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McAfee Slides on CFO Departure Made nervous by the announcement that McAfee #39;s (MFE:NYSE - news - research) CFO plans to resign, investors on Tuesday sold off shares of the antivirus maker. | 3 |
Charles Arthur On Technology Once upon a time there was a boy called Bill, and he had a vision of what a computer-operating system should be able to do: find a file that had any sort of content you were looking for, anywhere on your machine or a local network, and hand it to you | 3 |
Oracle Targets SMBs with App Server Lite Officials at Oracle (Quote, Chart) used its Open World show in London as a springboard to launch an application server offering for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) Tuesday. | 3 |
Singh set to oust Woods again When Vijay Singh became the world No1 on Monday, displacing Tiger Woods after a record 264 weeks, it was just reward for an outstanding season. | 1 |
Petacchi wins fourth stage TOP sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, of the Fassa Bortolo team, won the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain, a 167.5km ride from Soria to Zaragoza in the north of the country today. | 1 |
US means business on trip to Panama PANAMA CITY, Panama -- When US National Team assistant coach Curt Onalfo visited Panama back in July on a scouting trip, he didn #39;t know what he was going to encounter. | 1 |
Dolphins #39; fullback has thigh surgery Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad had surgery Tuesday for an infection in his right thigh and is expected to miss Sunday #39;s opener against the Tennessee Titans. | 1 |
Frances makes impact on Dolphins A loss of power at Dolphins headquarters on Saturday wasn #39;t the only impact Hurricane Frances has made on the franchise. Of the nine players who didn #39;t travel to New Orleans for Friday #39;s 20-19 | 1 |
40 Iraqis killed as Sadr City erupts BAGHDAD: Iraq was steeped in blood Tuesday as a fledgling truce in a Baghdad rebel bastion was shattered by fresh fighting that officials said left 40 killed and scores wounded, while the US death count neared the 1,000 mark. | 0 |
Italy outraged over aid worker kidnappings ROME: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi joined opposition leaders to urge a united front following the Baghdad abduction of two female aid workers. | 0 |
UN war crime tribunal calls first witness in Milosevic defense <b>...</b> The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday called the first witness in the defense case of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic | 0 |
IAI takes rap for Ofek-6 failure Israel Aircraft Industries, the senior partner involved in construction of the Ofek-6 spy satellite and the Shavit launcher, yesterday accepted full responsibility for the malfunction that caused the failure of Monday #39;s launch. | 0 |
Singapore invited to check farms in Johor JOHOR BARU: The Singapore authorities have been invited to check chicken farms in Johor for avian influenza if the republic wants to import poultry from here. | 0 |
Russian Tax Authorities Give Yukos Another, Larger Bill 3 September 2004 -- Russia #39;s tax authorities have given Yukos another bill for back taxes that is higher than the oil company expected. | 2 |
3Com drops after lowering revenue target MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - 3Com Corp. said today its quarterly revenue will come in around 10 per cent below its previous expectation, an announcement that sent shares of the communications network supplier down nearly 10 per cent. | 2 |
QRS Jilts JDA, Teams with Inovis With little more than a month left for JDA Software Group Inc. to close on its \$100 million acquisition of QRS Corp., QRS pulled the plug on the deal in favor of a \$116 million acquisition by Inovis International Inc. | 2 |
Nokia To Offer BlackBerry Software Research In Motion (RIM) and mobile operating-system consortium Symbian have signed a deal that will enable BlackBerry Connect to run on Symbian-based Nokia Series 80 mobile devices, such as the 9500 Communicator. | 3 |
British ruling cheers VoIP industry update British regulatory agency Ofcom has begun to map out the future for commercial Net phone services. And while some issues are as yet unresolved, the organization issued a key ruling Monday that was popular among carriers. | 3 |
Titans not worried about Ivan changing kickoff with Dolphins The Tennessee Titans don #39;t plan to worry about Hurricane Ivan right now. They #39;re too busy preparing to play the Miami Dolphins in a season opener still scheduled for Sunday. | 1 |
Russians Rally Against Terror, Bury Dead MOSCOW Sept. 7, 2004 - Tens of thousands of Russians massed outside the Kremlin to rally against terrorism Tuesday as mourners lowered caskets into the damp earth at a Beslan cemetery four days after the school siege that claimed more than 350 lives. | 0 |
