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Fed up with pension defaults Citing failure of two big airlines to make payments to their pension plans, top government officials Tuesday called on Congress to make it harder for corporations to dump their obligations on taxpayers. | 2 |
Tribune Earnings to Trail Estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newspaper and television station owner Tribune Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TRB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TRB.N</A> on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings would lag Wall Street estimates because of lower-than-expected publishing and broadcasting revenue. | 2 |
Democrat Kerry Slams Bush's 'Excuse Presidency' (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic candidate John Kerry\unleashed a harsh indictment of President Bush's economic\stewardship on Wednesday and urged his Republican rival to take\responsibility instead of playing the victim. | 0 |
Fit-Again Ferrero Wins at China Open BEIJING (Reuters) - Juan Carlos Ferrero showed glimpses of his old form in thrashing American Justin Gimelstob 6-4, 6-1 to reach the second round of the China Open on Wednesday. | 1 |
French Police Detain Five in 9/11 Probe PARIS (Reuters) - Police have detained five suspected Islamic militants as part of a French inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks, French judicial sources said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Malaysia's Anwar Loses Bid to Lift Political Ban PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian dissident politician Anwar Ibrahim failed on Wednesday in a final court bid to erase his criminal record and free himself of a ban on holding political office, but he vowed not to be silenced. | 0 |
Drenched Dhaka counts flood cost Government offices in the Bangladeshi capital reopen as it slowly returns to normal following widespread floods. | 0 |
At Least 2 Killed in Car Bombing in Iraq Today's blast south of Baghdad was the latest in a series of attacks in Iraq that have killed some 150 people in the last four days. | 0 |
Car Bomb Explodes South of Baghdad; 2 Dead BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in a town south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 10, the latest in a spate of attacks that have killed some 150 people in the last four days. Meanwhile Wednesday, militants released a Turkish man taken hostage in Iraq, according to a videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News... | 0 |
Oracle Q1 net up 16 Net income in the fiscal first-quarter rose to \$509 million, from \$440 million a year earlier, while revenue rose seven percent to \$2. | 2 |
UPDATE:Murdoch Has 7 Weeks To Secure News Corp #39;s US Move By Lilly Vitorovich Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Rupert Murdoch has seven weeks to convince News Corp. (NWS) shareholders a move to the US will make the media conglomerate more attractive to | 2 |
Adobe debuts Photoshop Elements 3.0 Adobe today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, a major upgrade to its entry-level image editing product. The updated product includes a series of powerful image editing tools taken from | 3 |
AU Optronics may shelve next gen LCD fab MAJOR LCD panel maker AU Optronics may can plans to build a seventh generation TFT-LCD fab, the Taipei Times said. That follows a slump in sales in July, after prices for large size LCD panels started to topple. | 3 |
Windows Mobile barrage from T-Mobile Mobile network operator T-Mobile sheds light on three new Windows Mobile powered devices, including the SDA and SDA Music smartphones and the MDA Compact communicator. | 3 |
Pakistan look to strike early Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has won the toss and chosen to field in the delayed ICC Champions Trophy contest with Kenya at Edgbaston. | 1 |
MLB: Seattle 3, Anaheim 2 Seattle #39;s Randy Winn hit a two-run home run as the Mariners edged the Anaheim Angels 3-2 Tuesday. Winn slammed his homer pinch-hitting in the seventh to give the Mariners a 3-0 lead. | 1 |
Oracle beats experts Fresh off a surprising legal victory in its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reported a 16 percent jump in profit Tuesday, beating Wall Street #39;s estimate by a penny. | 2 |
Information tech slow to reboot At a job fair in downtown San Diego yesterday, dozens of information technology workers wandered the Civic Theater community concourse looking for leads on jobs. | 2 |
Univ. of Phoenix pushes ahead The University of Phoenix disputes the government #39;s portrait that it sells education with the zeal of a hard-charging telemarketer, but recent memos to recruiters reveal tactics similar to those recently cited by federal regulators. | 2 |
Mondavi to sell off luxury wine brands In the latest act of Napa Valley #39;s continuing King Lear saga, Robert Mondavi Corp. said Tuesday it plans to sell off its luxury wine brands, including the original Robert Mondavi Winery that made the company famous. | 2 |
