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AU Says Sudan Launches New Attacks on Darfuris (Reuters) Reuters - Nigerian President and African Union (AU)\chairman Olusegun Obasanjo said Monday AU cease-fire monitors\had confirmed Darfur rebel reports that the Sudan government\launched fresh attacks on civilians last week. | 0 |
Stocks Drift Down in Ultra-Light Volume NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slid lower in ultra-light volume on Monday, as security concerns surrounding the Republican convention in New York kept investors on the sidelines. | 2 |
Athens Waves Goodbye After 'Dream' Games ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of athletes, officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a post-Olympics exodus on Monday, leaving city officials to probe a doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games. | 1 |
Intel to make chips with 65nm process technology Intel, world #39;s largest chip maker, faced product delays and recalls throughout this year, but it seems that Intel has gotten their act together to produce 65nm chips in the near future. | 3 |
New Orion workstation puts cluster in a box AUGUST 30, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A new company thinks it has the answer for scientists and engineers looking for high-performance computing on the desktop. | 3 |
CIOs Cheerier About Future Spending CIOs surveyed by Forrester Research are more confident than they were earlier in the year, and expect IT spending to grow by 7 next year. | 3 |
Britain seeking support to stop stem cell ban LONDON - Britain #39;s leading scientific institution said yesterday it is calling for support from other countries to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty to ban human cloning. | 3 |
San Francisco sues Microsoft Despite numerous out-of-court settlements with various state governments around the country, it appears Microsoft #39;s legal woes aren #39;t over yet. | 3 |
Circuit City Switching From T-Mobile To Verizon Circuit City is phasing out the sale of T-Mobile wireless service as it prepares to focus on launch of Verizon Wireless stores within its own walls. | 3 |
Data Center Markup Language finds home in OASIS A proposed standard to enable integration, automation and better management of data center components this week will begin development under the direction of a new standards | 3 |
Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Cable-Modem Classification The federal government on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review a court ruling which found the FCC improperly classified cable-modem service, a subject of interest to Internet service providers seeking access to the broadband networks controlled by | 3 |
FrontBridge Acquires MessageRite for Message Archiving FrontBridge Technologies today announced the acquisition of MessageRite to broaden the company #39;s service portfolio to include e-mail and instant message archiving. | 3 |
Novell Consolidates Business Units Novell is consolidating operations in an effort to remove overlap between its four business units. The Waltham, Mass.-based software vendor is folding its Nterprise and SuSE Linux operations into a single | 3 |
Caller ID: Do you really know who #39;s calling? This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID, the feature for displaying identifying information about an incoming call. | 3 |
Computers Add Sophistication, but Don #39;t Resolve Climate Debate hen the Bush administration issued an update last week on federal climate research, it was criticized with equal vigor by environmentalists and by industry-backed groups. | 3 |
Greenland #39;s ice tells of past climates, maybe ancient life Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that #39;s | 3 |
Court Slaps Wireless Spammer A federal judge has ordered a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man after he allegedly sent millions of unsolicited short text messages to Verizon Wireless customers. | 3 |
The Apple iPod - now from Hewlett-Packard HEWLETT-PACKARD unveiled its own version of the iPod portable music player, showing the fruits of a groundbreaking partnership it had previously announced with Apple Computer. | 3 |
Yakubu #39;s hat-trick settles thriller Yakubu Ayegbeni claimed the first hat-trick of the Premiership season as Portsmouth got the better of a remarkable seven-goal battle at Fratton Park last night. | 1 |
Character the trump card for Europeans From the incorrigible Colin Montgomerie to the exuberant Sergio Garcia, the 12 Europeans will spark one another off long before the match gets under way. | 1 |
Schumacher dynasty rolls on after historic seventh Formula One <b>...</b> Though an unprecedented seventh season title was conceded to him months ago, the German finally made it official. And he didn #39;t even have to win to do it. | 1 |
