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Samsung to Launch Phone with Mini Hard Drive SEOUL (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 |
PC Screen Price-Fall to Slow in Fourth Quarter TAIPEI (Reuters) - Prices of computer screens are expected to fall by less than 5 percent in the fourth quarter as the market stabilizes on hopes of a pick-up in demand during the Christmas season, a U.S.-based research firm said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Manufacturing Output Drops Manufacturers saw their fledgling recovery stumble in July on sharp declines in the production of beer and medicines, figures showed today. | 2 |
Air Societal Concerns To Fill Innovation Gaps Radio-frequency identification is a technology that #39;s touted as the replacement for the bar code. These postage-stamp-size RFID tags contain a tiny microchip that #39;s smaller than a grain of sand and capable of storing information. | 3 |
New Napoli club to play in third division A new Naples football club, formed to replace the bankrupt team of the Italian city, has been handed a place in the country #39;s third division. | 1 |
MLB: Boston 8, Oakland 3 David Ortiz drove in half of Boston #39;s runs Monday in an 8-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. Boston, which has won 18 of its last 20 games, remained 2 1/2 games behind the first | 1 |
Padres stop St. Louis, stay in wild-card hunt Ryan Klesko singled in the go-ahead run with no outs in the eighth inning and the San Diego Padres beat St. Louis 7-3 on Monday night to keep alive their slim playoff hopes and end the Cardinals #39; nine-game winning streak. | 1 |
Rugby: New Zealand expects to make millions out of Lions #39; tour WELLINGTON : The British and Irish Lions have agreed to play an extra match in their three Test tour of New Zealand next year, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) revealed. | 1 |
Quattrone's Fate Lies in Firm Hands The former high-flying investment banker is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday for obstructing a federal securities investigation and attempted witness-tampering.<br> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past Like the penny, the floppy drive is hardly worth the trouble, computer makers say. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-AP</B></FONT> | 3 |
Back-To-School Now Includes Electronics 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 |
Homework Problems? Help Is a Click Away. If you are like many parents, there's a good chance you can't remember the last time you solved for X, were never really confident about the rules for when to use a comma, and find that the hourly rate for private tutors can be a bit daunting. | 3 |
Next Windows Version: 2006 Target Microsoft said on Friday it will ship the next version of Windows in 2006, but scaled back plans to include a new system for finding and storing information in its flagship operating system. | 3 |
Reporting Rip-Offs (As Seen on TV!) Whether it's the latest miracle ab exerciser, a get-rich-quick scheme or a weight-loss supplement, many of those call-now-and-order products hyped on infomercials and TV shopping networks are nothing more than tacky junk. Separating the rip-offs from the useful gadgets isn't always easy. | 3 |
Building EBay Businesses Scot Wingo, author of eBay Strategies: 10 Proven Methods to Maximize Your eBay Business, will answer reader questions about the online marketplace. Wingo is president and chief executive of ChannelAdvisor, an eBay consignment franchise. | 3 |
Drug Makers Eye RFID Tags in Counterfeiting Fight Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets. | 3 |
Poker Proves a Hot Hand For Gaming Industry Card game's popularity is fanned by a combination of television, technology and, for some, the allure of big money. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
North Pole 'was once subtropical' Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming. | 3 |
Alitalia unions balk at job cuts Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce quot;unacceptable quot; Tuesday and urged the Italian government to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline. | 2 |
XML: Too much of a good thing? Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache. | 3 |
Open-source CRM firm offers subscription service Start-up SugarCRM sets out to shake up the business applications market with a free program and low-cost support. | 3 |
RFID tags: The people say no The issue has united readers of all stripes, from the religious to privacy advocates, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos writes. | 3 |
HP, Sun to resell new high-end Hitachi array Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. both plan to announce Wednesday that they will resell a high-end disk array being introduced by Hitachi Data Systems Corp. | 3 |
Intel's Rosedale chip brings WiMax closer BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- 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 |
Oracle is in a buying mood, its president says LONDON -- 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 options, according to Oracle President, Charles Phillips. | 3 |
Oracle touts grid computing to open show LONDON -- Oracle Corp. rang in the first day of its OpenWorld European conference series on Monday by touting the growth of grid computing in Europe, followed with the main news of the day: the release of E-Business Suite Version 11i.10. | 3 |
Sun readies first Opteron blade server Sun Microsystems Inc. next year will introduce a new line of blade servers that will bring the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processor to its Netra line of telecommunications industry servers. | 3 |
