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California Schools Warned of Identity Theft LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California university officials have warned nearly 600,000 students and faculty that they might be exposed to identity theft following incidents where computer hard drives loaded with their private information were lost or hacked into. Since January, at least 580,000 people who had personal information about them stored in university computers received warnings they might be at risk... | 3 |
Acacia Lowers Streaming Video Royalties Demand By JUSTIN POPE (AP) -- A California company that claims it owns the patents for streaming video over computer networks is lowering its royalty demands of the nation's colleges and universities. Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia Media Technologies Corp... | 3 |
Oil Holds Firm as Dealers Digest Iraq World oil prices held firm on Friday after pipeline sabotage in northern Iraq kept up supply fears that have revived a powerful price rally. | 2 |
Stock Futures Whipsaw After Jobs Data US stock futures fell on Friday then quickly rebounded, after a US report showed job growth in August came in slightly below expectations. | 2 |
Coke, EU near antitrust settlement Sources say agreement bars Coca-Cola from manipulating retailers to give its products an edge. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Coca-Cola and the European Commission were poised to settle a long-running antitrust case Friday, people familiar with the situation said. | 2 |
Cell phone sales keep booming Despite a practically saturated Western European market, cell phone sales are still booming worldwide, driven by longtime owners clamoring to update their phones and new buyers wanting to get on the phone-owning ladder, according to a new report. | 3 |
IBM, Intel open up their #39;blades #39; Computer, chip maker will license much of the technology behind their compact servers -- for free. NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. | 3 |
Dyson Masters Swiss Course Englishman Simon Dyson took advantage of the excellent conditions at the stunning Crans-sur-Sierre course in Switzerland to move to the top of the leaderboard on the second morning of the Omega European Masters. | 1 |
A Little Middle East Maneuvering In Downtown Manhattan Lebanon #39;s ambassador to Washington, Farid Abboud, who traveled to New York to observe part of the Republican National Convention, was on double duty this week in the back halls of the United Nations. | 0 |
Judge appoints lawyers to defend Milosevic, over his objections Overriding the defendant #39;s objections, the UN war crimes tribunal appointed two lawyers to represent Slobodan Milosevic yesterday, hoping | 0 |
Released Indian hostages return back home After living under fear of death for 42 days, three Indian truck drivers released by their Iraqi captors today returned home to an emotional welcome by their families here. | 0 |
Stocks Set for Lower Open After Jobs Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set to open lower on Friday, after August payroll data came in slightly below expectations. | 2 |
Pfizer to Take \$369 Mln Asbestos Charge NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PFE.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PFE.N</A> on Friday said it would take a third-quarter pretax charge of \$369 million for a settlement with plaintiffs who allege they were harmed by products containing asbestos and other minerals once sold by a Pfizer subsidiary. | 2 |
Bloody Shootout Ends Russian School Siege BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian troops stormed a school Friday in a chaotic battle to free hundreds of parents, teachers and children who had been held hostage for two days by Chechen separatists. | 0 |
Treasuries Slip on Payroll Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped on Friday as the long-awaited August jobs report showed enough of a rise to cement market expectations for further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. | 2 |
Dollar Rallies on Jobs Numbers NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rallied across the board early on Friday, after a widely anticipated U.S. payrolls report came in nearly in line with expectations, something of a relief to a market fearing another bad number. | 2 |
Cal Reaches New Five-Year Agreement With Jeff Tedford BERKELEY, CA - In recognition of an historic season and the remarkable turnaround of the school #39;s football program, the University of California has reached a new five-year agreement with Head Coach Jeff Tedford through the 2009 season, Athletic Director | 1 |
U.S. Economy Added 144,000 Jobs in August The unemployment rate for August fell to 5.4 percent from 5.5 percent, the lowest since October 2001, the government reported today. | 2 |
Global mobile handset sales up 35 in second quarter Worldwide mobile phone sales surpassed 156.4m units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 per cent increase on the second quarter of 2003, according to market research group Gartner, Inc. | 3 |