Fatigue is main fear for Henman An American asked Tim Henman if he would like to comment on the fact that only two US men, Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi, survived into the last 32 of this year #39;s US Open. | 1 |
Leinart becomes a leader of men As Matt Leinart drifted toward the left sideline, scrambling to buy extra time, he motioned David Kirtman to break off his route and go downfield. | 1 |
Insurers Assess Frances #39; Damage Toll Insurers are having their costliest year since 2001, when the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US led to \$26.5 billion in catastrophe claims. | 2 |
Systems #39;Go #39; in Utah Helicopter Snag of NASA Probe Two Hollywood stunt pilots and a space capsule full of stardust were on track for a historic mid-air encounter above the Utah desert on Wednesday at the end of | 3 |
Lexmark, Dell, IBM laser printers recalled THE US CONSUMER Product Safety Commission said that printers from Lexmark, Dell and IBM can short circuit, posing possible electric shock hazards to consumers. | 3 |
Enter your e-mail: Rumor has it that Tivo and Netflix will team up to deliver downloadable movies. In a story from Newsweek #39;s September 13 issue an unnamed quot;insider quot; says the companies merely await the approval of Tivo #39;s board | 3 |
Hitachi #39;s Big Box Promises More Than Power The company unveiled its long-awaited TagmaStore storage system that can act as the front-end manager for multiple storage systems from other vendors. | 3 |
Samsung Introduces Phone With Hard Drive swight1701 writes quot;It is being reported that Samsung has shown what it claims is the world #39;s first mobile phone that incorporates a hard drive. | 3 |
Robinson wants to break free There are two ways to go as an acting England head coach: either you sit back and let your track record do the talking or you grasp the bull by the horns and shout your ambitions to the skies. | 1 |
Frances #39; wrath lingers in Atlanta Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Tuesday night #39;s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves at Turner Field was postponed because of rain. | 1 |
Israeli Armored Vehicles Mass in Gaza: Witnesses Israeli armored vehicles backed by helicopters rolled into Palestinian-controlled areas of the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said. | 0 |
Putin rules out talks with Chechen rebels LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday. | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Damages Parts of Barbados ST. GEORGE #39;S, Grenada Sept. 7, 2004 - Packing ferocious winds, Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada Tuesday, blasting apart scores of homes and hurling hundreds of the island #39;s landmark red zinc roofs through the air. | 0 |
ASEAN armies exchange intelligence info to combat terrorism JAKARTA - Army chiefs from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Tuesday to share intelligence information in order to curb terrorism and transnational crimes. | 0 |
Finns in Toronto is case Canada loses, Slovakia #39;s Chara OK to play TORONTO (CP) - Team Finland arrived in Toronto on Tuesday on the off-chance that Canada loses its World Cup of Hockey quarter-final game against Slovakia. | 1 |
Redshirt freshman replaces Koch on line Illinois romped over Florida A amp;M 52-13 on Saturday. But coach Ron Turner doesn #39;t sound like a coach whose team romped. After watching film of the game, Turner was furious over a quot;cheap shot quot; during the fifth | 1 |
Mauresmo Comes Up Short, Hewitt Cruises NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amelie Mauresmo's hopes of a first grand slam title were left in tatters at the U.S. Open on Tuesday when she was beaten by Elena Dementieva. | 1 |
U.S. Stocks Rise; Oil, Gold Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - A decline in the price of oil helped lift U.S. stocks to their highest level in two-months on Tuesday. | 2 |
Pilots to Try to Retrieve Genesis Capsule (AP) AP - A few weeks ago, Cliff Fleming was chasing the Batmobile at night in a helicopter 20 feet above the cavernous streets of Chicago. | 3 |
Lawsuit Uncovers New Bush Guard Records (AP) AP - President Bush ranked in the middle of his Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972, according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act. | 0 |
Edwards Cites Layoffs During Bush Years (AP) AP - Democrat John Edwards kept up a long-distance debate over his "two Americas" campaign theme with Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday, saying it was no illusion to thousands of laid-off workers in Ohio. | 0 |
Hard Labor Pays Off for World Number One Singh LONDON (Reuters) - If success is earned by those who work the hardest, then newly crowned world number one Vijay Singh is a shining example. | 1 |
