text string | label int64 |
|---|---|
Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop keeleysam writes quot;cnet news.com is reporting that Alienware is going to ship a 4GHz desktop. The new Area-51 ALX, introduced on Friday, uses overclocking, or the practice of pushing a processor past its factory | 3 |
Williams defies the doctors Serena Williams muscled her way past Switzerland #39;s Patty Schnyder at the US Open. Picture:Reuters. Serena Williams revealed she had defied the advice of three doctors in order to play in the | 1 |
Singh keeps his lead in Boston The Deutsche Bank Championship got a dream match-up for the final round when Vijay Singh shot a 3-under 68 on Sunday to move to 14 under, three strokes ahead of Tiger Woods. | 1 |
A Sunni commission issues a Fatwa to release French journalists A-Arshiad and Dawa ( Guidance and call) commission has issued a Fatwa demanding the kidnappers of the French journalists be released immediately and not to be harmed. | 0 |
Rumor mill takes toll on Hong Kong Democrats HONG KONG As the legislative election campaign entered its final week Monday, a series of sex and financial controversies involving democracy advocates was making it look less and less likely that Democrats could win a majority. | 0 |
Italian Tower Ready for Space Station (AP) AP - A watchtower built for the International Space Station was turned over to the European Space Agency on Monday, the Italian aerospace company Alenia said. | 3 |
Kerry on Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic presidential nominee\John Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq "the wrong war\in the wrong place at the wrong time" and said his goal was to\withdraw U.S. troops in his first White House term. | 0 |
UPDATE: Lenovo In Talks With Major IT Company -2- HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), China #39;s largest computer company, confirmed it is in acquisition talks with a major international information technology company. | 2 |
Pakistan, India to cooperate in energy exploration Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said Monday India and Pakistan have decided to cooperate in exploring different energy sources in the South Asian region. | 2 |
Anaheim Angels Team Report - September 6 (Sports Network) - Anaheim registered a narrow 2-1 win over the Cleveland Indians at Jacobs Field Sunday night. John Lackey pitched 7 1/3 solid innings to lead the Angels to the victory. | 1 |
Indonesian court rejects Ba #39;ashir pre-trial demand An Indonesia court on Monday rejected a pre-trial demand of the Muslim militant preacher Abu Bakar Ba #39;ashyir #39;s against the police, paving the way for his trial of his implications in the Marriot hotel and other bombings. | 0 |
Update 2: Alitalia #39;s Future at Stake in Union Talk The future of Alitalia is at stake as the Italian flagship carrier meets with unions Monday to reveal the number of planned job cuts as part of a restructuring plan aimed at averting collapse. | 2 |
CBA seeks stake in Chinese bank AFTER more than two years of seeking opportunities in China, the Commonwealth Bank has reached an in-principle agreement to buy a stake in a third-tier bank, Jinan City Commercial Bank (JNCCB). | 2 |
Turkey #39;s EU bid nearing moment of truth, enlargement chief says The moment of truth was approaching for Turkey #39;s bid to join the European Union, EU enlargement chief Guenter Verheugen said Monday, as European leaders prepare to decide whether to open membership talks with the mainly Muslim country. | 2 |
iMac G5 goes after the iPod set APPLE Computer #39;s new iMac G5 Macintosh may be the first desktop computer that doesn #39;t need a desktop: you can hang the thing on a wall and operate it using wireless keyboard and mouse. | 3 |
Tiger #39;s ranking on line THE tournament result is almost a sideshow as Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh slug it out for the world #39;s No.1 ranking in the final round of the \$US5million (\$7. | 1 |
Reliving the samba dream In football, as in life, the past is always so much more rosy than the present. More than eleven years ago, Germany beat Brazil 2-1 in Cologne. | 1 |
PM appreciates India, Pak. are committed to dialogue New Delhi, Sept. 6 (PTI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, today appreciated that both New Delhi and Islamabad were committed to the dialogue process as Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, called on him here. | 0 |
Darfur Talks Stall Over Disarmament African Union-sponsored talks on the conflict in Sudan #39;s western Darfur region have stalled over the crucial issue of disarmament. | 0 |
Vote keeps Lebanon on road to Damascus INNER Beirut was swamped by soldiers and riot police at the weekend as the Lebanese parliament convened to extend the term of President Emile Lahoud, reappointing the Syrian-backed former soldier for three more years. | 0 |
Macrovision updates software-packaging app Macrovision this week is upgrading its AdminStudio software-packaging application, which the company acquired when it bought InstallShield in July. | 3 |