US retail sales dip as auto sector slows WASHINGTONAmerican shoppers turned tight-fisted in August, dropping sales at retailers by 0.3 per cent and providing fresh evidence of an erratic pace of consumer spending in recent months. | 2 |
Guild members boycott gala, picket outside Sun-Times building The Chicago Sun-Times #39; management and unionized reporters planned to return to the bargaining table Wednesday morning on the heels of a vote authorizing a strike and picketing by employees outside a gala thrown by the company. | 2 |
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Adobe has today announced Photoshop Elements 3.0. New features include the Healing Brush, previously only available in the full version of Photoshop, and new Spot Healing Brush as well as the ability to support RAW files. | 3 |
Xerox adds HSBC and Boeing to its portfolio Xerox has won several new document services deals and updated its content management and workflow software. HSBC has selected Xerox to provide document services in its Brazil and UK offices that will include | 3 |
Mourinho waxes lyrical over Chelsea victory Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho could hardly find enough superlatives to describe his side #39;s 3-0 win at Paris St Germain in their Champions League opener. | 1 |
Bangladesh wins toss, choose to field Southampton (England), Sept. 15 (AP): Bangladesh won the toss and sent the West Indies in to bat in their Champions Trophy cricket match at The Rose Bowl today. | 1 |
Throw lands pitcher in jail Incidents between baseball players and fans have long been part of the game. But they seem to be getting uglier with each year, and an imbroglio Monday night in Oakland, Calif. | 1 |
No Offense: Sox Fall To Rays The Sox, who entered play Tuesday with 28 wins in their last 35 games, continued their gradual descent back to Earth by falling to the Devil Rays, 5-2, in front of another sellout crowd of 35,118 at Fenway Park. | 1 |
Staying course on #39;rocky #39; road Donahue gets 4-year extension from <b>...</b> The 49ers announced a four-year extension for general manager Terry Donahue in a news conference Tuesday with Donahue and owner John York. | 1 |
Darfur Peace Talks Collapse Peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels from the troubled Darfur region have collapsed after three weeks, one of the two main rebel factions said today. | 0 |
Malaysian Court Rejects Anwar Appeal of Corruption Conviction Malaysia #39;s highest court has turned down former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim #39;s appeal of his corruption conviction. | 0 |
Three beheaded bodies discovered on a road north of Baghdad Three beheaded bodies were found Wednesday on a road north of Baghdad, authorities said. There were no documents on the bodies discovered on the road near Dijiel, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, said Col. | 0 |
Three Beheaded Bodies Found North of Baghdad BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs and the corpses put in nylon bags, were found dumped by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and U.S. officials said. | 0 |
Iraq elections 'still on track' The British Army's head tells the BBC the attacks which killed dozens in Iraq will not derail January's elections. | 0 |
Coca-Cola Sees Earnings Below Estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KO.N</A> on Wednesday said earnings for the remainder of 2004 would lag current expectations because of weakness in key markets. | 2 |
Stocks Set to Open Little Changed NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks looked to open little changed on Wednesday as concerns about Hurricane Ivan weighed on sentiment, although solid earnings from Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A> could help the mood among technology stocks. | 2 |
Tribune Profit Seen Below Wall St. Views NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publisher and broadcaster Tribune Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TRB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TRB.N</A> on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings would lag Wall Street estimates because of lower-than-expected publishing and broadcasting revenue. | 2 |
LVMH First-Half Profit Advances 49 on Airport Stores (Update1) LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, the world #39;s largest luxury-goods maker, said first-half profit rose 49 percent as travelers returned to its Asian airport stores and US shoppers bought more champagne and cognac. | 2 |
AOL: Back to the Future? There #39;s a song by a band I definitely don #39;t listen to, quot;Don #39;t stop thinking about tomorrow, quot; but the lyrics rather tellingly continue, quot;Yesterday #39;s gone, yesterday #39;s | 3 |
T-Mobile introduces new Windows Mobile Smartphone in Germany The SDA Music (pictured) phone is the first Windows Mobile Smartphone to be release by the operator and gives not only allows access to Microsoft applications like Outlook, but also can be used to relax after work thanks to the integrated audio player. | 3 |
