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A Great Phone, Tied Down NEW YORK - When it comes to selecting a wireless phone for myself to use, I have in the past been a bit of a neo-Luddite. Sure, as part of this job I get to play with all the very latest and greatest that
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Lennon backs Celtic to beat Barca Celtic star Neil Lennon today claimed that the Scottish champions were facing Barcelona at the best possible time. Manager Martin ONeill has admitted the Catalan giants should expect to take six points from their two meetings.
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Germany not certain to play opening game of 2006 finals Hosts Germany could opt not to play the opening game of the 2006 World Cup finals, organising committee chairman Franz Beckenbauer said on Monday.
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Batman scales Buckingham Palace in protest A campaigner dressed as Batman, from the fathers #39; rights group that pelted Prime Minister Tony Blair with flour-filled condoms, has staged a dramatic protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony.
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Putin asserts control after school siege Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will take full control of nominating leaders for Russia #39;s regions to help combat terrorism after a bloody school siege in which more than 320 people were killed.
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Iraqi hostage beheading appears on website A video purporting to show the beheading of a Turkish driver kidnapped in Iraq last month surfaced today on the website of an al-Qaida-linked militant group.
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5-year-old Jakarta bomb blast victim awake, but sedated again SINGAPORE : The five-year-old girl, who was critically injured in the Jakarta bombing, was taken off sedatives on Monday morning. Elisabeth Musu was awake for about three
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Novell lifts lid on identity management tools Novell Inc. lifted the lid on forthcoming enhancements to its identity management tools at its Brainshare Europe customer conference in Barcelona, Spain,Monday.
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CA polishes up BrightStor products Computer Associates on Monday announced it is upgrading and consolidating its storage management software line. The computer software giant is offering 13 new versions of its BrightStor storage management line and also announced a new product in a move to better compete with rivals EMC and Veritas Software.
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London shares up as Wall St climbs, WPP slips after Grey deal (AFP) AFP - Blue chips closed comfortably higher, lifted in late afternoon trade by a positive early performance by Wall Street, while a firm media sector and recovering oil stocks also boosted the FTSE 100, dealers said.
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Iran Plans to Resume Nuclear Enrichment VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said Monday it was losing patience with U.N. inspections of its nuclear program and announced that its agreement with the Europeans to halt uranium enrichment would soon come to an end.
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Hurricane Ivan Rolls Towards Cuba GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - A strengthened Hurricane Ivan headed toward the tip of western Cuba with 160 mph winds Monday after pummeling the Cayman Islands with flooding that swamped homes and fierce winds that ripped off roofs. The slow-moving, extremely dangerous Category 5 storm, one of the strongest on record to hit the region, killed at least 68 people across the Caribbean before reaching the Caymans, and threatens millions more in its projected path...
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Oil Up as Ivan Threatens Oil Patch LONDON (Reuters) - World oil prices shot higher on Monday as companies operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico braced for output disruptions from powerful Hurricane Ivan.
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U.S. Airways Asks to Skip Pension Payment ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UAIR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UAIR.O</A>, trying to raise money and avoid liquidation, on Monday asked a judge for permission to skip a big pension payment due this week, in its first move since filing for protection against creditors over the weekend.
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Tech Stocks Higher as Intel Lifts Market NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology stocks rose on Monday as semiconductor companies returned to favor on Wall Street, led by Intel Corp.<A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A>, and helped lift major indexes.
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PIMCO-SEC Settle Fraud Case for \$50 Mln WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The PIMCO mutual fund group has agreed to pay \$50 million to settle fraud charges involving improper rapid dealing in mutual fund shares, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.
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Delta Explores Options, Hopeful on Pilots NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DAL.N</A> said on Monday it is meeting with bankruptcy lawyers to prepare in case the carrier needs to file for bankruptcy protection, but added that recent talks with pilots make it hopeful a pilot agreement can be reached later this week.
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Time Warner Drops MGM Bid, Sony Persists PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. withdrew its bid for Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on Monday, after sources said a rival bidder group headlined by Japan's Sony Corp. raised its offer to nearly \$5 billion.
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OPEC Seen Wary on Big Oil Quotas Increase VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC may resist calls to raise oil output quotas much, if at all, when it meets this week for fear of turning a decline from record prices into a rout.
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Bucs' Galloway Will Miss Four to Six Weeks (AP) AP - Tampa Bay's sputtering offense suffered a major blow Monday when the team learned receiver Joey Galloway will miss four to six weeks after aggravating a groin injury.
