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EMC nabs former IBM grid guru for CTO position EMC has hired the former chief architect of IBM #39;s grid computing initiative as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Hopkinton, Mass. | 3 |
Morris dominates Dodgers Showing velocity, command and poise reminiscent of his 22-win 2001 season, Matt Morris dominated the Dodgers on Friday night on the way to a 3-0 Cardinals win at Busch Stadium. | 1 |
Yankees Pitcher Breaks Hand Punching Wall NEW YORK Sept. 3, 2004 - Kevin Brown #39;s frustrating season finally reached a boiling point, and now his hot temper could cost the New York Yankees at the most important time. | 1 |
Clive Woodward saw loss of control after World Cup Clive Woodward launched a stinging attack on English rugby union on Friday saying he was quot;losing control quot; the moment he stepped off the plane after winning the 2003 World Cup. | 1 |
Final Score: Tennessee 27, Green Bay 7 Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - Chris Brown rushed for 98 yards on eight carries, leading the Tennessee Titans to a 27-7 romp over the Green Bay Packers in the preseason finale for both teams at the Coliseum. | 1 |
Chen says Taiwan #39; is best name President Chen Shui-bian () on Thursday said the best abbreviated title for the country is Taiwan. quot;A country #39;s abbreviated title is an important, serious matter, quot; said Chen, who | 0 |
Putin visits site of school hostage crisis (AFP) AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin made a pre-dawn visit to pay his respects to the 250 dead and hundreds of wounded from a horrific battle between security forces and heavily-armed militants holding 1,000 hostages at a school. | 0 |
Ukraine Still in Turmoil Despite Concessions KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's outgoing leader made key concessions Tuesday to opponents staging mass protests against a rigged presidential poll, but failed to agree exactly how to end the ex-Soviet state's political turmoil. | 0 |
Red Sox Still Rolling Pedro Martinez pulls Boston within 2 1/2 games of the New York Yankees in the AL East after shutting out Texas 2-0 Friday night. | 1 |
Landmark Victory Roger Clemens gets his 325th win to pass Nolan Ryan and Don Sutton and move into sole possession of 12th place on the career list as the Astros top the Pirates 8-6. | 1 |
Fever Beats Lynx Fever center Kelly Schumacher scores 13 points on 7-of-8 shooting and grabs nine rebounds to help Indiana defeat Minnesota 69-61. | 1 |
Payrolls Resumed Growth In August US job growth revived and the unemployment rate fell last month, the government reported yesterday, providing fresh ammunition for both presidential candidates as they debate | 2 |
Yukos handed \$4.2-bn tax bill MOSCOW: Tax authorities in Russia have handed Yukos, Russia #39;s largest oil producer, a \$4.2-billion tax bill for 2001, higher than the \$3. | 2 |
Continental to Skip Pension Payment Continental Airlines Inc., the fifth-largest US carrier, said it will skip contributions to employee pension plans this year, taking advantage of a law enacted in April to conserve cash. | 2 |
Spoon #39;s summer drought JD WETHERSPOON embarked on a fresh round of price promotions yesterday to win back drinkers after a dismal summer for the pubs chain. | 2 |
Genesis space capsule to return with secrets of solar system In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds quot;a piece of the sun quot; and bring it safely down. | 3 |
Moving Beyond Naming Names The drama of Kobe Bryant and the woman who accused him of rape in a little Colorado mountain town 14 months ago has moved to new terrain. | 1 |
Pedro drives stake into heart of Texas: Ace carries Red Sox to <b>...</b> The arrival of rented yellow trucks in the city and packed minivans heading north over the Sagamore Bridge are a sure sign that Labor Day weekend has arrived in New England. | 1 |
GAME DAY RECAP Friday, September 03 Troy Glaus gave the Anaheim Angels just what they needed to help break a three-game losing streak. Glaus homered for the first time since May 11, and Garret Anderson and Bengie Molina also | 1 |
US finally thaws out: Shakeup nets 3-1 win vs. Slovakia Sometimes, change for change #39;s sake can be a good thing. Team USA proved that last night. After inserting five fresh sets of legs into the lineup because of extremely poor | 1 |
US: Sudan attacks racially based While not directly calling the crisis in Darfur a genocide, the US State Department has said that interviews with Sudanese refugees indicated attacks against the regions #39; black Africans appeared to be racially motivated. | 0 |
Australian defence chief takes home tips from Indian Army AUSTRALIAN CHIEF of Defence Forces Gen Peter Cosgrove took home some tips of the Indian Armys skills in guarding the Line of Control that divides the Indian and Pakistani parts of Jammu and Kashmir and fighting terrorism against heavy odds. | 0 |