MLB Wrap: Borchard #39;s Blast Helps White Sox Edge Phillies Joe Borchard cracked the longest home run in the history of Chicago #39;s US Cellular Field to help the White Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-8 in an interleague game on Monday. | 1 |
UN: Origin of Libya Nuke Info Unclear VIENNA, Austria Aug. 30, 2004 - Some nuclear technology ordered by Libya for its former weapons program is missing, while the origin of other material is unclear, the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday, raising | 0 |
Howard, Latham shrug off poll BOTH Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham today played down new poll results which showed the Government clawing back some of Labor #39;s lead. | 0 |
Attack on Hasina gets a worried Delhi to tell Dhaka: we can help <b>...</b> NEW DELHI, AUGUST 30: India has formally offered Bangladesh help in investigating the assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina some 10 days ago, in which 20 people, including grassroots leaders of her Awami League party, and nearly 200 | 0 |
Carnival clings to its soul despite the doubters The doom-mongers may complain that commercial pressures and a growing reluctance to annoy the posh neighbours are stealing the soul of the Notting Hill Carnival. | 0 |
OPEC promises to add output to calm nerves JAKARTA OPEC is doing all it can to stabilize the world oil market and will increase spare output capacity by about one million barrels per day in the next few months, the cartel #39;s president said Monday. | 2 |
Japan court lets banks discuss deal TOKYO Japan #39;s highest court on Monday removed the last major legal hurdle to efforts by Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group to take over UFJ Holdings, a deal that would create the world #39;s largest bank. | 2 |
Kawasaki, Others Win Bid for Chinese Bullet Train Project The Chinese Railway Ministry #39;s project with an estimated contract value of 100 billion yen aims to double the speed of trains on five major existing railway lines, stretching over | 2 |
Interstate Bakeries Not Mulling Bankruptcy Interstate Bakeries, the maker of Wonder Bread, Hostess Twinkies and other baked goods, denied conjecture that it would be filing for bankruptcy. | 2 |
WTO rejects a US appeal GENEVA The top court of the World Trade Organization on Monday dismissed a US appeal of an April decision that Canada #39;s Wheat Board met international rules, undermining the Bush administration #39;s efforts to dismantle the Canadian agency. | 2 |
US Airways, Pilots Union to Resume Concession Talks (Update3) US Airways Group Inc. and its pilots union plan to resume talks on \$295 million in pay and benefit cuts the carrier needs to help avoid a second bankruptcy filing, after each side made a proposal over the weekend. | 2 |
Stocks Fall on Security, Earnings Worries US stocks fell in extremely thin volume on Monday as security concerns surrounding the Republican convention in New York and worries about an update from technology bellwether Intel Corp. | 2 |
BMW Sees Strong Industry Sales Growth Passenger vehicle sales should strengthen nearly 20 percent by the end of the decade to about 70 million vehicles annually, spurred by growth not only in developing markets | 2 |
Alitalia unions force new talks with carrier Alitalia said Monday that it would meet with union representatives after nine labor groups demanded that the airline tell them its strategic and organizational plans, and called for government intervention in further talks. | 2 |
Names in the Game Dressed in jeans and a white shirt, the men #39;s all-around champion in Athens appeared relaxed as he helped promote a 14-city gymnastics exhibition tour that kicks off at the Mohegan Sun Casino on Tuesday. | 2 |
Dell expands SMB desktop services Dell Inc. introduced on Monday a new suite of desktop support services for small and medium size businesses (SMBs) designed for companies with overstretched IT staffs. | 2 |
Black awaits Breeden verdict Fresh allegations against former Daily Telegraph tycoon Conrad Black are expected to emerge from the courtroom filing of a long-awaited investigation into his stewardship of the newspaper empire Hollinger International. | 2 |
Kerry says expand Fannie, Freddie housing focus US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry said he would expand the low-income housing focus of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie | 2 |
Schiavone starts off Open with victory Sixteenth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy recorded the first victory at the US Open on Monday, beating Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-3 as the final Grand Slam began under gray, cloudy skies. | 1 |
