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Fighting in Eastern Congo Continues for Third Day The United Nations says fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo continued Wednesday. The Congolese government and neighboring Rwanda have traded accusations yet again over who is involved. | 0 |
Washington Mayor Says Baseball Deal Nearly Dead (Reuters) Reuters - The deal to bring Major League\Baseball back to Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor\Anthony Williams as close to dead Wednesday after the City\Council changed the plan to require private financing. | 1 |
Fans Learning to Make Do Without NHL (AP) AP - The NHL is disappearing right before our eyes, and the reason is simple. | 1 |
NCAA, NABC Address College Hoops Issues (AP) AP - It wasn't hard for college basketball coaches to get to know NCAA president Myles Brand. He went and met them. | 1 |
Washington Mayor Says Baseball Deal Nearly Dead WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deal to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as close to dead Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan to require private financing. | 1 |
Renteria Heads to Beantown: Report BOSTON (Sports Network) - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That's exactly what free agent shortstop Edgar Renteria did on Wednesday by agreeing to a four-year deal with the Boston Red Sox. | 1 |
Deal in 'Great Jeopardy' Mayor Anthony A. Williams says the deal to bring baseball to D.C. is in "great, great jeopardy" because of changes to the stadium agreement. | 1 |
Nvidia #39;s new chip with TurboCache Nvidia #39;s new chip is a version of its existing mainstream GeForce 6200 PCI Express chip - but with the added bonus of TurboCache. | 3 |
Oil Tops \$44, Heating Supply a Concern NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil stocks in the midst of the season's first arctic cold blast in the Northeast. | 2 |
Washington Mayor: Baseball Deal Near Dead WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring Major League Baseball back to the U.S. capital was close to dead after the city council changed the plan to require private financing. | 2 |
Yeltsin #39;s grandson joins Russian Midland F1 team The Russian-backed Midland Formula One team planned for 2006 has hired the grandson of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin as marketing director, Kommersant daily newspaper said on Wednesday. | 1 |
YUKOS Gets Hearing as It Tries Stop Sale HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge will hear arguments on Thursday in Russian oil company Yukos' <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=YUKO.MM target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">YUKO.MM</A> request to stop the impending auction of its main production unit. | 2 |
Stocks Near Flat, Oil's High Price Weighs NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks barely budged on Wednesday as a 2-week high in crude oil prices limited gains by reigniting worry about energy costs eating into corporate profits and consumer spending. | 2 |
BCE Hikes Dividend, Sees '05 Growth MONTREAL (Reuters) - BCE Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BCE.TO target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BCE.TO</A> unveiled its first dividend increase in 10 years on Wednesday and said it expects higher revenue and per share profit next year, mainly from wireless, video and high-speed Internet services. | 2 |
Wyeth Keeps Producing The drug maker's difficulties are evident, but its productivity may make it worth a second look. | 2 |
Ameritrade's Nifty November The broker's 26 jump in average daily trades was nice growth, but will it last? | 2 |
Berkshire Hathaway Greenspan basically has stopped the movie projector and pushed the button that says, "reverse." | 2 |
Feds move on wireless Web, cell phones in flight Federal regulators have proposed allowing cell phones to be used on airplanes, and took steps toward bringing high-speed wireless Internet connections to passengers #39; seats. | 2 |
US president pledges strong-dollar policy US President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that his government still adheres to the strong-dollar policy. quot;The policy of my government is a strong-dollar policy, quot; Bush | 2 |
Attorney convicted of credit card scam LOS ANGELES -- A lawyer has been convicted of using a credit card scam to pay his way through law school. Christian Ehlers, 29, a 2001 graduate of Loyola Law School, was found guilty Tuesday of conspiracy, fraud | 2 |
E-Card Holiday Virus Packs Ugly Punch A new virus strain masquerading as electronic Christmas cards is accounting for one in every 10 e-mails hitting in-boxes, security experts warned Wednesday. | 3 |
