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Wharf weighs in for new England If England #39;s new one-day master plan was to bat, bowl and field better than in the recent past, then it succeeded admirably here yesterday. | 1 |
Darfur Situation Worsens; Talks Resume KHARTOUM, 1 September 2004 - Conditions are worsening for refugees in Darfur, UN agencies said yesterday, as the Sudanese government and rebels struggled to make headway in talks aiming to ease the conflict in the Darfur region. | 0 |
Three Killed in Rush for IKEA Vouchers Three men were trampled to death in a rush to claim vouchers at the first IKEA furniture showroom in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, hospital officials said. | 0 |
China Showcases Space Program to the World By STEPHANIE HOO JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity. A police car with flashing lights led busloads of international journalists across northwestern China's vast Gobi Desert to the Jiuquan space center, past armored patrol vehicles and a sign, in English: "Foreigners are not allowed to enter without permission." It was the first time China let foreigners enter, though officials forbade photographs of the command-and-control center with its rows of computer screens or the mammoth assembly hall where workers built the spacecraft that lifted China's first astronaut into orbit last October... | 3 |
Microsoft Launches MSN Music In the right corner, weighing in with 100 million downloaded iTunes songs: heavyweight champion Steve Jobs. In the left corner, weighing in with billions and billions of dollars and near universal | 3 |
US website offers Caller ID falsification service Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller ID to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller ID spoofing | 3 |
Rape Charge Against NBA Star Kobe Bryant Dropped District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said he filed the motion to dismiss the criminal case Wednesday because Bryant #39;s 20-year-old accuser was no longer willing to testify. | 1 |
Former champs Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams move on at US <b>...</b> Wearing what she described as her quot;micro-mini quot; outfit, third-seeded Serena Williams advanced to the third round of the US Open on Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over fellow American Lindsay Lee-Waters. | 1 |
Sports: Braves 7 Phillies 2 PHILADELPHIA Andruw and Chipper Jones belted solo homers to support Jaret Wright in Atlanta #39;s 7-to-2 win over Philadelphia. Chipper Jones gave the Braves a 5-to-2 lead in the fourth with his 26th homer of the season. | 1 |
Three-way England battle for Gerrard role STEVEN GERRARD will be handed the chance to play in his preferred central midfield for England after Nicky Butt was ruled out of this week-end #39;s opening 2006 World Cup qualifier in Austria. | 1 |
Woodward Remains England Coach, Will Continue Talks on Future Clive Woodward, who led England to victory at last year #39;s rugby World Cup, will today hold further talks about his future, a day after saying he will quit as coach. | 1 |
Colangelo resigns as CEO of D-Backs Jerry Colangelo has resigned his position as chief executive officer of the Arizona Diamondbacks, effective immediately, handing the reins of the organization to CEO Elect Jeff Moorad. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Harmison hat-trick helps England to easy win England fast bowler Steve Harmison grabbed a hat-trick to set up an easy seven-wicket win over India in the first one-day international at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on Wednesday. | 1 |
Has Coughlin fired up Giants #39; O-line? In the week before last week #39;s preseason game against the Jets, Tom Coughlin sharply criticized his defensive backs, who did not appreciate his comments but responded with a far better game. | 1 |
Powell: US Wants UN Sanctions Vs. Iran WASHINGTON Sept. 1, 2004 - Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States wants UN sanctions imposed on Iran after the Bush administration concluded the country is on the verge of enriching enough uranium for four nuclear weapons. | 0 |
Indian hostages set to return home After 42 days in captivity, the three Indian truckers are all set to fly back home today. They are currently in Kuwait and would be taking a special flight back home later tonight. | 0 |
Radiation Not Good for Treating All Cancer By JEFF DONN BOSTON (AP) -- Many older women with early breast cancer can safely skip radiation after having a lump removed, two studies suggest. Most women should still undergo radiation, because it helps prevent relapses within the same breast, the researchers say... | 3 |
DIY print boom DIGITAL photography continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. The ability to review images seconds after capture, download and manipulate them on a personal computer and either burn them on to a blank CD or | 3 |
