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M S in talks to offload website Marks Spencer is poised to farm out its online retail business and is talking to a number of interested parties, the High Street retailer says. | 2 |
Dillon experiences a whole new feeling There weren't many times during the course of his Cincinnati Bengals career when Corey Dillon left the locker room satisfied after a game. | 1 |
Last team standing They were like two great heavyweights slugging away, neither willing to take a backward step or bend to the other's demands. | 1 |
It's no tossup, nod goes to Brady Who's better, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning? That was one question prior to last night's game between the Patriots and Colts at Gillette Stadium. The proof was provided on the field, and Brady was the answer. | 1 |
Forces secure area While Toby Keith wailed country and western, and Gillette Stadium sizzled with excitement, Captain Rick Maloney stood at his post, a machine gun hanging from his neck. | 1 |
Ali: Boxing needs US commission Muhammad Ali asked Congress yesterday to create a US Boxing Commission, saying oversight by the federal government is needed to protect boxers from exploitation and injury. Ali's testimony before a congressional panel was read by his wife, Lonnie Ali , because he suffers from Parkinson's disease. quot;Reform measures are unlikely to succeed, quot; Ali said, quot;unless a US Boxing Commission is ... | 1 |
Disney Confirms Eisner to Leave in 2006 Michael Eisner will leave the Walt Disney company in 2006 when his contract expires, the company said today. | 2 |
Where Are the Superinvestors? Whitney Tilson argues that the exceptional money managers are in hedge funds. | 2 |
No Warning for Procter Gamble The company is reasonably certain that it can maintain previously issued earnings guidance. | 2 |
Were You Ready for Some Football? Disney kicks off another season of Monday Night Football -- on a Thursday. | 2 |
Stocks Fall on Alcoa, Visteon Warnings NEW YORK - Investors worried about third quarter earnings looked past a surprise drop in wholesale prices, keeping stocks mixed Friday. Blue-chips dropped on profit warnings from Dow component Alcoa Inc... | 0 |
Jamaicans Flee As Ivan Approaches; 23 Dead ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan bore down on Jamaica on Friday with deadly winds and monstrous waves, after leaving Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses and twisted metal and setting off a frenzy of looting... | 0 |
Questions Surface About Bush Memos WASHINGTON - Questions are being raised about the authenticity of newly unearthed memos which asserted that George W. Bush ignored a direct order from a superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard and lost his status as a pilot because he failed to meet military performance standards and undergo a required physical exam... | 0 |
Stocks Expected to Fall on Alcoa Report NEW YORK - Stock prices were expected to drop after the opening bell Friday as investors stay cautious on the corporate earnings picture, with Alcoa Inc. likely casting a shadow in early trading... | 0 |
Man Gets 6 Months for Swinging Alligator DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A man who swung an alligator at his girlfriend during an argument was sentenced to six months in jail... | 0 |
Cisco and Fujitsu team up TOKYO: Fujitsu Ltd and Cisco Systems Inc have agreed to form a strategic alliance, focusing on routers and switches that will enable businesses to build advanced Internet Protocol (IP) networks. | 3 |
Metcash bids for Foodland SYDNEY: Metcash Trading Ltd has launched an A\$846mil bid for the Australian local arm of rival Foodland Associated with the aim of cementing its position as the country #39;s third food and liquor chain. | 2 |
Linux poised for move from data centre to desktop - report Clearly viable on server, client to follow within two years | 3 |
Orange to ship Wi-Fi Pocket 'in October' <strong>Update</strong> M2000 same as XDA IIs, VPA III, MDA III | 3 |
M S in talks to offload website Marks Spencer is poised to farm out its online retail business, the High Street retailer says. | 3 |
Ivan Bears Down on Jamaica with 150 Mph Winds Strengthening More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise. | 0 |
Propects for NKorea nuclear talks clouded: South Korean FM SEOUL : South Korea #39;s foreign minister indicated Friday that prospects had diminished for proposed six-way talks later this month to end North Korea #39;s nuclear weapons drive. | 0 |
Israel Locks Down Palestinians JERUSALEM Sept. 10, 2004 - Settler leaders accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday of bringing the country to the brink of civil war with his plans to evacuate Jewish settlements. | 0 |
