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Caribbean Casts Wary Eye on Hurricane Frances (Reuters) Reuters - The small islands of the northern\Caribbean were on alert on Monday for a close encounter with\powerful Hurricane Frances, while the remnants of Tropical\Storm Gaston limped through North Carolina. | 3 |
Stocks Slightly Lower on Light Volume NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were slightly lower on Monday as investors wary of security concerns were reluctant to put new money into the market as the Republican Convention opens in New York City and many took vacation ahead of the Labor Day holiday. | 2 |
Fuel Leak Scrubs Lockheed Atlas Florida Launch (Reuters) Reuters - About 11,000 gallons of\rocket fuel spilled during fueling of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2\rocket on Saturday, forcing a one-day delay in the launch of\the rocket carrying a classified U.S. spy satellite, company\officials said. | 3 |
Saboteurs Hit Iraq Internal Oil Pipeline BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saboteurs blew up an internal oil pipeline on the edge of Baghdad Monday, the latest in a series of attacks on the country's internal and export pipeline network, witnesses said. | 0 |
Sharon to Present Gaza Timetable to Mutinous Party JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to present a timetable for withdrawal from Gaza to lawmakers from his Likud Party Tuesday despite a mutiny in the right-wing bloc over the plan. | 0 |
Indian droughts 'may hit economy' The Indian central bank warns that drought and the high global price of oil may force it to lower its GDP forecasts. | 2 |
From Zero to Hero Disney has a Hero on its hands, but it may have showed up too late to save the day. | 2 |
IBM Asks High Swiss Court to Reject Holocaust Suit GENEVA (Reuters) - Computer giant IBM has asked Switzerland's high court to block a Gypsy rights group's attempts to sue it for allegedly helping Nazi slaughter in World War II, lawyers said on Monday. | 3 |
Verizon wins injunction against text spammer The individual allegedly barraged Verizon customers with spam that advertised home loans and adult Web sites\ | 3 |
Sony Sends Its Robots to School Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology. | 3 |
China gives bullet-train contract to Japan BEIJING - A consortium of Japanese firms led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. won a \$12 billion contract to provide high-speed trains to China, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. | 2 |
Intel builds ultrasmall chip in test Intel, the world #39;s biggest semiconductor maker, said on Monday that it had succeeded in building a test chip that packs 10 million transistors into an area the size of the tip of a ball-point pen. | 3 |
California Cities, Counties Sue Microsoft Six California counties and cities have filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the software giant of violating California law with anti-competitive business practices. | 3 |
Get Ready To Patch Installing patches to fix application and system flaws is still a major chore for businesses. With Microsoft #39;s XP SP2, they face their biggest challenge. | 3 |
Verizon wins injunction against text spammer A federal judge has granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction in its suit against a man accused of sending unsolicited text messages to its customers. | 3 |
Olympic joy in Greek, Chinese press Newspapers in Greece reflect a mixture of exhilaration that the Athens Olympics proved successful, and relief that they passed off without any major setback. | 1 |
PSG continues to struggle against St. Etienne Paris, France (Sports Network) - Paris Saint Germain suffered an embarrassing home draw to St. Etienne Sunday, 2-2. PSG is winless in four games so far this season, and has only earned draws against two promoted squads. | 1 |
Rural Colorado Braces for Bryant Trial Media Glare Description: Jury selection in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault trial is underway in Eagle, Colo. The celebrity trial has stirred up a legal and media frenzy that #39;s descended upon the rural county seat located high in the Rocky Mountains. | 1 |
Nigeria Troops Leave For Darfur Nigeria sent over 100 troops to Sudan #39;s troubled Darfur region on Monday, its contribution to a joint force with Rwanda protecting African Union cease-fire observers. | 0 |
Accredo Cuts '05 Forecast, Stock Plummets (Reuters) Reuters - Accredo Health Inc. (ACDO.O), which\provides pharmacy and treatment services for patients with\chronic illnesses, on Monday slashed its profit forecast due to\lower reimbursements from government insurers, sending its\shares down almost 25 percent. | 2 |
