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Philippoussis Withdraws From Davis Cup (AP) AP - Injured Mark Philippoussis has withdrawn from Australia's Davis Cup team for the World Group playoff against Morocco later this month. | 1 |
FDA Approves Lens Implant to Sharpen Sight (AP) AP - There's a new option for people who suffer from extreme nearsightedness, whose world loses its crisp edge just a few inches from their noses. The first implantable lens for nearsightedness was approved Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. | 3 |
Nuclear Test in North Korea? On September 11, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a huge blast and a 2.5 mile diameter mushroom cloud in North Korea 6 miles southwest of Yongjori Missile Base...on Thursday. | 3 |
Stocks to Watch ORACLE CORP. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A>: | 2 |
U.N. Agency to Study Environment in Iraq (AP) AP - Scientists will begin investigating environmental "hot spots" in Iraq as part of a long-term strategy to clean up the country after ten years of war and instability, the U.N. Environment Program said Tuesday. | 3 |
A Phone Number For Life Competition in the market for voice services is prompting telecom providers to find new ways to attract and keep customers. RNKVoIP, a division of RNK Telecom, unveiled on Monday a plan to offer | 3 |
Oil Climbs as Ivan Approaches U.S. LONDON (Reuters) - World oil prices rose on Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan charged toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico, where energy companies had evacuated thousands of offshore workers and shut some production. | 2 |
Saudi Resist OPEC Quota Increase VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC is keeping its foot to the pedal on production in a bid to drag down oil prices but may be reluctant to rubber-stamp extra supplies by lifting official output limits, Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Japan Battered as Asian Typhoons Take Unusual Turn (Reuters) Reuters - Trees bent over sharply in angry winds,\rain lashing empty streets, and mammoth waves battering\breakwaters -- all scenes that have been commonplace in Japan\this summer, the worst typhoon season on record. | 3 |
Brazil Scrambles to Save Its Disappearing Savanna (Reuters) Reuters - Brazil launched an emergency\plan on Friday to save what remains of its vast tropical\savanna, much of which has been cleared for farming in recent\decades. | 3 |
Chain Store Sales Increase Slightly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. chain store sales increased slightly in the latest week, due in part to Labor Day sales and back-to-school shopping, a report said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Vivendi Net Loss Widens PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi Universal posted a near doubling in its first-half net loss to 1.86 billion euros (\$2.28 billion) on Tuesday, hit by currency translation losses linked to its entertainment deal with NBC, but cellphone unit SFR boosted profits at the operating level. | 2 |
Euro Slips After ZEW, Dollar Awaits Data LONDON (Reuters) - The euro slipped against the dollar and yen on Tuesday after weaker-than-expected German investor confidence data, while the dollar was soft ahead of U.S. data, seen key for interest rate expectations. | 2 |
IBM Tools Give Developers an Assist IBM announced Monday a set of offerings from its Virtual Innovation Center for Hardware, including quot;how-to quot; guides and a solution sizing toolkit, all aimed at helping the company #39;s business partners build and deploy applications on IBM technology. | 3 |
Blast in Baghdad Rebel District Kills at Least 47 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge explosion tore through a crowded market close to the west Baghdad police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 47 people in the deadliest single attack in the capital in six months. | 0 |
Blair to Press on Climate Change, Challenge Bush LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair will pledge Tuesday to force international action on global warming, despite the reluctance of big powers like the United States. | 0 |
Sharon Says Rejected U.S. Bid for Talks with Syria JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon poured cold water on Tuesday on recent international efforts to restart stalled peace talks with Syria, saying there was "no possibility" of returning to previous discussions. | 0 |
Hopes rise for Alitalia rescue Talks between Alitalia and the unions were continuing on Tuesday as hopes rose of staving off bankruptcy at Italy's troubled national airline. | 2 |
