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Marathon Saboteur Priest Accused of Indecency A controversial Irish priest who sabotaged the mens Olympic marathon by leaping on the race leader appeared in court today on indecency charges. | 1 |
Casagrande and Golbano unfit for Vuelta Italian cyclist Francesco Casagrande (Lampre) and Spaniard Carlos Romn Golbano (Costa de Almera-Paternina) have been declared unfit to start the Vuelta a Espaa, after blood tests on Wednesday evening revealed that they each had exceeded the | 1 |
Wright dazzles in halting slide He was a young phenom then, much like Jeff Francis is now, and it was former Rockies pitcher Marvin Freeman who pinned the moniker on the 6-foot-6, apparently good-looking right-hander from Oklahoma City during the spring of 1996. | 1 |
Liuzzi to test for Sauber Sauber Petronas have invited Vitantonio Liuzzi for a test drive. The 22-year old Red Bull Junior Team pilot, who has won this year #39;s Formula 3000 Championship far ahead of the competition, will be driving the Sauber Petronas C23 at Jerez on 16 September. | 1 |
Russia school siege: #39;26 freed #39; More than two dozen women and children have been released from the school in southern Russia where armed militants were holding more than 300 hostages for a second day, a regional government official said. | 0 |
Court appoints Milosevic lawyers Two British lawyers, Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins, have been appointed to defend former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague #39;s UN tribunal. | 0 |
S.Korea says it enriched uranium quot;It was well beyond the level that would be needed for a civilian programme, quot; the Vienna-based diplomat close to the IAEA said. | 0 |
Voracious growth puts China in a power crunch It #39;s not even 5 pm on a workday and the corridor outside Li Chengwen #39;s office is dark. The air is moist and warm. By Eugene Hoshiko, AP. | 0 |
Shopping without tears: a parents' guide <strong>Review</strong> Waitrose's QuickCheck scanner a real time-saver | 3 |
Games giant muscles in on mobiles Games giant Electronic Arts is joining forces with a Scottish mobile entertainment firm to make more mobile games. | 3 |
Games firm Acclaim ceases ops Games maker and publisher Acclaim, famous for dino game Turok, has filed for bankruptcy in the US. | 3 |
IBM Opens Up Design of Its Blade Servers NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=IBM.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">IBM.N</A> said it is making the design of its "blade" computer servers widely available, in a move designed to gain wider acceptability in data centers and the telecommunications industry. | 3 |
Apple-Rival Creative to Double MP3 Player Lines SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Computer audio equipment maker Creative Technology Ltd. said on Thursday it would double its MP3 player product lines from its current eight by year-end, stepping up competition for rivals such as Apple Computer Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=AAPL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">AAPL.O</A> | 3 |
Video Game Maker Acclaim Files for Bankruptcy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=AKLM.PK qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">AKLM.PK</A>, which has been hampered by a lack of hit titles, filed for bankruptcy liquidation on Thursday after failing to line up new financing. | 3 |
Global Chip Sales Growth Moderates in July SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Global sales of semiconductors rose 1 percent in July as consumer uncertainty and swelling inventories restrained the industry's pace of growth, the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association reported on Thursday. | 3 |
Global Handset Sales Reached Record in 2nd Quarter - Survey AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Global handset sales rose to record levels in the second quarter, putting the industry on track to ship 650 million cell phones in 2004 as market leader Nokia halted its decline, a survey said on Thursday. | 3 |
Retail Sales Sluggish, Gas Prices Blamed US retailers on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected August sales, generating the smallest monthly gain in a year and a half as high gasoline prices cut into back-to-school spending. | 2 |
US apparel retailers Aug. sales better than feared US clothing retailers like Gap Inc. (GPS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and American Eagle Outfitters (AEOS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , on Thursday posted | 2 |
Payless ShoeSource to restructure as August same-store sales fall Footwear retailer Payless ShoeSource Inc. said Thursday it will restructure its operations and cut jobs in a move to reduce administrative expenses by about \$12 million a year. | 2 |
Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact? - Magazine An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. | 3 |
Red Hat Names CFO After Restatements Red Hat Inc. , a Linux software distributor that in July said it would restate three years #39; of financial results, on Thursday named Charles Peters as chief financial officer. | 3 |
Games makers Acclaim ceases ops US video game makers Acclaim has filed for bankruptcy after struggling to keep up sales in an increasingly competitive games market for some time. | 3 |
Lanci to take over as Acer #39;s president Acer #39;s current president, JT Wang, will take over as chairman and chief executive officer, replacing Acer co-founder Stan Shih, who will retire at the end of the year. | 3 |
Soocer-PSG coach unable to digest last-minute Fiorese transfer Paris St Germain coach Vahid Halilhodzic says he felt so betrayed by the last-minute transfer of striker Fabrice Fiorese to Olympique Marseille that he was physically sick after going home on Tuesday. | 1 |
Three Turkish Hostages Killed in Iraq A militant group, affiliated with wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has claimed responsibility for the murder of three Turkish truck drivers in Iraq. | 0 |
Israel threatens to launch military action against Syria Jerusalem, Sept. 2 (PTI): Claiming to have quot;concrete evidence quot; of Syria #39;s involvement in the double suicide attack in the southern city of Beersheva in which 16 people were killed and more than 80 injured, Israel | 0 |
Bali bomber spotted in Starbucks Convicted Bali bomber Ali Imron has been allowed on an outing to a Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. Reporters spotted him laughing and joking with Brigadier-General Gorries Mere, one of the officers investigating the Bali attacks. | 0 |
Acclaim Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy <p>\</p><p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Video game publisher Acclaim\Entertainment Inc. <AKLM.PK> on Thursday said it filed for\bankruptcy after failing to line up new financing for a credit\line that expired last week.</p> | 3 |
Turkish birdlovers fear for delta A globally important Turkish wetland for thousands of birds is threatened by development, conservationists say. | 3 |
Bookmakers slash science odds The chances of scientists making any one of five discoveries by 2010 have been hugely underestimated, according to bookmakers. | 3 |
ET: Please Send Mail, Don't Phone If an extraterrestrial civilization wanted to maximize its chances of being discovered by another civilization, the best bet may not ride on radio waves. Rutgers -- Were E.T... | 3 |
Conjunction Junction for the Mars Rovers In the next few weeks the twin Mars rovers will be out of touch with Earth when the Sun lines up to block communications. Daily operations will be taken over by longer-term instructions without radio links between the two planets. | 3 |
Appetite Hormone Key to Women's Health Leptin, the hormone best known to control appetite, also appears to play a major role in fertility and bone development in women. A small, new study finds synthetic injections of the hormone can help young women whose naturally low levels of leptin left them thin and prone to osteoporosis, broken bones, and reproductive problems. | 3 |
Contact Lens Implants Clear Myopia Effective way to correct nearsightedness, study finds HealthDayNews -- Implantable contact lenses are a safe and effective way to correct moderate to high nearsightedness, says a study in the September issue of Ophthalmology. The research was funded by STAAR Surgical of Monrovia, Calif., which has applied for U.S... | 3 |
Virtual Colonoscopy Shows Promise While not perfect, it could become key screening tool for cancer, researchers say HealthDayNews -- Virtual colonoscopies show significant promise as a screening method for colorectal cancer but there are still some problems that need to be resolved, according to new research. A report in the Sept... | 3 |
Back Country Wary of West Nile Virus Rowdy, a 4-year-old horse, got sick after splashing through the Santa Ana River on a training ride. He ran a high fever, moved feebly in his stall and just wanted to sleep - all symptoms of West Nile virus. | 3 |
Dyslexia Symptoms Not the Same in Every Culture By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA (AP) -- With 6,000 characters to memorize, Westerners shudder at the idea reading even the most basic street signs and instructions in Chinese... | 3 |
HP closes hospital printing deal The contract is part of the computer giant's bid to wring more consulting dollars out of its printer business. | 3 |
Outsourcing's next big thing--Malaysia? The country's infrastructure makes it an attractive candidate for offshore work, a research company says. | 3 |
Briefly: Overture heads toward automation roundup Plus: Burst wants Gates deposition released...Verizon opens global phone to consumers...IBM, Honda team on voice-driven car navigation. | 3 |
