World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California. | 1 |
Real to finish bomb hoax match NO PLAYER will be able to claim that he is tired when the Spanish league match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad on January 5 goes into injury time, because the teams will have been playing for less than three minutes. | 1 |
Patriots Outlast Bengals, Clinch Playoff Berth Corey Dillon faced his former team for the first time when it counted on Sunday in Foxboro. Dillon demanded to be let out of Cincinnati and backed up his actions with questionable behavior. | 1 |
Titans Hold on for 24-19 Win Over Lions (AP) AP - The Tennessee Titans promised they wouldn't quit until the season ended. They certainly didn't. Billy Volek threw for 175 yards and a touchdown before being knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter, and the Titans held on for a 24-19 victory over the Detroit Lions on Sunday. Tennessee snapped its five-game losing skid. | 1 |
Pinochet arrest warrant suspended A WARRANT placing former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet under house arrest on charges of murder and kidnapping has been suspended after an appeal by his lawyers. | 0 |
White Sox Deal Lee to Brewers for Podsednik (Reuters) Reuters - The Milwaukee Brewers\have acquired slugging outfielder Carlos Lee from the Chicago\White Sox in exchange for speedy outfielder Scott Podsednik,\pitcher Luis Vizcaino and a player to be named later. | 1 |
Columnists: Online Extortion Works Online extortion is quietly affecting thousands of businesses, for a very simple reason: it works. The big question then becomes, how will you and your company decide to respond? | 3 |
Sexual Violence Hit 2 in 3 Liberians in War-Report (Reuters) Reuters - Fighters sexually assaulted some two\thirds of Liberia's population during more than a decade of war\and have not been punished more than a year after the conflict\ended, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Trip to New Orleans Tough for North Texas (AP) AP - Getting to the New Orleans Bowl was more difficult than ever for North Texas. The Mean Green open the bowl season against Southern Mississippi on Tuesday night in the Superdome, the culmination of a season that was a struggle on and off the field for the Sun Belt Conference champs. | 1 |
Ex-Bush Campaign Official Pleads Innocent (AP) AP - President Bush's former New England campaign chairman pleaded innocent Monday to charges that he took part in the jamming of the Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002. | 0 |
Bears LB Urlacher Injures Another Hamstring LAKE FOREST, Ill. (Sports Network) - Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher is expected to undergo an MRI exam this week to determine the severity of a left hamstring injury he sustained in this past Sunday's game against Jacksonville. | 1 |
Sexual Violence Hit 2 in 3 Liberians in War-Report DAKAR (Reuters) - Fighters sexually assaulted some two thirds of Liberia's population during more than a decade of war and have not been punished more than a year after the conflict ended, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Are We Puppets or Free Agents? Interpretations of the insanity plea have changed through the ages, but advances in neuroscience promise to redefine free will and personal responsibility, and change the way we think about punishment. By Rowan Hooper. | 3 |
More Questions for Florida An apparent whistleblower is generating buzz by saying a Florida official sought vote-changing software, but cautious observers say there's plenty of room for doubt. By Kim Zetter. | 3 |
Playing the Dating Game, DS-Style Though Sprung offers clever dialogue and a unique premise, the repetitive, simplistic gameplay ends the honeymoon early. Chris Kohler reviews the new game for the Nintendo DS. | 3 |
Count Calories on the Go Gadget-loving dieters will soon have no excuse for giving in to temptation while traveling. The big diet brands like Weight Watchers are coming out with calorie counters and nutritional guides for PDAs and mobile phones. | 3 |
Chemo: Testing Who Will Benefit A new report says a genetic profiling test already on the market accurately predicts which breast cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy -- and who won't. It could help 80,000 women a year make better choices about their treatment. | 3 |
Chilean judge charges Pinochet Chile's former President Augusto Pinochet is charged with murder and kidnapping, but his house arrest is lifted. | 0 |
Lebanese groups unite over Syria Lebanese opposition parties join forces for the first time to counter Syria's influence over Lebanese politics. | 0 |
PepsiCo to Buy General Mills #39; European Snacks Stake (Update3) PepsiCo. Inc., the world #39;s No. 2 soft- drink maker, plans to buy General Mills Inc. #39;s stake in their European joint venture for \$750 million in cash, giving it complete ownership of Europe #39;s largest snack-food company. | 2 |
MIT team aims to mend broken hearts Work could lead to patch for damaged tissue - MIT engineers are significantly closer to mending broken hearts. In a paper to appear the week of Dec 13 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National | 3 |
English Stars Out in Cold David Beckham, Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard found themselves out in the cold tonight as the European Footballer of the Year award went to AC Milans Andriy Shevchenko. | 1 |
Notre Dame firing Willingham doesn #39;t hold a candle to Kevin #39;s <b>...</b> That photo above is no longer accurate. I #39;ve shaven my head to protest the firing of ... Kevin from The Apprentice. Dude has a bachelor #39;s from Penn, an MBA from Emory and is working on a law degree from the | 1 |