Arsenal keeper Lehmann: I #39;ve done nothing wrong Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has revealed he didn #39;t expect to be dropped on Saturday by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. quot;Arsene said I did not look the freshest to him. | 1 |
Oil price up on hurricane fears World crude prices rise amid fears that oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico could be disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, and as saboteurs strike a pipeline in Iraq. | 2 |
Volvo in worldwide vehicle recall Volvo recalls 460,000 vehicles worldwide because a wiring problem could cause fans to overheat and burn. | 2 |
Sony Corp. acquires MGM Studios for \$5 billion MUMBAI: It has been a long-running drama and it is Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp that has come out the winner at the end of it. | 2 |
Report: Weinsteins Looking to Stay with Disney Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who founded and run Walt Disney Co. #39;s Miramax Films unit, are now looking for a way to stay within the Disney fold, the New York Post said on Tuesday, citing no sources. | 2 |
Bayer seeks to find remedy with US alliance BAYER has formed an alliance for its struggling pharmaceuticals business with American drug-maker Schering-Plough. Drugs and chemicals group Bayer, which is in the midst of restructuring its business, said | 2 |
UK inflation rate falls Britain #39;s inflation rate dropped to 1.3 in August as lower clothing prices helped to keep it well below the Bank of England #39;s target, official figures showed today. | 2 |
Macy #39;s supplants venerable names The Lazarus nameplate, a fixture on the retail landscape for 153 years, is coming off department store signs, joining Shillito #39;s as a defunct brand. | 2 |
Survey: Region job outlook among tops in US Job opportunities in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are expected to be among the best in the country during the last three months of 2004, according to a national survey of businesses and other employers by Manpower Inc. | 2 |
Citigroup Regrets Bond Trades That Led to UK Probe (Update2) Citigroup Inc., the world #39;s largest bank, apologized for a series of European government bond trades last month that caused prices to fall and prompted an investigation by UK regulators. | 2 |
Feds reopen probe of Honda CR-V fires NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The federal government is again looking at why the Honda CR-V compact sport/utility vehicle sometimes catches fire after an initial oil change, according to a published report. | 2 |
17,000 Enron pension holders to get paid in full Nearly 17,000 Enron pension plan holders will see their benefits paid, thanks to pressure from the federal government #39;s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. | 2 |
Yukos saga gives pause to foreign investors in Russia: IMF <b>...</b> MOSCOW : The Russian government #39;s assault on oil giant Yukos is a source of concern that could impact foreign investment in the country, a senior International Monetary Fund official warned. | 2 |
Linux standard adds C support The Free Standards Group (FSG) has revealed details of its Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, a specification aimed at preventing Linux fragmentation. | 3 |
Eyeing Downturn, Chip Makers Trim Equipment Buying The semiconductor industry is showing the first signs of slowing growth, trimming purchases of raw materials and production equipment as demand slows, industry executives and analysts said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Microsoft #39;s spam plan rejected Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft #39;s involvement in the process. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft #39;s contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal. | 3 |
An Ergonomic, Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Set The Wireless Optical Desktop Comfort Edition, with its mildly arced keypad, allows for easy typing while providing some relief for your wrists. | 3 |
SD in the cards for Nokia <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobile/0,39020360,39166545,00.htm">Nokia gives SD cards its blessing</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>ZDNet.co.uk</nobr> | 3 |
Microsoft blows into Florida with Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft ignored the apocalyptic weather threatening Florida yesterday to unveil the beta version of its Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition at the VSLive! | 3 |