Cup doesn #39;t runneth over for the US BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The dateline fools you as much as the event may fool you. These are the suburbs of Detroit, where the grit turns into greenery, where the big shots who manage the car factories | 1 |
Blackburn make move for Wales manager Hughes Blackburn Rovers have approached the Football Association of Wales (FAW) for permission to speak to Wales manager Mark Hughes, Welsh soccer #39;s ruling body said on Wednesday. | 1 |
A man of morals He may be known as quot;El Loco quot;, but there is none of the traditional flamboyant Latin madness about Marcelo Bielsa. Instead, the man whose controversial reign as Argentina coach came to an end | 1 |
A walk-through for Bonds Needing 1 more homer to join only Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in baseball #39;s version of the 700 Club, Bonds went 0-for-2 with 2 walks in the Giants #39; 3-2 victory over the Brewers on Tuesday night at Miller Park. | 1 |
Swiss withdraws bid to host 2014 Winter Olympics ZURICH (Switzerland): Zurich officials Tuesday abandoned plans to lead a joint Swiss bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics because the city would be unable to afford its portion. | 1 |
FA Cup semi-finals to be played in Cardiff This season #39;s FA Cup semi-finals will be held at Cardiff #39;s Millennium Stadium, the Football Association said on Wednesday. | 1 |
Poll indicates crushing defeat for Megawati in Indonesian election An opinion poll published in Jakarta shows Indonesia #39;s President Megawati Sukarnoputri is set for a crushing defeat in next Monday #39;s presidential election run-off. | 0 |
Harrington Plays Second Fiddle to Quarterback Cousin BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - As Europe's top-ranked golfer, Padraig Harrington might well have expected the sight of autograph seekers as he went through his first Ryder Cup practice round on Tuesday. | 1 |
Federer Seals Year-End No. 1 Spot Three Months Early LONDON (Reuters) - It is mid-September and Roger Federer has already guaranteed he will end the year as world number one. | 1 |
Internet accounts offer free Web space to host your site Downside is having to learn to use html code. Internet Explorer #39;s AutoComplete function remembers passwords, but experts say it creates a security risk. | 3 |
HONG KONG: HK press says people still want full democracy The record turnout in Hong Kong #39;s legislative council elections shows that the territory wants full democracy, newspapers said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Tomlinson Says Chargers Want Brees Back (AP) AP - The day after the San Diego Chargers assured themselves of their first winning season since 1995, LaDainian Tomlinson made a pitch for the front office to bring back quarterback Drew Brees next year. | 1 |
World's largest ID theft felon faces 14 years' jail Help desk technician pleads guilty to \$50m scam | 3 |
Amstrad launches home videophone A videophone that lets home users see who they are talking to has been launched by Amstrad. | 3 |
Opteron gets power management In an effort to help enterprise users get a handle on power and heat issues associated with new server designs that pack more processing punch in smaller spaces, Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that systems built with its 32/64-bit Opteron | 3 |
The Cyberspace Moviemaker LOS ANGELES -- He is like that guy who worked in your office once, the shy tech-geek, the temp down in IT, who typed Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the keypad when your hard drive seized up. Until very recently, that guy was Kerry Conran. | 3 |
Illinois hires ex-Gators coach Zook Former Florida coach Ron Zook will take over at Illinois, sources told The Associated Press Monday. Zook #39;s hiring as head coach will be announced at a news conference Tuesday, said two | 1 |
UK needs 'more nuclear stations' Climate change demands Britain consider building new nuclear power plants, says Lord May, the Royal Society president. | 3 |
PacifiCare to Buy American Medical (Reuters) Reuters - PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. , one\of the biggest Medicare plan providers, said on Wednesday it\has agreed to buy health-care benefits provider American\Medical Security Group Inc. for #36;502 million to expand its\product offerings to individuals and small businesses. | 2 |
Tribune Profit Seen Below Wall St. Views (Reuters) Reuters - Publisher and broadcaster Tribune Co.\ on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings would lag Wall\Street estimates because of lower-than-expected publishing and\broadcasting revenue. | 2 |
Yahoo boosts music portal (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Yahoo, seeking to add e-commerce to its Internet music portal, will pay #36;160 million in cash to acquire Musicmatch, a critically acclaimed but little known music jukebox and download service. | 3 |