Aid workers ready to quit after Baghdad kidnapping BAGHDAD - Foreign aid workers have bolted their doors, hired more guards and installed spy cameras outside their offices here, and are considering whether to quit Iraq altogether following the kidnapping of two relief workers. | 0 |
Atomic confession no bar to talks TOKYO: Japan, South Korea, and the US have agreed six-nation talks on North Korea #39;s nuclear drive would take place this month as planned, despite Seoul #39;s admission of secret atomic research, a Japanese official said. | 0 |
Microsoft Sees Music Opportunity in Cell Phones AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S. software giant Microsoft is aiming to get its audio and video software into mobile phones before it is beaten to the 650-million-handsets-a-year market by rivals like Apple. | 3 |
Phone Firms Rush to Get TV on Mobile Phones AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Europeans came a step closer to having television on their mobile phones on Friday when two groups of companies announced plans to push forward with consumer trials and establish a standard for the technology. | 3 |
Oracle's Wish Comes True Now that a judge has ruled against the federal government's effort to thwart Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft over antitrust concerns, the tech sector could see a rash of acquisition attempts.\<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Tech Firms Announce Video Anti-Piracy Technology <p>\</p><p> LONDON (Reuters) - NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson said\on Friday they will develop new encryption technology to foil\video piracy, a \$3.5 billion problem for broadcasters and movie\studios.</p> | 3 |
Cannabis study encouraging for MS A study of cannabis-based drugs shows long-term benefit in easing multiple sclerosis symptoms, scientists say. | 3 |
Females 'work harder for degrees' \Female undergraduates work harder and are more open-minded than males, leading to better results, say scientists. | 3 |
Cassini Discovers Ring and One, Possibly Two, Objects at Saturn Jet Propulsion Lab -- Scientists examining Saturn's contorted F ring, which has baffled them since its discovery, have found one small body, possibly two, orbiting in the F ring region, and a ring of material associated with Saturn's moon Atlas. A small object was discovered moving near the outside edge of the F ring, interior to the orbit of Saturn's moon Pandora... | 3 |
Grace Gravity Mission Weighs in on Earth's Changing Climate Jet Propulsion Lab -- For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that precise measurements of Earth's changing gravity field can effectively monitor changes in the planet's climate and weather. This finding comes from more than a year's worth of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or Grace... | 3 |
Adult ADHD Costs Billions in Lost Income While attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is widely perceived as a children's disorder, many adults struggle with it, too. It costs adult sufferers billions of dollars each year in lost wages and in the inability to hold steady jobs, making it one of the nation's more costly health problems. | 3 |
Ears Work in Stereo Before Brain Does By Serena Gordon, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- Depending on the type of sound you hear -- such as speech or music -- one ear may be more adeptly processing that information and sending it to a part of the brain specialized to hear that type of sound. That's the conclusion of a study in the Sept... | 3 |
New Labels Can Tout Heart-Healthy Foods WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fish, fowl, baby formula and any other conventional food products that contain two types of omega-3 fatty acids can market the fat's heart-healthy effect, regulators said Wednesday. The fatty acids covered by the Food and Drug Administration's ruling are EPA, or eiscosapentaenoic acid, and DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid... | 3 |
The long march to Longhorn In Microsoft's quest for better search, says CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti, there's been no end to the potholes and detours. | 3 |
IBM to launch Linux-only Power servers OpenPower line to make debut Monday as Big Blue looks beyond the chip's high-end niche, CNET News.com has learned. | 3 |
'Thinking Cap' Controls Computer in New Experiment WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four people were able to control a computer using their thoughts and an electrode-studded "thinking cap," U.S. researchers reported on Monday. | 3 |
McAfee's Trojan horse error gets developer's goat A software developer whose program was accidentally labeled a threat is considering action against the antivirus company. | 3 |