Accoona Launches, But Isn't Ready for Prime Time New search engine Accoona launched with great fanfare last night, but hold the applause. It's a promising start, but testing shows Accoona isn't yet ready to play ball in the big leagues. | 3 |
Cazenove Gets Serious with Suitors LONDON (Reuters) - Cazenove is getting serious over its courtship by at least two U.S. investment banks, and the 180-year old UK brokerage could tie the knot with a suitor in a matter of weeks, sources close to the situation said on Monday. | 2 |
Credit Suisse to Integrate Units ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse will fully integrate its investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its flagship private bank, the Swiss banking giant said on Tuesday, as it set ambitious earnings targets for 2007. | 2 |
Even in an Age of Terrorism, Towers Are Sheathed in Glass Defying concerns that post-9/11 construction would be dominated by concrete bunkers, the designers of new buildings in New York are turning to glass facades. | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Threatens Barbados BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Hurricane Ivan churned through the Caribbean on Monday, packing sustained winds of 125 mph and threatening to hit Barbados and other islands, after it strengthened from tropical storm status with unusual speed. The Category 3 storm - the fourth major hurricane of the season - was still gaining strength, but apparently not as swiftly as some meteorologists had feared... | 0 |
India, Pakistan Plan to Continue Peace Talks The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers ended two days of peace talks Monday with promises of more negotiations on trust-building measures but no sign of progress toward resolving their pivotal dispute over Kashmir region. | 0 |
API deal lifts retail presence AUSTRALIAN Pharmaceutical Industries has acquired New Price Retail in an attempt to bolster its retail presence amid growing competition from Woolworths and Coles. | 2 |
Wal-Mart Sees Sept. Sales Up 2-4 Pct Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the No. 1 retailer, on Monday said September sales at US stores open at least a year were tracking in line with its forecast for a 2 percent to 4 percent increase | 2 |
Italian Tower Ready for Space Station ROME - A watchtower built for the International Space Station (news - web sites) was turned over to the European Space Agency on Monday, the Italian aerospace company Alenia said. | 3 |
Beckham injury concern for Poland Captain David Beckham emerged as England #39;s main injury concern ahead of Wednesday #39;s World Cup qualifier against Poland. Beckham was forced to leave training here early Monday after picking up a rib injury in Saturday #39;s 2-2 draw against Austria. | 1 |
Boston Red Sox Team Report - September 6 (Sports Network) - Two of the top teams in the American League tangle in a possible American League Division Series preview tonight, as the West-leading Oakland Athletics host the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox for the first of a three-game set at the | 1 |
Brits turning into computer buffs More than three-quarters of adults in the UK use computers at home or at work, a survey has shown. | 3 |
France Faces EU Fight Over Tax Rates European Union officials Monday rejected a French proposal to cut funding to poor nations in Eastern Europe with low tax rates that tempt investment away from their richer western neighbors. | 2 |
Libya changes to bidding to woo investment for sanctions-hit oil <b>...</b> TRIPOLI : Libya set out the contractual framework and tendering terms for oil exploration rights to 15 blocs around the vast desert country as it switches to a transparent bidding process to woo foreign investment for its sanctions-ravaged industry. | 2 |
Serena Pastes Schnyder, Capriati Next at US Open Serena Williams, hoping her surgically-repaired knee holds out in her quest to capture a third US Open title, pounded No. 15 seed Patty Schnyder in straight sets Sunday to advance into the quarterfinals for a match-up with countrywoman Jennifer Capriati. | 1 |
Souness leaves Blackburn Graeme Souness was appointed as the new manager of English Premier League club Newcastle United yesterday after his shock resignation from Blackburn Rovers. | 1 |
England need to get real England #39;s opening World Cup draw with Austria has posed a whole host of questions about coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and captain David Beckham - and they had better find some fast answers in Katowice on Wednesday. | 1 |
Sanchez seeks NI boost Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez says his players are determined not to be the also-rans of Group Six. Northern Ireland take on Wales in Cardiff on Wednesday reeling from a 3-0 defeat at home to Poland in the opening World Cup qualifier. | 1 |