Total recall for IBM ThinkPad adapters IBM has recalled 553,000 ThinkPad AC power adapters after receiving reports that some have overheated, melting the adapter housing and charring the circuit board inside. | 3 |
IBM and Intel go public with design specs of the BladeCenter <b>...</b> IBM and Intel have announced that they are to open up the design specifications of their BladeCenter platform. The partners say that the publishing of the specs is intended to enable third parties to design and build compatible kit and grow the market. | 3 |
Red Hat changes accounting procedures Red Hat has announced it is changing the way it books support subscription revenue, based on a recommendation from its auditors. The accounting changes prompted the Linux supplier to correct and restate its | 3 |
Owls use dung to quot;fish quot; for beetles A clever species of owl, baits its lair with dung to attract tasty beetles. The burrowing owl has long been known for its preference for dung beetles; the insect accounts for nearly two-thirds of the bird #39;s diet. | 3 |
Tennis: Venus Williams, Henin-Hardenne, Davenport advance at US <b>...</b> NEW YORK : Four-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams, the 2000 and 2001 champion, overcame four double faults and 25 unforced errors to defeat Shikha Uberoi 7-5, 6-1 in the second round of the US Open. | 1 |
49ers #39; top draft pick catches on He promptly caught what appeared to be a 27-yard touchdown pass from Ken Dorsey, but the play was nullified by a penalty. On the next play, he made his first catch as a pro, an | 1 |
Beirut rejects UN resolution ahead of Lahoud vote BEIRUT : Beirut rejected a UN Security Council resolution calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon, as lawmakers prepared to vote to change the constitution to allow pro-Damascus president Emile Lahoud to serve another term. | 0 |
The Stealth Toy Giant Quick -- what #39;s the world #39;s largest toy distributor? Nope, it #39;s not Toys quot;R quot; Us (NYSE: TOY). (Toys quot;R quot; Us, while indeed a large toy vendor, is actually exiting the toy business to a large degree, opting to | 2 |
Keeping how the net works open to all Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and | 3 |
Pre-Lucy creature walked upright WASHINGTON - A human ancestor the size of a chimp walked upright six million years ago - about three million years earlier than Lucy, the famous bipedal hominid, researchers say. | 3 |
Redden injury has Gretzky worried #39; Wayne Gretzky will nervously watch Canada #39;s game against Russia tomorrow night and, after seeing two defencemen go down in two games, is hoping he doesn #39;t lose another blueliner. | 1 |
UN Security Council Tries to Stop Syrian Meddling in Lebanon The United Nations Security Council approved a rare resolution against an Arab state -- without naming names -- late Thursday. The resolution is intended to stop Syrian meddling in Lebanese politics and affairs. | 0 |
Job Picture Brightens with August Hiring (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. job market brightened in\August as employers added 144,000 workers to their payrolls and\hiring totals for the two prior months were revised up, the\Labor Department reported on Friday. | 2 |
Oil Firm as Dealers Digest Iraq Sabotage (Reuters) Reuters - World oil prices held firm on Friday\after pipeline sabotage in northern Iraq kept up supply fears\that have revived a powerful price rally. | 2 |
Pistons miss Wallace, but in good shape The conventional wisdom dictates that repeating as NBA champs is an extremely difficult undertaking. And so it is. However, in the past seventeen seasons, only one NBA titlist did NOT accomplish consecutive | 1 |
IBM Recalls Notebook Power Cords (PC World) PC World - Certain ThinkPad power adapters pose a fire danger, company warns. | 3 |
Job Picture Brightens with August Hiring WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. job market brightened modestly in August as employers added 144,000 workers to their payrolls and hiring totals for the two prior months were revised up, the Labor Department reported on Friday. | 2 |
Bernie #39;s Brit GP #39;deadline The owner of British grand prix track Silverstone has forty eight hours to save the historic race, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone declared Monday. | 1 |
Russian Forces Storm School; 7 Killed BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by rebels strapped with explosives. Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said... | 0 |
Florida Braces for Monster Storm MELBOURNE, Fla. - Bracing for a monstrous storm, residents and tourists clogged shelters or made last-minute preparations Friday as Hurricane Frances churned toward the Atlantic coast, where the state's second pummeling in three weeks could begin as soon as Saturday... | 0 |
Intel rolls back outlook; widespread weakness feared No. 1 chipmaker Intel (INTC) on Thursday dramatically lowered its revenue estimates for the current quarter, a sign that the tech industry #39;s rebound may be slowing. | 2 |