Samsung shows cell phone with hard-disk drive BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to begin selling later this month a cellular telephone that includes a hard-disk drive. The handset was unveiled as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2004 event began here on Monday and is the first cell phone of its kind in the world, according to the company. | 3 |
Macromedia looks to extend Web conferencing Macromedia is looking to bring Web conferencing to the masses by making its Breeze Live hosted service available on a pay-as-you go basis instead of requiring a subscription. | 3 |
Intel Looks to Get Back on Track After its recent delays and missteps, chip maker sets its sights on a dual-core future. | 3 |
What Will Stripped-Down Longhorn Offer? It may be missing a few features, but the OS will be worth the upgrade, Microsoft says. | 3 |
Pro-Maoist union vows to shut 30 companies in Nepal (AFP) AFP - A pro-Maoist trade union in Nepal vowed to force the closure of 35 companies after shutting down 12 last month, the latest pressure tactic in the rebels' attempts to topple the constitutional monarchy. | 0 |
Stocks Open Higher as Oil Prices Retreat NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks opened higher on Tuesday as oil prices fell by nearly a dollar and several companies raised quarterly profit forecasts amid a brighter mood on Wall Street after a long holiday weekend. | 2 |
Oil Extends Falls, Supply Fears Lessen LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices eased further on Tuesday, as the head of the OPEC cartel said markets were well-supplied with crude and traders continued to take profits from this year's 40 percent rally. | 2 |
Circuit City Growth Misses 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 |
Yellow Roadway Raises Profit Outlook NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yellow Roadway Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=YELL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">YELL.O</A> on Tuesday raised its third-quarter earnings outlook, citing a more disciplined pricing climate and better-than-expected "operating efficiencies." | 2 |
Brother of Ex-Mexico President Found Dead (AP) AP - Enrique Salinas, the youngest brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was found dead in a car on the outskirts of Mexico City on Monday, with a plastic bag tied over his head in an apparent murder, officials said. | 0 |
Bush preaches to choir while trying to win converts on campaign trail (AFP) AFP - With less than two months until the November 2 election, President George W. Bush is working to shore up support among his staunchest supporters even as he courts undecided voters. | 0 |
Court Bars Rubble Removal from Jerusalem Shrine (Reuters) Reuters - Israel's Supreme Court has\temporarily barred the removal of thousands of tons of rubble\from Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site in response to a\petition by archaeologists, officials said Tuesday. | 3 |
Rob White aims for a zero defect finish to the season The Viry technical director is aiming for perfect reliability through to the final race of the year. Beginning this weekend in Monza. | 1 |
Cadavers Steal the Show in L.A. An exhibit of dissected and flayed corpses, on display for the first time in the United States, attracts a steady stream of visitors curious to see what humans really look like under the skin. Randy Dotinga reports from Los Angeles. | 3 |
City Survives Art Geek Invasion This year's Ars Electronica festival turned the city of Linz, Austria, into one big digital art installation, featuring everything from car alarms programmed with laugh tracks to messages broadcast by antelope horn. By Michelle Delio. | 3 |
Newton Nuts Show How It's Done Apple's Newton was a failure for its maker, but not for the die-hard Newton community. A leading researcher believes the user community has done a better job looking after the PDA than Apple ever did. By Leander Kahney. | 3 |
Europe Warned About Warming Europeans must be prepared to adapt to massive climate change over the coming decades, warn environmental researchers. Among the changes: hotter summers, milder winters and less precipitation in Southern Europe. By Wendy Grossman. | 3 |
The Evolution Will Be Mechanized Inside the unfathomable superhuman future after the 'singularity.' By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Secrecy Hides Cancer Data Many clinical cancer trials are not published in order to keep industry secrets. A British cancer research group calls for all studies to be published -- even those with marginal results -- so doctors are not misled. | 3 |
Keeping Tabs on Invoices to Avoid Billing Errors Sundeep Sanghavi's job at Cable Wireless USA Inc. had been to look for mistakes in the bills the company received from other telecommunications carriers. | 3 |
Hurricane Frances Damages NASA Space Center By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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 |
Drug Makers Take Aim at Counterfeiting Operations Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets. By putting tags that transmit radio waves on medicine bottles sent to drug stores, company officials think they will be able to detect fake drugs. | 3 |
More Physical Education Time May Fight Obesity in Girls By RICK CALLAHAN (AP) -- Just an extra hour of exercise a week could significantly cut obesity among young overweight girls, according to a study that researchers say could lead to major changes in the way schools fight obesity. The study - the largest look yet at obesity among young children - did not show the same results for boys, possibly because they generally get more exercise than girls... | 3 |
Chickenpox Vaccinations Lead to \$100 Million Savings By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) -- Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly \$100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found... | 3 |