OPEC ministers to mull output quota hike by up to one million barrels (AFP) AFP - OPEC will mull raising its oil output quota by up to one million barrels per day at a meeting in a largely symbolic gesture as members are already pumping far above the 26 million ceiling. | 2 |
Sportsview: Plenty of Seats to See Bonds (AP) AP - There were still plenty, way too many, good seats available. | 1 |
Software can make your day (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Now you can project different images of yourself on the mobile phone, depending on who's calling. | 3 |
Oracle surpasses earnings expectations (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Oracle (ORCL) on Tuesday posted a 16 jump in quarterly earnings, surpassing analyst estimates, despite listless sales in an area it hopes to buttress by buying rival PeopleSoft (PSFT). | 3 |
Mortgage Applications Fell Last Week NEW YORK (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. home loans fell last week as 30-year mortgage rates declined to their lowest level since late March, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Alitalia soars after pilot pact Shares of Italian airline up on optimism that pilot agreement is first step to regaining health. ROME (Reuters) - With a boost from a vital deal with pilots, Alitalia and unions for cabin crew and ground staff | 2 |
Many Delta Pilots Plan to Retire Next Month he pilots #39; union at Delta Air Lines said last night that an quot;unusually high quot; number of pilots planned to retire early in October because of concerns about the airline #39;s deteriorating financial situation. | 2 |
US retail sales fell 0.3 percent in August Retail sales slid in August as people steered away from buying cars and shoppers kept a close eye on their spending after splurging in July. | 2 |
Microsoft releases critical security patch Microsoft has found two new security flaws in its software, including a critical hole that could spread viruses using Jpeg graphics. | 3 |
Controlling #39;The Sims #39; Instead of genre staples such as lobbing grenades or casting spells, the game asked players to get excited about tasks such as personal hygiene and interior design. | 3 |
SDBot.UJ Wiggling to Get Passwords SDBot.UJ, the latest variant of the SDbot worm that monitors network traffic after it infects a computer has been discovered by security experts. | 3 |
Cisco announces integrated services routers aimed at SMBs and SMEs Cisco Systems has announced new integrated services routers capable of delivering wire-speed data, voice, video and other advanced services to the small- and medium-sized business and enterprise branch office market segments. | 3 |
Rangers 12, Athletics 9 OAKLAND, Calif. Alfonso Soriano had three hits and two RB-Is as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics, 12-to-9. The win comes a night after Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a plastic chair into the stands in Oakland and broke a woman #39;s nose. | 1 |
SportsNetwork Game Preview (Sports Network) - Barry Bonds can join the exclusive 700 club tonight, as the San Francisco Giants begin a three-game series versus the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. | 1 |
Cardiff to host FA Cup semi-finals Cardiffs Millennium Stadium will host this seasons FA Cup semi-finals as well as the final. It will be the first time the venue has hosted the semi-finals, with Old Trafford and Villa Park having been favoured in recent years. | 1 |
Ichiro, Winn sting Halos Should the Angels fail to make the playoffs by the slimmest of margins, they will look back and remember a handful of games and a group of antagonists, both likely and unlikely, that led to their demise. | 1 |
Bold insurgents targeting Iraqi police kill 59 Nearly 150 people have been slain in 3 days as militants try to derail plan for security force. Oil exports: Saboteurs wrecked a recently repaired pipeline junction in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Tuesday and the fire set off a cascade of power blackouts. | 0 |
Three Beheaded Bodies Found North of Baghdad The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs and the corpses put in nylon bags, were found dumped by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and US officials said. | 0 |
Super-Secure Network Warns of Data Danger It's a hacker's nightmare but a dream for bankers and spies: A computer network so secure that even the simplest attempts to eavesdrop will interrupt the flow of data and alert administrators to the snooping. | 3 |
Lockheed, General Dynamics Win U.S. Army Contract <p>\</p><p> By Andrea Shalal-Esa</p><p> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Tuesday awarded\General Dynamics Corp. <GD.N> the lead role in developing a new\warfighter communications system, with Lockheed Martin Corp.\<LMT.N.> to get an equal share of the work, which GD said was\worth \$7 billion through 2018.</p> | 3 |
