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Sybase Offers Free Linux Database (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Sybase is offering a free version of its leading enterprise database management system for Linux. | 3 |
NHL Lockout Looming As Talks Break Off (AP) AP - The NHL and the players' association appeared headed toward a lockout when talks broke off Thursday after the union's first new proposal in nearly a year. | 1 |
Judge Won't Block Oracle Takeover Bid (AP) AP - A federal judge on Thursday rejected the government's attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s #36;7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc., concluding a combination between the business software makers wouldn't throttle competition in a narrow market niche. | 3 |
Air Force Coach Gets Five-Year Extension (AP) AP - Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry agreed to a five-year contract extension Thursday. | 1 |
Judge Rules for Oracle in PeopleSoft Bid SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Thursday gave Oracle Corp. a green light to proceed with its hostile bid to take over rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc., rejecting the government's bid to block the \$7.7 billion deal. | 2 |
Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water (AP) AP - It could be called a mechanical miracle #151; a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs. | 3 |
EDS Expects to Cut Up to 20,000 Jobs SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electronic Data Systems Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=EDS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">EDS.N</A>, one of the world's biggest computer services companies, is likely to cut up to 20,000 jobs over the next two years, the company's chief executive said on Thursday. | 2 |
Lockout Looms as NHL Players' Contract Offer Rejected TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League rejected an offer from the players in the latest round of labor negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a lockout start to the season next month. | 1 |
Divers Find Ancient Skeleton in Mexico (AP) AP - Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas, archaeologists announced at a seminar that was ending on Friday. | 3 |
Sindelar Grabs Lead at Rain-Hit Canadian Open OAKVILLE, Ontario (Reuters) - Joey Sindelar grabbed the first-round lead at the 100th Canadian Open on Thursday while new world number one Vijay Singh spent most of a rainy day signing autographs in the clubhouse. | 1 |
Panel Urges Sharing of Data on Germs (AP) AP - The value of freely sharing data on dangerous germs so vaccines and treatments can be developed outweighs the danger that bioterrorists may use the information to do harm, a scientific panel concluded Thursday. | 3 |
Lucrative, Rare Species Need Trade Protections -WWF (Reuters) Reuters - Booming global trade in rare forms of\wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African\lizards is threatening many of them with extinction,\conservation group WWF said on Thursday. | 3 |
Hurricane Ivan Roars Toward Jamaica (Reuters) Reuters - Jamaicans scrambled for\supplies and fortified their homes as a ferocious Hurricane\Ivan swept nearer with 150 mph winds on Thursday after killing\at least 20 people on the tiny spice island of Grenada. | 3 |
Fed on Tightening Path, Unfazed by Oil SEATTLE (Reuters) - The surge in oil prices over the summer was not enough to derail the U.S. economy and the central bank sees no reason to pause in its interest-rate rises just yet, top Fed officials said on Thursday. | 2 |
Saint Joseph's Extends Martelli's Contract PHILADEPHIA (Sports Network) - Saint Joseph's University extended the contract of men's basketball coach Phil Martelli on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the new contract will keep Martelli on Hawk Hill through at least the 2011-12 season. | 1 |
Dollar Shoots Up Vs Yen on Weak Japan GDP TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar shot up against the yen on Friday following a surprisingly weak figure for Japanese revised gross domestic product in the second quarter that raised concerns Japan's economy may be slowing. | 2 |
Clippers Sign Top Pick Livingston LOS ANGELES (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Clippers signed first-round draft pick Shaun Livingston to a contract Thursday. As per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. | 1 |
Visteon Warns on Earnings CHICAGO (Reuters) - Visteon Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=VC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">VC.N</A> warned on Thursday that second half results will be well below prior forecasts as its major customer Ford Motor Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=F.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">F.N</A> cuts production, and steel and fuel costs climb. | 2 |
