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Linux standards base Version 2.0 has C support The Free Standards Group (FSG) on Tuesday will release Version 2.0 of its Linux Standard Base (LSB), a key standard that enables developers to rally around a common programming framework and keeps Linux from fragmenting into competing camps. | 3 |
Disney Dissidents Want Eisner Out in 2005 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DIS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DIS.N</A> dissident shareholders Roy Disney and Stanley Gold on Monday said CEO Michael Eisner, who last week said he would step down in two years, should be forced to leave by early next year. | 2 |
Indian software services, BPO face worker shortage BANGALORE, INDIA - India's software services and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries could face a shortage of skilled workers in the coming years, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in Delhi. | 3 |
Acquisition of Grey Puts Focus on Havas LONDON (Reuters) - WPP's <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WPP.L target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WPP.L</A> \$1.31 billion acquisition of U.S.-based Grey Global takes it to the top of the advertising sector and puts the spotlight on France's Havas <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=EURC.PA target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">EURC.PA</A>, which failed in its bid and may now become a takeover target itself. | 2 |
Sendo, Microsoft settle smart phone lawsuit Microsoft Corp. and U.K. mobile phone maker Sendo Holdings PLC have ended a two-year legal dispute over smart phones with a settlement, the companies said Monday. | 3 |
Gateway Shifts Back to Personal Computers NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gateway Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GTW.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GTW.N</A> on Monday said it would return to its roots as a personal computer company, backing off on an aggressive strategy of expanding into TVs, digital cameras and other gadgets in a move to return to profitability. | 2 |
Saudi Says OPEC Easing Oil Price Pressure VIENNA (Reuters) - Leading OPEC producer Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had made a renewed effort to deflate record high world oil prices by upping crude output again. | 2 |
Iowa St. Nips No. 19 Virginia 81-79 (AP) AP - Curtis Stinson scored 30 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 18.6 seconds left, and Jared Homan followed with a big defensive play, lifting Iowa State to an 81-79 victory over No. 19 Virginia on Monday night. | 1 |
Sony and Partners Agree To Acquire MGM Sony Corp. and several financial partners have agreed in principle to acquire movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about \$2.94 billion in cash, sources familiar with the talks said Monday. | 2 |
The end of the WWW is upon us! Intel is leading the charge against internet failure, claiming that with an ever increasing number of online users, quot;We #39;re running up on some architectural limitations quot;. | 3 |
Jupiter Research: iPod/iTunes Combo an Advantage for Apple The Guardian (UK) has published an article looking at the battle between Apple and everyone else in the online music download business. | 3 |
#39;Digital #39; hospital showcases GE Healthcare technologies By building one of the world #39;s first all-digital cardiac care facilities, Saint Francis Heart Hospital hopes to provide patients with better care while helping doctors and other medical staff offer more effective treatments. | 3 |
Curbishley: Our defence saved us Charlton boss Alan Curbishley praised his defence for keeping a resilient Southampton team to a 0-0 draw at The Valley on Monday evening. | 1 |
Duquette denies report on Howe Partially out of necessity, Art Howe opts to ignore the newspapers that circulate throughout his neighborhood. As a result, he had to be briefed on a New York Daily News | 1 |
No deadline for Iran investigation: IAEA VIENNA: United Nations (UN) nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Monday that there was no deadline for ending an investigation into Irans nuclear programme, even though Iran said it expects the investigation to wrap up in November. | 0 |
John Paul II Mourns Death of Orthodox Patriarch Petros VII VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 13, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II fondly recalled his exchanges of letters and meetings with Orthodox Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, who died Saturday in a helicopter accident near Mount Athos. | 0 |
US Airways cash relief A BANKRUPTCY judge gave US Airways Group Inc permission today to tap a government loan to fund daily operations - a move expected to allow the airline to continue its normal | 2 |