Hollinger Paid For Lord Black #39;s Costly Hubris press baron, financier, philanthropist, member of the global elite. But as we learned this week from a Hollinger International investigative | 2 |
Analysts mull production cuts, disappointing sales SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Shares of leading automakers closed on a positive note Thursday, one day after General Motors and Ford Motor posted soggy sales results for August and announced plans to scale back production. | 2 |
Update 1: ASEAN Economic Ministers Work on Community Economic ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Friday to liberalize 10 sectors as a first step toward the creation by 2020 of a regional economic community akin to the European Union. | 2 |
Job Picture Brightens, More Aug Hiring The US job market brightened modestly in August as employers added 144,000 workers to payrolls and weak hiring tallies for the two prior months were revised up, the Labor Department said on Friday. | 2 |
Progress in US Airways Talks Negotiations between US Airways #39; (UAIR:Nasdaq - news - research) management and pilots continued to show progress, with the pilots union expected to give the company another proposal Friday afternoon. | 2 |
Hutchison arm rules out dividends Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL), a telecom arm of Li Ka-shing-controlled Hutchison Whampoa seeking a listing in Hong Kong and New York, said it has no plan to pay dividends as it has racked up HK\$5. | 2 |
US textile industry leans on White House WASHINGTON Leaders of the US textile industry plan to petition the US government this month to block the flood of Chinese imports that is expected next year after global quotas on textiles and apparel are lifted. | 2 |
Microsoft: Linux may mean price cuts, fewer sales Microsoft has filed a report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission warning that 2005 could be challenging, as Linux continues to steal business and PC sales remain sluggish. | 2 |
IPO will be golden for farmers Chicken cooperative Gold Kist Inc. appears only days away from hatching into a public company -- a move intended to put more cash in the hands of farmers and increase Gold Kist #39;s own ability to raise money. | 2 |
Sony #39;s Cheap Trick It #39;s no secret that rivalry in consumer electronics is heating up, and today the Associated Press reported that Japan #39;s Sony (NYSE: SNE) is quot;more aggressively quot; pursuing | 2 |
Worldwide mobile phone market posts healthy gains Worldwide mobile phone sales exceeded 156.4 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 percent increase over the second quarter of 2003, according to a report released this week by Gartner Inc. | 3 |
IBM recalls 225,000 ThinkPad power adapters due to fire hazard SEPTEMBER 03, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - IBM is recalling about 225,000 AC power adapters for its laptop computers due to concerns about possible fire and electrical shock hazards. | 3 |
Rocky Road: Planet hunting gets closer to Earth Astronomers have discovered the three lightest planets known outside the solar system, moving researchers closer to the goal of finding extrasolar planets that resemble Earth. | 3 |
IBM, Honda deliver in-car speech-recognition navigation system SEPTEMBER 03, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - IBM and Honda this week announced that they have jointly developed a hands-free and natural-sounding in-vehicle speech-recognition system. | 3 |
IBM Hits New Low In Storage IBM is hitting an all-time low -- for itself, that is -- in the storage market with a new series of entry-level arrays. The new arrays, including its first iSCSI array and an entry-level Fibre Channel model | 3 |
HP bags orders from 7-Eleven, Publix Hewlett-Packard said Friday that it has won a \$55 million, five-year contract from retailer 7-Eleven to upgrade the technology at the convenience store chain. | 3 |
#39;We started to walk six million years ago #39; WASHINGTON: Based on recent fossil evidences, American scientists have claimed that a chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs in Kenya #39;s Tugen Hills over six million years ago, nearly three million years earlier than currently believed. | 3 |
Hurricane Frances could destroy space shuttles Hurricane Frances, predicted to hit land 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of NASA #39;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, could cause catastrophic damage to the space shuttles and spacecraft stored there, meteorologists predict. | 3 |
Apache Project Rejects Sender ID September 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Apache Project (apache.org) has rejected the Sender ID proposal for email user authentication because of the incompatibilities between Microsoft #39;s (microsoft. | 3 |
EMC taps longtime IBM veteran Jeffrey Nick for CTO position SEPTEMBER 03, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Storage vendor EMC Corp. today named Jeffrey Nick as its chief technology officer. Nick is an IBM veteran who helped design the company #39;s on-demand computing initiative and led its grid computing strategy. | 3 |