Women's Tour Shorten Season Under 'Roadmap 2010' NEW YORK (Reuters) - The women's tennis circuit is to be shortened next year in an effort to give the players a longer off-season, the tour's governing body announced on Thursday. | 1 |
Germ Study Suggests Bloodletting May Work (AP) AP - Could that ancient practice of bleeding patients really have done some good? A scientist says new research on how germs thrive in the body suggests it just may have #151; for some people. | 3 |
Federer Beats Agassi to Reach Open Semifinals Roger Federer posted a huge win in the howling wind, beating two-time champion Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. | 1 |
Hurricane Blows Dolphins vs. Titans to Saturday The Miami Dolphins' opening game against the Tennessee Titans will be played Saturday instead of Sunday because of approaching Hurricane Ivan. | 1 |
Cracker Barrel Settling Discrimination Suits The country-cooking restaurant chain has agreed to pay \$8.7 million over allegations that it segregated black customers, subjected them to racial slurs and gave black workers inferior jobs. | 2 |
Tech Stocks End Higher, Oil Prices Climb <p></p><p> By Megan Davies</p><p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. technology stocks gained onThursday after bellwether Nokia raised its earnings forecast,but blue chips slipped as oil prices climbed almost \$2 perbarrel, increasing concerns about future corporate profits.</p> | 2 |
Cost of Insuring Workers' Health Increases 11.2 It was the fourth consecutive year of double-digit increases in health insurance premiums, which has resulted in a decline in the number of insured workers. | 2 |
OpenSSH Gateways with ProxyCommand \\Lets say you have a cluster of machines behind a firewall or lack IP address\space for a unique frontend IP for all your boxes.\\You need to SSH into any one of the machines but first you need to manually SSH\into a gateway machine and then SSH into your target machines. This is a major\pain as it involves a lot of wasted time and keystrokes. \\Worse yet the standard scp and rsync tools won't work with SSH (and neither will\any other SSH pipe commands) to your target box.\\Luckily OpenSSH has a ProxyCommand configuration option that allows you to proxy\into your gateway, then forward all packets via this proxy.\\In order to do this you need 'netcat' installed and if you're on debian this c ...\\ | 3 |
Intel Sees Web Buckling, Invests in New Systems SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=INTC.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">INTC.O</A> on Thursday outlined its vision of the Internet of the future, one in which millions of computer servers would analyze and direct network traffic to make the Web safer and more efficient. | 3 |
EDS to cut up to 20,000 jobs over two years The embattled IT services giant is trying to trim \$3 billion in annual costs. | 3 |
Microsoft ready to ship Virtual Server Product will allow a server to run multiple operating systems, or multiple copies of the same operating system at a single time | 3 |
Cisco to acquire IT management firm The networking giant will pay \$128 million in cash for NetSolve, which manages information technology systems. | 3 |
Oracle wins antitrust case Judge rejects Justice Department charges, allowing Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft to continue. | 3 |
What's next for Oracle? CNET News.com answers your questions about the court case that set the software maker against the U.S. Department of Justice. | 3 |
Oracle v. DOJ: Oracle wins special coverage Oracle prevails in pursuit of PeopleSoft buy, as judge rejects Justice Department's antitrust arguments. | 3 |
Students, college face off over Wi-Fi University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network. | 3 |
FCC frees up spectrum for 3G Regulators set aside additional bandwidth for third-generation cell phones and other advanced wireless services. | 3 |
The Woz has got game Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak joins advisory board of start-up Eye Games. | 3 |
Qualcomm pays \$170 million for display start-up The wireless company buys a majority stake in Iridigm, developer of a brighter, low-cost alternative to LCD screens. | 3 |
No. 1 Illinois 78, Chicago St. 59 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Luther Head scored 17 points and Dee Brown added 15 points and nine assists as Illinois celebrated its new No. 1 ranking with a 78-59 victory over Chicago State on Monday night. | 1 |
A new handshake for mini hard drives? Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics. | 3 |
Nokia's take on '20s glamour Nokia on Thursday announced three new camera phones that it says are inspired by the style of the 1920s. One model in particular is described by the Finnish phone giant as "Garbo-esque" in its design character (that would be the 7270). All three handsets are shown here in art released by the company. | 3 |