D-Rays add power arm A quick analysis of players picked in the major league portion of the 2004 Rule 5 draft held Monday. Each selection costs \$50,000. | 1 |
Chilean judge charges Pinochet The former military ruler was indicted over the disappearance of nine opposition activists and the killing of one of them during his 17-year regime. | 0 |
Oracle Buys PeopleSoft for \$10.3 Billion SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PeopleSoft Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PSFT.O</A> on Monday agreed to a sweetened \$10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A>, relenting after a 18-month takeover saga marked by personal insults, courtroom battles and the ouster of PeopleSoft's chief executive. | 2 |
Oracle, PeopleSoft key facts NEW YORK, Dec 13 (AFP) - Following are key facts about Oracle, which is the number two global software company behind Microsoft, and PeopleSoft, a business software firm that agreed Monday to be bought after an 18-month battle. | 2 |
DaimlerChrysler, GM in Pact on Hybrids FRANKFURT / DETROIT - DaimlerChrysler and General Motors Corp. will jointly develop new hybrid vehicle technology as they strive to catch up with Japanese rivals on the fuel-saving systems that reduce harmful emissions, the companies said on Monday. | 2 |
Opposition chief's poisoning dominates Ukraine campaign (AFP) AFP - The poisoning of Ukraine's opposition icon Viktor Yushchenko overshadowed the country's presidential election campaign after the Western-leaning candidate accused the government of trying to kill him, and his pro-Russia rival denied any knowledge of the case. | 0 |
Samsung Makes Smaller MMC Card for Cell Phones (PC World) PC World - Thumbnail-sized memory card's maximum capacity will be 128MB. | 3 |
Computer-scouring software rivals Google tool The Redmond, Washington-based software allows the user to quickly locate files on personal computers -- just like Google #39;s two-month-old rival product. | 3 |
IBM, AMD work on straining silicon IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have come up with a new way of straining silicon in a move that will allow them to make chips with better performance. | 3 |
Mozilla #39;s Minimo Prepares to Challenge Opera Fresh from their recent successful launch of the open-source Firefox browser, Mozilla may be preparing to challenge Opera for dominance in the mobile browser market, according to a story appearing on ArsTechnica. | 3 |
Heart quot;Band-Aid quot; Developed Scientists may have discovered a way of patching injured hearts with manufactured tissue swatches that carry the same properties as actual cardiac tissue. | 3 |
Temple Defeats No. 22 Rutgers 71-60 Rutgers #39; Nikki Jett (13) fouls Temple #39;s Cynthia Jordan (1) in the second half Monday, Dec. 13, 2004, in Philadelphia. Unranked Temple beat No. | 1 |
Erickson plans to stick with Niners for now Coach Dennis Erickson is in no hurry to leave the San Francisco 49ers just yet. Erickson responded to the circling rumors about his future Monday, saying he thinks he #39;ll still be employed by the 2-11 Niners at least until January. | 1 |
Oracle Acquires PeopleSoft in #36;10.3B Deal (AP) AP - Oracle Corp. finally scooped up bitter rival PeopleSoft Inc. after 18 months of legal and verbal strife, ending a nasty feud with a #36;10.3 billion deal that promises to shake up the business software industry. | 3 |
Calif. Lawmaker Seeks End of Bowl Series (AP) AP - The Republican leader of the California Senate has introduced a resolution calling for the dissolution of the Bowl Championship Series. | 1 |
Chile #39;s Pinochet facing human rights charges A judge in Chile is once again trying to bring former dictator Augusto Pinochet to trial for humans rights abuses during his 1973-90 regime. | 0 |
Aleutian Spill Shows Area's Vulnerability (Reuters) Reuters - Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where\a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,\needs the type of environmental protections that are given to\better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday. | 3 |
NASA Chief Sean O'Keefe Resigns (Reuters) Reuters - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe\resigned on Monday after three tumultuous years at the U.S.\space agency, which were shadowed by the fatal break-up of\shuttle Columbia and its painful aftermath. | 3 |
Oracle wins battle for PeopleSoft Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for \$26.50 (13.79) per share, or about \$10.3bn. The transaction has been approved by both companies #39; boards of directors and is expected to close by early January. | 2 |
Stocks End Up as Deals Spark Optimism US stocks rallied on Monday after software maker PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) accepted rival Oracle Corp. #39;s (ORCL. | 2 |
\$1.3bn LSE bid fuels acquisition fever ACQUISITION fever gripped markets on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday including a 1.3-billion-pound takeover approach for the mid-cap London Stock Exchange from its rival Deutsche Berse. | 2 |
Unocal to Settle Myanmar Lawsuits Unocal Corp. (UCL) has agreed to settle two closely watched lawsuits accusing the US oil giant of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses that occurred during the | 2 |
Permira links with Apollo to join Toys #39;R #39; Us auction Permira, the private equity firm that owns New Look, has moved to increase its exposure to the retail sector by bidding for Toys #39;R #39; Us, the struggling toy chain. | 2 |
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