Links Between Two Chechen Women Grows (AP) AP - They lived in the same apartment in Chechnya, worked in the same market and may have died within moments of each other on separate airliners that crashed in Russia last week. | 0 |
NYC Not Likely to Be Bush's Town Nov. 2 (AP) AP - There is no "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Republicans' Madison Square Garden convention. Those are security guys with submachine guns. And while New York may be a "Wonderful Town" for President Bush amp; Co. this convention week, it will be anything but on Nov. 2. | 0 |
Japan Court Clears Way for Mega-Bank Deal TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that troubled bank UFJ Holdings Inc. can pull out of a deal to sell its trust business to a smaller rival, clearing the way for a full takeover of UFJ by larger Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG). | 2 |
Taliban Warns of More Attacks as Kabul Toll Rises KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban warned on Monday of further deadly attacks in the run-up to Afghanistan's first presidential election after a car bomb in the heart of the capital killed up to a dozen people. | 0 |
Doubts voiced over Chechen poll Opponents question the Chechnya election win of Alu Alkhanov, who vows to continue the war on rebels. | 0 |
Gwalia on brink of collapse ONE of Australia #39;s biggest gold miners, Sons of Gwalia, has called in administrators after negotiations with its creditors collapsed. | 2 |
Waterford House Fire Kills Officer, Family WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A Waterford Township house fire claimed the lives of a veteran police officer and his family over the weekend. | 2 |
SP2 May Spell Trouble for Agentless Patching Microsoft Corp. #39;s Windows XP Service Pack 2 has thrown patch management vendors into a tizzy. IT managers should be interested because, in an ironic twist, SP2 will likely make it harder to keep desktops and laptops up-to-date with the latest patches. | 3 |
A glimpse of the business week ahead Heads up: From the summer doldrums to the September doldrums. Don #39;t get your hopes up that the stock market will spike up until oil prices come back down and the presidential election is decided, the Stock Trader #39;s Almanac advises. | 3 |
Siemens issue warning over 65 series handsets Siemens has posted a warning over its latest range of mobile phones suggesting that a flaw in them may hurt user while using them. | 3 |
Fuel Leak Scrubs Lockheed Atlas Florida Launch About 11,000 gallons of rocket fuel spilled during fueling of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2 rocket on Saturday, forcing a one-day delay in the launch of the rocket carrying a classified | 3 |
Jury selection underway in Kobe Bryant Case NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant returns to court in Eagle County Monday for the first full days of questioning of the potential jurors in the case. | 1 |
Strike to protest fatal grenade attack at political rally cripples <b>...</b> A general strike called to protest a recent grenade attack that killed 20 people at an opposition political rally brought Bangladesh to a near standstill Monday. | 0 |
Update 1: Interstate Bakeries Misses Filing Deadline Shares of wholesale baker Interstate Bakeries Corp. plummeted about 31 percent in Monday morning trading, after the company reported that it again missed the deadline for filing its 2004 annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | 2 |
New broom is swept away THERE has been no sudden and dramatic change in the gold price or the Australian dollar price against the US dollar to account for a deterioration in Sons of Gwalia #39;s gold reserves serious enough to tip the company into administration. | 2 |
Wishing Won #39;t Make Market Better, Bulls What #39;s the case for higher stock prices? Let #39;s examine it, on this slightly down morning, if only to remove some of the incessant gloom I feel surrounds this stock market. | 2 |
RP economy grew 6.3 in first half The Philippine economy grew at a stronger-than-expected 6.2 percent in the second quarter, nearly keeping up with the pace of the surprise 6.4-percent first-quarter expansion and bringing | 2 |
Gabriel Resources to raise \$24.75 million in private placement TORONTO (CP) - Gabriel Resources Ltd. has signed a deal with Newmont Mining to raise \$24.75 million in a private placement of units to help fund development of its Romanian gold project. | 2 |
Pipeline secured by Alinta syndicate ALINTA is set to emerge as part-owner and operator of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline - Australia #39;s biggest gas transmission system -n a deal that pays out the \$1. | 2 |
