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Ireland in Internet Slow Lane, Say Eircom Rivals (Reuters) Reuters - High-speed access to Ireland's \information superhighway is being denied to many because their\telephone lines are simply not up to the task, critics claim. | 3 |
IBM, LG Electronics to End Joint Venture (AP) AP - International Business Machines Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. will end an eight-year alliance that helped expand the U.S. computer maker's presence in the booming South Korean PC market. | 3 |
French appeals court confirms acquittal of Diana photographers (AFP) AFP - A French appeals court acquitted three photographers of charges they broke privacy laws by photographing Diana, Princess of Wales the night of her fatal accident in Paris in 1997. | 0 |
Nokia Embraces SD Memory Cards (PC World) PC World - Upcoming mobile phones will support Secure Digital flash memory. | 3 |
Stocks Near Flat, Worry Over Oil Spike NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were little changed on Tuesday as investors worried corporate profits would be hurt by rising oil prices, driven higher as Hurricane Ivan threatened to disrupt oil production. | 2 |
Ivan Crimps Jamaican Alumina Production NEW YORK (Reuters) - Production at several alumina refineries in Jamaica has been reduced and shipments slowed due to damage caused by Hurricane Ivan, which battered the island over the weekend, several companies said Tuesday. | 2 |
Casey Defends Decision to Fire Caddie BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - European Ryder Cup rookie Paul Casey has defended his decision to sack his caddie five days before the start of the biggest team event in the sport. | 1 |
Kerry Questions Bush's Honesty on Health Care, Iraq (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic candidate John Kerry on\Tuesday sought the upper hand in his battle over character and\leadership with President Bush, by questioning his Republican\rival's honesty on issues from health care to Iraq. | 0 |
Poor weather hits US shoppers US retail sales fell 0.3 in August as rising energy costs and bad weather persuaded shoppers to reduce their spending. | 2 |
Proxim settles patent lawsuit with Symbol SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Wireless networking provider Proxim Corp., today announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Symbol Technologies Inc. | 2 |
Putin backs Gazprom shares deal Russian president Vladimir Putin has backed plans to end restrictions on the foreign ownership of shares in Russian energy giant Gazprom. | 2 |
Update 3: Yahoo Buying Musicmatch for \$160 Million Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for \$160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant #39;s appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web. | 3 |
IBM Introduces New Entry-Level Linux Servers In the past, IBM has offered Linux as an option on its pSeries Power4 line, and has also offered Linux in certain partitions on its iSeries products. | 3 |
IBM Contributes Speech Recognition Software to Open Source IBM will donate key speech-recognition software to the open-source Apache Foundation in hopes of promoting standardization in speech-enabled applications. | 3 |
Sri Lanka should be easy pickings Modest mission accomplished against Zimbabwe, England are through to what is in effect a quarter-final against Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl on Friday. | 1 |
Dent tops Luczak to win at China Open Taylor Dent defeated Australian qualifier Peter Luczak 6-3, 6-2 in a rain-delayed first-round match at the China Open on Tuesday. In another completed match before rain postponed play, Israel #39;s | 1 |
#39;Sparky #39; Could Energise Rovers Mark Hughes career as a player and international manager has been characterised by a battling nature and win-at-all-costs attitude. | 1 |
Yahoo Flexes Its Music Muscle The internet's most heavily trafficked site is muscling in on the online music sector through its acquisition of Musicmatch in a \$160 million deal announced Tuesday. | 2 |
News: Virus writers add network sniffer to worm Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series. | 3 |
News: Hackers Join Homeland Security Effort IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- 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 |
Proxim, Symbol settle in patent case The two companies reach a settlement and sign a cross-licensing agreement, ending years of litigation over patent infringement.\ | 3 |
WPP #39;s Mega Ad Buy What are weekends for? In the mergers and acquisitions game, it is usually meant for structuring mega deals. That was the case with WPP Group #39;s (Nasdaq: WPPGY) \$1. | 2 |
