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JP Morgan KOs \$5 Bln IBM Outsourcing Deal NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.P. Morgan Chase Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=JPM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">JPM.N</A>, said on Wednesday it was scrapping a \$5 billion outsourcing deal with IBM Corp.<A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=IBM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">IBM.N</A>, amid an overall plan to manage more of its own technology services. | 2 |
Is She or Isn't She? Panda Gives Keepers the Runaround (Reuters) Reuters - A 20-year-old giant panda and mother of\13, including four sets of twins, has been giving her keepers\the runaround, pretending to be expecting yet again. | 3 |
FDA OKs Some Heart Failure Therapies CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cardiovascular device maker Guidant Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GDT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GDT.N</A> said on Wednesday U.S. regulators cleared the use of its implantable heart failure therapies for a wider group of patients. | 2 |
UK OKs Taser Stun Guns for Some Police NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of stun gun maker Taser International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TASR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TASR.O</A> soared on Wednesday after the United Kingdom, which does not allow most police to carry guns, said it approved use of its stun guns for some officers. | 2 |
Five Stocks With Outstanding Returns Outstanding ROIC and market-beating performance go hand-in-hand for these stocks. | 2 |
Stewart Asks to Serve Sentence Soon NEW YORK - Millionaire executive Martha Stewart announced Wednesday that she had decided to begin her prison sentence for lying about a stock trade as soon as possible. "I must reclaim my good life," she said, adding she hoped to be home in time to plant a spring garden... | 0 |
NHL to Lock Out Players Thursday NEW YORK - The NHL will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was confirmed by NHL owners Wednesday following a meeting in New York... | 0 |
Stocks Sag on Coke's Gloomy Forecast NEW YORK - Stocks sagged Wednesday after beverage giant Coca-Cola Co. issued a gloomy forecast, and a lower-than-expected reading on industrial production for August threw the nation's broader economic outlook into question... | 0 |
Three Bodies Found Headless Found in Iraq Security forces discovered three beheaded bodies Wednesday on a road north of Baghdad, and a car bomb exploded in a town south of the capital, killing two people amid a surge of violence that has left more than 200 dead in the past four days. | 0 |
Novell takes potshot at Microsoft kettle Earlier this week, Novell boss Jack Messman lambasted Microsoft for being a \$60bn drain on the IT industry. His assertion is that Bill Gates et al have set back the evolution of the whole industry by gobbling | 3 |
Werder Bremen #39;s Ismael claims unwanted record MILAN September 15 (SW) - Werder Bremens Valerian Ismael earned himself an unenviable place in Champions League record books after only five minutes of his teams 2-0 defeat at Inter when the French defender became the recipient of the fastest | 1 |
#39;Batman #39; of Buckingham Palace dumped by his lover!: World News London, Sep.15 : Days after father #39;s right campaigner Jason Hatch spent five hours at Buckingham Palace ledge dressed as Batman, he has been dumped by girlfriend Gemma Polson, because he himslef doesn #39;t have time for their daughter. | 0 |
Chipmakers on the chopping block? Study predicts that industry demands will crush 40 percent of today's semiconductor manufacturers. | 3 |
Adobe expands push for video, photo hobbyists The company releases new applications aimed at amateur photographers and video shooters. | 3 |
Man pleads guilty in massive credit info theft case A man charged in one of the largest identity theft scams in U.S. history pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and fraud in connection with identity documents Tuesday and could face up to 50 years in prison, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney David Kelley, of the Southern District of New York. | 3 |
JP Morgan cancels \$5B outsourcing deal with IBM NEW YORK - IBM Corp. lost one of its highest-profile outsourced-IT clients on Wednesday, as JPMorgan Chase Co. said it is canceling the remaining portion of a contract that was intended as a seven-year, \$5 billion deal. | 3 |
OPEC boosting oil output by million barrels a day by Nov. 1 to <b>...</b> OPEC will increase its official oil production target by one million barrels a day later this year in a move widely viewed as more symbolic than significant, given that the cartel has been exceeding the new output limit all year. | 2 |
Cendant To Complete Purchase Of Ramada Brand SEPTEMBER 15, 2004 -- The Cendant Hotel Group today announced that it will acquire the Ramada International Hotels and Resorts brand from Marriott International. | 2 |
Amazon Launches A9 Web Search Service Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) unit A9.com on Wednesday unveiled the new version of its Web search service, the latest salvo in the cut-throat sector dominated by Amazon partner -- and rival -- Google Inc. | 2 |
FDA OKs Some Heart Failure Therapies Cardiovascular device maker Guidant Corp. (GDT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday US regulators cleared the use of its implantable heart failure therapies for a wider group of patients. | 2 |
Adobe expands push for video, photo hobbyists com September 15, 2004, 11:03 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
From tiny acorns... It was far from vintage Arsenal. The swagger and confidence of the opening month of the Premiership campaign was some distance away, but most importantly they began their Champions League campaign with three points. | 1 |