Microsoft targets 2006 for Windows Longhorn On Friday Microsoft announced the target date for the much anticipated Windows Longhorn client operating system--broad availability for the updated operating system is targeted for 2006. | 3 |
Intel crams 500M transistors on a chip A small, fully functional, 70-megabit static random access memory computer chip crammed with more than 500,000,000 transistors has been developed by researchers at Intel Corp. | 3 |
First Encrypted Desktop-to-Desktop Messaging Service As a completely managed service, FrontBridge is able to implement an encrypted email solution rapidly, without the typical implementation challenges or up front capital investment required from an organization. | 3 |
Microsoft to launch Windows Media Player and MSN Music Store on <b>...</b> Neowin was told that Microsoft is planning to release both Windows Media Player 10 and their MSN Music Store service on Thursday. The company #39;s latest version of Media Player will feature a new design, online | 3 |
Cell Phone Maker Warns of Ear Damage After last year #39;s reports of exploding batteries in Nokia phones and amid growing concern about electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices in general, Siemens warned recently of a software defect in a range of mobile phones that could cause hearing | 3 |
EMC Takes On NetApp EMC is taking direct aim at Network Appliance this week with a new line of midrange NAS appliances. And NetApp is firing back, charging that EMC #39;s Centera content-addressable storage arrays are not secure | 3 |
Liquid oxygen spill stalls Atlas rocket launch A spill of about 10,000 gallons of liquid oxygen prompted the delay of Saturday night #39;s attempt to launch the last Atlas 2AS rocket. | 3 |
Absentee Ballots by Email? tordia writes quot;Bruce Schneier has come out against a plan proposed by the Missouri Secretary of State, Matt Blunt. Blunt #39;s proposal would allow quot;soldiers at remote duty stations or in combat areas cast their | 3 |
US sweep rounds up scores of online frauds US authorities have arrested at least 103 suspects and filed 117 criminal complaints since June 1 in a crackdown on various forms of online fraud, according to Attorney-General John Ashcroft. | 3 |
Vodafone, Nokia in Java drive NOKIA and Vodafone have agreed to collaborate on simplifying mobile phone software using the Java computer language, paving the way for cheaper mobile phones in the long run. | 3 |
Wales boost for Earnshaw Mark Hughes says Robert Earnshaw #39;s move to Premiership club West Brom has improved the striker #39;s chances of being in Wales #39; starting line-up. | 1 |
Ajax sign Argentine Olympic winger Rosales Ajax Amsterdam have signed Argentina forward Mauro Rosales for four years from Newell #39;s Old Boys, the Dutch champions said on Monday. | 1 |
Sadr orders followers to cease fire across Iraq Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday ordered his followers to end clashes with US andIraqi forces across Iraq, one of his aides said. | 0 |
Planes #39;blown up by terrorists #39; quot;Both planes were destroyed as the result of terrorist acts, quot; spokesman Lt Gen Andrei Fetisov told the Itar-Tass news agency. | 0 |
Defense lawyer in Hamburg Sept. 11 trial seriously hurt The lead attorney defending an accused helper of the Sept 11 suicide pilots at his Hamburg retrial was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, said his office, throwing into question how the trial will proceed. | 0 |
Oil Slips Below \$43 a Barrel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices fell below \$43 on Monday on continued profit-taking as producer-group OPEC eyed increases in the coming months in its tight spare capacity, countering worries over stumbling Iraqi oil exports. | 2 |
Ford Halts Plant Output for Lack of Parts DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=F.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">F.N</A> said on Monday it has stopped production at its assembly plant in Georgia for at least a day because of lack of parts. | 2 |
Tyson Cuts Earnings Forecast, Shares Fall CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TSN.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TSN.N</A> on Monday cut its earnings forecast after making a wrong bet on the direction of grain prices and demand for chicken and beef proved weaker than expected, sending its shares down 8 percent. | 2 |
Tyson Cuts Earnings Forecast, Shares Fall Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday cut its earnings forecast after making a wrong bet on the direction of grain prices and demand for chicken | 2 |