Update: Judge rules for Oracle in PeopleSoft case NEW YORK - The judge presiding over the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s proposed takeover of rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc. ruled in Oracle's favor on Thursday, removing one obstacle preventing the hostile acquisition. | 3 |
IBM opens Linux center in Brazil SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. will spend more than \$1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end. | 3 |
DemoMobile highlights service-based computing SAN DIEGO -- At this year's DemoMobile 2004 conference here, the pulse of the wireless industry is registering a move toward service-based computing, which is about delivering applications and data from a managed platform to a variety of secure devices. | 3 |
Cisco to acquire network monitoring provider NetSolve SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco Systems Inc. channel partners will be able to offer real-time monitoring of enterprises' networks after the company agreed to acquire NetSolve Inc., the networking giant said Thursday. | 3 |
Back-to-school, politics spur spam to new heights BOSTON - Spurred by back-to-school sales and political pitches, spam e-mail accounted for 82 percent of all the inbound e-mail processed during August, and made up 90 percent of all mail sent during one spam-filled day last month, according to an e-mail security firm. | 3 |
Japanese team claims optical breakthrough TOKYO - Scientists from Fujitsu Ltd. and The University of Tokyo have developed a laser that is capable of maintaining a stable output over a wide temperature range at speeds and frequencies useful for optical communications, the research team said Friday. The device could enable the creation of optical networking equipment that is smaller, cheaper and consumes less power than current devices, the leader of the research team said. | 3 |
Emulex, Snap aid IBM storage effort Emulex has introduced a new entry-level line of SAN switch products designed for small and midsize businesses and small departmental SAN applications in a large enterprise. The new line has already been adopted by IBM for its recently introduced TotalStorage DS400, an entry-level Fibre Channel storage array announced last week. | 3 |
US Open champ tops Els, Appleby by 6 SUN CITY, South Africa -- South Africa #39;s Retief Goosen claimed his first Sun City Golf Challenge title Sunday at the Gary Player Country Club. | 1 |
Canon Unveils a Cavalcade of Printers Topping the list of new models is a \$999 color laser multifunction printer. | 3 |
Intel Keeps Its Eye on the Internet In a future with millions of users and devices taxing the Net, Intel-based servers will help out. | 3 |
Court Quashes Government #39;s Case Against Oracle Let the bidding begin! A federal judge Thursday rejected a government attempt to block Oracle #39;s proposed takeover of rival PeopleSoft. | 2 |
AZ hit by drug-induced depression Shares in AstraZeneca fell 109p to 25.10 yesterday on news that its potential blockbuster drug offering stroke prevention, Exanta, might face delays in getting American approval. | 2 |
Santander tightens its grip on Abbey Banco Santander Central Hispano yesterday began to sever its 15-year ties with Royal Bank of Scotland to clear the way for its proposed 8. | 2 |
English players snub media after victory CHORZOW: The England football team staged a silent protest over recent press criticism, refusing to be interviewed after their 2-1 World Cup win over Poland here on Wednesday. | 1 |
Schu calls for more safety And he said he has shaken off the effects of his high speed crash here seven days ago. But the German Ferrari driver, a member of the Grand Prix Drivers #39; Association (GPDA), insisted further changes must be | 1 |
Lockout Looms as NHL Players #39; Contract Offer Rejected The National Hockey League rejected an offer from the players in the latest round of labor negotiations Thursday, leaving little hope of avoiding a lockout start to the season next month. | 1 |
Revival That Starts With Stars on Sidelines For all the hoopla surrounding last night #39;s Patriots-Colts opener, the National Football Conference East has pro football #39;s marquee sidelines: the Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs returning to | 1 |
Here are some real sleepers to watch I #39;ve had about all I can stand of the most overused football term since quot;West Coast Offense. quot; And that #39;s quot;fantasy sleeper. | 1 |
One boy dies of bird flu disease in Thailand A boy has died of bird flu virus in Thailand #39;s central Prachinburi province, bringing the death toll from the epidemic in Asia to 28, the official Thai News Agency reported here on Thursday. | 0 |
Update 3: Japan Revises April-June GDP Data Down Japan #39;s economy grew 0.3 percent in April-June from the previous quarter, less than the 0.4 percent growth rate initially estimated, the government said Friday. | 0 |
Rainy NFL Pre-Game Show Goes Smoothly (AP) AP - Elton John kept his red top on during the NFL's first on-field musical show since part of Janet's Jackson's black top came off at the Super Bowl. | 1 |