Yahoo to Buy Musicmatch Web Service for \$160 Million (Update4) Yahoo! Inc., owner of the world #39;s most-visited Internet site, will buy Musicmatch Inc. for \$160 million to spur sales of music downloads and compete with rivals including Apple Computer Inc. | 3 |
Sara Lee Wrestles With RFID, Looks for Benefits SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Sara Lee Corp. is testing radio frequency identification tags on some product cases and shipping pallets to meet a mandate that RFID technology be used on goods sent to | 3 |
Does Intel still hold the high ground? There #39;s been a fair amount of debate recently about whether AMD or Intel is winning the ever-present chip arms race. Based on the experience of this year #39;s Intel Developer Forum (IDF), I #39;m not sure that Intel can still claim to be in the lead. | 3 |
Sports: Rangers reliever arrested over stadium incident OAKLAND, Calif. Texas reliever Frank Francisco has been arrested by Oakland police on a charge of aggravated battery. He threw a chair into the stands during the ninth inning of last night #39;s game in Oakland, injuring two spectators. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Cricket-Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe scoreboard Cricket-Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by four wickets September 14, 2004 16:25:04 LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in their ICC Champions Trophy Pool D match at The Oval on Tuesday. | 1 |
Tennis: Dent Advances in China Open Seventh seed Taylor Dent of the United States has eased past Australian Peter Luczak in the first round of the rain-interrupted China Open at the Beijing Tennis Center. | 1 |
Hughes wants Blackburn Rovers Football Club job Mark Hughes is reportedly keen on becoming the new manager of Blackburn Rovers Football Club. The Ewood Park club have been looking for a new boss since Graeme Souness left for Newcastle United last week, and | 1 |
Gaza settlers to receive up to 300,000 dollars per family: radio JERUSALEM - Jewish settlers who are to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip under terms of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons disengagement plan are to receive between 200,000 to 300,000 dollars per family, Israel army radio reported Tuesday. | 0 |
Al-Qaida Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Police Slaughter Iraqi police suffered two mortal blows today in attacks that left at least 59 people dead and more than 120 injured. The major attack - a car bomb blast near a Baghdad police station, was claimed by an al-Qaida linked terror group. | 0 |
Software Tackles Digital Photo Proliferation (Reuters) Reuters - Now that digital cameras have overtaken\film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a\familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and\folders filling up computer hard drives? | 3 |
Oracle Eyes PeopleSoft as Meat on the Hoof Opinion: According to its president, Oracle has a clear idea of how it #39;s going to slice up PeopleSoft to retain the choicest assets and send the rest to the corporate rendering yard. | 2 |
Sterling recovers from inflation-rate pressure (AFP) AFP - Sterling bulked up some by the end of the session. Earlier the pound had been on the backfoot after softer than expected inflation numbers for August cemented expectations that the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee may not raise the cost of borrowing too much further from its current 4.75 percent. | 0 |
Nigeria opposes OPEC oil quota increase, wants higher price band (AFP) AFP - Nigeria opposes an increase in OPEC's production quota but wants the 11-member cartel to lift an official price band to be more in line with market reality, the country's top oil official said. | 0 |
N.Korea not ready to resume nuclear talks: Russia (AFP) AFP - Russia said that it did not expect North Korea to agree to resume faltering six-way talks about its nuclear weapons program as scheduled this month. | 0 |
Sony Close to Acquiring MGM The planned \$3 billion deal would give Sony a library of more than 4,100 titles. Also: Vivendi says its recovery is almost complete, despite large losses hellip;. Canon and Toshiba team up to produce next-generation flat display panels hellip;. and more. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Sri Lanka stutter to win over plucky Zimbabwe Tillakaratne Dilshan steered Sri Lanka to a scratchy four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in their Champions Trophy match at the Oval on Tuesday but the Africans go home with pride restored after a spirited performance. | 1 |
US Congress Remembers Victims of Terrorism in Russia The US Congress has been paying tribute to the hundreds of people killed in the terrorist takeover of a school in southern Russia, as well as other recent incidents in that country. | 0 |