Virus writers add network sniffer to worm Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series. So far there are no reports of SDBot-UH in the wild but the inclusion of selective network sniffing along with | 3 |
The world in your palm com September 14, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 3 |
Speech recognition #39;on-a-chip #39; inside three years The US National Science Foundation has awarded a \$1m grant to researchers in the US who want to put speech recognition on a chip, a move the project #39;s proponents claim will revolutionise the way we communicate. | 3 |
Apple vs Apple: #39;mind boggling #39; pay-out imminent - report Apple Corp. and Apple Comp. - aka the Beatles and the maker of the Mac - are reported to be on the verge of ending their legal dispute over the latter #39;s right to operate in the music market. | 3 |
New Worm Installs Network Traffic Sniffer A new worm whose payload includes the SDBot trojan tries to install a quot;sniffer, quot; seeking to use infected computers to capture login and banking information for other computers on the same network. | 3 |
Packers spank Panthers Ahman Green, the Green Bay running back who long has stood in the shadow of his more famous quarterback, made a compelling case before a crowd of 72,000 and a national TV audience. | 1 |
Rangers Player Breaks Female Fan #39;s Nose OAKLAND, Calif. -- What fan would expect to go a baseball game and get hit by a chair thrown into the stands by a player? That #39;s what happened in Monday night #39;s 7-6 win by Oakland over Texas in 10 innings. | 1 |
Trophy #39;s minnows sink without trace Goliath and his like have had a bad press over the years. But the Champions Trophy is doing all it can to leave us feeling sorry for the big fella and looking forward to the day when David slings his hook. | 1 |
McIlroy stars for Europe Holywood #39;s Rory McIlroy has helped get Ryder Cup week off to a great start by playing in Europe #39;s win over their US counterparts in the junior event. | 1 |
Weather prompts change for Cal By STAFF WRITER. quot;We #39;ve had concerned parents calling all day long, quot; said Tedford. quot;Not to mention the aftermath and destruction of something going through (Mississippi). | 1 |
MLB: San Diego 9, Los Angeles 7 Phil Nevin belted two homers and drove in four runs Tuesday to lead San Diego past the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-7. Shawn Green hit two home runs for the Dodgers, who lead the National | 1 |
#39;Batman dad is no threat #39; A FATHER who scaled the walls of a Cardiff court dressed as superhero Robin said the Buckingham Palace protester posed no threat. Fathers 4 Justice activist Jim Gibson, who earlier this year staged an eye-catching | 0 |
Powell says WMD may not be found in Iraq US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) may not be found in Iraq, while both Iraq and the United States expect the | 0 |
Hundreds Rally in Turkey Against Criminalizing Adultery Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Turkey #39;s capital Tuesday to protest proposed legislation to make adultery a crime. A crowd of about 500, mostly women, marched from Ankara #39;s central square to parliament | 0 |
Arab League FMs consider pressure on Syria to quit Lebanon Arab foreign ministers faced the divisive issue of Syria #39;s role in Lebanon when they met here Tuesday, a day after Gulf states and Jordan endorsed a UN call for Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. | 0 |
Japan Says Latest Infected Cow Won #39;t Affect BSE-Testing Review A new case of mad cow disease in Japan won #39;t affect a review of domestic cattle-testing procedures, said Chikara Sakaguchi, the nation #39;s health minister. | 0 |
Saboteurs blow up pipeline junction in northern Iraq Saboteurs blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq on Tuesday, sending plumes of smoke leaping into the sky, officials said. | 0 |
Ivan clips Cuba, roars toward US Packing sustained winds of 160 mph and whipping up monstrous waves, Hurricane Ivan #39;s eye brushed Cuba #39;s sparsely populated western tip yesterday and barreled north toward the US Gulf Coast. | 0 |
Compensation package approved for Gaza settlers Israel #39;s Security Cabinet has approved a compensation package for Jewish settlers who will be removed from the Gaza Strip under the government #39;s pull-out plan. | 0 |
US strike kills 15 Iraqis Meanwhile, Italy #39;s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, arrived in Kuwait on an 11th-hour mission to win the release of two Italian women hostages kidnapped by Islamist militants last week. | 0 |