Briefly: Samsung to put hard drives in phones roundup Plus: IDC says external disk storage up...Lawmakers to vote on spyware, piracy bills...Microsoft tests Windows Marketplace...Nortel delays financials again. | 3 |
UPDATE 2-Circuit City same-store growth misses 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 |
Yen Advances Against Dollar, Euro as Nikkei Stock Average Gains The yen advanced against the dollar and euro after the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose to a five-week high on expectations the government will double its economic- growth estimate for the second quarter. | 2 |
Genesis set for stellar return A daring trip to study the solar wind will end on Wednesday with the midair retrieval of extraterrestrial samples above the Utah desert. | 3 |
Toxic waste ship sinks off Turkey A ship containing toxic power station waste has sunk after being moored in a Turkish harbour for four years. The Ulla had sat in the port of Iskenderun in south-eastern Turkey amid confusion over the ship #39;s future. | 3 |
Microsoft hits back at hackers The software giant #39;s much anticipated security-laden upgrade for the Windows XP operating system is finally available for installation. | 3 |
Doctors, patients caught in global security web Doctors and their patients in many countries are facing increasing problems receiving lifesaving isotopes for treating a range of illnesses. | 3 |
World News: Vijay Singh dethrones Tiger Woods New York, Fiji-born Vijay Singh, who traces his roots to India, has replaced American Tiger Woods as the top-ranking golfer in the world. | 1 |
Button defends himself Jenson Button has remained silent about his decision to switch from BAR-Honda to BMW Williams next year but he has clearly been unhappy with some of the media coverage he has been receiving and has now set the record straight indicating that | 1 |
Sox kick off road trip with win over A #39;s The Red Sox open a crucial seven-game West Coast road trip with an 8-to-3 victory over the Athletics in Oakland. David Ortiz hit a solo homer and had four RBI #39;s for Boston. | 1 |
Labour Day gridiron classic HAMILTONIt was as classic as a Labour Day tussle between the Argonauts and the Tiger-Cats could get. With a sellout crowd of 29,170 roaring its approval, the arch-rivals unleashed their dislike for each | 1 |
The tough life of a professional athlete High school athletes have the concept of team pounded into their heads beginning on the first day of practice. But Orlando Pace, a five-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle for the St. | 1 |
Hurricane Ivan Roars Toward Caribbean An emergency official said Florida residents may want to think twice about taking down the hurricane shutters. Even as Hurricane Frances battered Florida, another strong storm churned in the central Atlantic. | 0 |
Delay in Releasing the French The optimism that Paris expressed, at the end of last week, concerning releasing the kidnapped French journalists Chesnot and Malbrunot in Iraq, turned into caution at the beginning of this week. | 0 |
Typhoon Songda batters southern Japan Tokyo - Powerful typhoon Songda made landfall in southern Japan on Tuesday, pounding the region with torrential rains and high winds that forced evacuations, caused blackouts and brought public transport to a virtual standstill. | 0 |
British soldier arrested over unlawful killing in Iraq LONDON: A 21-year-old British soldier was arrested Tuesday in connection with the murder of a civilian in Iraq, London #39;s Metropolitan Police said. | 0 |
China Vows Tougher Penalties for Web Porn Operators SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday. The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported... | 3 |
Oil Extends Falls, Supply Fears Lessen (Reuters) Reuters - Oil prices eased further on Tuesday, as\the head of the OPEC cartel said markets were well-supplied\with crude and traders continued to take profits from this\year's 40 percent rally. | 2 |
Teflon Bank (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has spent more than #36;200 million over one and a half years for media ads touting the bank's "higher standards." But lately the Charlotte, N.C. bank has been caught up in a series of embarrassing acts that don't quite fit that spin: illegal trades, the stonewalling of regulators and lousy due diligence. | 2 |
'Longhorn' Delay Is Linux Gain (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Microsoft's omission of WinFS from the Longhorn version of Windows may open options for open-source competitors to the forthcoming operating system. | 3 |
Taking Software for a Test-Drive (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Enterprise application vendors should be lauded for offering evaluation versions. | 3 |
Sun to Heat Up Carrier Market with New Servers (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - The company's new carrier-grade servers will be compliant with the new ATCA specification, which allows carriers to buy off-the-shelf blade servers for high-bandwidth applications such as VOIP. | 3 |
September 11 casts shadow over US presidential election (AFP) AFP - The threat of a major terror attack looms large over the first US presidential election since the horrific September 11, 2001, attacks as US voters must choose in less than two months between President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry. | 0 |
US Airways Stock Falls After Pilot Leaders Rebuff Cost-Cut Plan US Airways Group Inc. stock fell as much as 21 percent in early trading after leaders of the airline #39;s pilots union rebuffed a plan to cut \$295 million in wages and benefits the company | 2 |
US plans to break up \$13B Halliburton contract New York (dpa) - The US army plans within months to break up a 13-billion-dollar contract awarded to US company Halliburton to service troops in Iraq into at least six smaller contracts, according to a report Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal #39;s online | 2 |