Hurricane Ivan #39;s twists force oil prices higher NEW YORK : The latest twists and turns from Hurricane Ivan prompted renewed concerns Monday about oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, pushing futures prices sharply higher on global markets. | 2 |
OPEC kingpin argues against raising quotas or price band VIENNA : OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia on Monday hinted the cartel would not raise either its official production rate or the price band at a ministerial meeting, as the oil price had stabilised. | 2 |
Walker on the wild side We forget the judge, but we remember the ruling. For all the high marks he #39;s been getting for his decision regarding the US Department of Justice #39;s case against Oracle Corp. | 2 |
Cisco Cements Walkie-Talkie Deal The San Jose, Calif., networking giant said Monday that it will pay \$55 million in cash for closely held dynamicsoft, a communications software developer based in Parsippany, NJ The company specializes in push-to-talk technology. | 2 |
Update 2: Huntsman Corp. Attempts to Go Public Eager to shed its mounting debt, chemical giant Huntsman International LLC announced plans Monday to go public in a move analysts say is timed to take advantage of an improving market for basic materials. | 2 |
IBM Code for Speech Software To Be Open After decades of research and development, speech recognition is finally moving toward mainstream use. Advances in statistical modeling, pattern matching algorithms and processing power have | 3 |
Sudan: UN Must Extend Arms Embargo The United Nations Security Council must immediately increase the international presence in Darfur and impose an extended arms embargo to stop continuing atrocities there, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to members of the Security Council. | 0 |
Allawi says elections will go ahead in Iraq as scheduled PARIS (AFP) -- Elections in Iraq will go ahead as scheduled in January, even if some Iraqis could not vote, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published Monday in the French daily Le Figaro. | 0 |
Bloody day in Baghdad Insurgents hammered central Baghdad yesterday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding | 0 |
Italy #39;s Foreign Minister Arrives to the Middle East Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini arrived today to the Middle East, in a bid to free two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq. | 0 |
Report Probes Hispanics' Racial Identity (AP) AP - Hispanics who identify themselves as "white" tend to be better educated and less likely to be in poverty than those who consider themselves "some other race," according to a report released Monday by a private research group. | 0 |
CEO: Nortel Can Compete With China Rivals (AP) AP - The chief executive of Nortel Networks Corp. insisted Monday that the troubled telecom equipment giant will be able to compete with Chinese vendors doing similar work with lower-paid software engineers. | 3 |
Sun Micro Revises Net Down -Filing (Reuters) Reuters - Network computer maker Sun\Microsystems Inc. revised its most recently reported\quarterly results slightly lower due to the finalized legal\settlement with Microsoft Corp. and property leases,\filings showed on Monday. | 3 |
Internet is a victim of its own success It is the news that internet users do not want to hear: the worldwide web is in danger of collapsing around us. Patrick Gelsinger, the chief technology officer for computer chip maker Intel, told a conference | 3 |
A tape-measure shot for Bonds #39; 700th would be just about right For the sake of argument, here #39;s hoping Barry Bonds #39; next home run ball travels 500 feet, minimum. In these days of inflated baseball, something monstrous for No. | 1 |
Tennessee Titans Team Report A late schedule change certainly did not appear to faze the Titans in Week 1. Due to the threat of Hurricane Ivan in south Florida, Tennessees game against | 1 |
House Wishes Bill Clinton Happy Birthday (AP) AP - Hallmark may have a greeting card for just about every occasion, but maybe not one for an ex-president recovering from bypass surgery a month after his birthday. | 0 |
Krispy Kreme: Auditor Won't OK Figures Shares fell Monday after the doughnut company said an independent auditor refused to sign off on its second-quarter financial statement until an outside law firm performed additional work. | 2 |
Opposition to Disney step down Disney boss Michael Eisner faces opposition about his plan to step down in 2006, with some shareholders saying it should be sooner. | 2 |
Sony Agrees to Buy MGM for Nearly \$5 Billion Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable operator, will join the investors working with Sony on the deal, a source close to the discussions said. | 2 |
Back to School for Wal-Mart The company backs September same-store sales growth forecast as back-to-school sales finally pick up. | 2 |