Nokia to offer phones with 'old world' styling One of the new handsets invokes Garbo, according to the Finnish phone giant. Another is described as "sleek and sexy." | 3 |
Dell hopes support hubs will improve service delivery Dell Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to open IT support hubs worldwide to improve its service delivery to buyers of its servers, storage devices and workstations. Although the hubs are aimed primarily at enterprise customers, they will also cover consumers and small and midsize businesses. | 3 |
European Commission clears HP's bid for Synstar BRUSSELS -- The European Commission has cleared Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to buy U.K. IT services provider Synstar PLC, the Commission announced on Friday. | 3 |
Dell Cuts Prices on Many U.S. Corporate Products SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=DELL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">DELL.O</A> on Monday said it had cut prices by as much as fifth for a range of products aimed at U.S. corporate customers, as the computer maker passed along savings from cheaper components. | 3 |
Hitachi and Intel join on mobile phone drives Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) and Intel Corp. are pushing the development of an interface technology that they hope will smooth the adoption of compact hard-disk drives (HDDs) into mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital music players, the companies said on Friday. | 3 |
Judge's decision means uncertain future for PeopleSoft One year ago at PeopleSoft Inc.'s Connect user conference, Chief Executive Officer Craig Conway took the stage to assure several thousand PeopleSoft customers that Oracle Corp.'s then three-month-old bid for control of PeopleSoft had failed. When he stands before the crowd at this year's Connect gathering later this month, he'll have a harder time making the case that Oracle's lingering campaign isn't harming PeopleSoft. | 3 |
Altnet Fights Back, Sues RIAA Peer-to-peer company accuses RIAA and its partners of infringing upon its patents. | 3 |
ViewSonic Delves Into Video Networking Send your video throughout your house--wirelessly--with new gateways and media adapters. | 3 |
Microsoft's New Mice Get Touchy Latest line of keyboards and mice include some with fingerprint readers for added security. | 3 |
Controversial File-Trading Bill Moves Forward Proposed law would allow more people to be charged with criminal copyright violations. | 3 |
MIT Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water By MIKE CRISSEY PITTSBURGH (AP) -- It could be called a mechanical miracle - 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 |
Many Web Sites Keep Tabs on Campaign Giving By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK (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. Though some data were available through a proprietary online system, those \$20-per-hour access fees added up... | 3 |
Italian Mobile Phone Deal Seen Telecom Italia will approve a plan to buy the 44 percent it does not own of its mobile phone unit, Telecom Italia Mobile. | 2 |
Judge Rules Oracle Can Pursue PeopleSoft Takeover The ruling yesterday came more than 15 months after Oracle made its initial surprise offer for PeopleSoft. The past year has been marked by numerous legal maneuvers and verbal grenades tossed | 2 |
Eisner to retire from Disney in #39;06 Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Co., will leave the company in 2006, The Associated Press is reporting. | 2 |
US Airways pilots hold emergency meeting Pilots at US Airways Group Inc. are slated hold an emergency meeting Friday, a few days after their union leadership rejected an airline proposal for significant wage and work-rule concessions. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Goodyear to cut 340 jobs, take charge Goodyear Tire amp; Rubber Co. (GT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it will cut 340 jobs in its engineered products and chemical units as part of its cost-reduction efforts, resulting in a third-quarter charge. | 2 |
Yukos facing licences axe Russia #39;s Resources Ministry will decide in two weeks whether to revoke the production licences of oil major Yukos key Siberian unit Yugansk after it stopped paying taxes, a ministry source said Friday. | 2 |
Intel hopes to help build Internet of the Future Intel #39;s Chief Technology Officer, Pat Gelsinger, implied that the Internet needs upgrading, and his company is ready to assist. | 3 |
The long march to Longhorn It #39;s not just because I #39;m tired of the bovine references and the quot;shorthorn quot; jokes. No, the problem is that the future version of Windows formerly known as Longhorn in many ways won #39;t resemble the Longhorn | 3 |