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Ex-Qwest CEO may face civil charges Civil charges may be coming in the near future for the former leader of Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Joseph P. Nacchio, former CEO of the
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Time Warner Inc. Withdraws Bid for MGM, Citing Price (Update3) Time Warner Inc., the world #39;s largest media company, withdrew its bid for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. after it could not reach agreement on the price of the film studio controlled by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian.
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Suzuki to build engine factory, car plant in India Japan #39;s Suzuki Motor Corp. lt;7269.T gt; said on Monday it would spend about 10 billion yen (\$91.44 million) to build a diesel engine plant in India with output to start in 2006.
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Campbell #39;s Soupy Results In my slightly tilted world, soup is one of the greatest culinary creations of all time. I would have to put it right up there with the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich and meatballs and spaghetti.
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Delphi Closes Down Flint West Site Auto-parts maker Delphi Corp. said Monday that it completed the planned shutdown of its Flint West, Mich., manufacturing plant, the largest of four US consolidations in its previously disclosed plan to reduce
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RESEARCH ALERT-SunTrust Robinson raises ImClone to quot;buy quot; ImClone Systems Inc. (IMCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) was raised to quot;buy quot; from quot;neutral quot; by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey because consensus estimates for sales of its cancer drug are more realistic than they were.
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Gateway repeats loss forecast Personal computer maker Gateway Inc. said Monday it expects to report revenue and operating loss for its third fiscal quarter, in line with its previous forecast given in July.
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Growth in market share pleases Foodland Foodland Associated has been making inroads in New Zealand and this may help strengthen its position in Australia, where it faces fierce competition from bigger rivals, such as Coles.
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PayPal to Impose Fines for Breaking Bans (AP) AP - Online payment processor PayPal said it would fine customers as much as #36;500 if they violate the company's policies against using the service for gambling, pornography or selling prescription drugs without official certification.
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Crowds Plead With U.S. Forces in Tal Afar (AP) AP - U.S. troops barred anguished crowds from returning to their homes in the besieged city of Tal Afar on Monday as residents described corpses scattered across orchards and the collapse of essential services such as water and electricity.
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Cuban Tobacco Farmer Hopes Ivan Turns West (AP) AP - Cuba's top tobacco farmer predicted Monday that Hurricane Ivan's sudden turn to the west would ensure the storm causes only minimal damage to the island's key tobacco growing region.
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Eye-catching wireless technology (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - SAN DIEGO - For two days last week, companies from around the globe converged near San Diego to showcase their best products and services using mobile and wireless technology.
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Lebanon, Iraq and Mideast top Arab ministers' concerns (AFP) AFP - Arab League foreign ministers open a two-day meeting here on Tuesday focused on Lebanon and its relations with Syria, the situation in war-wracked Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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IBM unveils Linux Power servers IBM introduced on Monday its inexpensive OpenPower line of servers based on Power5 microprocessors and the Linux operating system.
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Genesis wreck promises data NASA has commissioned a panel of experts to work out what went wrong with the Genesis space probe, which crashed to Earth on 8 September.
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Update 2: Broadcom Lowers 3Q Revenue Guidance Semiconductor maker Broadcom Corp. lowered its third-quarter revenue guidance, saying customers who make cable and satellite set-top boxes over-ordered its chips in the first half of the year.
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Symantec Rolls Out Anti-Phishing Service Symantec Corp. is expected to announce on Monday a new service to help financial institutions fight phishing attacks and online fraud.
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WinFS Removal Opens Window of Opportunity Microsoft #39;s decision to axe WinFS from Longhorn provides the company with an opportunity to expand the technology to work with multiple systems.
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Microsoft Fattens Already Packed Visual Studio 2005 Lineup Microsoft on Monday added to an already dizzying array of planned Visual Studio 2005 offerings by unveiling a new version of the toolset for developers who fall between hobbyist and professional levels.
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McAfee aims at small firms with e-mail service McAfee on Monday unveiled a new security service designed to let small companies outsource their e-mail security to the antivirus software maker.
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High-Resolution Cameras Set Out to Win the Megapixel Competition The latest trend in digital photography is ultra-high-resolution fixed-lens cameras. The digital-camera manufacturers are constantly trying to outdo one another, in much the same way that CPU
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MS anti-spam proposal returned to sender The technical standards body for the internet, the IETF, has bounced back Microsoft #39;s controversial proposal for stopping spam, Sender ID.
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Intel Mum on Dual-Core Desktop and Server Plans SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. last week outlined a plan to develop a mobile processor with two CPU cores, but the company remained silent about its strategy for dual-core
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CA polishes up BrightStor products Computer Associates on Monday announced it is upgrading and consolidating its storage management software line. The computer software giant is offering 13 new versions of its BrightStor storage management
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Dell Seeks to Improve Services Through Support Hubs SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Dell Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to open a series of IT support hubs worldwide in an effort to improve its ability to serve customers, especially corporate users.