Lenovo Confirms Acquisition Talks (Reuters) Reuters - China's largest\personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd., said on Tuesday it\was in acquisition talks with a major technology company, which\a source familiar with the situation said was IBM. | 3 |
Karzai Set to Be Afghan President in Ring of Steel Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as Afghanistan #39;s first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power. | 0 |
UPDATE 2-Atkins hires turnaround firm amid low-carb glut The company behind the Atkins Diet said on Monday it had hired a turnaround specialist as it struggles with tough competition from rival food companies and waning consumer interest in low-carb diets. | 2 |
Hurricane Ivan hits Caribbean Washington, Sept. 14. (Guardian News Service): One of the most powerful hurricanes of recent times rolled over the Cayman Islands on Sunday and is due to hit Cuba next after causing more than 50 deaths across the Caribbean. | 0 |
With discourse focused on civil war, Sharon, settlers use fear to <b>...</b> On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Israels national discourse was dominated by talk of potential civil war, but few of those talking dared define the possible dimensions of such a conflict. | 0 |
HK pro-democrats dismayed HONG KONG - Pro-democracy opposition figures gained more clout in Hong Kong #39;s legislature with three new seats, but they fell short of expectations and resumed grumbling yesterday about a system they said was unfairly rigged. | 0 |
OPEC meets to decide production quota A meeting of OPEC members this week will decide whether to increase its production band and prices, or lower them, amid wildly oscillating oil markets. | 2 |
Zeng Outlines Vision For The Chinese Economy BEIJING, SEPT 13: Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has outlined an ambitious long-term vision for China, with the aim of quadrupling output within two decades, at the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forums China Business Summit 2004. | 2 |
Bankrupt Commerce One Patents Fetch #36;15.5M (AP) AP - Bankrupt Internet software maker Commerce One Inc. auctioned off dozens of prized online patents for #36;15.5 million in a sale that could provoke a legal scuffle over whether the new owner is entitled to collect royalties from a long list of technology heavyweights. | 3 |
Rogers Communications to pay \$1.77B for AT amp;T stake in Rogers <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - Rogers Communications Inc. said Monday it will pay \$1.77 billion in cash for the 34 per cent stake in cellphone subsidiary Rogers Wireless owned by longtime US partner AT amp;T Wireless Services Inc. | 2 |
Ivan may delay Southern Miss-California game HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Unless Hurricane Ivan drifts drastically to the east by Tuesday morning, the Southern Miss-California football game set for Thursday night will be postponed. | 1 |
UN should extend arms embargo on Khartoum, says HRW DAKAR, Senegal, Sep 13, 2004 (PANA) -- New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has in a letter to the UN Security Council urged an immediate increase in international presence in Darfur and an extension of arms embargo to stop continuing atrocities in the | 0 |
Columnists: I Spy With My Little Eye Forget Congress' myopic efforts to outlaw spyware. What we really need is better enforcement of existing computer crime laws.\ | 3 |
Top End for No. 10 Cal Finally Healthy (AP) AP - Almost the only thing Chase Lyman has kept healthy while playing football is his head. | 1 |
49ers QB Tim Rattay Has Separated Shoulder (AP) AP - Quarterback Ken Dorsey is expected to make his first NFL start for the San Francisco 49ers after Tim Rattay was diagnosed with a separated right shoulder Monday. | 1 |
U.S. Wants Iran to Go Before U.N. Council (AP) AP - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons. | 0 |
Sportsview: Bonds' 700th Should Be a Blast (AP) AP - For the sake of argument, here's hoping Barry Bonds' next home run ball travels 500 feet, minimum. | 1 |
Selanne Enjoying Ice Time Again (AP) AP - Teemu Selanne's season with the Colorado Avalanche was nothing short of miserable. | 1 |
BAE buys IT supplier to Pentagon BAE Systems acquires a US firm which provides computer and IT systems to the US defence department. | 0 |
Oracle broadens software hosting program Company targets software-as-service businesses with on demand database program. | 3 |
Intermec unveils first multi-protocol RFID printer Intermec Technologies on Monday unveiled a prototype version of a multi-protocol RFID printer in its PM 4i Smart Printer product line at the Frontline Solutions Conference Exposition in Chicago. Company officials said it is the first multi-protocol printer in the market. | 3 |
Sony Group Set to Buy MGM; Time Warner Drops Its Bid consortium led by the Sony Corporation of America reached a tentative agreement today to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Hollywood studio famous for James Bond and the Pink Panther, for | 2 |