S. Korea Seeks To Verify N. Korea Blast South Korean officials said Tuesday they were trying to verify North Korea #39;s claim that a huge explosion last week was caused by the demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project. | 0 |
Israeli ministers approve pullout fund (updated AM 00:41) Israel #39;s security Cabinet approved a budget of US\$550 million to US\$670 million on Tuesday to compensate thousands of Jewish settlers set to be removed from occupied Gaza and parts of the West Bank. | 0 |
Yahoo snaps up net music service Yahoo buys the online jukebox provider MusicMatch to tap into the appetite for song downloads. | 3 |
Software Tackles Digital Photo Proliferation SEATTLE (Reuters) - Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives? | 3 |
UPDATE 1-McDonald #39;s boosts annual dividend 38 pct McDonald #39;s Corp. (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday raised its annual dividend by 38 percent, a move the world #39;s largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalization. | 2 |
Novell lays out infrastructure, identity wares This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Novell on Monday used its annual | 3 |
Intel Shows Mystery Dual-Core Desktop Chip Well, Intel did say - dismissively of course - that wasn #39;t going to try to match AMD #39;s little dual-core Opteron demo coup of last week and show off a dual-core Xeon at the Intel Developer Forum this week and - as good as its word - it didn #39;t. | 3 |
Davis dismisses report Lee Suggs has been cleared to practice beginning Wednesday after missing the last two games with a neck injury. Coach Butch Davis said a report on ESPN speculating Suggs has stenosis, which is a narrowing of the spinal column, is untrue. | 1 |
Verdict favors World Trade Center leaseholder Real estate developer Larry Silverstein, who envisions replacing all the commercial office space destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, won a court victory Monday that may help him do so. | 2 |
Nokia joins secure digital memory card group The mobile phone maker will support tiny data storage devices and their multimedia cards. | 3 |
Charles Schwab Corp. to Pay \$350,000 Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Schwab Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SCH.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SCH.N</A> on Tuesday said it had agreed to pay a fine of \$350,000 to settle SEC enforcement proceedings related to the processing of mutual fund orders. | 2 |
Johnny Cash items up for auction More than 650 items belonging to Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash are being auctioned in New York. | 0 |
Adjusting on the Fly Joe Gibbs and the Redskins are the only team to have a referee on staff to, among other things, help review replay challenges during games. | 1 |
Suggs to Practice Cleveland Browns running back Lee Suggs has been cleared by doctors to return to practice this week. However, there is still some haziness about his medical condition. | 1 |
Underage Teens Turn Profit on Old Beer OSLO, Norway - Confronting a grocery store with its promise to pay shoppers a bonus if they found any products with expired freshness dates, two enterprising teens turned a 7,000 kroner (\$1,030) profit by loading up shopping carts with out-of-date beer they weren't old enough to buy. The boys, ages 14 and 15, got their reward despite being underage, the Oslo daily Verdens Gang reported Tuesday... | 0 |
Insurgents Target Iraqi Police; 59 Dead BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb Tuesday ripped through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis were waiting to apply for jobs on the force, and gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from work in Baqouba, killing at least 59 people total and wounding at least 114. The attacks were the latest attempts by militants to wreck the building of a strong Iraqi security force, a keystone of the U.S... | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan blows price of oil higher US crude leapt about \$1.50-a-barrel yesterday as petroleum giants evacuated thousands of workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
Weinsteins look to stay with Disney The brothers who founded and run Disney Corp. #39;s Miramax Films unit are sticking together, The New York Post is reporting. Harvey and Bob Weinstein now hope to work things with out with Disney, and stay within the Disney fold, the report stated. | 2 |
Sony Close to Acquiring MGM Sony is a step closer to acquiring famed Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a \$3 billion deal that would give it a considerable library of more than 4,100 titles. | 2 |