US Airways, pilots union resume talks Talks between US Airways Group Inc. and the Air Line Pilots Association have resumed, the union says. The pilots #39; negotiating committee met with management Sunday in Virginia, a week after talks broke down. | 2 |
Japan Court Clears Way for Mega-Bank Deal Japan #39;s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that troubled bank UFJ Holdings Inc. can pull out of a deal to sell its trust business to a smaller rival, clearing the way for a full | 2 |
United Rentals Is Target of U.S. Inquiry CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators are investigating United Rentals Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=URI.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">URI.N</A> and have subpoenaed some accounting records, the company said on Monday, sending its shares down as much as 19 percent. | 2 |
WTO Rejects U.S. Appeal on Canadian Wheat GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization's (WTO) top trade court on Monday rejected a U.S. appeal against a ruling exonerating the export policies of the Canadian Wheat Board, diplomats and trade sources said. | 2 |
Microsoft to release Longhorn in #39;06 REDMOND, Wash., Aug 28, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The Microsoft Corp. has decided to advance the timetable on its much-anticipated overhaul of Windows, the Financial Times reported Saturday. | 3 |
FrontBridge buys MessageRite E-mail security company FrontBridge Technologies Inc. has bought MessageRite Inc. of Irvine, California, a maker of technology for archiving e-mail and instant messages, FrontBridge said Monday. | 3 |
Operation Web Snare nets 150 cyber criminals This week, US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, recounted the successful efforts of quot;Operation Web Snare quot; which was undertaken starting June 1 st , in curtailing the efforts of more than 150 cyber criminals. | 3 |
Thanks And Good Riddance To Sir Bobby Who do you think is more disappointed by the departure of Sir Bobby of Robson? Do you think it will be the News of the World or Barclaycard? | 1 |
Ryder Cup drama on the horizon So here #39;s a switch. In most of the recent Ryder Cup years - six of the last nine competitions -he United States appeared to have the stronger team, yet Europe won. | 1 |
Electorate #39;s mood hard to gauge KERRY O #39;BRIEN: Reading the electorate #39;s mood has been no easy matter since the Latham ascendancy. And voters rarely seem to show their true intent these days until an election campaign is in full swing. | 0 |
Rivalry voiced as Libyan singer outpolls Palestinian SALFIT, West Bank: Arab rivalry reached a crescendo yesterday when Palestinians #39; great musical hope bowed out to his Libyan competition in an internationally televised talent quest. | 0 |
Owen off bench for Real debut England striker Michael Owen did not have long to wait to get his first taste of Spanish league action, coming on midway through the first half for Real Madrid colleague Raul at Real Mallorca on Sunday. | 1 |
Kobe Bryant in court (EAGLE, Colo.) - NBA star Kobe Bryant has arrived at his sexual assault trial for the first time. Bryant is in Eagle, Colorado, as attorneys in the case prepare to question individual potential jurors behind closed doors. | 1 |
PM: Oil attacks hurt Iraq #39;badly #39; An attack on Iraq #39;s main southern pipeline has seriously hampered critical oil exports in the struggling country, Iraqi officials say. | 0 |
Libyan takes Mid-East pop crown Libyan singer Ayman al-Aathar has won a Middle East pop contest, edging out Palestinian Ammar Hassan. The Super Star competition was started by the Lebanese TV station Future Television and is filmed in Beirut. | 0 |
Iraqi Cleric Calls Cease-fire After Bloody Uprising BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said Monday. | 0 |
Planes 'blown up by terrorists' \The two almost-simultaneous plane crashes last week were caused by explosions, Russian investigators confirm. | 0 |
Bryant Arrives at Trial Kobe Bryant arrived at his sexual assault trial Monday as attorneys in the case who spent the weekend poring over questionnaires prepared to question potential jurors. | 1 |
Jay-Z, OutKast Big Winners at MTV Awards MIAMI - The MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows. There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions... | 0 |
Gaza Settlement Evacuation Plan Sped Up JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told senior Cabinet ministers Monday he wants to evacuate all Gaza settlements at one time instead of in three stages, officials said, reflecting a major shift in position. At a meeting of the Security Cabinet, Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz presented their plan to evacuate all 21 Gaza settlements together, the officials said on condition of anonymity... | 0 |