California Cities, Counties Sue Microsoft Several California cities and counties, are accusing Microsoft of illegally charging inflated prices for its products because of monopoly control of the PC operating system market. | 3 |
Deep in the Arctic, clues on warming PROVIDENCE, RI - Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth #39;s climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole. | 3 |
FrontBridge Announces Acquisition, Partnership FrontBridge Technologies of Marina Del Rey, Calif., today revealed an acquisition and a partnership to enhance its hosted service offerings for message management and regulatory compliance. | 3 |
Madman nearly ruins glorious Olympics ATHENS - These were the Olympics protected by Nato and never a shot was fired. Yet on the last day, the last event, one sick individual, a lapsed Irish priest, molested an athlete and broke the sacrosanct | 1 |
Venables favourite to replace Robson Newcastle United are considering an approach to Terry Venables to become their manager to work alongside Alan Shearer until the end of the season following the abrupt sacking of Sir Bobby Robson yesterday. | 1 |
Piazza wants Mets to declare his position Mike Piazza wants the New York Mets to get him out of a situation that #39;s been difficult to deal with. For much of this season, he didn #39;t know whether he #39;d be at catcher or first | 1 |
Dr Qadeer-linked nuclear market: IAEA seeks Libyas help VIENNA: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) praised Libya on Monday for cooperation in reporting on its dismantled nuclear programme but said critical questions remained as to whether Tripoli had given copies of nuclear weapons designs to | 0 |
No Acclaim for Accredo The specialty pharmacy company announced on Monday that falling reimbursements will significantly weaken its 2005 earnings. The warning comes just weeks after investors learned that Accredo could soon lose | 2 |
China emerges as number two Olympic nation ATHENS, Aug 30 (AFP): China emerged as the world #39;s second most powerful sporting nation at the Athens Olympics as it achieved its best-ever medal haul and set the perfect foundations for a glorious showing when Beijing hosts the 2008 Games. | 1 |
Give back the gold If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. That seems to be the case with US gymnast Paul Hamm #39;s miraculous gold-medal win at the Athens Olympics. | 1 |
Intel makes tiny breakthrough CONTRADICTING fears that the semiconductor industry #39;s pace of development is slowing, Intel has achieved a milestone in shrinking the size of transistors that will power next-generation chips. | 3 |
Verizon Wireless makes Circuit City deal Verizon Wireless of Bedminster, NJ, announced a partnership with Circuit City Stores Inc. of Richmond, Va., to create Verizon Wireless shops in 570 of its Circuit City superstores. | 3 |
Microsoft takes on iTunes The iPod is not quot;compatible with only iTunes music and vice-versa quot;. You can rip music from any CD you own and any CD you buy through iTunes and load them onto the iPod. | 3 |
Kidnappers Extend Deadline for French Hostages Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq gave France another 24 hours on Monday to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools, Al Jazeera reported. | 0 |
Making Money From Moore #39;s Law As most have heard by now, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) founder Gordon Moore famously predicted in the 1960s that the number of transistors on a chip would roughly double every two years. | 3 |
Accredo Cuts #39;05 Forecast, Stock Plummets Accredo Health Inc. (ACDO), which provides pharmacy and treatment services for patients with chronic illnesses, on Monday slashed its profit forecast due to lower reimbursements from government | 2 |
Trojans give a quick hook to longtime coach Southern Cal fired Henry Bibby as coach Monday just four games into his ninth season. Athletic director Mike Garrett said he realized the timing was unusual but cited the Trojans #39; losing record in recent seasons. | 1 |
Windows Plan Scaled Back Microsoft portrayed its Longhorn decision as a necessary winnowing to hit the 2006 timetable. The announcement on Friday, Microsoft executives insisted, did not point to a setback in software | 3 |
Sony Sends Its Robots to School Sony will lend one of its five Qrio public relations robots to schools in Japan, India, and Vietnam to stimulate children #39;s curiosity in science and technology, the company says. | 3 |
Bad Scoring and Slights at the Olympics Michael Wilbon is wrong Sports, Aug. 22. Paul Hamm should turn in his gold medal, which he did not earn. The judges #39; clerical error had no effect on how Paul Hamm or Yang Tae Young performed, and the correction can be made after the fact. | 1 |
