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Cairn Boosts Indian Oil Reserves, Reports Lower Net (Update1) Cairn Energy Plc, the largest UK- based oil-exploration and production company, boosted its estimate of recoverable oil reserves at a field in India and reported a decline in first-half profit. | 2 |
Circuit City Sales Trail Estimates Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday reported a 2.9 percent gain in quarterly same-store sales but its growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift and reduced spending through August. | 2 |
Fleetwood 1Q Profit Sharply Higher Fleetwood Enterprises Inc., a maker of recreational vehicles and manufactured homes, said Tuesday that first-quarter profits rose sharply due to strong sales in its motor homes and housing segments. | 2 |
Bye-bye, floppy. It #39;s been good to know you If you #39;re a computer user, you may have several of them stacked on your desk. We #39;re talking about floppy disks - and they are pretty much becoming extinct. | 2 |
Not that kind of chick Hamburg Township, Mich. - Gary Baja is surprised by some of the people who have checked out his new restaurant, CR Smokin #39; Chicks. | 2 |
Euro-Zone Growth Continues to Lag in 2Q The euro-zone economy grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2004, a touch slower than in the first three months of the year, according to initial estimates released Tuesday by the European Union. | 2 |
Olmert: Erez industrial zone to close before March Deputy Prime Minister and Industry and Trade Minister Ehud Olmert visited the Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday, declaring that | 2 |
Dollar is down, gold up in Europe The US dollar fell Tuesday morning against other major currencies in European trading. Gold prices rose. The euro was quoted at \$1. | 2 |
GB: Ofcom entscheidet ber Voice-over-IP Rufnummern Geographische <b>...</b> UK regulator Ofcom decided to make geographic and non-geographic numbers available for VoIP (voice over IP) services. Non-geographic VoIP numbers will have a 056 prefix code, and will be available to all quot;local | 3 |
Shuttle space centre surveys hurricane damage All three remaining space shuttles weathered Hurricane Frances without apparent damage, after the cyclone weakened before hitting the Florida coast south of Cape Canaveral. | 3 |
Intel #39;s Rosedale chip brings WiMax closer Intel Corp. has begun shipping samples of its first WiMax chip, called Rosedale, and the first network trials based on the technology will start next year, a senior company executive said Tuesday. | 3 |
Intel shifts focus to multicore chip performance Intel Corp., which has led the charge in the gigahertz race, is expected to change its tune at this week #39;s developer forum in San Francisco by focusing on improving chip performance by adding more cores to the microprocessor. | 3 |
Mathematical breakthrough could bring disaster for ecommerce Mathematicians are close to solving a 150 year-old theory - and the solution could add up to problems for internet commerce. The Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann in 1859, would | 3 |
#39;Longhorn #39; Delay Is Linux Gain When Microsoft Corp. announced last week it was scaling back the feature set for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, it may have inadvertently given competitors the opening they #39;d been looking for. | 3 |
Sony previews high-definition video camera Sony is previewing a new camcorder that takes video in digital high-definition quality for consumers. The four pound (HDR-FX1) device is set to go one sale next month in Japan and around the world by the end of the year. | 3 |
Open-source CRM firm launches subscription service Open-source software start-up SugarCRM plans to introduce support services for its free contact management product on Thursday, part of a big push to lure customers away from high-priced, proprietary programs. | 3 |
RFID tags: The people say no CNET News.com recently ran a report on companies with technologies that involve implanting RFID chips under people #39;s skin or inside a bracelet. | 3 |
Oracle is in a buying mood, its president says As Oracle Corp. pushes forward with its hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for \$7.7 billion, it is also sizing up further acquisition | 3 |
TiVo and Netflix #39;team for movie downloads #39; Netflix and TiVo are to team up to deliver movies over broadband, according to NewsWeek. The magazine expects the partnership to go public later this month, although neither company would comment, and details | 3 |
Underestimating Bob Evans #39; contributions Your statements (re: the S/360) quot;...It was the first mainframe that allowed different applications to be run simultaneously ... quot; and quot;..Before the S/360 appeared on the scene each computer was unique .. quot; are utterly wrong and do not give the IBM System | 3 |