George Shultz Endorses Stem Cell Issue (AP) AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz on Tuesday became the most prominent Republican to endorse a California ballot measure that would fund human embryonic stem cell research in the state. | 3 |
Invesco, AIM Agree to \$450 Mln Settlement DENVER (Reuters) - Invesco Funds Group Inc. and affiliate AIM Advisors Inc. agreed to a \$450 million settlement with state and federal regulators to resolve probes of improper trading, officials and the parent company said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Roddick Qualifies for Masters Cup NEW YORK (Reuters) - Defending U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick has qualified for the end-of-season Tennis Masters Cup, tournament organizers announced on Tuesday. | 1 |
U.S. Stocks Close Higher as Crude Falls NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips closed at two-month highs on Tuesday as a fall in oil prices eased concerns that high energy costs would hurt corporate profits, but there was some caution as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday. | 2 |
Scientist: Extreme Weather Will Kill Millions (Reuters) Reuters - Millions of people across the\globe are set to die early due to extreme weather events such\as floods and heat waves caused by climate change, a British\scientist said Tuesday. | 3 |
Dementieva Ends Mauresmo's Title Hopes NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amelie Mauresmo's grand slam jinx struck again when she lost 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 to Russian Elena Dementieva in a dramatic U.S. Open quarter-final Tuesday. | 1 |
Battered Florida Counts the Cost After Frances (Reuters) Reuters - Floridians began mopping up on Tuesday\and counting the cost of Hurricane Frances' long, destructive\path through the state, and thousands of people joined long\lines for ice, water and fuel. | 3 |
Nev. 1st Touch-Screen, Paper-Trail Voters (AP) AP - In what could become a model for other states, Nevada voters on Tuesday became the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election on computers that printed paper records of electronic ballots. | 0 |
Dollar Off, Traders Cautious on Greenspan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar retreated against major currencies on Tuesday as investors took profits on sharp U.S. jobs data-related gains last week, turning cautious ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday. | 2 |
US Air Shares Sink, Pilots Reject Deal CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shares of US Airways Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UAIR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UAIR.O</A> slid as much as 23 percent on Tuesday after leaders of its pilots union rejected the company's latest contract proposal, dealing a blow to its attempt to avoid a second trip through bankruptcy. | 2 |
Israeli Armored Vehicles Mass in Gaza: Witnesses GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli armored vehicles backed by helicopters rolled into Palestinian-controlled areas of the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said. | 0 |
Researchers Release Tree Genome Database (AP) AP - A new database of tree genes has been released by Oregon and Swedish researchers in an effort to speed up basic and commercial research. | 3 |
Czechs Trounce Sweden to Reach World Cup Semi-Finals STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Czech Republic reached the World Cup semi-finals by outclassing Sweden 6-1 thanks to some efficient counter-attacking hockey on Tuesday. | 1 |
U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches Grim Milestone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after President Bush launched the war that has become a central issue in the November U.S. presidential elections. | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Pounds Eastern Caribbean Islands PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - Hurricane Ivan tore down trees, blew off roofs, knocked out power and forced hundreds of people to evacuate coastal areas as it pounded the tiny islands of the southeastern Caribbean on Tuesday. | 0 |
Marines Say Up to 100 Insurgents Killed in Falluja BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said on Tuesday that as many as 100 insurgents had been killed in fighting in the hotbed Iraqi town of Falluja. | 0 |
Some 60 Hippos Die Mysteriously in Uganda (AP) AP - Some 60 hippos have died from an unknown cause in the past two months in one of Uganda's national parks, an official said Tuesday. | 3 |
Hewitt Looks Toward Another U.S. Open Title Lleyton Hewitt eliminated Karol Beck, a 22-year-old Slovakian who was making his first Grand Slam appearance in the round of 16. | 1 |