Cornell scientists look at lilacs for evidence of earlier spring As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, Cornell University researchers have some good news for fair weather fans _ spring is coming a week earlier than it did 40 years ago. | 3 |
Notebook: Majerus-USC marriage just great ... unless Rick Majerus is a basketball savant. Nobody questions that. He #39;s a winner. Nobody questions that. He #39;ll be a tremendous hire for Southern California. | 1 |
Craig Counsel rejoins Diamondbacks Counsell was a member of Arizona #39;s 2001 World Series championship team as well as the 1997 world champion Florida Marlins. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 2001 National | 1 |
Norway envoy meets with Tamil Tigers Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheimmet Wednesday with Tamil Tigers leaders at the rebel-held northerntown of Kilinochchi in a fresh attempt to revive Sri Lanka #39;s peacetalks, the national television reported. | 0 |
Lowe's Hardware Hacker Gets Nine Years (AP) AP - One of three Michigan men who hacked into the national computer system of Lowe's hardware stores and tried to steal customers' credit card information was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison. | 3 |
'San Andreas' Hijacks Gaming Awards (AP) AP - It's bound to be an unusual awards show when Snoop Dogg shows up to argue with a computerized version of himself, sexy women in lingerie seductively coo secret video game codes to viewers and bubbly model Brooke Burke beats out stately Dame Judi Dench for best actress. | 3 |
Nice Day for a Wireless Wedding (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The courtship was public, and now they're engaged. Even though we knew it was coming, journalists seem to have plenty to write about now that underdogs Sprint and Nextel have announced their #36;35 billion nuptial plans, including a rumor that one of the wireless industry's big dogs would try to spoil the party. | 3 |
Google Wins Trademark Victory Over GEICO (Reuters) Reuters - A federal judge on Wednesday\handed online search engine Google Inc. a victory in a\trademark infringement case on Wednesday, ruling that when\users searched for insurer GEICO, Google could display rivals\as well. | 3 |
Ask Jeeves Joins Quest for Desktop Search Dominance (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) will launch its own desktop search tool on Wednesday, amid the hoopla over similar announcements from Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO). The Ask Jeeves desktop application is based on technology it obtained through the acquisition of privately owned Tuckaroo in June. | 3 |
Sprint to Buy Nextel in #36;36 Billion Deal (Reuters) Reuters - Sprint Corp. said\on Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel\Communications Inc. for about #36;36 billion, creating a\U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers. | 3 |
Symantec Rumored To Be Negotiating with Veritas (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Security software vendor Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) is negotiating to buy Veritas Software (Nasdaq: VRTS), a provider of data storage software, for more than US #36;13 billion, according to press reports. | 3 |
'OracleSoft' May Change Mid-Market CRM Game (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Much has been said about the impact Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) acquisition of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is likely to have on the enterprise software market. The U.S. Justice Department thought it would have an adverse effect, creating a de facto monopoly. A federal judge thought otherwise, though, as did the European Commission. | 3 |
Macworld Expo Games Pavilion to feature new games (MacCentral) MacCentral - IDG World Expo on Wednesday offered details about the Macintosh Games Pavilion, featured at next month's Macworld Conference amp; Expo in San Francisco, Calif. The pavilion will feature new games from publishers including Aspyr Media, MacSoft, Freeverse Software and Ambrosia Software. It'll also be populated by an Arcade area where showgoers can get their hands on Power Mac G5s and iMac G5s running the latest titles available for the Macintosh. | 3 |
Arctic Ocean Was Balmy 70 Mln Years Ago -Study (Reuters) Reuters - It may be freezing cold and covered in\ice now but 70 million years ago the Arctic Ocean was as tepid\as the Mediterranean. | 3 |
U.S. Resists Changing Stance Amid Climate Warnings (Reuters) Reuters - Meteorologists warned\on Wednesday that 2004 would be one of the hottest years since\records began as environment ministers tried to crack U.S.\resistance to joining international efforts against global\warming. | 3 |