Astronauts Prepare For Final Space Walk Space station astronauts Gennady Padalka and American Mike Fincke are scheduled to make the final spacewalks of their mission today. | 3 |
Google May Face Another Lawsuit A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a trademark infringement suit filed by the Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) against Internet search giants Google and Overture Services can proceed. | 3 |
Hard drive with 23,000 Social Security numbers disappears SEPTEMBER 03, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The disappearance of a laptop hard drive in the California State University (CSU) system has triggered a year-old state law requiring anyone whose personal information might have been stolen to be notified. | 3 |
Workers Think Positive, Negative About IM com. Eleven million Americans use instant messaging at work, a survey released Thursday said, but some at-work IMers would like nothing better than to toss the technology. | 3 |
Demand for chips remains strong, says China #39;s SMIC Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) is expanding production capacity at its chip fabrication plants (fabs) in an effort to keep pace with growing semiconductor demand, the company #39;s chief operating officer (COO) said Friday. | 3 |
Expert: Writing Best for Contacting Aliens Sept. 3, 2004 - Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact aliens, US scientists say. So instead of phoning home, it could have been more energy efficient if ET had inscribed information | 3 |
Lights, Camera, ACTION...NO it #39;s Not Sven #39;s Private Life As Sven-Goran Eriksson appeared in Viennas Intercontinental Hotel, dozens of camera flashes went off and one caused the Swede a slight moment of surprised discomfort | 1 |
Ferrari #39;s high-tech tune-up Driving a race car takes more than good hand-eye coordination and the stomach for G-forces. It also takes a truckload of high-tech gear. | 1 |
Solberg takes the lead on Day One Petter Solberg was here not just to compete but also to discover the beauty of the terrain. At least this is what he said on Thursday. | 1 |
Open-Hewitt hits top gear, Mauresmo storms on Former champion Lleyton Hewitt bristled, battled and eventually blossomed as he took another step towards a second US Open title with a second-round victory over Moroccan Hicham Arazi on Friday. | 1 |
Russia dominant in win over US A supposedly disorganized and uninspired Russian team that arrived for the World Cup of Hockey without some of its top stars suddenly looks like a contender. | 1 |
Graves activated; Padilla claimed off waivers Graves, a right-hander, was out with back spasms. He leads the Reds with 37 saves. Matthews, a left-hander, had surgery in July to remove bone chips in his elbow. | 1 |
Flintoff, Collingwood lead England to win Andrew Flintoff hit a typically brutal 99 and took the final wicket Friday as England cruised to a comfortable, series-clinching victory over India in the second one-day cricket international at the Oval. | 1 |
Liverpool showdown looming for Wayne WAYNE Rooney will have a scan today which will determine whether he makes his Manchester United debut against Liverpool on September 20. | 1 |
St. Louis Cardinals Team Report - September 3 (Sports Network) - A possible National League Division Series preview will take center stage this evening in St. Louis, as the MLB-best Cardinals host the Los Angeles Dodgers for the opener of a their three-game set at Busch Stadium. | 1 |
Intel Cuts Back Projection For 3rd-Quarter Revenue Intel Corp. lowered its revenue projections for its third quarter yesterday, citing slow consumer purchases across the globe. The world #39;s largest chipmaker reported that it expects revenue for the three-month period ending Sept. | 2 |
Higher wood prices welcome Frances NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Though Hurricane Frances is still days away from potential landfall in the southeastern United States, those without window shutters are busy boarding up their houses with plywood -- if they can find any. | 2 |
Apparel makers, retailers question textile quota focus Conspicuous by their silence, US retailers and apparel makers are waiting on the sidelines while domestic textile companies take what may be their last stabs at preserving limits on imports of garments made in China. | 2 |
Microsoft: Linux is a threat, it may mean prices cuts and less <b>...</b> Microsoft has filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - and it looks like the Redmond giant could be in for a lean year ahead, even going as far as to hint that Linux and other open-source rivals might be to blame. | 2 |
Sony to Boost Sales at US Discount Retailers Japan #39;s Sony Corp. said on Friday it was in talks to sell more electronics goods in North America through discount retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | 2 |