U.S. Stocks Close Higher as Crude Falls <p></p><p> By Megan Davies</p><p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips closed at two-monthhighs on Tuesday as a fall in oil prices eased concerns thathigh energy costs would hurt corporate profits, but there wassome caution as investors awaited a speech by Federal ReserveChairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday.</p> | 2 |
U.S. to Meet Asian Allies, Chinese on N. Korea WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief U.S. negotiator on North Korea will hold discussions in Japan and China in the next few days aimed at organizing a fresh round of six-party talks on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs, a State Department official said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Turkish stocks soar on EU hopes Turkey's stock market closes at a record high on hopes the EU will soon invite Ankara to start entry talks. | 2 |
Fewer Asians live on less than \$1 a day But a new report from the Asian Development Bank also finds a growing gap between rich and poor. | 0 |
Rugby: Woodward for Lions The Lions committee confirms Sir Clive Woodward as coach for New Zealand tour. | 0 |
Dollar May Strengthen Versus Euro Ahead of Greenspan Testimony The dollar may rise against the euro in Asia for the first day this week on speculation Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will express optimism about the US economy in testimony before Congress today. | 2 |
Shock Hazard Prompts Lexmark Recall The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that Lexmark International has voluntarily recalled more than 39,400 laser printers, under the Lexmark, Dell and IBM brands, for their potential to deliver electrical shocks. | 3 |
Intel plots path of WiMax SAN FRANCISCO--Intel predicted three years of solid development in wireless broadband on Tuesday, as it showed the first samples of its Rosedale 802. | 3 |
Dolphins #39; FB Konrad has thigh surgery DAVIE, Fla. (Sept. 7, 2004) -- Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad had surgery to remove damaged tissue from his infected right thigh. | 1 |
FSU, Miami to battle as ACC rivals, this time MIAMI - Friday may mark No. 5 Miamis entrance into the Atlantic Coast Conference. However, you can forgive the Hurricanes if the game has a familiar feel to it. | 1 |
Coup plot inquiry moves to Guernsey bank The hunt for the financiers behind the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, which led to the arrest in South Africa of Sir Mark Thatcher, yesterday moved to the sedate surroundings of the royal court in St Peter Port, Guernsey. | 0 |
Ferdinand win Mercury Music Prize Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand win this year's Mercury Music Prize for their self-titled debut album. | 0 |
1 in 10 not so lucky with XP Service Pack Written by Net 4 Nowt AssetMetrix, an on-demand IT AssetIntelligence service, today announced a series of new reports that identify specific applications and hardware within a corporate infrastructure that may no longer work properly after the | 3 |
Market hots up with Napster To Go Napster has unveiled a preview version of its forthcoming Napster To Go portable digital music subscription service. The offering will allow consumers to move an unlimited amount of music from Napster #39;s catalogue | 3 |
Nokia woos the business market In an attempt to increase its share of the business market, the mobile phone maker Nokia on Tuesday announced a sleeker version of its Communicator smart phone and expanded the number of mobile phones equipped with the BlackBerry e-mail application, a | 3 |
UK Regulator: VoIP Will Benefit Consumers UK regulator Ofcom says the comparatively low cost of Voice over IP (VoIP) technology means that barriers to entry for new companies are lower than those in traditional telephony, so consumers | 3 |
Apache Balks At Microsoft #39;s Licensing In Anti-Spam Standard Sender <b>...</b> Sep. 03, 2004. The Apache Software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web server, said on Thursday that it wouldn #39;t support the proposed anti-spam standard | 3 |
Clinton Talking, Taking Liquids NEW YORK - Former President Clinton was alert and talking on Tuesday, a day after undergoing a heart operation to bypass four severely clogged arteries. Clinton remained in intensive care at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and was "resting comfortably," according to a statement by his office... | 0 |
CBO Projects \$442 Billion Federal Deficit WASHINGTON - The federal deficit will swell to a record \$422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the shortfall would shrink to \$348 billion next year - still the third worst ever in dollar terms... | 0 |
Russians Rally Against Terror, Bury Dead MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children. Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants... | 0 |
Dementieva Advances to U.S. Open Semis NEW YORK - Elena Dementieva shook off a subpar serve that produced 15 double-faults, an aching left thigh and an upset stomach to advance to the semifinals at the U.S. Open with a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (1) victory Tuesday over Amelie Mauresmo... | 0 |