Blair Faces Test of Bush Friendship on Environment (Reuters) Reuters - Tony Blair will get short shrift from\George W. Bush on global warming when he leads the G8 in 2005\but the fight with Washington might help him shed the "poodle"\tag he got over support for the Iraq war, analysts say. | 3 |
Astronomers Ready for Comet Smashing Mission (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA and university astronomers are eagerly awaiting \the launch of a nbsp;space probe bound to collide with a comet and give \researchers a glimpse inside the solar system's nbsp;icy \wanderers. nbsp; | 3 |
Rare Whales Said Tangled Off Carolina Coast (AP) AP - Two endangered Atlantic right whales have been spotted tangled in lines off the coast of the Carolinas, and the crews of ships in the area have been asked to look for them. | 3 |
Spring Coming Earlier Than It Used To (AP) AP - As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans #151; spring is coming earlier than it used to. The lilacs say so. | 3 |
Top UK Minister Blunkett Quits Ahead of Election (Reuters) Reuters - Senior British government minister David\Blunkett resigned on Wednesday, ripping a hole in Prime\Minister Tony Blair's team months before an expected general\election. | 0 |
Japan Corporations Lag in Promoting Women (AP) AP - When Ginko Sato landed her first job in the 1950s, the only person who genuinely welcomed her was the other woman in her office, a secretary who was relieved she would have help serving tea to colleagues and guests. | 0 |
Ohio Recount Resembles Florida in 2000 (AP) AP - In a scene reminiscent of Florida circa 2000, two teams of Republican and Democratic election workers held punch-card ballots up to the light Wednesday and whispered back and forth as they tried to divine the voters' intent from a few hanging chads. | 0 |
Greek Hijackers Warn of Deadly End if Ransom Not Met ATHENS (Reuters) - Two suspected Albanians armed with rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed passenger bus in Athens and warned they would "light the fuse" if a Thursday deadline for payment of a \$1 million ransom was not met. | 0 |
Japans Tankan shows business confidence falling Confidence among Japans big manufacturers deteriorated for the first time in seven quarters, although their capital spending plans were revised higher, the Bank of Japans tankan survey for December showed on Wednesday. | 2 |
ThyssenKrupp Sells Units to Consortium Steel company ThyssenKrupp AG said Wednesday it has sold some 48,000 residential housing units in western Germany for euro2.1 billion (US\$2.8 billion) to a consortium of real estate funds of US bank Morgan Stanley and Germany #39;s Corpus-Immobiliengruppe. | 2 |
Don't Disarm Without Photos: N.Irish Paisley to IRA HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Northern Ireland Protestant hard-liner Ian Paisley said on Wednesday the IRA may be about to disarm but he would not share power with its political ally Sinn Fein without photographic proof of the act. | 0 |
Turkey Launches New Currency (AP) AP - Turkey launched a new currency Saturday by dropping six zeros from the old one, in a sign of progress in its decades-long struggle with inflation. But getting rid of old habits in a country where even a loaf of bread costs hundreds of thousands isn't likely to be easy. | 0 |
1 in 10 emails infected with Christmas virus Experts at Sophos report that the virus is currently accounting for 75 of all virus reports at Sophos #39;s global network of monitoring stations in the last 24 hours. | 3 |
SAP offers new security service DECEMBER 15, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - SAP AG said today that it #39;s offering customers a new service to ensure the security of SAP systems. | 3 |
NHL, Players #39; Union Reject New Proposals TORONTO Dec 14, 2004 - The NHL moved a step closer to losing the season Tuesday, when the league and players #39; association rejected proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement. | 1 |
The Joy of K5: Recipes As many of you have noticed, there has been a deluge of recipes and food related stories. It's as if a floodgate of anecdotal recipes and comments has been unleashed upon the queue. Both balsamic vinigga's and Trollaxor's stubble stories were meant to discourage this swell of Christmas time cheer. Now, I present for the meek, scared of e-backlash, a guide to making your very own K5 recipe from scratch. | 3 |
NZ in the dark over security plan A plan by Australia to extend its maritime security zone into New Zealand territorial waters has taken New Zealand by surprise. Australia #39;s Prime Minister John Howard says ships destined for Australia could | 0 |
Romania winner threatens new poll Romania's president-elect warns he may call fresh elections if his alliance fails to form a new government. | 0 |