Controlling 'The Sims' Mental breakdowns and warped childhoods add to the fun in "The Sims 2," creator Will Wright explains. | 3 |
Nokia to license SD memory cards Nokia has signed a licensing deal to allow it to use SD memory cards in future devices, and has applied for membership of the SD Card Association. | 3 |
Internet group rejects Microsoft #39;s anti-spam solution The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has provisionally rejected Sender ID, a proposed anti-spam specification from Microsoft, because of a possible intellectual property rights conflict. | 3 |
Insurgents continue bombing; 59 dead BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb and a mass shooting killed 59 people in Iraq on Tuesday, many of them policemen and unemployed young men seeking to join the country #39;s beleaguered security forces. | 0 |
1st Profit Forecast for Reynolds American (Reuters) Reuters - Reynolds American Inc. , parent\of the No. 2 U.S. cigarette company, on Wednesday forecast 2004\profit of #36;5.75 to #36;6.05 a share, its first forecast since the\company was formed at the end of July. | 2 |
Mortgage Applications Fell Last Week (Reuters) Reuters - New applications for U.S. home loans\fell last week as 30-year mortgage rates declined to their\lowest level since late March, an industry group said on\Wednesday. | 2 |
Thailand Decides Against Bird Flu Vaccine (AP) AP - Thailand, faced with a second outbreak of bird flu, said Wednesday its poultry would not be inoculated against the disease because vaccines offer no guarantee of safety. | 0 |
Coca-Cola Sees 2nd-Half Below Estimates CHICAGO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KO.N</A> on Wednesday said earnings for the remainder of 2004 would lag current expectations because of weakness in key markets. | 2 |
1st Profit Forecast for Reynolds American CHICAGO (Reuters) - Reynolds American Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=RAI.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">RAI.N</A>, parent of the No. 2 U.S. cigarette company, on Wednesday forecast 2004 profit of \$5.75 to \$6.05 a share, its first forecast since the company was formed at the end of July. | 2 |
Beware Dust from Jupiter's Moon Io Jupiter's moon Io is peppered with volcanoes, the hottest, most active volcanoes in our solar system. Sizzling vents spew plumes of gas and dust as much as 400 km high. They surge, spit, subside and surge again, non-stop. Passing spacecraft beware: Io is shooting at you. | 3 |
Tough times ahead for semiconductor business SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of companies building and designing microprocessors is likely to shrink by approximately 40 percent over the next 10 years, analysts from Gartner Inc. predicted at the research firm's Semiconductor Industry Summit conference here in San Francisco Tuesday. | 3 |
Botin pursues dream of Santander in world top 10 Santander Central Hispano #39;s Chairman Emilio Botin pledged a year ago to propel the Spanish bank into the world #39;s top 10 by market capitalisation, an ambition which could now be realised with a bid for Abbey National. | 2 |
Russia to keep some state limits on foreign ownership of Gazprom MOSCOW : The Russian state will maintain some restrictions on foreign ownership in gas giant Gazprom after the liberalisation of its shareholding structure, a top minister said. | 2 |
Coke to Miss 2nd Half Earnings Estimates ATLANTA Sept. 15, 2004 - Soft-drink giant Coca-Cola Co. said Wednesday that it expects second-half 2004 earnings per share to fall short of Wall Street expectations on flat to low volume growth. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-US mortgage applications fall last week-MBA New applications for US home loans fell last week as 30-year mortgage rates declined to their lowest level since late March, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-PacifiCare to buy American Medical for \$502 mln PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. (PHS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the biggest Medicare plan providers, said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy health-care benefits provider American Medical Security Group Inc. | 2 |
More union givebacks unlikely at US Airways US Airways #39; unions, defying efforts to win labor concessions to avert a bankruptcy, are unlikely to give up pay and benefits under a threat of cuts imposed by a court, a labor leader and consultants said. | 2 |
Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend carbolic writes quot;The Firefox browser is ramping up as fast as Internet Explorer is ramping down. According to these stats posted from the Engadget logfiles, IE has dropped to 57 of all browsers used to visit | 3 |
It #39;s The Beatles vs iTunes! APPLE could be facing the largest legal settlement in history - and the money will go to APPLE. The electronics giant Apple Computer has been in legal wrangles with Apple Corps - The Beatles holding company | 3 |
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