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Pass 1,000 BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign passed 1,000 Tuesday, an Associated Press tally showed, as a spike in fighting with Sunni and Shiite insurgents killed seven Americans in the Baghdad area... | 0 |
Kerry Assails Deficit As Bush's Fault GREENSBORO, N.C. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday's projection of a record budget deficit this election year and the continuing movement of U.S... | 0 |
Intel plans for digital planet <strong>IDF Fall '04</strong> Think different, developers told | 3 |
Calif. to Sue Diebold Over False Claims SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=DBD.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">DBD.N</A> on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products. | 3 |
Wireless Technology to Rival Cable, DSL - Intel SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An emerging wireless communications technology called WiMAX, which can blanket entire cities with high-speed Internet connections, will rival DSL and cable as the preferred way to connect homes and businesses to the Internet, Intel Corp. said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Noah's Ark plan from top Moon man The European Space Agency's chief scientist sets out his vision for a DNA library on the Moon in case of emergency. | 3 |
Fund firms to pay \$450 million in market-timing case SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Invesco Funds Group and AIM Advisors agreed Tuesday to pay \$450 million in penalties and reduced fees to settle allegations that they allowed fraudulent trades in their mutual funds. | 2 |
HEWITT IMPRESSES IN BECK ROMP Lleyton Hewitt looked impressive once again as he cruised into the men #39;s quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday. The Australian fourth seed, champion here in 2001, was far too good for Slovakia #39;s Karol Beck. | 1 |
Sadr City Erupts Anew BAGHDAD, 8 September 2004 - Fierce fighting between followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and US forces in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City yesterday killed at least 37 people, including two American soldiers, and injured over 200. | 0 |
Aid workers abducted in brazen raid BAGHDAD - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad yesterday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings. | 0 |
Saturn's Death Star Lookalike Saturn's satellite, Mimas, can be imaged from afar and imagined up close, but its striking resemblance to the fictional Death Star from Star Wars gives the most dramatic view of its violent past. Astrobiology Magazine -- Lonely Mimas swings around Saturn, seeming to gaze down at the planet's splendid rings... | 3 |
Gemini Telescope Captures Galactic Contortionists While a terrestrial view of a galaxy might disguise the turbulent, changing mergers that fuel their formation, a famous cluster called Stephan's Quintet shows that seemingly immutable stars are always in flux. Astrobiology Magazine -- A stunning image released by the Gemini Observatory captures the graceful interactions of a galactic ballet, on a stage some 300 million light years away, that might better be described as a contortionist's dance... | 3 |
US Air hit by pilots #39; refusal on pay US Airways shares tumbled Tuesday over doubts that the airline can obtain \$800 million in wage and benefit cuts that it is seeking from its employees. | 2 |
Hewitt shuffles straight to last eight It might be viewed as a contradiction in terms to suggest that Australia #39;s Lleyton Hewitt, the 2001 US Open champion, was moving quietly along. | 1 |
Graeme Souness Profile As a player, Souness built up a fearsome reputation as a hard man of the game - many feel that his style of play, with more than the odd cynical foul thrown in, could never fit into the modern game. | 1 |
BYU: Berry may start at QB for Cougars Admitting he was not comfortable coming off the bench, Matt Berry may get his wish to be Brigham Young #39;s starting quarterback. | 1 |
France confirms delay of Iraqi president #39;s visit to France French Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday the delay of Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar #39;s visit to France, previously scheduled for Sept. | 0 |
China flood deaths mount to 143 At least 143 people have died in China in flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains, the official Xinhua new agency reports. | 0 |
Briefly: Push-to-talk wiretaps on feds' speed list roundup Plus: Tellabs scales back AFC buy...Top McAfee exec to step down...IDC says external disk storage up...Lawmakers to vote on spyware, piracy bills. | 3 |
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