PC makers: Look before taking SP2 leap Many PC makers have a list of drivers and other patches that should be in place before installing the OS update.\ | 3 |
HP files lawsuit over discounts Computer maker sees to recover \$8.6 million in pricing discounts granted to a hardware reseller in Tennessee. | 3 |
NEC positions carbon nanotubes for prime time NEC Corp. has developed a method of positioning tiny tubes of carbon in a way that, 10 years from now, will make circuits run faster and consume less power than the fastest and most powerful silicon chips, the company said on Thursday. | 3 |
IBM, Intel open up blade server specs Hoping to accelerate the acceptance of blade servers, IBM and Intel on Thursday will lay bare their jointly developed technical specifications for its BladeCenter platform that will allow developers to customize add-on products and solutions. | 3 |
Oracle releases delayed security patches Oracle Corp. released security patches this week that plug several vulnerabilities reported last month in its database software and other products. | 3 |
FAST preps app to improve Internet yellow pages Fast Search Transfer ASA has developed an application designed to help providers of online business directories and of online classified advertisements improve the content, presentation and navigation of their listings, the company announced Thursday. | 3 |
Intel looks to clarify strategy, execution Intel Corp. will look to a multicore future during the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco next week as it tries to leave behind a tumultuous year plagued by product delays and road map revisions. | 3 |
Shaq #39;s career milestone as the heat wins Shaquille O #39;Neal pulled down his 10,000th NBA rebound to lead the Heat to a 100-80 win over the Jazz. O #39;Neal needed eight rebounds entering the game to become the 31st player with 10,000 career boards. | 1 |
WinZip Warns of Security Flaws Users of the popular compression tool should upgrade their software, company says. | 3 |
Rx Depot Co-Founder Launches New Online Venture The co-founder of an Oklahoma prescription drug service shut down for violating federal drug importation laws has a new company providing discounted medicines over the Internet. | 3 |
RNC Protesters Using Text Messages to Plan For protesters navigating Manhattan during the Republican National Convention, text-message broadcasting services like this, sent to their cell phones, provided an up-to-the-minute guide to the action on the streets. | 3 |
Olympics man on indecency charges A former Irish priest who disrupted the men #39;s Olympic marathon in Athens has appeared in court on two counts of indecently assaulting a child. | 1 |
Straw Speaks Out over Russian School Siege Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today expressed sympathy with parents and children in the Russian school siege saying their suffering is our suffering. | 0 |
MSN Music Store to Rock the Music Download Boat MSN Music Store to Rock the Music Download Boat\\MSN has unveiled MSN Music Store, their pay per download WMP driven system which is predicted to give Apple iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks a run for their money in the realm of legal music download search. MSN Music Service will initially offer ... | 3 |
MSN Music Store Launches MSN Music Store Launches\\MSN has unveiled MSN Music Store, their pay per download WMP driven system which is predicted to give Apple iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks a run for their money in the realm of legal music download search. MSN Music Service will initially offer music downloads of 500,000 music ... | 3 |
Clippers escape with victory over Bobcats Like any team bent on abiding by an unwritten rule of following sports cliches, the Clippers say they, yawn, take their games one at a time. | 1 |
Firefox Toolbar: A set of search toolbars for Mozilla users Firefox Toolbar: A set of search toolbars for Mozilla users\\Yet another search toolbar! But fortunately unlike most Internet Explorer only toolbars it is for the users of the alternate open source browser Firefox and Mozilla. Firefox Toolbar is a set of free toolbars made by a company called Vpop Technologies ... | 3 |
News: Critical Kerberos bugs surface Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in version five of the widely-used Kerberos authentication protocol. The most serious could be exploited by crackers to gain root control to authentication servers. | 3 |
Bears could keep kids from school (Reuters) Reuters - Some 30 brown bears have been terrorising a Transylvanian mountain village\and could delay the start of the school year, local authorities say. | 0 |