Tests Show Forces Did Not Nab Saddam #39;s Right Hand Man (Baghdad-WABC, September 6, 2004 ) - It could have all been a case of mistaken identity in Iraq. Sunday, Iraqi officials thought they #39;d nabbed Saddam Hussein #39;s former right-hand man in a shoot-out north of Baghdad. | 0 |
Alitalia plan to avoid bankruptcy The management of Alitalia is today due to present to its unions a rescue plan which holds the key to whether the state-controlled airline receives a government-guaranteed loan to avoid bankruptcy. | 2 |
Deadly day in Iraq Suicide bomber attacks American and Iraqi <b>...</b> Seven US Marines and 3 Iraqi National guard soldiers have died in a car bomb attack in Iraq. The dead were riding in two military Humvee vehicles on the outskirts of Fallujah when the massive bomb was detonated. | 0 |
Go-ahead for Thatcher questioning South Africa has approved a request by Equatorial Guinea to put questions to Mark Thatcher, arrested last month in Cape Town on suspicion of financing a coup plot in the oil-rich country. | 0 |
Editor of Russia #39;s Izvestia forced to step down The editor of Russia #39;s respected Izvestia daily said Monday he was stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper #39;s critical coverage of the school hostage standoff | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Threatens Barbados, East Caribbean (Reuters) Reuters - Powerful Hurricane Ivan, the latest in a\busy storm season, rushed over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday and\threatened the eastern Caribbean Windward Islands. | 3 |
Hurricane Ivan Threatens Barbados, East Caribbean MIAMI (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Ivan, the latest in a busy storm season, rushed over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday and threatened the eastern Caribbean Windward Islands. | 0 |
Alienware #39;s 4GHz Pentium I love overclockers - I don #39;t know if it #39;s the nerves of steel needed to run components so far beyond their factory specifications that they need to be refrigerated, or the glowing water cooling pipes they use, or it might even be the UV lamps and dodgy | 3 |
Injured Beckham cuts short training England captain David Beckham was forced to leave training early after failing to shake off a rib injury just two days before he is due to face Poland in a World Cup qualifier. | 1 |
After spitting ban, injury keeps Totti off Italy #39;s team Italian fans will have to wait at least another month before they see Francesco Totti suit up for the national team. The star playmaker injured his right ankle in a preseason game for AS Roma and did not depart | 1 |
Iraqi Ministry: Tests Show Captive Is Not Al-Douri 6 September 2004 -- Iraq says that medical tests conducted on a arrested man have proven he is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former Iraqi government official still at large. | 0 |
India, Pak agree on CBMs, differ on J amp;K New Delhi: Making quot;progress quot; on the composite dialogue process, India and Pakistan agreed on a series of military and other confidence building measures (CBMs) to improve relations but sharply differed on Jammu and Kashmir issue and cross-border terrorism | 0 |
#39;Ransom demand #39; on French hostages An Iraqi group reportedly holding two French journalists has demanded a \$5 million ransom - to be paid within 48 hours. The statement was posted on a website and suggested Journalists Christian Chesnot and | 0 |
ASEAN, Australia, N.Zealand See 2007 Deal Southeast Asian nations, Australia and New Zealand hope to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) by 2007 after beginning formal negotiations next year, government ministers said on Sunday. | 0 |
Credit Suisse to Integrate Units (Reuters) Reuters - Credit Suisse will fully integrate its\investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its flagship\private bank, the Swiss banking giant said on Tuesday, as it\set ambitious earnings targets for 2007. | 2 |
Back-To-School Now Includes Electronics (AP) AP - For back-to-school shoppers, a new alphabet reigns, and it starts with E for electronics. With camera cell phones and the Apple iPod music player topping student wish lists, some of the hottest gadgets have little to do with pen or paper, much less studying. | 3 |
Powerful Typhoon Hits Southern Japan (AP) AP - A powerful typhoon in southern Japan caused landslides and floods, left tens of thousands without power, and injured at least 23 people Monday. In the western part of the country, strong aftershocks rattled a region hours after two earthquakes injured 43. | 0 |
Former Sun, BEA executives forge grid venture Former executives from companies including Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and Oracle are launching a venture called Cassatt, which looks to automate IT operations, leverage commodity hardware and software and govern network compute cycles in a gridlike manner. | 3 |
UK watchdog sets out VoIP policy The regulator for the UKs communications industries today set out details of its approach to new voice services such as Internet Telephony. | 3 |
