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Rockets Activate Lue from Injured List HOUSTON (Sports Network) - The Houston Rockets activated guard Tyronn Lue from the injured list prior to Wednesday's game against the Hawks. | 1 |
Google To Bring The Library To You Google, the world #39;s most popular search engine plans to transform the trip to the library into a trip to the nearest computer. | 3 |
Lights, webcam, action! Alex, Wendy, Dirk and Kyle Komarnitsky would like you to help them with their Christmas decorations. Or more precisely, the family in Lafayette, Colorado, want you to turn on and off the 17,000 Christmas lights | 3 |
Apple #39;s iPod goes to school its also a powerful learning tool, according to Apple. Audio has always had a place in the classroom but it is normally in the form | 3 |
Ants use odour, geometry: study ANTS use angled signposts, using tiny scent markers, to find their way home or follow the path into the wilderness, according to a study published today. | 3 |
Mets Bracing for Beginning of Martnez Era Pedro Martnez took the M.R.I., passed the physical, and will be introduced as a Met in a news conference at Shea Stadium on Thursday. | 1 |
By Signing Renteria, Red Sox Finally Make a Big Splash Trying to counter the loss of Pedro Martnez and their failures in other contract negotiations, the Red Sox have reached an agreement shortstop Edgar Renteria. | 1 |
MechAssault 2 jacks gold Mech shooter off stomps off to production, and is on schedule for its uncommon December 28 release. Microsoft today announced that MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf has achieved gold status and will be ready to hit Xboxes and light up Xbox Live December 28. | 3 |
Sky nets four-year deal to air live cricket British Sky Broadcasting has strengthened its grip on live television coverage of sport with a deal giving Sky Sports exclusive rights to the live broadcast of all home international and domestic cricket in England and Wales. | 1 |
Former Ole Miss coach Irish #39;s offensive coordinator Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has apparently zeroed in on former Ole Miss coach David Cutcliffe as his offensive coordinator and John Latina, who was Cutcliffe #39;s offensive coordinator with the Rebels, as the new Irish offensive line coach. | 1 |
Line of Scrimmage: Week 15 - Putting a Finger on Plummer #39;s Woes Somewhere in the recesses of Jake Plummer #39;s mind, the idea of the Broncos #39; quarterback raising his right hand, middle digit extended, must have seemed brilliant. | 1 |
SEC: Fannie Fails Accounting Compliance (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange\Commission said on Wednesday the accounting practices of\housing finance group Fannie Mae from 2001 to mid-2004\"did not comply in material respects" with certain accounting\standards for derivatives, hedging and other matters. | 2 |
Rangers #39; worst fears realised ALEX McLeish admitted last night Rangers had no-one to blame but themselves after they followed Celtic out of Europe and left Hearts clinging to the remaining hope that Scottish football will have UEFA Cup representation in the second half of the season. | 1 |
Nikkei Drops, Exporters Hurt by Yen (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo stocks slipped on Thursday as\exporters such as Sony Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. succumbed\to the weakness of the dollar against the yen and gave up some\of their gains of the previous three sessions. | 2 |
Nikkei Drops, Exporters Hurt by Yen TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks slipped on Thursday as exporters such as Sony Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. succumbed to the weakness of the dollar against the yen and gave up some of their gains of the previous three sessions. | 2 |
Dollar Closes in on Low Versus Euro TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar was within reach of a record low against the euro on Thursday as concerns about the U.S. trade and current account deficits hardened the market's view the currency's downward spiral would continue. | 2 |
S.E.C. Says Fannie Mae Violated Accounting Rules The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Fannie Mae to restate its earnings for the last four years after concluding that it had violated accounting rules. | 2 |
Company Settles Charges on Funds Sold to Soldiers First Command Financial Services agreed to pay \$12 million to settle accusations that it used misleading information to sell mutual funds to military officers. | 2 |
Latest Merger Would Recast Cellular's Face Once Again Sprint and Nextel Communications formally announced a merger that will create a formidable No. 3 carrier with 35.4 million subscribers. | 2 |