IDC: Disk Systems Growth in Q2 Fueled by demand in the Asia/Pacific region and Japan, external disk storage systems revenues grew 8 percent year over year to \$3. | 3 |
Forbes: iPod Spin-Off Could Boost Apple While the iPod has largely been responsible for Apple #39;s recent revival, especially among investors, Forbes believes the company could be worth more if it were to spin-off its iPod and iTunes operations. | 3 |
AMD, Infineon to spend \$200m on nanotech know-how AMD and Infineon are to spend 170m (\$200m) between them to build a nanotech research facility. According to a Bloomberg report, the R amp;D centre will be located in Dresden, Germany, probably not far from | 3 |
Henin-Hardenne Bounced from US Open Defending women #39;s champion and top-seed Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium is out of the US Open tennis tournament in New York. | 1 |
Mutombo says he #39;s being traded to Rockets; will back up, mentor <b>...</b> Dikembe Mutombo, 38, has agreed to a sign-and-trade deal that will send him from the Chicago Bulls to Houston in exchange for Eric Piatkowski, Adrian Griffin and Mike Wilks, the Houston Chronicle reports. | 1 |
I can handle top job says Robinson BAGSHOT, England -- England acting head coach Andy Robinson has insisted that he is the right man to take the world champions through to the 2007 World Cup. | 1 |
NCAA Game Summary - Nevada at Louisiana Tech Kretschmer, a two-time 1,000-yard rusher and a preseason candidate for the Doak Walker award, did not start due to a knee problem and finished with just seven yards on four carries...Nevada was picked fifth in the WAC #39;s preseason poll, while Louisiana | 1 |
Lions-NZ tickets set for ballot Rugby fans across the Tasman will have to enter a ballot to obtain tickets for next year #39;s Lions tour. Fifteen thousand visitors are also expected to follow their team from Britain. | 1 |
Padres suddenly appear playoff worthy Putting some starch back into their playoff bid, the Padres crafted their best outing in some time last night. Ramon Vazquez, starting for the injured Mark Loretta, provided three hits, and | 1 |
FSU moves inside to avoid Frances As Frances continued its move toward the Panhandle with strong winds and constant rain, the Seminoles practiced inside Monday. Although coach Bobby Bowden had | 1 |
Spammers exploit anti-spam trap Some spammers are getting their messages through using techniques designed to spot and stop them. A survey shows that spammers are the biggest users of a technique designed to find out if e-mail comes from the net address it says it does. | 3 |
Lower costs prompt internet boom LONDON - The number of newcomers to the internet in Britain has surged this year to its highest level since the dotcom heyday of 2001, according to a study. | 3 |
Qureia endorses Hamas revenge Ahmed Qureia, the Palestinian prime minister, today broke with calls for a ceasefire and said that Hamas would be quot;justified quot; in taking revenge for an Israeli airstrike that killed 14 of its activists. | 0 |
Caribbean islands prepare for Ivan Bridgetown - Islanders scrambled to put up storm shutters and buy water as Hurricane Ivan churned toward Barbados just days after Hurricane Frances tore across the Caribbean. | 0 |
Ofek-6 failure considered major setback for Israeli intelligence <b>...</b> By israelinsider staff September 7, 2004. The loss yesterday of the Ofek-6 spy satellite, due to a malfunction in its Shavit rocket launcher, is expected to delay Israel #39;s plans for more sophisticated surveillance | 0 |
Canadian Pharmacies Look Overseas for Drug Supply, Paper Says Some Canadian pharmacies are looking at countries like Britain, Ireland and New Zealand for their drug supplies as demand from the US increases, USA Today said. | 2 |
Tribunal told of banker #39;s costly underperformance A banker suing Merrill Lynch for 7.5m for sexual discrimination was losing her department 560,000 a week, an employment tribunal heard yesterday. | 2 |
UK gets more phone numbers THE RASH OF VoIP services being peddled in the UK has meant that the country has to release a new batch of phone numbers. Telco watchdog Ofcom has barked that it would establish the prefix quot;056, quot; allowing | 3 |
Intel Looks to Get Back on Track After its recent delays and missteps, chip maker sets its sights on a dual-core future. Intel will look to a multicore future during the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco this week as it tries | 3 |
Authentication Is Not an Anti-Spam System Opinion: Already we #39;re hearing it, that spammers are beating SPF and the other authentication systems. But the truth has always been that authentication is only a tool for anti-spam systems to use. | 3 |