IT workers happier about job market Monthly measurement of techie optimism marks another slight hike, less worker worry. | 3 |
IBM, Intel push 'open' blade server spec The effort to dominate their way into a de facto standard isn't sitting well with rivals HP and Dell. | 3 |
Plastic magnet breaks the mold Researchers in England have made the first magnet made of plastic that works at room temperatures. | 3 |
Oracle delivers delayed patches The fixes come about eight months after a security researcher told the database software maker of the problems. | 3 |
Security pros warn of critical flaws in Kerberos Vulnerabilities in technology widely used for network authentication leave computers open to attack. | 3 |
Security pros warn of critical flaws in Kerberos (cont.) Vulnerabilities in technology widely used for network authentication leave computers open to attack. | 3 |
AT T Wireless: Sun, sand and 3G, anyone? San Diego becomes a battleground for 3G wireless broadband, as AT #38;T Wireless debuts a service that competes with Verizon. | 3 |
Wi-Fi group backs brawnier security standard An alliance says that Wi-Fi Protected Access 2, or WPA2, is a big improvement on earlier wireless security standards. | 3 |
Hitachi drive to connect with consumer devices Company hopes to woo makers of music players and other devices with easy integration and trimmer drive. | 3 |
Ballmer bullish on future, bearish on Linux Speaking to members of the Massachusetts Software Council, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted a bright future for technology but warned his listeners to think twice before adopting open-source products like Linux. | 3 |
Organizers shun wireless for GOP convention network Verizon Communications ran thousands of miles of cable to build a VoIP network in Madison Square Garden, while Cisco supplied the networking equipment, IBM donated PCs and servers, and Microsoft provided desktop and systems software. | 3 |
USTA nets server savings IBM, which manages computer operations for the United States Tennis Association, has consolidated Internet scoring, staging and Web publishing applications onto a single eServer i5 system to support the U.S. Open's processing requirements. | 3 |
SCO caps legal costs as losses mount The SCO Group is looking to cut expenses to make sure it has enough cash to push its lawsuit with IBM, the company announced during its third-quarter earnings conference call yesterday. | 3 |
Analyst firm predicts e-commerce upswing IT investments in Web sites, combined with greater acceptance of online shopping on the part of consumers, will drive the growth. | 3 |
Apple's Phil Schiller, analysts discuss the iMac G5 The marketing behind the new iMac G5 will leave no doubt in consumers' minds what else Apple has delivered lately. | 3 |
GOP platform: Broadband and R D tax credits The Republican party platform includes calls for widely available broadband access, electronic health records and more government R D spending. | 3 |
Digital Gear: Internet keys and cool Cigars Recent gadgets hitting the market include a portable hard drive, a multimedia player, a Bluetooth device and more. | 3 |
Longhorn cuts delay Microsoft Business Framework By cutting WinFS from Longhorn and indefinitely delaying the storage system, Microsoft Corp. has also again delayed the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF), a new Windows programming layer that is closely tied to WinFS. | 3 |
SAP to speech enable applications On Wednesday SAP moved one step closer to voice-enabling its applications by signing a deal with VoiceObjects, a developer of voice application management systems. | 3 |
IBM and Intel to open up blade specifications In an effort to encourage hardware vendors to build components for the blade platform they co-develop, Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. on Thursday will open up parts of the BladeCenter design specifications, according to documents obtained by IDG News Service. | 3 |
Symantec joins antiphishing group Antivirus software company Symantec Corp. said on Wednesday that it joined a group devoted to fighting online identity theft attacks known as "phishing scams." | 3 |
Microsoft Lets the Digital Media Play Portable Media Center devices, MSN Music store, and Windows Media Player 10 launched. | 3 |
EBay to Acquire South Korean Auction Firm By RACHEL KONRAD SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- EBay Inc., which has been aggressively expanding in Asia, plans to increase its stake in South Korea's largest online auction company. The Internet auction giant said Tuesday night that it would purchase nearly 3 million publicly held shares of Internet Auction Co... | 3 |