Troops sent to protect China dam China is reported to have sent heavily armed troops to protect its huge Three Gorges Dam against terrorist attack. | 0 |
Many Beslan victims gravely ill Fifty victims of the Beslan school siege remain in a serious condition in Moscow hospitals. | 0 |
New fertility treatment 'closer' Women may be able to have unfertilised eggs routinely frozen during fertility treatment rather than just embryos after research. | 0 |
Microsoft's spam plan rejected Internet engineers are unhappy with Microsoft's plans for tracing where e-mails come from. | 0 |
Sick sent home in Nigeria strike Some 60 psychiatric patients are released by a hospital in north-western Nigeria after nurses went on strike. | 0 |
Pakistan shells Waziristan school Pakistani troops attack a religious school in South Waziristan thought to house foreign al-Qaeda suspects. | 0 |
Jab linked to multiple sclerosis People immunised against hepatitis B are at increased risk of multiple sclerosis, a study shows. | 0 |
ElBaradei says unclear if Iran nuclear plans peaceful quot;Have we seen any proof of a weapons programme (in Iran)? Have we seen undeclared (uranium) enrichment? ... Obviously until today. | 0 |
North Korea Talks May Be Victim of US Polls Hopes for a September round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis were evaporating on Tuesday as Pyongyang hinted it was awaiting the outcome of the US presidential race. | 0 |
2 Soldiers Wounded in Palestinian Suicide Bombing in West Bank The Israeli army says two soldiers were injured when a Palestinians suicide bomber blew himself up at a West Bank checkpoint early Tuesday. | 0 |
HK democrats vow to fight for universal suffrage By Channel NewsAsia #39;s Hong Kong Correspondent Roland Lim. HONG KONG : Hong Kong #39;s democrats have vowed to continue to push for Beijing to grant universal suffrage to the territory, despite their disappointing showing in Sunday #39;s local elections. | 0 |
Sony unveils Wi-Fi multimedia Cli #233; Big OLED screen, 802.11b, slick design, long-running battery... | 3 |
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Myopic Congress lacks spyware focus <strong>Analysis</strong> I (don't) SPY with my little eye | 3 |
Sosa Homers As Cubs Club Pirates 7-2 CHICAGO - Sammy Sosa homered for the first time in more than two weeks and Derrek Lee drove in three runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night. Moises Alou and Neifi Perez also homered for the Cubs, who pulled within a half-game of idle San Francisco in the NL wild-card race... | 0 |
Expert: GPS in Peterson Case Had Glitches REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Satellite navigation devices used to track Scott Peterson's car after his wife's disappearance sometimes developed glitches, once indicating he was driving 30,000 mph, an expert in the technology acknowledged Monday at Peterson's murder trial... | 0 |
Ivan Lashes Cuba With 160 Mph Winds PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Whipping winds and walloping waves lashed western Cuba and the communist country's tobacco-growing region Monday, as Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a Category 5 storm - the most powerful - and barreled along on a new course toward the U.S. Gulf Coast... | 0 |
Evacuations for Ivan Urged on Gulf Coast PENSACOLA, Fla. - Rather than roll the dice on where 160-mph Hurricane Ivan might strike, Gulf Coast residents from Florida's Panhandle all the way to the bayous of Louisiana spent Monday boarding up their houses, tying up their boats and making plans to evacuate... | 0 |
On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (Reuters) - Jason Larsen types in a few lines of computer code to hack into the controls of a nearby chemical plant. Then he finds an online video camera inside and confirms that he has pumped up a pressure value. | 3 |
Sony Closer to Content/Gadget Vision with MGM Deal TOKYO (Reuters) - With its acquisition of Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sony Corp is one step closer to its vision of linking hardware and content, and to winning the key battle for the next generation DVD. | 3 |
Eyeing Downturn, Chip Makers Trim Equipment Buying TAIPEI (Reuters) - The semiconductor industry is showing the first signs of slowing growth, trimming purchases of raw materials and production equipment as demand slows, industry executives and analysts said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Sony-Led Group to Buy MGM in \$2.9B Deal The agreement to aquire the venerable Hollywood studio and its valuable film library was reached after Time Warner Inc. dropped out of the bidding. | 3 |