Stripped down Longhorn still offers gems SEPTEMBER 06, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Even though Microsoft Corp. #39;s much-anticipated Longhorn has been stripped of its unified file system and some of its other key Longhorn technologies will be available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the next | 3 |
Microsoft sales down MICROSOFT #39;S fiscal 2005 sales will be unable to keep up with the gains of earlier years, even if technology spending continues to improve, the company said in a US regulatory filing last week. | 3 |
Maradona held in clinic since May BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Former soccer great Diego Maradona can leave an Argentine psychiatric clinic where he was being held against his will for drug addiction, a judge ruled on Monday. | 1 |
Public must 'help direct science' The public needs to have greater say in scientific decision-making, the British Association leader says. | 3 |
Broadband to boom in new EU countries Despite their current low rates of broadband penetration, the ten new countries that joined the EU in May are poised for rapid growth in high-speed internet use, thanks | 3 |
Women looking over glass cliffs UK businesswomen are breaking through the 'glass ceiling' to get on the board but then find themselves given impossible tasks, a leading psychologist claims. | 3 |
Israeli spy satellite destroyed Israel's latest and most advanced spy satellite - Ofeq 6 - has been destroyed during launch. | 3 |
Hutch Plots \$1.5B IPO Hong Kongs Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (Hong Kong: 0013 - message board) could raise up to \$1.5 billion from an IPO of mobile and fixed-line assets in India, Hong Kong, Israel, and other markets before the end | 2 |
Many Users Are Unfazed by Scaled-Back Longhorn Plan SEPTEMBER 06, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The next major Windows release, code-named Longhorn, is due to arrive so far into the future that many corporate users aren #39;t particularly bothered by Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Internet2 sets new data speed record Scientists at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2IO have successfully tested a new internet2 land-speed record. | 3 |
F5, Redline Expand Technology for Speeding App Performance SEPTEMBER 06, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - F5 Networks Inc. plans to announce an upgrade of its application traffic management software tomorrow, the same day that rival Redline Networks Inc. | 3 |
Graeme Souness is Quitting English Premiership #39;s Blackburn Rovers Scottish football (soccer) coach Graeme Souness is quitting the English Premiership #39;s Blackburn Rovers to become the manager of the Newcastle United squad. | 1 |
Former great Maradona cleared to continue rehab CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Soccer legend Diego Maradona will return to Cuba to continue his drug rehabilitation with the permission of a federal judge. | 1 |
Hampton Misses Start With Stiff Neck (AP) AP - Braves left-hander Mike Hampton missed his scheduled start Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies because of a stiff neck. | 1 |
Celtel predicts African boom (FT.com) FT.com - Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone operator with a strong presence in sub-Saharan Africa, has reported a near 50 per cent rise in revenues as it benefits from rising mobile phone penetration across the region. | 3 |
Inoculation Teams Deploy in Nigeria (AP) AP - Health workers met scattered refusals from parents Monday as medical teams deployed door-to-door in this largely Muslim Nigerian state, rushing to inoculate 3.8 children against polio after Muslim leaders lifted their boycott of the vaccine. | 3 |
Andrew Smith resigns from Cabinet Work and Pensions Secretary Andrew Smith has resigned from the Cabinet, says Downing Street. | 0 |
UK needs 'marine reserve network' The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution says 30 of UK waters should be closed to commercial fishing. | 3 |
IBM Rolls Out Arrays, Tries Again on iSCSI SEPTEMBER 06, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - IBM announced a pair of entry-level workgroup disk arrays last week, including a scaled-down reincarnation of an iSCSI-based device that the company dropped two years ago. | 3 |
Grief, anger grip Russian hearts BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect today as Russia began official mourning for the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school. | 0 |
Israel, Russia to fight terror jointly Jerusalem, Sep 6 (PTI) Israel and Russia today signed an agreement to fight terrorism and agreed to explore every possible means to step up intelligence gathering to root out the quot;global scourge. | 0 |
Domestic nickel demand rises on lowar prices China #39;s nickel demand is rising on reduced prices and increased purchases from stainless steel and plating plants that are running at higher rates, Shenzhen Daily reported Monday. | 2 |