What is AdWare? What Is AdWare?\\As with most things in life, there are two sides to every story and these adware packages have brewed up quite a bit of controversy. Ask a web publisher and, if they can say it in a nice way without cursing while they do, they'll tell you that ... | 3 |
Urchin Releases ASP Version of Web Analytics Software Urchin Releases ASP Version of Web Analytics Software\\Urchin Software Corporation today released Urchin 6 On Demand, an ASP version of its popular web analytics and marketing intelligence software. The Urchin 6 ASP service provides an integrated approach to attracting quality traffic, increasing sales and conversions and retaining customers. Organizations wishing ... | 3 |
Toogle: Cool Google Image Search Implementation Toogle: Cool Google Image Search Implementation\\Google has become a synonymous with Internet Searching. It has also become a verb with all those talks about Googling this and Googling that. But the truth remains; Google is the best thing to happen to Internet Searching in years. And it does great at ... | 3 |
I.B.M. to Share Technology and Designs for New Computer I.B.M. plans to announce that it will share the designs and technology for a fast-growing line of computers known as blade servers. | 3 |
A Commercial Software Service Aims to Outfox Caller ID A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities. | 3 |
Letting Gamers Play God, and Now Themselves Peter Molyneux, widely considered one of the best high-concept designers in the video-game industry, is renowned for creating "god games." | 3 |
Microsoft Challenges Rivals With New Online Music Service Microsoft started selling music tracks on its MSN online service, taking on Apple Computer and a host of others in the fast-growing market for digital music. | 3 |
The Return of the Venture Capitalists Four years after the Internet bubble burst, the venture-capital industry is showing signs of growth. | 3 |
Subway suicide bomb kills 10 MOSCOW - A female suicide bomber set off a shrapnel-filled explosive device outside a busy Moscow subway station on Tuesday night, officials said, killing 10 people and injuring more than 50. | 0 |
Judge to decide whether Chalabi counterfeit case goes forward An Iraqi judge will decide as soon as Thursday whether to allow the counterfeiting case against former Iraq Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi to go ahead. | 0 |
Former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of war crimes The International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin to 32 years in prison. | 0 |
Joint Venture Wins Enron Pipeline Auction (Reuters) Reuters - Enron Corp. on Wednesday\said a joint venture of Southern Union Co. and a\General Electric Co. unit won the auction for its crown\jewel U.S. pipelines with a #36;2.45 billion cash and assumed debt\bid. | 2 |
Hopes Pinned on Talks in Russia Hostage Drama (Reuters) Reuters - Gunmen held hundreds of children\and adults captive in a school gym into the night in turbulent\southern Russia Thursday, but the Kremlin remained silent about\an attack which amounted to a huge humiliation. | 0 |
Prosecutors Drop Sex Case Against Bryant (AP) AP - The criminal case against Kobe Bryant case collapsed Wednesday as prosecutors said they had no choice but to drop the sexual assault charge because the NBA star's accuser no longer wanted to participate. | 1 |
Yankees Rebound to Defeat Indians 5-3 (AP) AP - The scoreboard was reset to zero, all the runs and hits from the previous day wiped away. Orlando Hernandez and Jorge Posada then went out and restored some order at Yankee Stadium. | 1 |
Israeli Army Destroys Gaza Homes After Bus Bombings (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli forces Thursday blew up two\Palestinian housing blocs in a Gaza refugee camp that the army\said were used by Palestinian militants to launch attacks\against soldiers and settlers. | 0 |
Iraqi Judge to Decide on Chalabi Case (AP) AP - An Iraqi judge will decide as soon as Thursday whether to allow the counterfeiting case against former Iraq Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi to go ahead. | 0 |
Bryant Can Now Focus on Hoops, Business (AP) AP - Kobe Bryant can go on as a basketball superstar, but his squeaky-clean image is gone forever. | 1 |
Dallaire launches tirade against Western powers for Sudanese waffling (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian general who watched helplessly while genocide raged in Rwanda launched a tirade Wednesday against Western countries for their "lame and obtuse" response to unnervingly similar horrors unfolding in Sudan. | 0 |
Twins Trip Rangers 4-2 (AP) AP - Terry Tiffee hit a go-ahead two-run double in his major league debut to give the Minnesota Twins a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers Wednesday night. | 1 |