Air Force at Unease in the Capital At the heart of the scandal is a relationship between the Air Force and its main supplier, the Boeing Company, that had grown increasingly cozy. | 2 |
AOL reaches agreement on securities fraud America Online, the internet division of Time Warner, will be charged with criminal securities fraud but is likely to avoid prosecution under a settlement | 2 |
Google wins advertising case Google won an important test case in the US yesterday when a federal court judge cleared its practice of selling ads around internet searches conducted for trademarked terms. | 2 |
HP quits chipmaking alliance with Intel Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced it was quitting the microprocessor making business by severing its 10-year partnership with Intel to develop Itanium chips for server computers. | 3 |
Jets Say Pennington Bothered by Shoulder Some throws fell woefully short, skittering across the turf and rolling to the feet of receivers. Others sailed over the heads of the intended targets, fluttering | 1 |
Saban admits meeting with Dolphins LSU Coach Nick Saban said Wednesday he had met with officials of the Miami Dolphins to discuss that team #39;s head coaching job. There was no indication whether an offer had been made or accepted. | 1 |
Fannie Mae Warns on Capital Position (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. mortgage finance giant Fannie\Mae said on Wednesday a Securities and Exchange Commission\decision that it must restate earnings over accounting problems\is likely to cut into its capital position. | 2 |
Nuke Whistle-Blower Named Scottish Rector (AP) AP - Students at a Scottish university on Wednesday elected Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu their official spokesman. | 0 |
Industry Hires House's Author of Drug Benefit Representative Billy Tauzin will become president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the chief lobby for brand-name drug companies. | 0 |
U.N. Sexual Abuse Alleged in Congo The 34-page draft report, which was obtained by The Washington Post, accuses U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco, Pakistan and Nepal of seeking to obstruct U.N. efforts to investigate a sexual abuse scandal. | 0 |
Video War Is a Break From the Real Fight Between guard duty and patrols and shifts at the dining facility, soldiers gather to crash fast cars, play volleyball with buxom women and mimic warfare in a small trailer at Camp Liberty. | 0 |
Varig Future in Doubt Amid Takeover Talks The future of Varig, Brazil's flagship airline, was thrown into confusion Wednesday after the country's vice president downplayed a top official's announcement that the carrier would be taken over by the government to save it from collapsing under a mountain of debt. | 0 |
SEC #39;s Recent Penalties Among Its Toughest Although the specter of a criminal prosecution of Time Warner Inc. all but vanished with yesterday #39;s Justice Department settlement, the company #39;s tentative \$300 million agreement to settle | 2 |
Best Buy ahead 21 in spite of #39;modest growth #39; Best Buy beat analyst estimates with a 21 per cent rise in quarterly profit, sending its shares 5 per cent higher yesterday. The number one US consumer electronics retailer said | 2 |
Michael Wilbon It #39;s a great idea that private money finance at least 50 percent of the cost of a new riverfront baseball stadium. It #39;s a smart idea to protect the District from millions of dollars in penalties resulting | 1 |
FOOTBALL: REDS FANS MUST FEAR A GERRARD KOP-OUT STEVEN GERRARD dug Liverpool out of a hole again on Monday night but you have to question if the skipper is growing tired of the same old routine. | 1 |
Allawi unveils candidacy for elections BEIJING, Dec. 16 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has unveiled his candidacy for the general elections on January 30. His name appears at the top of a list of candidates submitted by his electoral alliance for seats in the 275-member National Assembly. | 0 |
Bosh, Raptors stun Timberwolves CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The spectre of an eighth straight loss was enough to spur the Toronto Raptors to a stunning 96-90 upset win over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves at the Air Canada Centre. | 1 |
Carlyle, Prudential to Buy China Pacific Life Stake, People Say Carlyle Group Inc., the world #39;s third- biggest buyout fund, agreed to pay \$400 million for 24.9 percent of the life insurance subsidiary of China #39;s third largest insurer, people familiar with the transaction said. | 2 |