Review: Campaign Finance Web Sites (AP) AP - As a Washington journalist during the 90s, I made frequent treks to the Federal Election Commission to inspect cabinets full of campaign-finance reports to find out who was giving to whom. | 3 |
Judge Rules for Oracle in PeopleSoft Bid SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Software maker Oracle on Thursday got the green light from a U.S. federal judge for its \$7.7 billion takeover of smaller rival PeopleSoft Inc., sending PeopleSoft shares up 15 percent. | 2 |
Scientists Try to Use Genesis Wreckage (AP) AP - Scientists tried to pry apart a mangled NASA space capsule in hopes of salvaging its precious cargo of solar atoms Thursday, a day after the saucer-shaped probe crashed in the Utah desert. | 3 |
NASA: Station's Oxygen Generator Fails (AP) AP - The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply next week, NASA said Thursday. | 3 |
US chides Seoul on nuclear tests The US warns South Korea to expect no favours after it admits conducting secret nuclear experiments. | 0 |
Morning Sky This Weekend is Sparkling For the first time in almost two years, there are no bright planets in the evening sky. You might as well stay inside and eat dinner. The morning sky, on the other hand, is sparkling. Mercury. Venus. Saturn. A slender crescent Moon. The luminous stars of Orion. They're all on display in the days ahead: Sept. 10th through 12th. | 3 |
Space Station's Oxygen Generator Fails CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply next week, NASA said Thursday... | 3 |
Scientists Follow Doomed Matter on a Ride Around a Black Hole Cambridge University -- Scientists have pieced together the journey of a bundle of doomed matter as it orbited a black hole four times, an observational first. Their technique provides a new method to measure the mass of a black hole; and this may enable the testing of Einstein's theory of gravity to a degree few thought possible... | 3 |
Most Americans Believe They Have Good Eating Habits By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON (AP) -- Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they are careful about what they eat, and even more say diet is essential to good health, according to a new nationwide health poll in which obesity ranked second among the biggest health concerns... | 3 |
Heart Disease Awareness May Create High Anxiety By DAVID HAMMER LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The attention that former President Clinton's heart surgery has drawn to problems of the circulatory system could have a negative side, experts say... | 3 |
Extinction May Have Trickle-Down Effect WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones. A team of researchers led by Lian Pin Koh of the National University of Singapore studied some 12,200 plants and animals considered threatened or endangered, and calculated that an additional 6,300 dependent insects, mites, fungi and other species could be considered endangered... | 3 |
Women Are Making Inroads in Video Game Industry Jennifer Canada knew she was entering a boy's club when she enrolled in Southern Methodist University's Guildhall school of video game making. There's one woman besides Canada; the other 98 students were all guys. She jokes the ratio may be great for dating, but she sometimes got lonely. | 3 |
North Sea oil decline widens trade gap The steady decline in output from the North Sea pushed Britain to a deficit in oil trade for the first time in 13 years in July, and widened the overall trade deficit to its worst since January. | 2 |
Solar prize crash-lands An ambitious plan to pluck a falling space capsule from the sky with helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots went awry when the capsule #39;s parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert. | 3 |
Saturn reveals new ring and moon Images of Saturn sent back to Earth by the Cassini spacecraft reveal a newly discovered ring and at least one new moon, scientists say. | 3 |
Another 6000 species threatened with extinction MORE than 6000 plants, insects and animals should be added to the list of the world #39;s endangered species, according to a study published yesterday. | 3 |
Henman making surprising Open run Imagine defending US Open champ Andy Roddick reaching his peak eight years from now. Unfathomable. Roddick playing better as a 30-year old than at 22? | 1 |
Kenseth dominates IROCs short-track debut Matt Kenseth turned the all-star International Race of Champions series into a one-star event Thursday night. Taking the lead on the sixth of 90 laps, Kenseth raced comfortably in front | 1 |
US urges Americans to avoid Grenada WASHINGTON -- The US government is urging its citizens to avoid travel to Grenada, Cuba, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica in light of Hurricane Ivan. | 0 |