Ryder Cup highlights PGA #39;s charity and school outreach program On behalf of the 2004 US Ryder Cup Team, The PGA of America will distribute another \$2.6 million to player-designated charities as well as to the colleges and universities of their choice to help fund the quot;Golf: For Business and Life Program. | 1 |
Row erupts as Spain #39;s Aznar to appear before March 11 inquiry MADRID : A row erupted in Spain as members of the parliamentary inquiry into the March 11 Madrid train bombings voted to call former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar as a witness. | 0 |
First impressions of Firefox 1.0 preview release First impressions of Firefox 1.0 preview release\\Firefox is my second choice for a web browser. Opera comes first. No doubts about that. But Firefox in itself is a pretty decent browser. My requirement from a browser has risen with my long time usage of Opera so I just cannot move ... | 3 |
Immigration, police share data in trawl of 'crime hot-spots' Pretext databases mobile terminals. Yum. | 3 |
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to Advergames (Reuters) Reuters - Back to school for many kids means\"back to Internet access" in classes where the best of\filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against\seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing. | 3 |
NHL Lockout at a Glance (AP) AP - The NHL said Wednesday it was imposing a lockout of the players association, effective Thursday #151; the day after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement. | 1 |
Owners Lock Out Players in Labor Dispute TORONTO (Reuters) - NHL owners carried out their threat to lock out players on Wednesday, shutting down the league after the two sides failed to reach a new labor deal. | 1 |
Exhausting Every Option A coalition of high-tech companies plays its latest gambit on trying to declaw options expensing. | 2 |
Livewire: Back to School Means Back to Advergames LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Back to school for many kids means "back to Internet access" in classes where the best of filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing. | 3 |
Boeing CEO pushes for halt to Airbus subsidies CHICAGO Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher (STOHN #39;-sy-fer) stepped up his attack today on subsidies for Airbus on the eve of a US-European Union trade meeting. | 2 |
Candidates Split on Stem Cells, Environment President Bush defended restrictions on stem-cell research on Wednesday and reaffirmed support for nuclear-arms development, but Democratic challenger John Kerry accused Bush of putting ideology over science. | 3 |
Dealing with botched software projects Borland Software this week stood atop its soapbox preaching the evils of software projects gone awry, with projects beset by issues such as last-minute changes and differing perspectives on the potential success of development efforts. | 3 |
Siemens SF65 Mobile Phone Digital Camera Siemens today unveiled the SF65 clamshell style mobile phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, flash and four times zoom. The swivel style top end has a 16-bit internal colour display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels, and on the flip side the camera lens. | 3 |
Golf: Europe go on charm offensive as Mickelson takes a day off BLOOMFIELD HILLS, United States : As Europe went on a charm offensive to win over the American fans, US captain Hal Sutton was coming to terms with Phil Mickelson #39;s decision not to practice. | 1 |
Mets to fire Howe at the end of the season The New York Mets will make manager Art Howe the first casualty of their dismal 2004 campaign. The Mets officially announced Wednesday that Howe will be relieved of his duties when the season comes to a close | 1 |
McKenzie Back With Pack GREEN BAY, Wis -- Packers coach and general manager Mike Sherman said Wednesday that cornerback Mike McKenzie will practice with the team. | 1 |
Backup guard helps Nets win East twice New Jersey Nets: Backup guard Lucious Harris, who played a big part in helping the Nets win two Eastern Division titles, was waived Wednesday. | 1 |
Killing of 10 Palestinians quot;a great unforgivable crime quot;: Arafat Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat described the killing of 10 Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin on Wednesday as quot;a great unforgivable crime. | 0 |
Anwar fails to erase criminal record Malaysian rebel politician Anwar Ibrahim failed yesterday in a final court bid to erase his criminal record and to immediately rejoin active politics, leaving a royal pardon as his only way back. | 0 |
Infocus: Examining a Public Exploit, Part 2 The purpose of this article is to analyze a public exploit in a lab environment, see the alerts generated by an intrusion detection system, and then do some packet analysis of the malicious binary in order to better understand what it does and how you may have been compromised. Part 2 of 2. | 3 |
Inquiry finds "no single villain" in Scottish parliament cost overrun (AFP) AFP - An inquiry found quot;no single villain quot; responsible for the cost overruns at Scotland's new parliament building which opened last week three years late and 10 times over budget. | 0 |
Blackhawks Re-Sign Goalie Leighton (AP) AP - The Chicago Blackhawks re-signed goaltender Michael Leighton to a one-year contract Wednesday. | 1 |
Martha Stewart to Judge: Jail Me Now NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homemaking icon Martha Stewart on Wednesday said she wants to start serving her jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible, so she can put her "nightmare" behind her and be home in time to plant her garden for spring. | 2 |
Mickelson Skips Ryder Cup Fever by Taking Day Off BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - Twenty-three Ryder Cup players went to work on their games on Wednesday at Oakland Hills but one of the American trump cards was not among them. | 1 |
Chile's Pinochet Hospitalized with Infection SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized in Santiago on Wednesday with acute respiratory infection. | 0 |