Hornets Top Warriors 98-89 (AP) AP - Dan Dickau scored a career-best 23 points and the New Orleans Hornets won their first home game of the season, 98-89 over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Lee expected trade from White Sox New Brewers outfielder Carlos Lee was expecting a trade. He just didn #39;t know where. The Brewers obtained the 28-year-old left fielder from the Chicago White Sox this week for center fielder Scott Podsednik, reliever Luis Vizcaino and a player to be named. | 1 |
Indonesia Orders Security Clampdown (AP) AP - Indonesia ordered a nationwide security crackdown Thursday after Australia, Britain and New Zealand warned terrorists were preparing to attack ahead of Christmas. | 0 |
New finding in Ukraine poisoning Dutch experts who have been examining blood samples from Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader, disclosed yesterday that the politician has staggeringly high levels of dioxin in his blood, the second highest ever recorded. | 0 |
Southwest wins battle for ATA assets Southwest Airlines emerged on Wednesday as the victor in the battle for the assets of ATA, the bankrupt low-cost carrier, beating a rival offer from AirTran and underscoring its | 2 |
Rockets Blast Hawks 92-69 (AP) AP - Tracy McGrady had 25 points and Yao Ming scored 23 to lead the Houston Rockets past the Atlanta Hawks 92-69 on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Minnesota 68, Chicago St. 58 Lawson, a senior guard whose previous high was the 11 points he scored earlier this month against Holy Cross, hit 8-of-12 shots, including three 3-pointers. | 1 |
A Line in the Sand In the coming days, Washington and its disingenuous D.C. Council must make a simple decision. Do they want to accept the deal for a new stadium? Or don't they? That's it. Yes. Or no. | 1 |
It's About Time With only three games left in the season, the Redskins are still having difficulty getting off plays within the 40 seconds allotted. | 1 |
Martinez Deal Finalized Martinez passes his physical, and the Mets finalize their \$53 million, four-year contract with the pitcher. | 1 |
WIZARDSINSIDER WHO'S NEXT? <br>at Lakers<br>Friday, 10:30 p.m.<br>Comcast SportsNet | 1 |
Anthony Lifts Nuggets Carmelo Anthony's 15-foot jumper with 3.6 seconds remaining lifts the Nuggets to a 100-99 victory over the Celtics. | 1 |
Sepracor Says FDA Approves Sleep Drug NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sepracor Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, said on Wednesday it received a long-awaited approval to market its Lunesta treatment for insomnia, giving it a foothold in an estimated \$2 billion market in the United States. | 2 |
The Soft Underbelly of Software Deals It #39;s been a heck of a week for the software industry. First there was Oracle #39;s Dec. 13 long-sought-after deal to acquire rival PeopleSoft (PSFT ) for \$10.3 billion. | 2 |
China #39;s Investment in Construction Slips China #39;s investment in construction and factory equipment, a key growth indicator, slowed slightly in November on lower public spending, but local-level investments surged, the government reported Thursday. | 2 |
US must make R amp;D priority, business leaders warn The US must make innovation the top national priority or risk ceding its role as the worlds foremost economic power, an organisation of top business and academic leaders warned on Wednesday. | 2 |
Time Warner Settles AOL Cases For #36;510 Million (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Time Warner Inc. yesterday agreed to pay #36;510 million to settle criminal and civil charges stemming from an accounting scandal at its America Online division, moving to end a messy affair that tarnished its image and impeded its business after its merger with AOL in 2001. | 3 |
Kalou kills off Rangers Bonaventure Kalou fired Auxerre into the knockout round of the UEFA Cup with both goals in a 2-0 victory over Rangers to oust the Scottish team from the competition. | 1 |
Rockets 92, Hawks 69 Tracy McGrady had 25 points and Yao Ming scored 23 to lead the Houston Rockets past the Atlanta Hawks 92-69 on Wednesday night. It was the biggest blowout of the season for Houston, which won for the fourth time in five games. | 1 |
Apple Fights Back Against RealNetworks (AP) AP - No longer only a war of words, Apple Computer Inc. has quietly started to block the technology that RealNetworks Inc. created to get around the iPod music player's copy-protection armor. | 3 |
Bush warns Iran, Syria not to meddle in Iraq #39;s affairs US President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged Iran and Syria not to meddle in internal affairs of Iraq. quot;We will continue to make it clear, to both Syria and Iran that... meddling in the internal affairs | 0 |
In Software Industry, Size Matters (Reuters) Reuters - The fragmented software\business is growing up. | 3 |