Ministers performance to be viewed after every quarter: Aziz ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that the performance of every cabinet member will be viewed after every three months. He was addressing the first informal meeting of the 32-member federal cabinet | 0 |
Keller Plays for U.S. but Not for Club (AP) AP - Kasey Keller plays only in World Cup qualifiers these days. After starting nearly every game for Tottenham Hotspur for two years, he hasn't appeared once this season. Yet, he's been in goal for all three World Cup qualifiers for the United States, which plays El Salvador on Saturday at Foxboro, Mass., then goes to Panama for a Wednesday game in a pair of semifinal-round matchups. | 1 |
NL Wrap: Morris Shuts Out Dodgers as Cards Keep Winning NEW YORK (Reuters) - Matt Morris pitched a two-hit shutout, striking out a season-high 11, as the St Louis Cardinals blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 in a showdown between two division leaders at Busch Stadium on Friday. | 1 |
Bush Vaults From RNC to Campaign Trail (AP) AP - Fired up after his convention, President Bush raced through three states he lost in 2000, on a drive Friday to spur his backers to the polls in November. "It's a time for choosing," Bush said. | 0 |
Kerry's Running Mate Earns #36;39 Million Over Decade (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic vice presidential\candidate John Edwards had income of nearly #36;39 million over\the past decade, and paid more than a third of his earnings in\taxes, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. | 0 |
Russia Seals Off Siege School Region BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered security forces to seal off a southern region amid fears some Chechen hostage-takers may have escaped the storming of a siege school which killed at least 250 people. | 0 |
MARKET WEEK All Eyes on Greenspan and the Jobs Data Mr. Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is scheduled to testify before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday on two sensitive topics: the economy and the federal budget deficit. | 2 |
No Delay in Freddie Pay Order A federal judge refused to delay an order that Freddie Mac release more than \$50 million to former chief executive Leland C. Brendsel. | 2 |
SOLBERG STORMS CLEAR OF RIVALS Subaru #39;s Petter Solberg has extended his lead in the Rally Japan to 46.4 seconds after dominating the action on the second morning. | 1 |
UNITED STATES 3, SLOVAKIA 1 With Hull Out of the Lineup, the US <b>...</b> Brett Hull may be the most accomplished and best-known American player in National Hockey League history, but he was not in the lineup Friday night when the United States | 1 |
Overseas players bolster US team With back-to-back World Cup qualifying games on the line, US team coach Bruce Arena has called in his heavy hitters from overseas. | 1 |
Cricket-Vaughan upbeat about one-day form LONDON (AFP) - England captain Michael Vaughan maintained his latest one-day batting failure was not preying on his mind and insisted he was just an innings away from finding his form. | 1 |
Annan welcomes court decision freeing Anwar NEW YORK : UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday welcomed a Malaysian court decision releasing ex-deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim from prison, and expressed the hope that his health would recover soon. | 0 |
Khokhar in Delhi for new round of dialogue NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar arrived here on Friday to set the stage for the first formal talks on the Kashmir dispute between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan. | 0 |
Katmandu under curfew for 3rd day A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day yesterday, while officials said they were trying to recover the bodies of the slain hostages. | 0 |
President touts #39;Taiwan #39; as best national name President Chen Shui-bian () stated Thursday that quot;Taiwan quot; is the most precise abbreviated designation for the this island country during a one-day state visit to the Central American nation of Belize. | 0 |
Welcome to the Broadband World (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - This is a great time to have broadband. Also: Dual-connect mobile phones, life beyond iPod, multiple music sources, and cheap backup. #149;Welcome to the Broadband World\ #149;Wi-Fi Phones: A Natural Duo\ #149;More Choices in Music Players...\ #149;...And in Music Services\ #149;Time to Back Up | 3 |
Padres Rally to Beat Rockies 7-6 (AP) AP - Phil Nevin hit a three-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning, and the Padres rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 Friday night. | 1 |
Israeli Soldier, Militant Killed in Gaza GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants killed an Israeli soldier and wounded four others in an ambush in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. | 0 |