New stars and stripes: US may bench vets to keep Cup The single-elimination quarterfinals of the World Cup of Hockey #39;s North American pool start tonight in St. Paul, Minn. And the biggest question remains just which Team USA will show up for | 1 |
Samsung to Launch Phone with Mini Hard Drive (Reuters) Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's\third-largest handset maker, said on Tuesday it was launching\the first mobile phone with a stamp-sized hard disc drive this\month that would expand the memory capacity by 15 times. | 3 |
Backe Homers and Pitches Astros to Win (AP) AP - Houston Astros pitcher Brandon Backe got his first career homer, a two-run shot, and allowed one run in seven innings to keep the Astros in the thick of the NL wild-card chase with an 11-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday #151; their season-high 10th straight victory. | 1 |
Seagate Sees Results Above Estimates (Reuters) Reuters - Seagate Technology, the top U.S. maker\of computer hard-disc drives, on Tuesday forecast quarterly\earnings and revenue above Wall Street estimates amid stronger\demand for its products than in the previous quarter. | 2 |
Talking heads are catching on as Web meetings take off (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Why waste time at the airport and rack up travel expenses when you can hold that business meeting over the Internet? | 3 |
Grover parlays 'Street' cred into DVD gig (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Sesame Street's Grover may not be aware he appears on TV, but the media-savvy Muppet does know who Fahrenheit 9/11 filmmaker Michael Moore is. We caught up with Grover as his new DVD, A Celebration of Me, Grover (Sony Wonder, #36;13), arrives in stores, marking the 35th season of the children's TV show. | 3 |
Circuit City Sales Trail Estimates (Reuters) Reuters - Circuit City Stores Inc. on\Tuesday reported a 2.9 percent gain in quarterly same-store\sales but its growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift\and reduced spending through August. | 2 |
Finnair Introduces Mobile Check-In Service (AP) AP - In what it calls a first in international air travel, Finnair says it will let its frequent fliers check in using text messages on mobile phones. | 3 |
Euro-Zone Growth Continues to Lag in 2Q (AP) AP - The euro-zone economy grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2004, a touch slower than in the first three months of the year, according to initial estimates released Tuesday by the European Union. | 2 |
Single mom wants to make most of financial assets (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Your Portfolio: Each month a financial planner reviews a reader's portfolio and suggests improvements. | 2 |
Rite Aid Cuts View as Pharmacy Sales Slow (Reuters) Reuters - Drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. \on Tuesday warned that full-year profit and revenue would fall\short of Wall Street expectations because of slowing pharmacy\sales as companies try to curb health-care costs. | 2 |
Stocks Set to Open Up as Oil Prices Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were set to open higher on Tuesday after a long holiday weekend, with U.S. oil prices falling more than a dollar and Seagate Technology <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=STX.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">STX.N</A>, a computer hard-drive maker, raising its first-quarter profit forecast. | 2 |
Stocks to Watch Tuesday The top U.S. maker of computer hard-disc drives forecast quarterly sales and earnings above Wall Street estimates amid stronger demand for its products. | 2 |
Seagate Sees Results Above Estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seagate Technology, the top U.S. maker of computer hard-disc drives, on Tuesday forecast quarterly earnings and revenue above Wall Street estimates amid stronger demand for its products than in the previous quarter. | 2 |
Frances Damages NASA Space Center (AP) AP - Hurricane Frances did more damage to the Kennedy Space Center than any other storm in history, tearing an estimated 1,000 exterior panels from a giant building where spaceships are assembled, officials said Monday. | 3 |
Circuit City Sales Trail Estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CC.N</A> on Tuesday reported a 2.9 percent gain in quarterly same-store sales but its growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift and reduced spending through August. | 2 |
Rite Aid Cuts View as Pharmacy Sales Slow CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=RAD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">RAD.N</A> on Tuesday warned that full-year profit and revenue would fall short of Wall Street expectations because of slowing pharmacy sales as companies try to curb health-care costs. | 2 |