New al-Qaida Tape Airs Two days before the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a new tape from an Osama bin Laden deputy has aired. The al-Qaida man says US forces have been driven into the quot;trenches #39; #39; in Afghanistan. | 0 |
School raiders #39; nationality identified Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as being from Chechnya, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years. | 0 |
McLaren Pleased With Boro Outburst Middlesbrough manager Steven McClaren was delighted by his team #39;s offensive output against Manchester City Monday night. Striker Mark Viduka scored twice, and his striker partner Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored the other in a 3-2 win. | 1 |
Questions Raised About Bush Guard Service (AP) AP - New documents unearthed in the midst of the presidential campaign fill in some blanks but raise other questions about the sometimes mysterious and spotty story of President Bush's military service during Vietnam when he won a coveted spot in the Texas Air National Guard and avoided the war. | 0 |
Army Says C.I.A. Hid More Iraqis Than It Claimed Army jailers in Iraq kept dozens of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison off official rosters to hide them from Red Cross inspectors. | 0 |
From Dismal Chechnya, Women Turn to Bombs The participation of Chechen women in suicide attacks reflects the radicalization of a war that has turned increasingly nihilistic. | 0 |
Electronic Data May Cut 20,000 Jobs to Save \$3 Bln (Update1) Electronic Data Systems Corp., the world #39;s second-largest seller of computer services, may cut as many as 20,000 jobs to help save \$3 billion within the next three years, Chief Executive Officer Michael Jordan said. | 2 |
FDA questions AstraZeneca #39;s Exanta NEW YORK, September 9 (New Ratings) - The FDA has raised questions regarding AstraZenecas (AZN.NYS) blood thinner, Exanta. The leading pharmaceutical companys hopes had been pinned on Exanta, which | 2 |
Britain #39;s trade gap widens as oil imports hit record high Britain #39;s international trade gap widened in July as it ran up a monthly deficit on its oil balance for the first time in more than a decade,official figures showed Thursday. | 2 |
Pieces of space capsule picked up Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren #39;t completely lost in Utah #39;s salt flats. | 3 |
Intel issues dire warning about internet #39;s future SAN FRANCISCO - Intel has outlined its vision of the internet of the future, one in which millions of computer servers would analyse and direct network traffic to make the Web safer and more efficient. | 3 |
Microsoft, ISV Partners Gear Up For Virtual Server 2005 Microsoft will join with ISV partners Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Computer Associates International and Veritas Software to unveil a host of management add-ons for its Virtual Server 2005, which will launch next week. | 3 |
PeopleSoft flap may be hurting Oracle #39;s image Oracle #39;s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft has fueled negative perceptions of the software company among corporate computer buyers, which could sap demand for its products, according to a report published on Wednesday. | 3 |
GAME DAY PREVIEW Game time: 7:00 PM CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Ticker) -- A pair of teams fighting for a postseason berth meet in Charlotte on Thursday when the Sting face the Sacramento Monarchs. | 1 |
Briefly: The Woz has got game roundup Plus: Opera browsing, as seen on TV...EdgeStream introduces IPTV platform...Dolby, Intel sound off for developers. | 3 |
OAUG pushes on collaboration with Oracle, other users groups SEPTEMBER 09, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The Oracle Application User Group (OAUG) plans to hold its Connection Point 2004 annual user conference next week in Orlando, with an emphasis on educating members about the 10g database and 11i. | 3 |
Yankees Sweep Devil Rays in Doubleheader (AP) AP - Gary Sheffield and Tony Clark each drove in two runs during a seven-run second inning, and the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep of the sinking Tampa Bay Devil Rays with a 10-5 victory Thursday night. | 1 |
Jakarta Embassy Blast Kills 9, Hurts 173 (AP) AP - Suspected Muslim militants detonated a car bomb Thursday outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, killing nine people and wounding 173 in a bloody strike at a key U.S. ally in the war in Iraq. | 0 |
Bush Warns of 'Hidden Kerry Tax Plan' (AP) AP - President Bush on Thursday blamed the Clinton administration for the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and warned against backing the Democratic ticket in November because of a "hidden Kerry tax plan." | 0 |
S.Korea FM: No Optimism on Nuclear Talks with North SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is working with its diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries agreed at the previous session in June. | 0 |
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