RealNetworks promises iPod lockout fix (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. has updated the software for some of its iPod music players so that songs bought from RealNetworks Inc. won't play. RealNetworks says they're not sure why it's happened, but they're working on a fix. Apple suggests that it's what to expect if you use music that isn't officially supported on the iPod. | 3 |
NASA Spacecraft Tracks Global Air Pollution (Reuters) Reuters - A NASA spacecraft has begun the\first-ever daily tracking of how air pollution moves across the\globe, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on\Wednesday. | 3 |
Death of L.A. Elephant Rekindles Zoo Welfare Debate (Reuters) Reuters - An African elephant, which\collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a\heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights\activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the\large mammals in urban zoos. | 3 |
Pandas Face Years Before Next Favorite Solid Meal (Reuters) Reuters - A shortage of the staple food of\China's giant panda will leave 19 of the rare animals\scrounging to keep hunger at bay for as long as a decade in a\reserve in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua news agency said\on Thursday. | 3 |
Scientists to Help NASA Build Instruments (AP) AP - Two Indiana University scientists have been tapped to help build two miniaturized instruments for NASA's next Mars rover mission, a traveling laboratory that will search for signs of past or present life. | 3 |
Suharto party to elect new leader Indonesia's largest party is electing its new leader in Bali in what is one of the most critical periods in its history. | 0 |
O's Turn to Burnett The Orioles lose first baseman Richie Sexson to the Mariners and are now considering a trade for Marlins pitcher A.J. Burnett. | 1 |
In Software Industry, Size Matters NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The fragmented software business is growing up. | 3 |
J J to Buy Guidant for \$23.9 Billion NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson Johnson will buy Guidant Corp. for \$23.9 billion in cash and stock, giving the health-care products maker a foothold in the fast-growing market for implantable devices that regulate heartbeats, J J said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Baseball Wrangling Makes Some Uneasy Tuesday night's D.C. Council vote on baseball left some business leaders worried that the events will hurt the District's credibility with developers and financiers. | 2 |
A Choice Location The developer that built Dulles Town Center in 1999 is planning to build a 300,000-square-foot open-air shopping center, dubbed Dulles 28 Centre, along the same corridor. | 2 |
New Training On De-Icing Urged for Small Plane The National Transportation Safety Board yesterday recommended improved de-icing training for pilots who fly the Cessna 208, a small turboprop aircraft commonly used to transport cargo in the United States. | 2 |
GOP Gains Boost Chances of Alaska Drilling Republican gains in the Senate from last month's elections have pumped new life into the administration-backed move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, prompting environmentalists to mount what one of them called "the fight of our lives" to defeat the proposal. | 2 |
Manassas Counting on New District Manassas took a major step this week toward expanding and boosting its downtown. | 2 |
Stores Are Hoping to Do Well by Urging Shoppers to Do Good This Christmas season, Americans are the focus of a different kind of retail marketing: campaigns that appeal to people's oft-stated wish to share with the less fortunate. | 0 |
Sprint and Nextel to Merge, Creating Cellphone Powerhouse The deal creates the third-largest company in the wireless telephone industry, but its competition is much larger. | 2 |
FCC to consider allowing cell phones on planes The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday kicked off efforts that could reshape the communications services available to airline passengers, deciding to auction off spectrum now set aside for air-to-ground phone service and proposing to relax its ban on the use of cellular phones in flight. | 3 |
Startup takes new approach to server virtualization A little-known, Boston-area startup is beta-testing technology designed to let users quickly configure "virtual" multiprocessor systems out of inexpensive PC machines. Called Katana Technology, the 30-person company has not yet revealed details of its upcoming product, but appears to have developed a novel approach to consolidating data center resources. | 3 |
IBM, others push for greater U.S. innovation The U.S. needs to overhaul its education system to encourage innovation and focus more federal funding on high-risk research to maintain a competitive edge over other nations, according to a report endorsed by leading U.S. companies and universities. | 3 |