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Latest Internet Peril: Cyber Bullies The US leads other technologically advanced nations in the reported incidences of cyber bullying, the latest trend to threaten youngsters who use the Internet.
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North Korean FM says explosion was demolition blast (AFP) AFP - North Korea's foreign minister said that a huge explosion in the country's remote interior that triggered fears of a nuclear test was a harmless demolition blast linked to a hydro-electric power project.
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Hunting climate change evidence Our correspondent David Shukman flies with a Nasa team as it monitors the state of Antarctica's glaciers.
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Celts boost as Sutton trains CHRIS SUTTON trained today to keep alive his chances of lining up against Barcelona tomorrow. The striker has been out since damaging a hamstring on August 14.
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Former private school teacher to face criminal charges in court Wednesday (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - A former Upper Canada College teacher made a brief court appearance Monday to face sexual assault charges.
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RYDER CUP: Padraig win lifts Langer Europe #39;s only player in the world top 10, Padraig Harrington, has given captain Bernhard Langer the perfect boost as they fly out to contest the Ryder Cup today.
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Jimenez wins 10th stage of Tour of Spain Spaniard Eladio Jimenez has won the 10th stage of the Tour of Spain after a lone breakaway on the final decisive climb. The Spaniard won the stage
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Sports: Rogers done for season The Detroit Lions wide receiver is out for the season after breaking his collarbone in yesterday #39;s 20-to-16 win at Chicago. Rogers was injured while going for a pass in the first quarter.
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Concerns on Cisco bid suppressed (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Six months before the San Jose-Cisco Systems controversy went public, Leon Nix knew the city risked violating its own rules by favoring the networking company's products in its new City Hall. But he feared speaking out, thinking his bosses might come after him.
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Europe seeks deadline for Iran to allay nuclear fears BRUSSELS : Key European governments turned up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear plans, giving Tehran a November deadline to allay concern it is secretly making atomic weapons.
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Putin Strengthens Grip on Power After Attacks MOSCOW , Sep 13 (MASNET amp; News Agencies) - President Vladimir Putin announced steps to tighten Kremlin control over Russia #39;s regions and called for quot;radical quot; moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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MP calls for release of old school pal North-west Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham has called for the release of an old college friend accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
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Website: Iraqi Militants Kill Turkish Hostage Islamic militants in Iraq apparently have killed a Turkish man whom they took hostage last month. Mr. Kumdereli was abducted with another Turkish truck driver in mid-August.
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Oil Up \$1 as Hurricane Ivan Threatens NEW YORK (Reuters) - World oil prices shot higher on Monday as companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico braced for output disruptions from powerful Hurricane Ivan.
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Ryder Cup: Early Thrill for Funk in U.S. Team Room BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - American Ryder Cup rookie Fred Funk gained an early thrill when he was among the first to check into the U.S. team hotel on Sunday night.
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Dollar Mixed Before U.S. Economic Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar was mixed on Monday as dealers grew slightly apprehensive of two key U.S. economic indicators due on Tuesday.
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Costa, Davidenko Bounced in Bucharest BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Third seed Albert Costa and fifth seeded Russian Nikolay Davidenko were knocked out of the Romanian Open tennis tournament Monday, losing in the first round to unseeded opponents.
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CA Pumps Up Storage Management This week, CA plans to release BrightStor 11.1, which consists of 14 integrated storage applications, said Jim Geronaitis, vice president of BrightStor product marketing at the Islandia, NY-based software vendor.
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Time Warner drops out of MGM race US media group Time Warner withdraws its bid for movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after failing to agree a price.
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3 Chains Agree on Suit Over Janitors' Wages and Hours Three California supermarket chains have settled a suit filed by immigrant janitors who said they often earned below minimum wage and were never paid overtime.
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Fernando positive for the end of the season Fernando Alonso was disappointed to spin out of yesterdays Italian Grand Prix, but remains optimistic for the coming races.
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Bahrain 'militant's' brief escape A suspect Bahraini militant escapes from court, but gives himself up an hour later, his lawyer says.
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Monza race report: A bad day for Renault The team failed to score points after a race that saw difficult track conditions in the early stages and a Ferrari one-two in their home race.
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Indians retrieve Himalayan bodies Mountaineers retrieve three bodies believed to have been buried for 22 years on an Indian glacier.
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Palace balcony protester removed A Fathers 4 Justice protester dressed as Batman is removed after scaling Buckingham Palace.