"Kooky" Greens may have last laugh in Australian election (AFP) AFP - Australia's Greens -- dismissed as "kooky" by Prime Minister John Howard for a policy platform that includes state-funded sex-change operations -- may determine the outcome of upcoming elections as it draws disenchanted voters from mainstream parties. | 0 |
Serena the 'Entertainer' Wins at U.S. Open (AP) AP - This is all you need to know about Serena Williams' concerns at the U.S. Open: After warming up for what would be a 6-4, 6-3 second-round victory Wednesday against Lindsay Lee-Waters, Williams approached the chair umpire with an urgent request #151; could someone get her purse from the locker room? She forgot to put on earrings. | 1 |
Joint Venture Wins Enron Pipeline Auction NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enron Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ENRNQ.PK target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ENRNQ.PK</A> on Wednesday said a joint venture of Southern Union Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SUG.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SUG.N</A> and a General Electric Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GE.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GE.N</A> unit won the auction for its crown jewel U.S. pipelines with a \$2.45 billion cash and assumed debt bid. | 2 |
U.S. Oil Prices Are Steady SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices were steady on Thursday, holding gains of nearly \$2 from a day earlier after a U.S. government report showed crude oil stocks falling to their lowest level in five months. | 2 |
Convention Protests Target Labor Policies (AP) AP - Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week. | 0 |
Kerry Will Begin Ad Blitz in Seven States (AP) AP - John Kerry will begin his post-Labor Day advertising blitz in seven states from New Hampshire to New Mexico, his political Ground Zero for a #36;50 million campaign scheduled to expand into another 13 states by Nov. 2. | 0 |
Victory in Terror War Has Many Meanings (AP) AP - The war on terror might eventually be won, depending on one's definition of winning. | 0 |
Mauresmo Through After Nervy Start NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amelie Mauresmo's hopes of a first grand slam title remained intact Wednesday but she had to come from behind to beat Ukraine's Julia Vakulenko 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the second round of the U.S. Open. | 1 |
Dollar Struggles Near Recent Lows TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar struggled near recent lows on Thursday after soft U.S. manufacturing data failed to dispel concerns that the U.S. economy may be running out of steam. | 2 |
Haynes Emerges from Shadow of Williams Sisters NEW YORK (Reuters) - We have heard this somewhere before. | 1 |
Canada Routs Slovakia in World Cup of Hockey MONTREAL (Reuters) - Ryan Smyth scored twice and Martin St Louis had a goal and an assist for the second straight game as Canada eased to a 5-1 win over Slovakia in round-robin play at the World Cup of Hockey on Wednesday. | 1 |
Powell Says U.N Must Act Now on Iran Weapons WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday the time had come for the United Nations to take punitive action against Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons program. | 0 |
January Trial Date Set for NHL's Bertuzzi VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian court set a Jan. 17 trial date on Wednesday for National Hockey League star Todd Bertuzzi, who is charged with assault for an on-ice attack last season that left a player with a fractured neck. | 1 |
Pennington Reaches Long-Term Deal with Jets NEW YORK (Sports Network) - The New York Jets and quarterback Chad Pennington finally agreed on a long-term contract extension Wednesday. | 1 |
Enron Broadband Trial Start Delayed HOUSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday delayed the start of the trial of five former executives at defunct Enron Corp.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ENRNQ.PK target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ENRNQ.PK</A> broadband Internet unit to March because of a defense lawyer's scheduling conflict. | 2 |
Zo Seeks Another Comeback with Nets EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Sports Network) - Retired NBA center and seven-time All- Star Alonzo Mourning is going to give his playing career one more shot. | 1 |
Israeli Army Destroys Gaza Homes After Bus Bombings GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces Thursday blew up two Palestinian housing blocs in a Gaza refugee camp that the army said were used by Palestinian militants to launch attacks against soldiers and settlers. | 0 |
Regulators Attacking Insider Trading Experts say improper trading flourishes in periods of rampant mergers and acquisitions, fueling insiders to cash in on their advance knowledge. But even in the relatively slow dealmaking scene of the past few years, the SEC has brought about 60 cases a year. | 2 |