Al-Sadr Calls on Militia to Stop Fighting BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces and is considering joining the political process, an al-Sadr aide said Monday... | 0 |
Stocks Dip on Consumer Income Report News NEW YORK - Stocks drifted lower in extremely light trading Monday as a disappointing consumer income report prompted investors to collect profits after two weeks of gains. While investors were cheered by the Commerce Department's report of a strong rise in consumer spending for July, growth in incomes was nearly flat... | 0 |
GOP Sharpens Attacks As Convention Opens NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry's anti-war protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans sought to use their national convention to portray President Bush as a strong wartime leader... | 0 |
The Black Widows' Revenge After the terror bombing of two airliners in Russia, the Kremlin tries to face up to a new Chechen tactic | 0 |
Rumors of a Death Stories that Kim Jong Il's favorite companion has passed away leads to speculation on North Korea's line of succession | 0 |
YUKOS Can Pay Half Its \$3.4 Bln Tax Bill Russian oil company YUKOS said on Monday it would be able to cover only half of its \$3.4 billion back tax bill by its deadline at the end of August but it would continue making payments in September. | 2 |
European shares slip in light early trades European shares slipped back in light trading with the London Stock Exchange closed for a bank holiday and New York investors expected to take it easy while the Republican convention is in town. | 2 |
WBA complete Earnshaw signing WEST BROMWICH, Aug 30 (SW) - English Premiership club West Brom have finalised the purchase of Wales striker Robert Earnshaw. The 3m fee paid to Cardiff City is a club record for the midlands club, a price | 1 |
Australia #39;s Howard Uses Specter of Higher Rates to Sway Voters Australian Prime Minister John Howard used the specter of higher interest rates under a Labor government to try to convince voters to give his Liberal-National coalition a fourth term | 0 |
Libya praised for IAEA cooperation The UN nuclear watchdog said in a report that Libya has been telling the truth in its declarations on the covert atomic weapons programme which it agreed in December to abandon. | 0 |
Briefly: IBM posts documentation for Cloudscape roundup Plus: Phone defect could affect hearing...OSDL hires lawyer, opens China office...Ex-Palm CEO Yankowski to head Majesco. | 3 |
IBM posts documentation for Cloudscape The resources IBM will provide include articles to help Java developers use the Cloudscape database in custom application development. | 3 |
Investors throw money at storage start-up Copan Systems' haul is the one of the largest second rounds of funding a storage company has had in the past two years. | 3 |
HP showcases financing Company lets businesses and governments obtain products at "low lease rates" or defer payments until January at no extra cost. | 3 |
Will Longhorn's Loss Be Your Gain? Microsoft's decision to pare back features of the upcoming OS is not bad news, some say. | 3 |
Ford Halts Plant Output for Lack of Parts (Reuters) Reuters - Ford Motor Co. (F.N) said on Monday it\has stopped production at its assembly plant in Georgia for at\least a day because of lack of parts. | 2 |
Dollar Dips Vs European Currencies (Reuters) Reuters - The dollar softened against the euro\but firmed against the yen on Monday, trading within tight\ranges as dealers refrained from making aggressive bets ahead\of the August U.S. payrolls report later this week. | 0 |
Cell Phone Maker Warns of Ear Damage (PC World) PC World - Mobile phone tune may play too loudly, Siemens says. | 3 |
U.N. Can't Define Libya Weapons Program (AP) AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency failed Monday to make a judgment on the origin of some technology for Libya's weapons program, a finding that diplomats said kept alive concerns of North Korean involvement. | 0 |
China Calls Barring of Lawmaker a Mistake (AP) AP - China said on Monday a misunderstanding caused it to bar a top Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker from entering the mainland over the weekend. | 0 |
Iraqi Cleric Calls Cease-Fire After Bloody Uprising BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said Monday. | 0 |
Progress Made in Baseball Steroid Talks (AP) AP - Baseball players and owners have made progress toward toughening rules on steroid testing, a move that would pre-empt congressional intervention. | 1 |
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