Croom, fans savor historic moment When Sylvester Croom met with 500 members of the Mississippi State Quarterback Club at the Starkville Country Club recently, he read a poem entitled: quot;What is a Coach? | 1 |
Bomber kills seven US marines A massive suicide car bomb blast on the outskirts of of the Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven US marines in the deadliest attack on Americans since May. | 0 |
Ravens Waive Morrow, Cut Eight Players (AP) AP - The Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of special teams standout Harold Morrow and cut eight players, including 2004 draft picks Tony Pashos and Brian Rimpf. | 1 |
Ship with Toxic Waste Sinks Off Turkish Coast (Reuters) Reuters - A ship containing toxic waste sank on\Monday after being moored in a Turkish harbor for four years,\sparking fears among environmentalists of serious damage to\local marine life. | 3 |
Part 1 of 2: Fundamentals the cause of oil price turbulence Last week the price of WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude was recorded close to US\$50/barrel, a record high, but a level still far lower in real terms than that registered in 1979 -- about \$40/barrel (at the US dollar rate in 1979) -- or the equivalent | 2 |
Access Brokerage suspended from trading Michael Stiassny and Brendon Gibson of Ferrier Hodgson amp; Co have been appointed interim liquidators of no-frills brokerage house Access Brokerage Limited, which was today suspended from trading. | 2 |
Brits Prepare for VOIP Deluge UK telecom regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) effectively gave the green light to voice-over-broadband competition today by ruling that service providers could provide geographic numbers (ones with area codes) to VOIP customers (see Ofcom Speaks | 3 |
Genesis Hits the Mark For Utah Reentry Wednesday NASAs Genesis spacecraft performed a critical trajectory maneuver September 6, putting it on a precise course for plunging into Earths atmosphere and fireballing its way toward the Air Force #39;s Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), southwest of Salt | 3 |
Linux-builder Debian objects to Microsoft Sender ID licence The worlds of Open Source and proprietary software have collided once more with the news that Debian - builder of a version of the GNU/Linux operating system - announcing it cannot live with the terms of Microsoft #39;s licence for its technology in the | 3 |
Alienware Breaks Performance Barrier With 4GHz CPUs Excess heat generated by elevated processor performance is controlled by Alienware #39;s exclusive ultra-quiet Liquid Cooling technology, which cools components with specially formulated liquid and gold-plated, pure copper coolers. | 3 |
Souness Leaves Rovers Manager Graeme Souness has stunned the football world by turning his back on Blackburn Rovers to become the new manager of Newcastle United. | 1 |
Status of doubleheader in doubt The status of Monday #39;s doubleheader between the Yankees and Devil Rays remained in question as of 12:30 pm, as the Devil Rays had not yet left the Tampa-St. | 1 |
Spadafora charged with public drunkenness Former lightweight champion Paul Spadafora was charged with public drunkenness and acting dangerously in a car, his third arrest in less than a year. | 1 |
Croom tops the best of the weekend Besides the fact that Hurricane Frances impacted some games in Florida, it would be hard to top the opening weekend of this year #39;s college football season. | 1 |
Bloody day for US in Iraq BAGHDAD - A massive car bomb exploded today on the outskirts of Falluja, killing seven US marines and wounding several others in the deadliest attack on Americans since May. | 0 |
Seven Marines killed in car bomb attack near Fallujah BAGHDAD, Iraq - A US military official in Iraq says seven American marines have been killed today in a car-bomb explosion. Several other Marines have been wounded in the attack. | 0 |
Australia Govt Accused of Politicizing US Trial Australia #39;s opposition Labor accused the conservative government on Monday of politicizing the military trial of an Australian al Qaeda suspect, detained at a US naval base in Cuba. | 0 |
OPEC weekly average oil price falls to 38.89 dollars a barrel The crude oil price, based on the average price package of seven market-monitored crudes, fell to 38.89 dollars a barrel last week, down 2.46 dollars of the price in the previous | 2 |
Broker #39;s books \$5m short A \$5 million shortfall in client funds has been discovered after Wellington-based discount broker Access Brokerage was placed into liquidation yesterday. | 2 |
Challenges and Opportunities in the New European IT Market Is bigger really better? A larger Europe spells even more opportunities for IT development, but the challenges will be huge. Especially for Poland, where the IT spending record is one of the lowest in Europe. | 3 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.