Dollar Sinks to New Lifetime Low Vs. Euro LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar sank to a new lifetime low against the euro on Tuesday after a warning by European officials on the euro's rise went unheeded by investors determined to dump the U.S. currency. | 2 |
NASA Expects Shuttle Flights by the Spring Although still more work needs to be done, NASA officials said Monday that they were close to meeting all safety requirements for getting space shuttles flying again by the spring. | 3 |
Student #39;s sea-energy device wins \$100,000 Encinitas high school student Aaron Goldin has parlayed some old appliance parts plucked from his garage into a \$100,000 college scholarship, the top prize in one of the country #39;s most prestigious science and math competitions. | 3 |
Soccer: Moyes mum on Rooney transfer to Man Utd MANCHESTER : With just a day before the transfer window closes, Everton manager David Moyes kept mum on the chances of striker Wayne Rooney signing for Manchester United. | 1 |
Opinion poll boost for Australian PM An Australian opinion poll has indicated a rise in support for the governing coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard. But two days in to the six-week election campaign the main opposition Labor Party headed | 0 |
Alitalia headed for bankruptcy within a month: board ROME : The Italian airline Alitalia warned that it was headed for bankruptcy within a month, as the government appealed to unions and the company management to strike a deal to save the struggling carrier. | 2 |
Dell Launches Help-Desk Service For Smaller Businesses PC Workspace Services initially will serve businesses with 500 or more employees and eventually will work with smaller companies. By Kevin Ferguson, SmallBiz Pipeline. | 2 |
Freddie, Fannie may get competition soon The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle wants permission to buy mortgage-backed securities from the financial institutions that own it. | 2 |
Longhorn Delay Stirs Dismay, Delight in Developers Developer reaction to Microsoft #39;s decision to hold off on delivering planned parts of the next release of Windows Longhorn to meet the 2006 deadline has been mixed, with many calling it a prudent move and others outright upset by the decision. | 3 |
Orion launches desktop cluster workstations Orion Multisystems, a start-up company based in Santa Clara, California, announced personal computers for researchers, scientists, and engineers yesterday. | 3 |
Survey: IT spending to grow modestly next year IT spending is forecast to grow in the high single-digits next year and remain on that pace through 2008, according to two reports released Monday by Forrester Research. | 3 |
DCML And Oasis Team To Boost Data-Center Interoperability DCML proponents hope that joining Oasis will help the standard cross a major barrier in adoption of its data-center standards--the inclusion of major server and operating system vendors. | 3 |
Novell creates new management posts Novell, a new entrant into the Linux market, has promoted two executives in a management change that consolidates four business units into two. | 3 |
Hewitt feels invincible A FIRED-UP Lleyton Hewitt is charging into the first round of the US Open on the back of another tournament win yesterday. After a 6-3 6-1 victory against Peruvian Luis Horna in the TD Waterhouse Cup final | 1 |
Afghan Bombings Prompt US Travel Alert, Condemnation by Annan The US issued a travel alert for its citizens in Afghanistan after weekend bombings that killed at least 19 people in the capital, Kabul, and in Paktia province. | 0 |
Palestinian dreams of #39;Superstar #39;-dom fall short There was deep disappointment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday after Palestinian singer Amar Hassan lost in a contest for the Arab world #39;s best amateur singer. | 0 |
The Milosevic trial is doing its job BELGRADE Expect some fireworks Tuesday when Slobodan Milosevic takes up his own defense at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Over the last few years, as the prosecution presented evidence that the former | 0 |
Start-Up Offers Low-Power 'Personal Supercomputers' (Reuters) Reuters - Lower electrical power consumption,\not just greater data processing oomph, will help a new class\of desktop supercomputers unveiled on Monday turn conventional\industry logic on its head, its designers say. | 3 |
White Sox Nip Phillies 9-8 (AP) AP - Timo Perez bunted in the go-ahead run and Joe Borchard hit the longest homer in U.S. Cellular Field history Monday to help the Chicago White Sox defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-8. | 1 |
Global Arms Sales Drop Again, Asia Biggest Market (Reuters) Reuters - Global arms sales fell for a third\consecutive year in 2003, dropping to #36;25.6 billion from a peak\of #36;41 billion in 2000, and Asia has overtaken the Middle East\as the biggest customer, according to a study released on\Monday. | 0 |