Sudan Rejects US Charges of Genocide in Darfur Sudan #39;s Foreign Minister has rejected US assertion that the violence in Western Darfur region fits the definition of genocide. | 0 |
Hong Kong set for record vote Veteran Hong Kong activist Leung Kwok-hung, better known as quot;Long Hair quot;, campaigns for pro-democracy votes. Picture:AFP. | 0 |
45 dead in raid on #39;closed #39; township BAGHDAD: The northern Iraqi town of Tall Afar, branded by the US military a den of foreign fighters, remained shut to the outside world last night after a massive US-led air and ground assault killed at least 45 people. | 0 |
Africa vows to stop Darfur carnage Displaced Sudanese women and children ride their donkeys at a camp in Darfur. Picture:Reuters. Children are being targeted in the latest abuses in Darfur, writes Pamela Bone in Addis Ababa. | 0 |
One Way Link Building Secures Search Engine Ranking Results One Way Link Building Secures Search Engine Ranking Results\\One-way link building is a great way to improve your link popularity and ranking in the search engines. One-way links are more difficult to obtain than traditional reciprocal links, but pay off in securing solid long-term search engine ranking results.\\Why Are One-Way ... | 3 |
British warships en route to Jamaica as Hurricane Ivan closes in (AFP) AFP - Two British warships in the Caribbean sailed for Jamaica, prepared to give whatever help they can as the island braced for a direct hit from deadly Hurricane Ivan. | 0 |
Blue Chip Stocks Fall, Techs Rise NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chip stocks were lower on Friday after a profit warning from aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AA.N</A>, but technology stocks edged higher after a judge rejected a government bid to block a takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PSFT.O</A> by Oracle Corp.<A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A>. | 2 |
Genes, Biology Important in Obesity Fight (AP) AP - Apart from upbringing and environment, scientists are discovering that genes and biology are more important in the fight against obesity than previously believed. | 3 |
Dollar Weighed Down by PPI, Trade Reports NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar eased against major currencies on Friday, as analysts fretted over the U.S. trade deficit number for July, which came in narrower than expected, but was still the second-highest on record. | 2 |
Extinct Species Take Others Along, Study Finds (Reuters) Reuters - More than 6,000 species of\butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and\assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out\when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said on\Thursday. | 3 |
Arctic Science Mission Faces Cold War-Style Hurdles (Reuters) Reuters - The early-morning\splash in the Bering Strait off the Russian coast should have\been bigger given the diplomatic wrangling that led up to it. | 3 |
Russia to launch Beslan inquiry Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges to back a parliamentary commission into the Beslan school siege. | 0 |
Cott Pops Up Again The generic soda maker says things that investors didn't like in July -- but the stock rises this time. | 2 |
Judge Tosses Pa. Child Porn-Blocking Law A federal judge threw out on Friday a Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites containing child pornography, saying the law was unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. | 3 |
Shiite Clergy Push Vote As Iraq's nationwide elections near, the clergy has led an unprecedented mobilization of the Shiite majority population. The momentum they have created has made a delay in the ballot difficult, if not impossible. | 0 |
ISP Telenor cripples zombie PC network Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or "zombie," computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider (ISP) Telenor ASA stumbled on the illicit network by tracing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communications from compromised customer PCs on its system. | 3 |
Take a Note--Or Lots of Them EverNote offers a slick way to collect and retrieve random information on multiple devices. | 3 |
Software Stocks Bounce After Oracle Ruling Software stocks rose on Friday on speculation there may be more mergers in the industry after a US judge allowed Oracle Corp. to proceed with its takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. | 2 |
Alcan shares fall after rival Alcoa profit warning Shares of Alcan Inc. (AL.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (AL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) tumbled almost 5 percent on Friday morning, after rival aluminum-maker Alcoa (AA. | 2 |