Bush Pledges to Address Weak Dollar, Cites Fed President Bush said on Wednesday a renewed drive to cut US budget deficits should help the weak dollar and that Tuesday #39;s Federal Reserve interest-rate hike showed Alan | 2 |
SAP Launches Security Service SAP AG on Wednesday unveiled a service that evaluates security settings across a customer #39;s SAP enterprise system. SAP Security Optimization helps customers identify and fix vulnerabilities | 3 |
Ranger reject Boumsong bid RANGERS have rejected a amp;pound7.5 million (\$19m) bid from Newcastle United for French central defender Jean-Alain Boumsong. quot;I can confirm we have been in touch with Rangers and I can confirm he is one of | 1 |
The e-mails are back with attitude The e-mails have returned from two weeks off. The first week, they succumbed to the shocking news of Notre Dame firing Ty Willingham. | 1 |
Lucchino: Renteria Deal Not in Place Yet All-Star shortstop Edgar Renteria told The Boston Globe he has agreed to a \$40 million, four-year contract with the Red Sox, the paper reported on its Web site Wednesday. | 0 |
Jones Sues BALCO Sprinter Marion Jones files a defamation suit against BALCO founder Victor Conte on Wednesday after Conte said that Jones had taken steroids. | 1 |
Beavers Suspend Four Oregon State suspends four players for the Insight Bowl against Notre Dame on Dec. 28. | 1 |
Don't use Google desktop search in your business, warns Gartner Well, hang on there, let's give them a chance | 3 |
Oil Tops \$44, Heating Oil Supplies Worry NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil stocks in the midst of an arctic cold blast in the Northeast, the world's largest heating oil market. | 2 |
iRiver N10 512MB Flash MP3 player <strong>Review</strong> Dedicated follower of fashion? | 3 |
Excite rises again like a turkey from the ashes Will this be third time lucky for dotcom boom darling? | 3 |
Ratty pilots worry sci-fi fans <strong>Letters</strong> And cheap tinsel worries wifi fans | 3 |
PC ownership to 'double by 2010' The number of personal computers worldwide is expected to rise to 1.3 billion by 2010 say analysts. | 3 |
PC photo printers challenge pros Some home printers produce photos that are cheaper and better quality than the High Street, tests show. | 3 |
Lab to study emotion of gaming Experts are to study the "sweaty palmed excitement" of people playing their computer and console games. | 3 |
Shoppers 'wary' of chip and pin One in five people using the new chip and pin credit and debit cards is still signing rather than using a pin number, research suggests. | 3 |
Time Warner fraud charge settled Time Warner agrees to pay \$210m to settle charges of securities fraud involving America Online. | 3 |
Freeview fans buy second boxes More than one million UK households now have two or more Freeview boxes for different television sets. | 3 |
Nintendo to Bring Music, Video to DS Game Machine TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. will begin selling an adaptor for its DS and Game Boy Advance handheld game players to allow them to play music and video, the company said, matching a popular feature on Sony's portable game machine. | 3 |
Office Workers, Move Over: Here Comes Honda's Asimo WAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co.'s humanoid robot has been around: he's rung the famed bell at the New York Stock Exchange, met Spain's king, and even traveled with Japan's prime minister to Prague as a goodwill ambassador. | 3 |
Time Warner Settles AOL Charges Time Warner Inc. has agreed to pay more than \$500 million to settle allegations that its America Online division improperly pumped up revenue and engaged in other unlawful practices before and after the two companies merged.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
Nice Day for a Wireless Wedding Even though we knew it was coming, journalists seem to have plenty to write about now that underdogs Sprint and Nextel have announced their \$35 billion nuptial plans, including a rumor that one of the industry's big dogs would try to spoil the party. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Google Wins in Trademark Lawsuit Google Inc. won a major legal victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the search engine's advertising policy does not violate federal trademark laws. | 3 |
FCC to Allow WiFi on Jetliners Federal regulators voted Wednesday to begin allowing airline passengers high-speed wireless Internet access on their laptop computers. | 3 |
Lowe's Hardware Hacker Gets Nine Years One of three Michigan men who hacked into the national computer system of Lowe's hardware stores and tried to steal customers' credit card information was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison. | 3 |