Lazarus Disappearing From Western Pa. Federated Department Stores says its regional chains will begin operating under the Macy #39;s name in January. Do you think changing the names of Federated stores to Macy #39;s is a good idea? | 2 |
Yahoo agrees to buy Musicmatch for \$160 mn NEW YORK, September 14 (New Ratings) - Yahoo! Inc (YHOO.NAS) has agreed to acquire Musicmatch Inc, a privately held digital music software company, for about \$160 million in cash. | 3 |
Nokia joins secure digital memory card group With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 3 |
News and Trends There is currently some confusion over the status of Sender ID in the IETF #39;s MARID working group which has been considering the proposed standard. | 3 |
Hot Rod Job For SpaceShipOne rwven writes quot;MSNBC is reporting that the engine on SpaceShipOne has been modified to provide more thrust, for a longer amount of time. | 3 |
Borland titanic effort to link software with business need Borland Software Corp. has laid-out a product roadmap and strategy to better align customers #39; Application Lifecycle Management processes with their changing business needs, helping deliver what it called quot;Enterprise Resource Planning quot; for software. | 3 |
UPDATE 2-Sri Lanka stutter to win over plucky Zimbabwe Tillakaratne Dilshan steered Sri Lanka to a scratchy four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in their Champions Trophy match at the Oval on Tuesday but the Africans go home with pride restored after a spirited performance. | 1 |
Things heat up for A #39;s, Rangers Texas reliever Frank Francisco needed just one dangerous throw to overshadow an exciting back-and-forth game with a playoff atmosphere. | 1 |
DESCHAMPS - MONACO NOT AS STRONG Monaco coach Didier Deschamps admits Liverpool will face a weaker side on Wednesday than the one which reached last season #39;s Champions League final. | 1 |
No deal, but I #39;ll work for unity: Anwar KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia #39;s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has reiterated that there was no political deal to secure his freedom from prison but has promised to work for unity in Malaysia. | 0 |
Nokia joins Secure Digital industry group The mobile phone maker will support tiny data storage devices and their multimedia cards. | 3 |
Kroger #39;s 2Q Earnings Drop Almost \$50M CINCINNATI Sept. 14, 2004 - The Kroger Co., one of the nation #39;s largest operators of supermarkets, reported Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings fell almost \$50 million from a year ago, hurt by debt charges and the southern California strike. | 2 |
Charles Schwab fined \$350,000 Charles Schwab Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to pay a fine of \$350,000 related to the processing of certain mutual fund orders. | 2 |
Sun trims fourth-quarter earnings by \$12M SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Sun Microsystems Inc. trimmed its fourth-quarter and full-year 2004 results this week to incorporate the final accounting of asset retirement obligations and its settlement with Microsoft Corp. | 2 |
Yahoo Buying Musicmatch Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for \$160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant's appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web. | 3 |
IETF Nixes Microsoft Sender ID Approach Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn said that even if competing standards emerge, the rise of more advanced e-mail validation technology will likely be one of the most powerful tools against spam. | 3 |
Beefed-up motor will boost SpaceShipOne A beefed-up motor will boost the power of a rocket vying for the \$10 million human space flight prize. SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded craft to carry a person to the edge of space in June. | 3 |
MyDoom Virus Writing Not a Resume Builder quot;There #39;s no way anyone would hire them to fight viruses, quot; said Sophos security analyst Gregg Mastoras. quot;For one, no security firm could maintain its reputation by employing hackers. | 3 |
Zimbabwe heads held high Zimbabwe are out of the Champions Trophy but captain Tatenda Taibu said they will leave England with their heads held high. The inexperienced side came close to beating Sri Lanka in the second game in group | 1 |
Andreychuk Back With Bolts TAMPA - The Lightning have signed captain Dave Andreychuk to a one-year contract, the Stanley Cup champions announced today. Terms were not disclosed. | 1 |
Ivan slaps west Cuba and stomps into gulf Hurricane Ivan #39;s massiveness can be seen in this view of the storm from the international space station. The photograph was made Saturday when Ivan was over the Caribbean. | 0 |