Macy #39;s to go nationwide The name Goldsmith #39;s will be disappearing from the retail landscape in January. Federated Department Stores plans to put all of its regional chains under its Macy #39;s brand, completing a transition that began with the other stores sharing the Macy #39;s name. | 2 |
Microsoft e-mail proposal dealt setback update Internet engineers working on a standard for identifying the source of e-mail messages voted down a proposal by Microsoft to make some of the company #39;s intellectual property a mandatory part of the solution. | 3 |
Borland Details New Vision for Software Development At Bor-Con Borland Software Monday previewed updates to its Borland StarTeam and CaliberRM tools as part of a new vision for more closely tying the application development lifecycle to business processes. | 3 |
Keegan #39;s City on road to nowhere Manchester City, a friendly club with terrific supporters and an intelligent board, must now address the reality that Kevin Keegan has guided them from Maine Road down a cul-de-sac. | 1 |
North Koreans say blast was demolition North Korean officials have announced that a huge explosion in its remote Northeast was part of a hydroelectric project. Mystery surrounded the blast in the mountainous province of Yanggang and fears grew | 0 |
EU considers sanctions against Sudan afrol News, 13 September - Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) today decided to investigate whether the situation in Sudan #39;s Darfur provinces should be termed quot;genocide quot;. | 0 |
Seattle RB Is Day to Day With Bone Bruise (AP) AP - Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander has a bone bruise on his right knee, but could play in this week's game at Tampa Bay. | 1 |
MGM Agrees to Be Bought for \$12/Share LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MGM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MGM.N</A> on Monday said it agreed in principle to be acquired by a consortium led by Sony Corp. of America for \$12 a share in cash, plus assumed debt. | 2 |
Buckingham Palace 'Batman' Protest Prompts Security Review LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has ordered an urgent security review at Buckingham Palace after a campaigner dressed as Batman evaded armed police and spent five hours on a ledge at Queen Elizabeth's London residence. | 0 |
Sun Micro Revises Net Down -Filing Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. revised its most recently reported quarterly results slightly lower due to the finalized legal settlement with Microsoft Corp. | 2 |
Seattle RB is day to day with bone bruise on right knee Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander has a bone bruise on his right knee, but could play in this week #39;s game at Tampa Bay. | 1 |
Early is too late Carlos Emmons, Barrett Green and Terry Cousin, three veteran defensive players the Giants signed in the offseason, have filed appeals through the NFL Players Association of \$500 fines Tom Coughlin gave them in training camp. | 1 |
EU Calls for U.N. Investigation on Sudan (AP) AP - European Union foreign ministers called Monday for the United Nations to "immediately investigate" whether atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region constitute genocide, highlighting growing impatience with the Sudanese government for failing to end the conflict. | 0 |
Nikkei Opens Higher Led by Tech Stocks (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo's Nikkei share average was up 0.56\percent in early morning trade on Tuesday as another jump in\U.S. technology shares encouraged investors to step up buying\in local counterparts such as Advantest Corp. | 0 |
Amid Protests, Ecuador Fires Galapagos Park Chief QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador has fired the popular director of Galapagos National Park even as environmentalists criticized authorities for failing to take better care of the pristine islands. | 0 |
Turkey warns US on northern Iraq Turkey says it will end cooperation in Iraq if the US continues its offensive in the northern town of Talafar. | 0 |
Iranian misses Israel match Iranian striker Vahid Hashemian will not travel to Israel for a Champions League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv. | 0 |
CEDIA 2004: Picks and Pans (PC World) PC World - Here's what was good-looking, butt-ugly, and just plain annoying at the recent consumer electronics and home theater show. | 3 |
Sun Cuts 4Q Net Income by #36;12 Million (AP) AP - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. reduced its net income by #36;12 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, citing new information related to property leases and the finalization of the accounting for its settlement with Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
US Airways to Skip Pension Payment (Reuters) Reuters - US Airways Group Inc. \told a bankruptcy court on Monday it would skip a #36;110 million\pension payment due Wednesday as it looks to slash costs and\avoid liquidation after filing for protection from its\creditors over the weekend. | 2 |