New Group to Launch Anti-Kerry Ads (AP) AP - Move over, MoveOn.org. The liberal-leaning group that has raised millions of dollars to run negative ads attacking President Bush now has a competitor on the right with a somewhat similar name. | 0 |
Hidden Java Features \\Really cool blog post about hidden Java features. These are little tricks that\you forget about from time to time but that make life more pleasant.\\This is a good one:\\"Instance initializers -- I've been exploiting these lately to abbreviate list\initialization (in unit tests only):\>\List triple = new ArrayList(3) \>\ add("a"); add("b"); add("c"); \>\;"\\I've been using static code blocks but this looks like it might be a better\trick.\\Example:\\"public static List = new ArrayList();\>\static \ list.add( "foo" );\"\\Also this final Closure hack seems pretty cool:\\ | 3 |
NL Wrap: Morris Shuts Out Dodgers as Cards Keep Winning Matt Morris pitched a two-hit shutout, striking out a season-high 11, as the St Louis Cardinals blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 in a showdown between two division leaders at Busch Stadium on Friday. | 1 |
China Criticizes Chen for Remark on Taiwan #39;s Name Recent comments by President Chen Shui-bian on the sensitive issue of Taiwan #39;s name revealed his intention to steer the island toward independence, a Chinese government spokesman said. | 0 |
Italian Finance Minister Tackles Budget (AP) AP - While most of Italy decamped to the beaches and the mountains for their summer break, one man remained holed up crunching numbers in his office in Rome. The task facing Domenico Siniscalco, Italy's new finance minister, is daunting. He will try to win support for an immense round of budget cuts #151; totaling at least #36;29 billion for 2005 #151; to contain Italy's ballooning deficit and cut back its mountainous debt. | 0 |
Russia School Standoff Ends With 250 Dead BESLAN, Russia - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood... | 0 |
Report: More than 200 dead after troops storm school The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over but more than 200 people have died after troops stormed the building. | 0 |
10 years jail for hotel bombing AN Indonesian court has sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail after finding him guilty of involvement in last year #39;s JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta. | 0 |
Wetherspoon ends run of profit rises JD Wetherspoon, the pubs chain renowned for converting banks into boozers throughout the 90s, has posted its first profit decline since it floated 12 years ago, and warned that 2005 will be another quot;difficult year quot;. | 2 |
Sports in Brief Two track world records set Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set world records at the Van Damme Memorial meet yesterday in Brussels, Belgium. | 1 |
Indonesian travel warning renewed Australians have been reminded of the dangers of travelling to Indonesia after US authorities warned their citizens to avoid western hotels because of the risk of terrorist attacks. | 0 |
Bonds Hits Homer 697, Giants Beat D'backs (AP) AP - Barry Bonds hit his 697th homer and drove in three runs, and Edgardo Alfonzo had five hits in the San Francisco Giants' 18-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. | 1 |
Employees Sentenced Over Gas Leak in China (AP) AP - Six gas company employees were sentenced to prison from three to six years Saturday over a gas well leak that killed 243 people in southwestern China, one of the country's worst-ever industrial accidents. | 0 |
Business Briefs Pfizer said it has agreed to pay \$430 million to settle all lawsuits against it alleging injury from insulation products made by a subsidiary. | 2 |
Service that fools Caller ID causes anger It may be known as Caller ID spoofing, but it is evidently no laughing matter. Three days after the startup company Star38 began offering a service that fools Caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business. | 3 |
US, El Salvador meet The next five days present the US men #39;s soccer team a pair of chances to reinforce why it is considered the region #39;s top squad. | 1 |
Red Sox close within 2 games of Yankees with 10th straight win In just 19 days, the Boston Red Sox have cut the New York Yankees #39; 101/2-game AL East lead to 21/2 games. quot;We #39;re just going to take care of what we can take care of, quot; Boston reliever Mike Timlin said after | 1 |
Malaysian Vows to Push Reforms KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 3 -- Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim vowed to push for democratic reforms in Malaysia, including freer news media, fair elections and an independent judiciary, as he | 0 |