Fleetwood Enterprises Earnings Higher NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recreational vehicle maker Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=FLE.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">FLE.N</A> on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose on improved results at its mobile home division. | 2 |
HealthSouth Names John Workman CFO CHICAGO (Reuters) - HealthSouth Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HLSH.PK target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HLSH.PK</A>, an operator of rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging and surgery centers, on Tuesday said it hired the former chief executive of U.S. Can Co. to be its chief financial officer. | 2 |
Reclusive Russian May Have Made Math Breakthrough (Reuters) Reuters - A reclusive Russian may have\solved one of the world's toughest mathematics problems and\stands to win #36;1 million -- but he doesn't appear to care. | 3 |
Oil Falls; OPEC Says Market Well-Supplied <p>\</p><p> LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices eased further on Tuesday, as\the head of OPEC cartel said that markets were well-supplied\with crude and traders continued to take profits from this\year's 40 percent rally.</p> | 2 |
US army 'to axe Halliburton deal' The Pentagon is to end the contract Halliburton has to service US troops in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reports. | 2 |
UK lawyer opens firm in Pyongyang A British lawyer opens a law firm in North Korea, hoping to cash in on the foreigners doing business there. | 2 |
Top U.S. General in Iraq Sees Shift for Troops --Paper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in the Gulf region sees the role of U.S. troops in Iraq possibly shifting as early as next year to focus less on combat and more on training Iraqi security forces, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. | 0 |
Angry Putin Rules Out Chechen Talks as Crowds Rally BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, as hundreds of thousands joined rallies against terrorism. | 0 |
Israel Hits Hamas Training Camp in Gaza, Killing 14 GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks, helicopters and warplanes pounded a Hamas training camp Tuesday, killing 14 militants in the deadliest ever strike against the Islamic faction a week after it carried out a double suicide bombing. | 0 |
Iran Nears Deal on Renewed Nuclear Freeze VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has agreed in principle to renew a freeze of some sensitive nuclear activities in a move apparently aimed at easing pressure ahead of a U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting next week, diplomats said Tuesday. | 0 |
First Milosevic Trial Defense Witness Called THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic blasted a decision to impose defense lawyers on him as "legal fiction" Tuesday as his first witness began her testimony at his war crimes trial. | 0 |
Taiwan Mulls New Policy to Differentiate from China TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's foreign ministry is considering a proposal to use the name "Taiwan" more frequently to distinguish the island from rival China, a spokesman said on Tuesday, in a move likely to anger Beijing. | 0 |
Armenian supremacy for Agassi They played for the championship of Armenia yesterday at Flushing Meadow, where a collateral event, the US Open, was also in progress. | 1 |
Rochus runs aground in 5-set loss to Hrbaty The Little Engine That Could simply couldn't any longer. Olivier Rochus, who stood much taller than his 5-foot-5-inch frame in two big five-set victories here, ran out of steam against Dominik Hrbaty and squandered a two-set lead, falling, 2-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-0. | 1 |
Mass rallies for Beslan victims Tens of thousands gather in Moscow and other Russian cities as the nation mourns victims of the school siege. | 0 |
US Airways Pilots Reject Wage and Benefit Cuts Leaders of the US Airways pilots' union rejected a bid to have pilots vote on a proposal by the airline for \$295 million in wage and benefit cuts. | 2 |
Hamas vows Gaza revenge Palestinian militant group Hamas swears vengeance for 14 of its members killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. | 0 |
Golf: Singh revels in top spot Vijay Singh is delighted at becoming the new world number one after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship. | 0 |
Museveni rejects war mediation Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says attempts to hold third party talks with LRA rebels are a waste of time. | 0 |
Putin rejects 'child-killer talks' Russia's president denounces calls for him to talk to Chechen separatists after the siege that killed hundreds. | 0 |
Indian Muslim community growing India's Muslim community is growing much faster than other groups, new census figures suggest. | 0 |