Test of Missile Defense System Delayed Again The Pentagon's last hope of flight-testing critical new elements of an antimissile system, before activating the system this autumn, appeared to vanish with the disclosure that the next flight test has been postponed. | 3 |
Gateway Shifts Back to Personal Computers <p>\</p><p> By Franklin Paul</p><p> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gateway Inc. <GTW.N> 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.</p> | 3 |
Microsoft Corp. and Polycom Inc. Team Up Microsoft Corp. and conferencing technology maker Polycom Inc. are teaming up to develop ways for people using PCs and other devices to hold virtual meetings with those using more traditional conferencing equipment. | 3 |
Micropower 'could fuel UK homes' Household-scale renewable energy schemes could provide power for many British familes, conservationists say. | 3 |
Howard's way is a delicate green The UK Conservative Party has some challenging environmental policies, though there are several glaring gaps. | 3 |
47 dead in Baghdad market blast At least 47 people were killed at a Baghdad market today in an explosion that was believed to have been targeted at a nearby police station. | 0 |
Wired for security McAfee CEO George Samenuk looks beyond PCs to stave off marauding viruses in new areas, including 3G phones. | 3 |
The world in your palm New CDMA-GSM phones are hitting the market. Are they a niche device for business travelers or a bombshell set to rattle the wireless industry? | 3 |
Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC Rep. John Conyers says unnecessary political divisions have brought the Federal Communications Commission to a policy standstill. | 3 |
Venezuela Minister Opposes Increase in OPEC Production Quotas Venezuela, OPEC #39;s third-largest oil producer, said the group shouldn #39;t raise its output targets at this week #39;s meeting in Vienna. | 2 |
Ivan, Iraq concerns lift oil Oil prices jumped again Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan charged towards the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and an explosion rocked Iraq #39;s recovering oil industry. | 2 |
Linux and Identity Services Key for Novell Linux and identity management will be Novell #39;s biggest strengths, according to its chief executive Jack Messman. Messman told delegates at this year #39;s Novell Brainshare Europe event in Barcelona | 3 |
NEC delivers four-way fault tolerant Windows server NEC Solutions America, the US unit of Japanese server maker NEC Corp., has announced a new fault tolerant Windows server, a machine with the unwieldy name of the Express5800/340 Hb-R. | 3 |
Live: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Sri Lanka made a breakthrough with two quick wickets to leave struggling Zimbabwe on 47-3 at The Oval. After Upul Chandana #39;s superb catch of Brendan Taylor in the 13th over, Mahela Jayawardene then caught | 1 |
Vivendi Universal sees better days ahead in 2004 PARIS : French media giant Vivendi Universal reported a surge in its net loss so far this year but forecast a sharp turnaround in its finances for all of 2004. | 2 |
Nokia embraces SD memory cards Users accustomed to removing the memory card from one of their consumer electronic devices and plugging it into another will soon be able to do the same with mobile phones from Nokia Corp. | 3 |
IBM broadens suite of RFID services IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce an expansion of its services for companies seeking help with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. | 3 |
Update: Sun, Microsoft to detail interoperability in October Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. next month plan to provide more details on work they are doing to make their products interoperable, a Sun executive said Monday. | 3 |
Borland looks to take on Visual Studio with Diamondback San Jose, Calif. - Borland Software with the planned Diamondback release of its Delphi tool for Windows applications is looking to take on Microsoft while accommodating .Net, Win32 and Delphi development, a Borland official said on Monday at the BorCon conference here. | 3 |
Novell #39;s Linux, Identity Services Initiative Linux and identity management will be Novell #39;s biggest strengths, according to its chief executive Jack Messman. Messman told delegates at this year #39;s Novell Brainshare Europe event in Barcelona | 3 |
Johnsen eyes Magpies move New Newcastle boss Graeme Souness has targeted the former Manchester United defender to cover for the loss of Jonathan Woodgate to Real Madrid. | 1 |
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