Instant Messaging Is Growing Up, Going to Work (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - If you're an avid instant messenger, you probably know what I mean: "Instant messaging doesn't work for me, does it work for you?" Yet I appear to be on the way to becoming a minority, a fuddy-dud resisting the text-chat party. Instant messaging, or IM, is catching on with adults in a big way as it moves rapidly into the workplace, according to recent surveys. In fact, analysts predict IM soon will overtake e-mail as the No. 1 form of electronic communication. | 3 |
Lucent Says It May Get #36;816M Tax Refund (AP) AP - Telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies Inc. may receive an #36;816 million federal income tax refund related to its multibillion dollar losses at the height of the telecom industry slump. | 2 |
Red Hat Names CFO After Restatements (Reuters) Reuters - Red Hat Inc. , a Linux\software distributor that in July said it would restate three\years' of financial results, on Thursday named Charles Peters\as chief financial officer. | 3 |
Coach moves on after taking USC nowhere What happened to Henry Bibby at USC is that, for the first time in his basketball life, he stayed in one place too long. Fired Monday and replaced by assistant Jim Saia for the interim, Bibby | 1 |
Continental Air to Cut 425 Jobs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CAL.N</A> plans to eliminate about 425 management and clerical jobs, and wage cuts may be next if the revenue picture does not improve, the No. 5 U.S. carrier said on Thursday. | 2 |
Montgomerie Glad Teammates Approve of Ryder Cup Wildcard CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie says his Ryder Cup wildcard was rubber-stamped by colleagues who had already qualified for this month's event against the U.S. at Oakland Hills. | 1 |
S.Africa Arrests One in WMDs, Nuclear Probe JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African authorities arrested one person Thursday in an investigation into contraventions of laws on weapons of mass destruction and nuclear energy, the government said. | 0 |
NFL Game Summary - Dallas at Seattle Rice finished with 145 yards on eight catches, and Jackson had 113 yards on nine grabs...Testaverde broke Steve DeBerg #39;s NFL record with his TD pass to Copper, the 63rd receiver he #39;s hooked up with for a score...Alexander has scored 15 or more touchdowns | 1 |
Update 5: European Central Bank Ups Growth Forecast The European Central Bank on Thursday raised its economic growth forecast for the 12 nations using the euro and kept its key interest rate steady at record lows as it waits for the recovery to firm up. | 2 |
US Airways shares rise on hopes for pilots pact Shares of US Airways (UAIR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose more more than 5 percent on Thursday after the airline #39;s pilots union said it may soon agree on a plan to cut wages and benefits to help the carrier avoid a second | 2 |
UPDATE 2-Coolbrands shares melt as guidance disappoints Coolbrands International Inc. (COBa.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday its results for fiscal 2004 would be higher than the previous year, but the guidance missed expectations | 2 |
Study: Workers Find IM a Mixed Blessing A report released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project says US workers are increasingly using instant messaging (IM) in the workplace, with approximately 11 million Americans logging into an IM program daily. | 3 |
Indiana hires Army #39;s Rick Greenspan as new athletic director Army #39;s Rick Greenspan was named athletic director at Indiana University on Thursday, the school #39;s fourth AD in little more than three years. | 1 |
Bali bomber #39;out of jail for a coffee #39; THE Howard Government has been assured by Indonesia that one of the main Bali bombers will not be released after reports he was seen having a coffee with a senior policeman in a central Jakarta shopping mall. | 0 |
Japan volcano tremors subsides, residents return home Volcanic tremors and earthquakes emanating from Mt. Asama, which straddles Gunma and Nagano prefectures in east Japan, subsided Thursday after the volcano erupted Wednesday night, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. | 0 |
Microsoft launches MSN Music service Microsoft Corp. is offering a quot;preview release quot; of MSN Music, its answer to Apple #39;s popular iTunes Music Store. The music download service is available in the United States exclusively for users of the Windows | 2 |
eBay plans S. Korean expansion with Internet Auction bid NEW YORK, September 2 (New Ratings) - eBay (EBAY.NAS) intends to continue with its expansion in Asia with an increased stake in Internet Auction Co. | 2 |
Lebanon slams US-inspired UN draft Lebanon urged members of the UN Security Council Thursday to vote against a US-French draft resolution demanding Syrian military withdrawal. | 0 |
Seven Truckers Freed in Iraq, France Awaits Word Islamic militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt on Wednesday after holding them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a dozen other foreigners still in captivity. | 0 |