Sprint, Nextel herald 'future of communications' Executives from Sprintand Nextel Communicationstook to a stage at the St. Regis Hotel in New York Wednesday to announce a definitive agreement to merge their two companies and create the third largest mobile phone company in the U.S. | 3 |
In Brief: Neon Systems acquires ClientSoft Neon Systems, a provider of mainframe integration solutions for Microsoft .Net and Java applications, has acquired ClientSoft for \$10.5 million in cash and the rights to purchase 1.1 million shares of Neon stock. The privately held ClientSoft specializes in secure, high-performance integration solutions for mainframe Web services. The purchase, which adds 180 customers to Neon's base of 300 customers, brings together Neon's Shadow z/Services and ClientSoft's ServiceBuilder product lines and should provide customers with a robust set of solutions to support service-oriented architectures (SOAs).\\ | 3 |
NEC, Toshiba claim MRAM breakthroughs NEC and Toshiba have made two advancements in developing a new type of memory that could eventually replace the standard memory used in mobile phones, MP3 players, and other portable electronic devices, the companies said Wednesday. | 3 |
IBM, Others Push for Greater U.S. Innovation Nation needs government help to maintain competitive edge, group says. | 3 |
Third Largest U.S. Cell Phone Company Created Sprint and Nextel herald "the future of communications." | 3 |
FCC Moves Toward Voice, Data, Broadband on Planes Agency to auction licenses for communications; consider cell phone use during flights. | 3 |
First Look: Small Business Accounting Apps Intuit, Best Software offer new features, prices with 2005 editions. | 3 |
NEC, Toshiba Claim Memory Breakthrough Companies are developing MRAM, which could be used in portable electronic devices. | 3 |
Company Claims First True WiMax Chip Wireless broadband systems should be available next year, WaveSat says. | 3 |
Court Lifts BlackBerry Maker's Injunction Patent infringement found; split decision sends part of case back to lower court. | 3 |
Global aviation security in a confusing mess: IATA Geneva, Dec 16 (UNI) Three years and three months after September 11 terror attacks in the United States, aviation security worldwide remains a confusing mess. | 2 |
A Sleeping Pill for Longer Use Wins Approval The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sleeping pill that some specialists say could pave the way for longer-term use of such medications. | 2 |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Wars The same week Microsoft released a beta version of its desktop search the butler Jeeves has released a beta of their own. The software is for Windows based pcs only and will allow a user to search their | 3 |
Spurs Beat Magic 94-91 (AP) AP - Tim Duncan had 24 points and 14 rebounds to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 94-91 victory Wednesday night over the Orlando Magic. | 1 |
Jones Files \$25 Million Defamation Suit Against Conte Sprint superstar Marion Jones filed a \$25 million defamation lawsuit against Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) founder Victor Conte Jr. | 1 |
Dickau scores 23; Hornets get rare win NEW ORLEANS (Ticker) -- Dan Dickau gave the New Orleans Hornets the lead after three quarters and made sure it stood up in the final 12 minutes. | 1 |
He Won #39;t Coach Mississippi; Saban Talks to Dolphins San Francisco 49ers Coach Dennis Erickson withdrew his name from consideration yesterday for the head coaching vacancy at the University of Mississippi, the day after interviewing for the job. | 1 |
Television deal is #39;irresponsible of the ECB #39; MIKE GATTING has slammed the decision to award live TV rights for all of England #39;s home Test matches to BSkyB as quot;irresponsible. | 1 |
NCAA Game Summary - Louisianna-Lafayette at North Carolina State Raleigh, NC (Sports Network) - Andrew Brackman scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half to lead 12th-ranked North Carolina State to a hard-fought 78-72 win over Louisiana-Lafayette at the RBC Center. | 1 |
No. 9 Tenn. Tops Louisiana Tech 70-59 (AP) AP - Alexis Hornbuckle scored 17 points for ninth-ranked Tennessee, which beat Louisiana Tech 70-59 Wednesday night to give the Lady Techsters consecutive losses at home for the first time in 14 seasons. | 1 |
Indonesia orders security clampdown after terror warnings JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia has ordered a nationwide security crackdown after warnings from Australia, Britain and New Zealand that terrorists plan to attack ahead of Christmas. | 0 |
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