Tour to Honor U.S. Women's Soccer Team (AP) AP - A 10-city farewell tour for longtime U.S. soccer stars Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett will kick off Sept. 25 in Rochester. | 1 |
Storm Delays Southern Miss-Cal Game (AP) AP - Approaching Hurricane Ivan has led to postponement of the game Thursday night between 10th-ranked California and Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Cal's athletic director said Monday. | 1 |
MGM Agrees to Be Bought for \$12/Share Film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it agreed in principle to be acquired by a consortium led by Sony Corp. | 2 |
Sony Group Agrees in Principle to Buy MGM (Reuters) Reuters - A group headed by Sony Corp of\America agreed in principle to acquire Hollywood film studio\Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for #36;12 a share in cash, MGM said\on Monday. | 2 |
Crude oil prices climb on fears of Hurricane Ivan #39;s path Crude oil rose on Monday in New York as market concerned that the approach of Hurricane Ivan woulddisrupt production and tankers shipments in the Gulf of Mexico. | 2 |
Developing the economy in a sustainable way At a recent business summit, Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan predicted that China will sustain an annual economic growth rate of more than 7 per cent by 2020. | 2 |
Macys name goes national Recognizing the power of its single largest retailing name, Federated Department Stores Monday said it will re-brand all of its regional chains into Macy #39;s stores. | 2 |
BAE unveils \$600m takeover deal as it targets growth in US BAE Systems, Europes biggest defence firm, yesterday announced the planned \$600 million (334m) takeover of a leading US supplier of secure computer networks to the Pentagon. | 2 |
Celebrities join family in plea for Quattrone Almost 500 letters from friends, family, corporate leaders and celebrity sportsmen were sent in defence of convicted internet banker Frank Quattrone, it emerged yesterday. | 2 |
Linux: Should it be tamed? In a bid to bring Linux to the marketplace, the open-source community and manufacturers agree on new rules for Linux. The often unruly world of open-source software drew closer to marching in lockstep Monday | 3 |
Telestream Unveils Windows Media 9 Series Encoding Support For Mac Telestream announced Friday support for exporting or importing files in the Microsoft Windows Media format on Mac OS X platforms. Telestream #39;s new support capabilities for Windows Media | 3 |
McAfee launches Managed Mail Security Service McAfee, on Monday, announced a launch of its multi-function e-mail service for small to medium sized businesses. It is a managed mail protection service that includes anti-spam, anti-virus, and content filtering technologies. | 3 |
Sarah #39;s Download of the Day: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Service Pack 2 is the long-awaited mega-bug fix for Windows XP, and pretty much the last bit of excitement until Longhorn. But what does it mean for you? | 3 |
Linux and Identity Services Key for Novell Messman said that enterprise-ready Linux capabilities, including strong management, were being achieved through its Open Enterprise Server (OES) which is shortly to go into open beta. | 3 |
CA upgrades BrightStor line with gusto Computer Associates is not messing around with its storage management software line. The company this month will upgrade all 13 versions of the BrightStor family, release a new product aimed at automating | 3 |
It is a Race! Well, we finally have an official introduction of both the giants #39; dual-core CPU power. quot;...Intel and AMD must have come to the same conclusions earlier this decade since today we have seen server demonstrations with 90nm server chips from both companies. | 3 |
Federer Express derails Hewitt ROGER Federer calls tennis quot;artistry quot; and yesterday fourth seed Lleyton Hewitt was his canvas as the Swiss world No. 1 dominated the US Open men #39;s final in a straight sets victory over the in-form Australian. | 1 |
Play-off earns Singh seventh victory of year NOW that he is No1 in the world, Vijay Singh clearly believes that the best way to stay there is to continue the form that got him there and secure victory by playing better than everyone in the field - again. | 1 |
Safety measures help Rice walk away from scary accident Thoughts of the October 2003 incident in which Kenny Brack sustained serious injuries flashed through Buddy Rice #39;s mind as his car slid upside down on the backstretch during the Delphi Indy 300 on Sept. | 1 |
PSV in tough opener at Arsenal PSV Eindhoven faces Arsenal at Highbury tomorrow night on the back of a free-scoring start to the season. Despite losing Mateja Kezman to Chelsea in the summer, the Dutch side has scored 12 goals in the first | 1 |
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