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Campbell's Soupy Results The world's biggest soup maker falls a penny short of earnings expectations.
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Warming to the Warning Irrational exuberance follows after Broadcom investors bid up the stock on the heels of a revenue warning.
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Florida and Gulf Coast Brace for Arrival of Hurricane Ivan Residents stocked up to prepare for a storm that has already swamped communities in the Caribbean and reportedly killed dozens.
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Cisco and Fujitsu form Japan ties An alliance between US IT giant Cisco and Japan's Fujitsu could help both business boost sales as competition in the market for broadband equipment ramps up.
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Kerry and Bush Trade Charges on End of Weapons Ban, and Crime Senator John Kerry accused the president today of caving in to the gun lobby, a charge rejected by the White House.
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Marcus Vick Pleads No Contest Suspended Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after a night of drinking with underage girls.
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Bucs' Galloway Will Miss Four to Six Weeks Tampa Bay's sputtering offense suffered a major blow Monday when the team learned receiver Joey Galloway will miss four to six weeks after aggravating a groin injury.
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Schools Weather PC Onslaught Schools across the Washington region relied on stringent new security precautions that helped quarantine infected PCs before they even had a chance to spread their disease. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>
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Lions Lose Rogers to Broken Collarbone A broken collarbone has ruined another season for Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers.
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Putin Moves to Strengthen Kremlin's Power MOSCOW - Responding to a spate of deadly terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin announced a series of anti-terror initiatives Monday that would strengthen the Kremlin's grip on every layer of Russian political life. Putin told Cabinet members and security officials convened in special session that the future of Russia was at stake, and called for creation of a powerful anti-terror agency...
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Bucs' Galloway Will Miss Four to Six Weeks TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay's sputtering offense suffered a major blow Monday when the team learned receiver Joey Galloway will miss four to six weeks after aggravating a groin injury...
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Judge Lets US Airways Use Gov't Loan ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A bankruptcy judge gave US Airways Group Inc...
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Oprah Winfrey Gives Cars to Audience CHICAGO - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season Monday by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car. "We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off," Winfrey said...
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N. Korea Says Explosion Was Planned North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, according to news reports.
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Colombian drug baron in US court Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela who headed Colombia's Cali cartel appears in court in the US state of Florida.
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Storage software revenue stays aloft Companies' desire to squeeze more out of storage gear pushes storage software revenue to a 17 percent rise over last year, IDC says.
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IBM unveils Linux Power servers The OpenPower systems, starting at \$5,000, are based on the Power5 chip and will run SuSE or Red Hat versions of Linux.
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McAfee aims at small firms with e-mail service With its service, the company says, spam is quarantined before it enters the customer's network.
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Nortel upgrades communication technology Networking provider upgrades a slew of products so large companies can better connect their workers.
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Time Warner announces withdrawal of bid for MGM US entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. said Monday it has withdrawn its bid to buy Hollywood movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) after they failed to agree on a price.
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Former Qwest CEO May Face Civil Charges DENVER -- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Qwest Communications #39; former chief executive could soon face civil charges for his alleged role in an accounting scandal at the company.
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Pimco affiliates to pay \$50 million amid fraud charges SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Three US-based mutual-fund units of German insurance giant Allianz will pay \$50 million to settle allegations that they defrauded investors in a market-timing scheme, regulators said Monday.
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Suzuki on Rs 860 cr expansion drive Suzuki Motor Corporation has lined up investments of \$191 million (Rs 860 crore) to ramp up capacity in its Indian subsidiary Maruti Udyog Ltd.
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Presse Economique / High-Tech SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2004--Afin de fournir aux entreprises les moyens de se librer des contraintes de travail partir de leurs sites physiques, Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT
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Microsoft settles with Sendo Microsoft and Sendo announced a settlement has been reached regarding all claims in the litigation between the two companies, resulting in Microsoft surrendering its once-\$12 million shareholding in Sendo.
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Lower orders dent Broadcom #39;s outlook With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.
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Phone Giants Set Sights on Mobile TV quot;The ability to watch TV-like content on a mobile phone is a natural next step of the advanced mobile multimedia services which are increasingly popular with consumer, quot; says Mats Lindoff, chief technology officer at Sony Ericsson.
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Novell: Microsoft #39;sucked \$60 billion #39; out of IT This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. BARCELONA, Spain--Microsoft has sucked billions of dollars out of the IT industry that could
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Dell hopes support hubs will improve service delivery Dell 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.
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Ferrari #39;s best season, says Barrichello IF Rubens Barrichello had any doubts about the Formula One season being the greatest in Ferrari history, then last evening #39;s Italian Grand Prix blew them away.
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