Seoul, Others Should Send Clear Message on Nukes -US The White House said on Friday that South Korea and other nations should send a quot;clear message quot; to North Korea of their commitment to a nuclear-free peninsula after Seoul admitted government scientists had enriched uranium to nearly | 0 |
Annan welcomes release of Anwar Ibrahim from Malaysian jail 3 September 2004 - Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the decision of a Malaysian court to overturn the sodomy conviction of the country #39;s former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and release him from jail. | 0 |
Iraqi Sunni Leaders Aim to Build on Shia Peace Gains It has been a week since a peace deal was struck in the Iraqi city of Najaf, bringing an end to three weeks of fighting and opening the predominantly Shia city up to millions of dollars in reconstruction aid. | 0 |
Thatcher Posts Bail to End S.Africa House Arrest Mark Thatcher, arrested in South Africa last week on suspicion of financing an attempted coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was released from house arrest Friday after posting 2 million rand bail. | 0 |
Pakistan foreign secretary arrives for talks Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar arrived in New Delhi on Friday night to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Shyam Saran. | 0 |
IBM Launches Low-Cost Storage Server IBM (Quote, Chart) moved to undercut its rivals Friday by offering an entry-level storage server for about a third less than the street cost of EMC #39;s (Quote, Chart) and HP #39;s comparable products. | 3 |
Honda, IBM enhance in-vehicle, speech-recognition system Honda Motor Co., with help from partner IBM Corp., is preparing to introduce an improved speech-recognition system that will allow drivers to get voice navigation guidance without having to manually punch in any information or take their | 3 |
EMC taps IBM veteran for CTO job EMC Corp. announced Friday the appointment of former IBM fellow Jeffrey Nick to the position of senior vice president and chief technology officer. | 3 |
Astronauts Float Outside for Bit of Spacewalk Maintenance Two astronauts are floating outside the international space station on their fourth and final spacewalk. The American and Russian team is ending the 6-month mission with some installation and repair projects. | 3 |
Can Microsoft Change Its DNA? Microsoft is in a throw-it-off-the-train state of mind these days in regard to its Windows operating system features. It #39;s announced that Longhorn will ship by 2006 -- but without its much-ballyhooed WinFS subsystem. | 3 |
SHAHEEN LOWERS WORLD RECORD Kenyan-born Saif Saaeed Shaheen - now representing Qatar - smashed the world 3,000 metres steeplechase record in Friday night #39;s IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels. | 1 |
United Reach Rooney Agreement Manchester United have announced they have reached an quot;outline agreement quot; for the transfer of Wayne Rooney from Everton. | 1 |
Syria under Security Council Scrutiny ... A Gift from Syria to <b>...</b> Syria has turned herself into cannon fodder in the campaigns directed against her during the American presidential election battle-a result of her miscalculations in the Lebanese presidential elections. | 0 |
PM: No meddling in Anwars hearing Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said there will be no political interference in a Federal Court ruling today (Thursday) on whether to free former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, when it decides on his final | 0 |
Japanese PM revives dispute over islands Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan #39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail | 0 |
The Week #39;s Business: Putting Black behind bars or recovering money <b>...</b> Even in the context of current outrage against corporate malfeasance, the tone of a report released this week detailing financial self-dealing by Conrad Black and his top lieutenant at Hollinger International Inc. | 2 |
Space Station Crew Conducts Final Spacewalk of Mission The crew of the International Space Station is conducting the fourth and final spacewalk of its six-month mission Friday to install and replace equipment. | 3 |
Thousands of irreplaceable books feared lost in German library <b>...</b> WEIMAR, Germany German officials are trying to determine exactly what was lost in a blaze at a library housing some the country #39;s most prized books. | 0 |
Mauresmo, Sugiyama reach Open #39;s fourth round; Massu fined Amelie Mauresmo played much more like someone serious about winning her first Grand Slam title and reaching No. 1. Showing little of the rust or fatigue displayed in her previous match, the second-seeded Mauresmo easily beat No. | 1 |
Czech Republic Crushes Germany in World Cup Hockey The Czech Republic #39;s vaunted offense finally roared to life, erupting for five unanswered goals in the second period on the way to a 7-2 thrashing of Germany at the World Cup Friday. | 1 |
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