Injured Vikings Back to Miss Season Opener (AP) AP - Running back Michael Bennett will miss the Minnesota Vikings' regular season opener Sept. 12 against Dallas with a right knee sprain and could be out longer. | 1 |
Brunell to Start Opener for Redskins (AP) AP - As expected, Joe Gibbs went with the veteran quarterback. | 1 |
French Hostage Seeks End to Head Scarf Ban (AP) AP - Two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq appealed late Monday for their countrymen and president to save their lives by giving in to their captors' demand to rescind a ban on Muslim head scarves in French schools. | 0 |
Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress (AP) AP - Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. | 3 |
Handheld Computers Aid Convention Security (AP) AP - Submachine gun, check. Semiautomatic pistol, check. Personal digital assistant, check. | 3 |
Correction: Spam-Lawsuit Story (AP) AP - In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27. | 3 |
Former UConn Aide Pleads in Sex Case (AP) AP - The Connecticut assistant men's basketball coach who resigned after being arrested in a prostitution sting agreed Monday to perform 10 days of community service and undergo counseling. | 1 |
Longhorn Delay Stirs Dismay, Delight in Developers (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - While many applaud the timely release of Avalon and Indigo and Microsoft's decision to "stop dreaming and wake up," others warn the company that it is eroding its credibility and letting Linux make usability gains. | 3 |
Toronto couple wins third-largest jackpot in Canadian history and retires (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Tze-Lam Chan will be doing Tuesday morning what every worker dreams of: calling his boss to tell him he's quitting after winning the #36;26.8-million jackpot in the Super 7 lottery. | 0 |
McAfee Beefs Up VirusScan Security (PC World) PC World - Updated antivirus software for businesses adds intrusion prevention features. | 3 |
Australia Has Terror Worries for Election (AP) AP - Prime Minister John Howard's government warned that Australia could become a terrorist target during a six-week election campaign that began Monday, with the war on terror and the nation's troop deployment in Iraq already taking center stage. | 0 |
IBM Asks Court to Block Gypsies' Lawsuit (AP) AP - Computer giant IBM said Monday it had asked Switzerland's highest court to block a lawsuit by Gypsies claiming the company's punch-card machines helped the Nazis more efficiently commit mass murder. | 3 |
Microsoft Taking on Apple's Music Store (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp., hoping to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc.'s highly popular online music service, is gearing up to launch its own Web site for selling songs over the Internet. | 3 |
Comfortable Starts for Federer and Mauresmo at Open NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer launched his campaign for a third grand slam title of the year on Monday as the U.S. Open began under cloudy skies at Flushing Meadows. | 1 |
Athens Waves Goodbye After 'Dream' Games ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of athletes, officials and visitors waved goodbye to Athens in a post-Olympics exodus Monday, leaving city officials to probe a doping scandal that tarnished an otherwise dream Games. | 1 |
Stocks Fall on Security, Earnings Worries NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell in extremely thin volume on Monday as security concerns surrounding the Republican convention in New York and worries about an update from technology bellwether Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A> this week kept investors on the sidelines. | 2 |
Edwards Accuses Bush of Failed Leadership (AP) AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday the Bush administration's military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have alienated allies and increased the threat from terrorism instead of reducing it. | 0 |
Not the Next Big Thing: Vikings Cut Lesnar Eden Prairie, Minn. (Sports Network) - The Minnesota Vikings released former professional and amateur wrestling star Brock Lesnar Monday. | 1 |
Spending Rebounds, Good News for Growth WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending rebounded sharply in July, the government said on Monday, erasing the disappointment of June and bolstering hopes that the U.S. economy has recovered from its recent soft spot. | 2 |
Survey Records Pattern of Tarantulas (AP) AP - From now until the start of winter, male tarantulas are roaming around, searching for female mates, an ideal time to find out where the spiders flourish in Arkansas. | 3 |
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