Google AdSense Expands to Multiple Advertising Units Google AdSense Expands to Multiple Advertising Units\\Google is now letting AdSense publishers place Google contextually targeted AdSense advertising on up to 3 placements on one web page. Google AdSense had always stuck to their guns about one AdSense ad per web page, however, web users may be getting used to ... | 3 |
Mobile phone sales surge at record pace in second quarter: Gartner (AFP) AFP - Global sales of mobile telephones surged a record 35 percent to 156 million units in the second quarter from the same period in 2003, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed. | 3 |
Jimenez Grabs First-Round Lead at European Masters CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Miguel Angel Jimenez and Sergio Garcia warmed up for this month's Ryder Cup with sparkling starts at the European Masters on Thursday. | 1 |
Arsenal exit #39;would be disaster #39; Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn believes an early exit from the Champions League this week would be a disaster for the club. | 1 |
Oil Prices Surge to \$45 on Russia Concerns Oil prices spiked today after the Russian oil giant Yukos said it cannot pay wages and that its output could suffer due to a court ruling that froze some of its assets. | 2 |
Cheney Praises Bush As Decisive Leader NEW YORK - As President Bush prepared to accept the Republican nomination for a second term, Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed his boss as a decisive commander-in-chief. "He doesn't waffle," Cheney said Thursday... | 0 |
Blunkett's satellite tagging: the tripe behind the hype Home Office redefines statistical invalidity | 3 |
Experts deny ET signal report Scientists move swiftly to quash reports that a possible contact has been received from extraterrestrial life. | 3 |
Apple to Pay Dividend? Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) has finally agreed to pay a dividend. No, not the kind of owner dividend that would have Motley Fool Income Investor subscribers donning their | 2 |
EBay Takes Control of Korean Affiliate EBay, the world #39;s largest Internet auction house, increased its stake in Internet Auction, the biggest online auction company in South Korea. | 2 |
UPDATE 3-Continental Air to cut 425 jobs, warns on wages Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to eliminate about 425 management and clerical jobs, and wage cuts may be next if the revenue picture does not improve, the No. | 2 |
Oil price rally takes off again Oil prices have resumed their upward path, lifted by reports of pipeline sabotage in Iraq and fears that Russian firm Yukos may suspend production. | 2 |
Beat the Analysts to Lucent #39;s Tax News It #39;s a sleepy Thursday in the biggest summer vacation week in the year. Almost nobody #39;s around. Anyone who is around is focused on politics and the president #39;s speech tonight. | 2 |
New iMac Could Give Apple a Needed Boost Apple has been gaining share in the higher-margin laptop business, and its iPod franchise is a hit, but the company #39;s worldwide market share in PCs fell from a peak of 9.6 percent in 1991 to 2 percent last year. | 3 |
Norwegian researchers find fossil remains of giant reptiles on <b>...</b> Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster. | 3 |
Open-Davenport extends streak to reach third round Lindsay Davenport extended her unbeaten streak to 19 matches with a 6-4 6-2 second round win over Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja at the US Open on Thursday. | 1 |
UN vote due on Syria resolution The UN Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution calling on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and respect Lebanese sovereignty. | 0 |
Hubble Space Telescope Spies a Bright Supernova Hubble Space Telescope -- The explosion of a massive star blazes with the light of 200 million Suns in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The arrow at top right points to the stellar blast, called a supernova... | 3 |
Microsoft hones SharePoint update The first major revamp of the collaboration package includes overhauled support, search and update features. | 3 |
Nortel delays filing financials again The beleaguered networking gear maker says it won't be able to file earnings on the date it expected. | 3 |
Microsoft Launches Music Store Beta While the debut of the Microsoft music store inevitably conjures up images of Apple and Microsoft going head-to-head for the hearts and wallets of consumers, Microsoft has made it clear that | 2 |
Yukos may cut after \$2.6B funds seized Embattled Russian oil company warns that it may scale back oil output after more funds seized. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian oil major Yukos again warned on Thursday that it may be forced to cut output after | 2 |
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