Labor unveils tax cut policy Australia #39;s opposition Labor Party has promised sweeping tax breaks for low and middle income families if it wins the general election on 9 October. | 2 |
Yellow Roadway Ups Guidance Yellow Roadway (YELL:Nasdaq - news - research) boosted its third-quarter earnings guidance to \$1.30 to \$1.35 a share, a dime better than its previous forecast. | 2 |
Yukos Lawyer Summoned As Company Appeals MOSCOW Sept. 6, 2004 - Prosecutors tightened the screws on Yukos on Monday, calling in the oil giant #39;s top in-house lawyer for questioning after searching his office and apartment on the same day the company | 2 |
Intel targets 2005 for WiMax roll out BUSAN, South Korea - Intel Corp. has taken another baby step on its roadmap for broadband wireless chips, saying Tuesday (Sept. 7) that it is sampling its WiMAX chip to quot;strategic partners quot; in preparation for a wide-scale rollout in 2005. | 3 |
Wireless Industry Leaders Publish Open Specifications for Cellular <b>...</b> MILPITAS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 7, 2004 -- Kineto Wireless a Key Participant in Creation of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) Specifications. | 3 |
Internet Music Battles Heat Up Apple #39;s announcement last week of the iTunes Affiliate Program, iTunes on Campus, and the iTunes Volume Discount program represents the next escalation in what is turning into a heated battle for control of the Internet music services (which is somewhat | 3 |
Williams are team to push Button for championship Jenson Button claims contractual quot;differences quot; prompted him to quit BAR and join Williams for the 2005 Formula One season. | 1 |
New Napoli club to play in Serie C1 A new Naples football club, formed to replace the bankrupt team of the Italian city, has been handed a place in the country #39;s third division. | 1 |
Circuit City quarterly growth lags Circuit City Stores Inc. reported a gain of 2.9 percent in quarterly same-store sales Tuesday, but growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift and reduced spending in August. | 2 |
More developers are building #39;green #39; Kristen Galfetti #39;s small glass office at the new headquarters of Genzyme, a producer of therapeutic drugs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has two doors. | 2 |
Intel is testing long-range wireless chip Intel, the world #39;s largest chip maker, said on Tuesday that it had started providing customers with test versions of chips for equipment that will allow long-range wireless high-speed Internet surfing. | 3 |
Spec Released For Cell-WLAN Handoffs A group of major wireless operators, device and infrastructure vendors Tuesday released a proposed specification that the group claims will enable devices to seamlessly transition between cellular and wireless data networks. | 3 |
Ericsson Halts Bluetooth Development Ericsson Sverige AB, a Swedish developer of telecommunications silicon, said it has decided to stop Bluetooth development, which the company said was an indicator of the technology #39;s mature state. | 3 |
A fight to the finish Fists and flags were flying yesterday as the Argos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats renewed hostilities yesterday in a Labour Day game for the ages at Ivor Wynne Stadium. | 1 |
Ireland to tour Japan Ireland have set up a summer tour to Japan to coincide with the Lions trip to New Zealand. The Irish will play two Tests in Tokyo plus one warm-up game which has still to be decided. | 1 |
Brown #39;s koalas for Beslan idea rapped Australia should send 400 personalised stuffed koalas to the grieving families of the Beslan school massacre, Greens leader Bob Brown has proposed. | 0 |
Many killed as GIs fight Shiite rebels in Baghdad BAGHDAD US forces battled insurgents loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 34 people, including an American soldier, and wounded almost 200, US and Iraqi authorities | 0 |
Israeli airstrike kills 14 Hamas militants GAZA Israeli helicopters attacked a Hamas training field in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least 14 militants and wounding 30 in the deadliest airstrike on Palestinian militants in four years of violence. | 0 |
Sudan Peace Talks Stuck on Issues of Security Reports from the Nigerian capital Abuja, where Sudan peace talks have entered a third week, say the rebel factions and the Sudanese government are deadlocked on the issue of security. | 0 |
UK soldier held over Iraq murder A 21-year-old British soldier has been arrested over the murder of a civilian in Iraq. The suspect was being quizzed at a London police station. | 0 |
Thatcher lawyers mull Equatorial Guinea interview request South African lawyers acting for Mark Thatcher will meet on Tuesday to discuss a request from Equatorial Guinea to question their client on suspicion that he helped finance a coup plot in the oil-rich country. | 0 |
PM lied over children: poll A majority of Australians believe John Howard has quot;generally been dishonest quot; in his statements about the children overboard incident, an AgePoll has found. | 0 |
Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia? (Reuters) Reuters - Anthropologists stepped into a\hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the\original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what\is now known as Australia. | 3 |
Encinitas student wins national science prize ENCINITAS ---- San Dieguito Academy #39;s Aaron Goldin on Monday was awarded the \$100,000 individual grand prize in a prominent national science competition for his invention of a device that could potentially capture the nearly unlimited energy generated by | 3 |
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