NASA's Future Is Rising From 'the Swamp' Associate Administrator Craig E. Steidle, the retired Navy rear admiral who runs NASA's not-so-new-anymore Office of Exploration Systems, went to work for NASA after the top brass lured him in as a consultant. | 3 |
Nintendo to Bring Music, Video to DS Game Machine <p>\</p><p> TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. will begin selling an\adaptor for its DS and Game Boy Advance handheld game players\to allow them to play music and video, the company said,\matching a popular feature on Sony's portable game machine.</p> | 3 |
Electronic Arts Shares Up on NFL Game Pact Shares of Electronic Arts Inc., the country's largest video-game publisher, climbed Tuesday on news that it has gained exclusive rights to use NFL teams and players in its video games. | 3 |
'Nano-needle' operates on cell Scientists perform a surgical operation on a living cell, using a needle just a few billionths of a metre wide. | 3 |
Korea's Biotech Bet Korea's new facility could stimulate biotech research in Asia and lower costs for biotech companies. | 2 |
Penguins face starvation threat Thousands of Antarctic penguin chicks could starve after being cut off by a giant iceberg, officials say. | 3 |
Singapore heads school test table School pupils in Singapore lead the world in maths and science tests, latest international rankings suggest. | 3 |
Search Is on for World's Biggest Freshwater Fish In a global conservation study, scientists are hunting for the world's largest freshwater fish. The current record holder? A 660-pound (300-kilogram) catfish. | 3 |
Afghans Say bin Laden Trail Has Grown Cold <I>National Geographic</I> writer Tim McGirk discusses post-election Afghanistan and the hunt for international terrorist Osama bin Laden. | 3 |
Test Failure Sets Back US Missile Defense Plan President Bush #39;s drive to deploy a multibillion-dollar shield against ballistic missiles was set back on Wednesday by what critics called a stunning failure of its first full flight test in two years. | 2 |
Google To Build World #39;s Biggest Virtual Library Google announced an agreement Tuesday with Oxford University and some of the leading US research libraries to begin converting their holdings into files that would be freely searchable over the Web. | 3 |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves (Quote, Chart) entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users #39; computers. | 3 |
NASA Building Shortlist for Possible O #39;Keefe Replacements As the White House search for NASA Administrator Sean O #39;Keefe #39;s successor began Monday, the emerging list of candidates indicated that the next space chief will have fewer | 3 |
Marion Jones Sues BALCO Founder (AP) AP - Olympic track star Marion Jones filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against BALCO head Victor Conte, who told a national TV audience that he gave her steroids and watched her inject herself with them. | 1 |
UK #39;s Blair Loses Key Minister Ahead of Election Top British government minister David Blunkett resigned on Wednesday over a charge of abuse of office, ripping a hole in Prime Minister Tony Blair #39;s | 0 |
quot;Chemical Ali quot; first to be tried for Iraq war crimes Iraqi officials plan to make one of the highest-profile figures in Saddam Hussein #39;s regime - Ali Hassan al-Majid, called quot;Chemical Ali quot; by the West -he first person to be tried for war crimes. | 0 |
QB Lang Campbell Leads I-AA All-Americans (AP) AP - Lang Campbell played like an All-American even against major college competition. | 1 |
New Approach to Iraq Rebuilding Bears Fruit -U.S. (Reuters) Reuters - U.S.-funded reconstruction in Iraq\is gaining pace in some areas, albeit on a smaller scale than\hoped, despite mounting attacks and intimidation by insurgents,\said a senior U.S. official on Wednesday. | 0 |
Four Oregon State Players to Miss Bowl (AP) AP - Four suspended Oregon State players won't be reinstated to play in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 28 against Notre Dame. | 1 |
Serbian woman who hid in Halifax church concerned about immigration process (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - A Serbian woman who sought refuge in a Halifax church basement for 441 days before being forced to leave Canada is concerned about unexpected delays in handling her immigration application. | 0 |
LATEST FUTURES NEWS 2004-12-15 11:01:48 Oil - Brent higher on US cold snap ahead of this afternoon #39;s US inventories LONDON (AFX) - Oil prices were higher in pre-market deals ahead of this afternoon #39;s US weekly inventory data, with winter heating oil | 2 |
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