Trade Gap Narrows But Still 2nd Highest The US trade deficit narrowed more than expected in July, but still was the second highest on record at \$50.1 billion even though imports dropped for the first time in 10 months and exports leapt higher, the US government said on | 2 |
Cott Pops Up Again Shares of generic soda company Cott (NYSE: COT) bubbled up more than 5 yesterday following some upbeat announcements from CEO John Sheppard, who presented at a Prudential Securities conference in Boston. | 2 |
FCC: Broadband Usage on the Rise The number of broadband Internet subscribers in the US has tripled since 2001, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission. | 3 |
-Posted by david.berlind 8:17 am (PDT) Research in Motion has announced its latest BlackBerry phone, aka the BlackBerry 7100t. The phone isnt due to ship until October and test units are just getting into reviewers hands (Im waiting for mine right now. | 3 |
Skype for Pocket PC Allows Free VoIP Phone Calls Skype Technologies has launched Skype for Pocket PC Version 1.0, which allows users to make Skype voice calls for free using Wi-Fi wireless networking. | 3 |
Officials Show They Will Enforce Contact Rule Yes, officials will do as instructed this season and crack down on clutching-and-grabbing tactics by defensive backs. That was the early message from the New England Patriots #39; 27-24 triumph over | 1 |
Vodafone, England Cricket Sponsor, Misses Out During Tournament England #39;s cricket players started their Champions Trophy match without Vodafone Group Plc #39;s logo on their uniforms for the first time this year because the world #39;s biggest mobile phone | 1 |
Santa Cruz out with knee injury Munich, Germany (Sports Network) - Bayern Munich will be without striker Roque Santa Cruz for up to six weeks due to knee surgery. | 1 |
Sindelar seizes lead at weather-ravaged Canadian Open Veteran Joey Sindelar has made the Bell Canadian Open one of his favorites stops on the PGA Tour. After Thursday #39;s opening round, it is easy to see why. | 1 |
Michigan #39;s Manning leads by example By committing to change, he goes from special teams to starter. BY JOHN HEUSER. Plenty of Wolverines are quot;battling to start quot; at certain positions, or quot;challenging for time quot; at others. | 1 |
Israeli Hard-Liners Denounce Gaza Disengagement Plan A large number of prominent Israeli hard-liners are describing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon #39;s plan to dismantle Jewish settlements in Gaza and a small portion of the West Bank as a quot;crime against humanity. | 0 |
#39;Patience, perseverance must be keynotes to resolve Kashmir #39; Islamabad, Sept. 10 (PTI): Contending that linking progress on talks on Kashmir to measure the success of the Indo-Pak dialogue process could lead to frustration and deadlock, the Pakistani media has said | 0 |
Els Trails by One Stroke at Korean Open (AP) AP - Ernie Els shot a 3-under-par 69 to trail Terry Pilkadaris of Australia by one stroke after the second round of the Korean Open on Friday. | 1 |
Coffee pact aims to help growers Four of the big coffee houses sign a new agreement that aims to improve conditions in growing countries by offering the best producers a higher price for their beans. | 2 |
Eisner to Step Down as Disney Chief in 2006 Michael D. Eisner told the board of directors Thursday that he plans to step down in two years. | 2 |
Book Value Bargains Irrational markets can create buying opportunities for those watching the right numbers. | 2 |
Lessons Airlines Can Learn From PCs Without radical strategic change, the legacy carriers won't survive. | 2 |
Russia Launches Inquiry Into School Siege Russia's parliament will launch an inquiry into a school siege that killed over 300 hostages, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, but analysts doubt it will satisfy those who blame the carnage on security services. | 0 |
Cell Phone TV Is Coming Several companies move toward offering TV on mobile phones. Also: NDS, STMicroelectronics and Thomson will develop anti-piracy technology hellip;. Oracle continues pursuit of PeopleSoft hellip;. and more. | 2 |
Alcoa shares drop on profit warning amid labour problems, closures Shares of Alcoa Inc. fell sharply Friday after the metals giant warned that labour problems in Quebec and plant closings will weaken third-quarter profits. | 2 |
Japanese Bank in Merger Talks Cuts Pay UFJ Holdings, a merger target of two major Japanese banks, slashed workers #39; paychecks Friday and sharply lowered its earnings outlook for the current fiscal half-year as it struggles to cut costs and ease a ballooning debt burden. | 2 |
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