Hit by Protests, Mexico's Fox Urges a Truce MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox called for a truce on Wednesday to ease mounting political tensions, as hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike and some deputies literally turned their backs on him. | 0 |
Organized Crime Transacts \$2 Trillion a Year -- U.N. BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Transactions worldwide by organized crime reach \$2 trillion every year, and about half that amount goes toward corruption and bribes, the United Nations drugs and crime watchdog said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Judge Delays Criminal Trial For Former Enron Executives A federal judge in Houston Wednesday agreed to postpone for five months the criminal trial of several former executives in Enron Corp.'s Internet division, just one day after a leader of the unit pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. | 2 |
New Panama President Vows to Mend Cuba Ties PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's new President Martin Torrijos vowed on Wednesday to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba, ruptured last week when his predecessor pardoned four men jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro. | 0 |
Mourning Will Try to Play Seven-time All-Star Alonzo Mourning will attempt a comeback with the Nets this season, less than a year after a kidney transplant. | 1 |
Russia terror wave exposes weak intelligence Following the third attack in eight days, the capability of security services against militants is questioned. | 0 |
This Time, It's Easy for Capriati Looking powerful and focused, Jennifer Capriati rolled to a 6-0, 6-2, victory over Magui Serna at the United States Open on Monday. | 1 |
US standing with Arabs hits a low Despite \$2 billion in yearly aid, 98 percent of Egyptians have unfavorable view of US. | 0 |
What's behind the Darfur crisis - and what's next? If the solution seems complex, the roots of the problem in western Sudan are perhaps more so. | 0 |
Cheney unleashes attack on Kerry The vice-president tell the Republican convention that Democrat John Kerry is unfit for the presidency. | 0 |
Russia hostage takers surrounded A siege at a south Russian school goes into the night, with a group holding at least 200, many of them children. | 0 |
DaVita to buy Gambro dialysis unit for \$3 bln cash LONDON (CBS.MW) -- DaVita (DVA) said it has an agreement to buy Gambro Healthcare, the dialysis division of Sweden #39;s Gambro (SE:000016447) for \$3.05 billion in cash. | 2 |
Eritreans jailed for plane hijack Fifteen Eritreans are jailed for five years each for hijacking a Libyan aircraft being used to deport them. | 0 |
Panama's new president sworn in Panama's new President Martin Torrijos is sworn in for a five-year term, promising to probe human rights violations. | 0 |
Charity Begins at Home? Perhaps Not at Hollinger How much does it cost to become a lion on the social scenes in New York, London and Toronto? Not as much as one might think. | 2 |
Textile Industry to Request Limits on Chinese Goods Officials of the United States textile industry said that they would petition to block the expected flood of Chinese imports. | 2 |
Move singer Carl Wayne dies at 61 Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer. | 0 |
France Plans to Cut Phone Stake The French government accelerated its privatization effort, saying it will cede control of its former phone monopoly. | 2 |
Another Recovery As the 16th-ranked Cavaliers prepare for Saturday's season opener at Temple, inside linebacker Rich Bedesem is healthy again after tearing the ACL in his right knee -- again. | 1 |
Sanz Wins Four Awards at Latin Grammys LOS ANGELES - Latin Grammy favorite Alejandro Sanz won four awards and Brazilian jazz songstress Maria Rita collected two Wednesday at a ceremony aimed at uniting Spanish- and Portugese-language music with the flash and sizzle of American pop. Sanz won the male pop vocal album award and album of the year for "No Es Lo Mismo" and took home song of the year and record of the year trophies for writing and performing the album's title track... | 0 |
Florida Calls for Hurricane Evacuations MIAMI - Nearly a half-million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida on Wednesday just weeks after Charley's devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful one-two punch to hit a state in at least a century. Those planning to ride out the storm snapped up canned food, water and generators, while military helicopters and planes were flown out of the area and Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center said it would close on Thursday... | 0 |
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