India, Pakistan in Talks to Nudge Peace Process India and Pakistan start talks on Saturday looking for ways to nudge forward a peace process that appears to be running into problems over their half-century dispute over the Kashmir region. | 0 |
Red Sox Close Within 2 1/2 Games of Yankees (AP) AP - In just 19 days, the Boston Red Sox have cut the New York Yankees' 10 1/2-game AL East lead to 2 1/2 games. "We're just going to take care of what we can take care of," Boston reliever Mike Timlin said after the Red Sox beat Texas 2-0 on Friday night for their 10th straight victory. "We won today. We're going to win tomorrow." | 1 |
Woods, Palmer Share Lead at Deutsche Bank (AP) AP - Palmer and Woods. How's that for a leaderboard? Too bad it's tour rookie Ryan Palmer #151; not Arnold #151; sharing the lead with Tiger Woods after one round in the Deutsche Bank Championship. The two shot 6-under 65s Friday on the TPC of Boston to take a one-stroke lead over Mark O'Meara and two others. | 1 |
N.Korea Urges UN, Red Cross to Stop Refugee Exodus SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has urged the U.N. refugee agency and the Red Cross to help stop the exodus of its citizens to South Korea after the secret airlift of some 460 North Koreans to Seoul in July, a North Korean newspaper said. | 0 |
Yankees' Brown Breaks Hand Punching Wall (AP) AP - Kevin Brown might have punched himself out of the pennant race, and the New York Yankees are angry about it. Brown broke his non-pitching hand when he punched a wall in the clubhouse Friday night during New York's 3-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. | 1 |
Honda Enhances Speech-Recognition System (AP) AP - 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 eyes off the road to read a computer screen. | 3 |
Update 3: EU Unveils Changes for Budget Rules With half the European Union countries exceeding public deficit limits this year, the EU #39;s head office bowed to reality Friday and proposed to be more flexible in how it enforces the budget rules underpinning the euro. | 2 |
AP: India Exploring Free Trade Deals India wants to explore possible free trade agreements with Japan, China and the United States, as negotiations on such deals with Southeast Asian countries progress, the commerce minister says. | 2 |
World voices shock World leaders expressed horror yesterday over the bloody climax of Russia #39;s hostage crisis yesterday, saying the barbaric attack on school children showed terrorists have sunk to new lows. | 2 |
US Defies WTO Ruling On Duties The United States says it will continue to slap duties on countries it claims dump their goods on the US market, despite a World Trade Organisation ruling Tuesday that authorises seven nations and the European Union (EU) to impose sanctions against | 2 |
Time for Black to resign his peerage To the roll call of corporate scandals in recent years - a list of greed and shame that includes Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and others -he name of newspaper group Hollinger International may soon be added. | 2 |
US Economy Adds 144,000 Jobs in August WASHINGTON Sept. 3, 2004 - America #39;s payrolls picked up in August, with the economy adding 144,000 jobs, slightly less than economists were forecasting and highlighting the slow and uneven recovery in the labor market that jobseekers have braved. | 2 |
News, Reviews, and Help for the MPX200, iPAQ h6315, and SmartPhone <b>...</b> Global mobile phone sales grew by 35 in the second quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year, according to market monitors Gartner. | 3 |
Apple Expo - Attendees Mixed if iMac G5 is The Complete Solution PARIS, FRANCE - Attendees at Apple Expo in Paris are impressed at the look of the new iMac G5, but mixed on whether it #39;s the right solution for their needs. | 3 |
Inspiron owners complain of SP2 slowdown Owners of Dell Inspiron notebooks have reported that Microsoft #39;s Windows Service Pack 2 is cutting their system speeds dramatically -- in some cases by a factor of almost ten, from 2.6GHz to 300MHz. | 3 |
SP2 vs. the plug-ins While security experts applaud Microsoft #39;s recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product #39;s introduction with dread and suspicion. | 3 |
Space telescope spots new supernova The latest image from NASA #39;s Hubble Space Telescope highlights a stellar blast that was first discovered by an amateur astronomer a little more than a month ago. | 3 |
Non-Olympian Shaheen sets a world record Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set a world record in the steeplechase at the Van Damme Memorial meet on Friday. The Kenyan-born runner, kept out of the Athens Olympics by the Kenyan | 1 |
High noon decision for Gerrard Sven-Goran Eriksson will delay any decision about Steven Gerrard #39;s involvement in tomorrow night #39;s World Cup qualifier against Austria until a few hours before the match. | 1 |