Car bomb explodes in Baghdad A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early today as dozens of Iraqis were applying to join the force, killing at least 47 people and wounding 114, officials said. | 0 |
USA: Kroger reports lower Q2 earnings US grocery retailer Kroger has reported lower second-quarter net earnings, hit by the early redemption of debt and the continuing after-effects of the labour dispute in Southern California. | 2 |
Symbol Tech, Proxim Settle Lawsuit Hand-held computer and scanner maker Symbol Technologies Inc. and wireless network equipment maker Proxim Corp. settled their patent dispute, the companies said Tuesday. | 2 |
NASD Says Do Your Homework On 529 Plans NEW YORK - The NASD urges investors to do their homework before buying a 529 College Savings Plan. Fees, expenses, tax incentives and returns vary from state to state, and investors therefore should look for | 2 |
Tech stocks lead the way WALL Street #39;s broad market indicators ended nearly flat today after an early rally attempt ran out of steam, but tech stocks held on for solid gains. | 2 |
Yahoo to acquire Musicmatch Internet portal Yahoo, Inc., of Sunnyvale, says it #39;s buying Musicmatch, Inc., of San Diego, which sells personalized music software and services, for about \$160 million in cash. | 3 |
Ibm Expands Rfid Offerings with Services for Mid-Market and CHICAGO - (BUSINESS WIRE) -ept. 14, 2004 -ay IBM announced a broad suite of services to speed the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies and mid-market businesses. | 3 |
Computer worm #39;sniffs #39; out passwords The first computer worm to eavesdrop on network traffic after it infects a computer has been discovered by security experts. The SDBot. | 3 |
Sony begins mass production of OLED screens com September 14, 2004, 10:45 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 |
IETF deals Microsoft #39;s e-mail proposal a setback A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the IETF established to study the proposal sent it back for more work, citing concerns over vague intellectual property claims made by | 3 |
Microsoft #39;s Visual Studio Release 2005: Everybody in .NET Microsoft this week previewed its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, which will ship next year. The company says the tool will help software developers in small to mid-size organizations | 3 |
Lightning re-sign Andreychuk Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed captain Dave Andreychuk to a one-year deal. In accordance with team policy, financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. | 1 |
Florida State won #39;t pull plug on Rix after Miami loss On second thought, Florida State has opted against using its second option at quarterback. After three days of meetings, debate and some | 1 |
Wednesday NHL lockout seems inevitable After failing to make any progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement, the NHL owners and players agreed on one point: A lockout seems inevitable. | 1 |
Nedved just taking a break from international play Prague, Czech Republic (Sports Network) - Juventus star and Czech national team captain Pavel Nedved will sit out international matches until he completely recovers from a knee injury, even though he is still playing for his club team Juventus. | 1 |
Arab ministers avoid UN resolution on Lebanon Arab foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to avoid a position on United Nations intervention in the Syrian-Lebanese relationship after Syria and Jordan disagreed on the right approach. | 0 |
Allied Waste lowers earnings forecast a second time Shares of Allied Waste Industries Inc. opened lower Tuesday following another pullback in earnings expectations. The Scottsdale-based waste hauler Tuesday cut its 2004 earnings forecast for the second time | 2 |
Yahoo buys Musicmatch for 160 million dollars Internet portal Yahoo is looking to boost its music offerings with the purchase of Musicmatch for 160 million dollars. The all-cash deal is intended to give Yahoo increased | 3 |
New RFID Services Based On IBM #39;s Own Tagging Projects RFID work done at an IBM chip factory becomes the basis for a new line of consulting services. By Laurie Sullivan. IBM is introducing a line of radio-frequency identification services for midmarket companies | 3 |
Nokia joins Secure Digital industry group Nokia on Tuesday said it has joined an industry group working on technical and specification standards for Secure Digital memory card applications. | 3 |
Steve Smith Has Surgery; Panthers Seek 2 (AP) AP - Steve Smith had surgery Tuesday on his broken left leg, leaving the Carolina Panthers searching for replacements for their top receiver and punt returner. | 1 |
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