Blair to reshuffle 'by weekend' Tony Blair tells his monthly news conference that he will reshuffle his top team by the end of the week. | 0 |
Modified animals continue trend The use of genetically modified animals in UK labs continues to grow, official statistics released on Tuesday show. | 0 |
Hiroshima group plans 'people's tribunal' over US atomic bombings (AFP) AFP - Japanese anti-war campaigners said they planned a "people's tribunal" over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that could symbolically hold the United States responsible for war crimes. | 0 |
Fierce Clashes in Iraq Kill 34 People BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed 34 people, including one American soldier, and wounded 193, U.S... | 0 |
14 Palestinian Militants Killed in Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli helicopters attacked a Hamas training camp early Tuesday, killing at least 14 militants and wounding 30 others in one of the deadliest airstrikes since fighting broke out four years ago. The attack came a week after Hamas suicide bombers blew up two buses in the Israeli city of Beersheba, killing 16 people... | 0 |
10 Deaths Blamed on Hurricane Frances TAMPA, Fla. - Frances completed its two-day assault on Florida, leaving storm-weary residents Tuesday with flooding, frayed nerves and shortages of everyday items such as gas, ice and water... | 0 |
AL East Race Tight As Yanks, Bosox Win The New York Yankees will do just about anything to hold off the surging Boston Red Sox. They even tried asking the commissioner's office to award them a forfeit victory... | 0 |
Fighting Intensifies in Sadr City U.S. troops Tuesday engaged in heavy combat with insurgents in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, an impoverished neighborhood that is a stronghold for forces loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. One U.S. soldier was killed in the fighting and at least 25 Iraqis were dead, officials said. | 0 |
Hundreds rally against terrorism Even as Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, hundreds of thousands joined rallies against terrorism. | 0 |
Singapore Extends Ban on Malaysian Poultry, Eggs Singapore says it has extended a ban on all poultry and egg imports from Malaysia due to a new outbreak of bird flu there. Singapore says it is working with Malaysia to develop ways to import poultry and eggs | 0 |
5,000 Alitalia job cuts planned Management at the Italian national airline Alitalia has put forward a rescue plan to trade unions that foresees slashing 5,000 jobs to keep the struggling carrier aloft. | 2 |
A #39;s, Sox look like AL #39;s best For eight innings, anyway, it was the kind of pulsating confrontation that was anticipated considering how tough it has been to separate these two teams lately. | 1 |
Typhoon Songda Hits Japan, South Korea A powerful typhoon is battering parts of Japan and South Korea with heavy rains and high winds, killing at least two people and injuring more than 300. | 0 |
Cairn puts Rajasthan crude output at 5mn tons Cairn Energy, the UK-based oil amp; gas major said on Tuesday that it plans to produce up to 5mn tons of crude oil from its recent discoveries in Rajasthan by the end of 2007. | 2 |
SKorea #39;s Samsung Electronics develops world #39;s 1st HDD-embedded <b>...</b> SEOUL (AFX) - Samsung Electronics Co said that it has developed a hard disc drive (HDD)-embedded mobile handset, claiming it the world #39;s first. | 3 |
MSN Music Service is an average entry in the online stakes There #39;s nothing really horrible about Microsoft #39;s new MSN Music Service; it #39;s just that there #39;s nothing really great about it, either. | 3 |
PREVIEW-Spain looking for huge improvement against Bosnia Spain coach Luis Aragones is looking for a huge improvement from his side when they begin their World Cup qualifying campaign with a tricky tie against Bosnia on Wednesday. | 1 |
Ivan stalks Caribbean islands Caribbean islanders are bracing for Hurricane Ivan -- only a few days since Hurricane Frances roared through the region. Ivan is heading for the Windward Islands packing sustained winds of 110 miles-an-hour. | 0 |
Iraqi militants demand \$5m to free French reporters LONDON - The Iraqi Islamic militant group holding two French journalists hostage has demanded a \$5m (2.8m) ransom for their release, to be paid within 48 hours, as well as a set of hard-to-meet demands. | 0 |
Introducing the BOFH-brand internet caf #233; <strong>Episode 29</strong> Or should that be 'Technology Centre'? | 3 |
AMD heralds OS support for dual-core CPUs <strong>IDF Fall '04</strong> As Intel prepares to detail its own multi-core chips | 3 |
ShellShock wins 'Nam battle A current slew of games suggest that the Vietnam War is the conflict of the moment, with Conflict: Vietnam and Shellshock: Nam '67 out this week. | 3 |
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