Bonds hits No. 697, Giants rout Diamondbacks Barry Bonds is three home runs away from joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in baseball #39;s 700 club. Bonds hit his 697th homer in the San Francisco Giants #39; 18-7 home victory over Arizona on Friday night, a two | 1 |
Wilkinson Backs Woodward to Succeed World Cup-winning fly-half Jonny Wilkinson has no doubt former England coach Sir Clive Woodward will succeed in pursuing a new challenge in football. | 1 |
Yankees: Giambi mum on Pituitary tumor report Jason Giambi declined comment on a report in yesterday #39;s New York Daily News that indicated the Yankees first baseman has been receiving treatment for a benign tumor on his pituitary gland. | 1 |
Russian massacre Commandos stormed a school yesterday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. | 0 |
German literary treasures lost in fire Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire Thursday night at one of Germany #39;s most historic libraries, although thousands more were spirited to safety by a chain of people. | 0 |
Iranian hard-liners praise Palestinian bombers About 50 hard-line Iranians on Thursday placed a gravestone at a Tehran cemetery to commemorate the deaths of two Palestinians who carried out twin suicide bombings that killed 16 Israelis this week, witnesses said. | 0 |
Saudi Militant Killed in Clash Saudi security forces have killed a wanted militant near the scene of a deadly shootout Thursday. Officials say the militant was killed in a gunbattle Friday in the northern town of Buraida, hours after one | 0 |
Musharraf and Aziz finalise strategy for New Delhi talks Ahead of the crucial talks between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf and new Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday jointly finalised the strategy to be adopted at the New Delhi talks, emphasising that progress on all | 0 |
Nepal relaxes unrest curfew Nepal has eased a curfew imposed on the capital to contain widespread rioting sparked by the slaying of 12 Nepalese captives in Iraq. | 0 |
August shows a pickup in hiring US job growth revived last month, the government reported yesterday, as employers added 144,000 jobs to their nonfarm payrolls in August, seasonally adjusted -arely enough | 2 |
ASEAN ministers to talk free trade Southeast Asian economic ministers meet this weekend with counterparts from regional powerhouses China, Japan and South Korea in an effort to liberalize trade and boost business. | 2 |
EU, Japan win WTO approval to impose duties on US The European Union, Japan, Brazil and five other countries won World Trade Organization approval to impose tariffs worth more than \$150 million a year on imports from the United | 2 |
Court denies Tribune media-merger request A federal appeals court on Friday denied a request from Tribune Co., publisher of the Chicago Tribune, to allow mergers between newspapers and broadcast stations in markets with at least nine television stations. | 2 |
Nation/world briefs NEW YORK - The US service sector accelerated its hiring in August, but its growth rate slowed markedly compared with July, according to a report released Friday. | 2 |
When parents are too hands-on The most common back-to-school message from educators and parenting experts is: Get involved with your children, their school, their activities. | 3 |
Vaughan lauds mighty Flintoff Michael Vaughan refused to let his own dismal run with the bat take the sheen off England #39;s emphatic victories in the NatWest Challenge against India. | 1 |
Tennis: Roddick sinks Nadal Defending champion Andy Roddick eases into the third round of the US Open in straight sets. | 0 |
Karzai sworn in as Afghan president (AFP) AFP - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony in the capital Kabul, witnesses said. | 0 |
Frances Poised to Slog Ashore in Florida STUART, Fla. - Hurricane Frances lost some steam and hesitated off the Florida coast Friday, prolonging the anxiety among the millions evacuated and raising fears of a slow, ruinous drenching over the Labor Day weekend... | 0 |
Clinton a Little Scared of Bypass Surgery NEW YORK - Bill Clinton said he was "a little scared, but not much" of undergoing heart bypass surgery, but was looking forward to a swift recovery and resuming normal activities such as jogging. The former president was hospitalized Friday with chest pains and shortness of breath... | 0 |
Bonds Hits No. 697, Giants Rout D'backs (AP) AP - Barry Bonds is three home runs away from joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in baseball's 700 club. Bonds hit his 697th homer in the San Francisco Giants' 18-7 home victory over Arizona on Friday night, a two-run shot off Edgardo Gonzalez (0-8) in the second inning. | 1 |
IDC: External disk storage up Worldwide sales of external disk storage systems hit \$3.5 billion in the second quarter, up 8 percent from the same period a year ago, according to research firm IDC. | 3 |
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