Diplomats: Europeans, U.S. Closer to Iran Nuke Deal VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. and European negotiators moved closer to a deal on a resolution on Iran's nuclear program that could trigger a November showdown, Western diplomats close to the talks said Wednesday. | 0 |
It's Not Exclusive, but It's Lucrative: Why Luxe Went Online Class has been transformed by technology and a consumer who is as well informed as she is impatient to have the latest gaud. | 3 |
Is Amazon's A9 Benign? Search junkies can be psyched for a cool site, but will some features backfire? | 2 |
Another Case for OracleSoft A blowout quarter is sullied by lower applications revenue, strengthening the case for a deal for PeopleSoft. | 2 |
UPDATE 3-TXU says management looking at dividend policy TXU Corp. (TXU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) management is deciding whether to recommend that its board reevaluate the utility #39;s common stock dividend, which was | 2 |
Gap plans new stores aimed at women over 35 San Francisco retailer Gap Inc. said Wednesday it will test a type of store next year for women over 35. The retailer says it will open as many as 10 new stores in two regions in the second half of 2005. | 2 |
KSC cleans up, reopens After spending nearly 10 days cleaning up from the relentless pounding of Hurricane Frances, NASA #39;s Kennedy Space Center reopened Monday to all 14,000 employees. | 3 |
NHL Lockout at a glance The NHL said Wednesday it was imposing a lockout of the players association, effective Thursday -- the day after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement. | 1 |
FIFA Announces New Dates for Kenya #39;s Qualifying Matches The International Football Federation has announced new dates for Kenya #39;s three qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup tournament in Germany. | 1 |
UN Reports Mixed Progress in Fight for Sexual Health The United Nations says there has been some progress in improving sexual health and combating poverty around the world, but more funds are needed to meet goals the international community set 10 years ago. | 0 |
World Bank in Caribbean to Assess Damage from Ivan The president of the World Bank says his staff is in the Caribbean to assess the damage caused there by Hurricane Ivan, and to ensure that the international financial community provides swift and coordinated relief. | 0 |
Dodgers' Beltre Making Bid for MVP (AP) AP - Fans chant "MVP! MVP!" when Adrian Beltre comes to the plate late in games. | 1 |
NFL Fines Broncos' Lynch for Hit on Hall (AP) AP - The NFL fined Broncos safety John Lynch #36;7,500 on Wednesday for a hit he made against Chiefs receiver Dante Hall in the season opener. | 1 |
Royals' Stairs Signs Contract Extension (AP) AP - Kansas City outfielder Matt Stairs signed a one-year contract extension Wednesday that will keep him under contract with the Royals through 2005. | 1 |
Microsoft Not Trying To Hijack Anti-Spam Spec (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - The Internet Engineering Task Force, an organization devoted to \establishing standards for Internet architecture, has raised concerns \about Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sender ID anti-spam technology as a technical \standard. | 3 |
PlaylistMag.com iTunes, iPod Web site launches (MacCentral) MacCentral - PlaylistMag.com launched this week as a resource for digital music enthusisasts using a Mac or Windows operating systems. Edited by Christopher Breen, a Macworld columnist and author of the popular book Secrets of the iPod, PlaylistMag.com will feature free music downloads, playlists from musicians and celebrities, and a community forum where users can share their tips, tricks and even their own playlists with other digital music fans. | 3 |
Sport-By-Sport Stoppages Chronology (AP) AP - March 31 #151; Player representatives of the Major League Baseball Players Association, in a 47-0 vote, authorize a strike to begin April 1. All 12 exhibition games for that day are canceled. | 1 |
Oracle Earnings Beat Analyst Forecasts (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's second-largest software vendor, has beaten Wall Street analysts' expectations with its first-quarter results, due to strong sales of its \database software. | 3 |
Hidden Costs of Online CRM - Part 2 (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Its cost is low, it delivers enterprise-level functionality, and it spares a company the ordeal of a time-consuming implementation project. | 3 |
Some Voters Cast Ballots Before Election Day (Reuters) Reuters - Election day may be in November, but\some Americans will start casting ballots next week under early\voting laws that have reshaped the campaign landscape and\changed the most fundamental act of democracy. | 0 |
World Bank Gives Peru Loan to Protect Machu Picchu (Reuters) Reuters - The World Bank said on Wednesday it\will lend Peru #36;5 million to help preserve the country's\best-known cultural sites, including Machu Picchu and the\Sacred Valley of the Incas. | 3 |
Israel Kills 10 People, Says Not Following Roadmap JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Raiding Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants and four civilians on Wednesday, the highest single-day Palestinian death toll in the West Bank for more than two years, witnesses and medics said. | 0 |
Pakistan President to Stay as Army Chief -Minister ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will stay on as chief of the army staff beyond the date he promised to give up the post, the information minister said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Taiwan President Makes Personal Appeal for UN Seat UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made his case for U.N. membership in an unusual satellite news conference on Wednesday, saying his country was the victim of "political apartheid" engineered by China. | 0 |
Martha to judge: Send me to jail ASAP A tearful Martha Stewart announced today that she wants to begin serving her five-month prison sentence immediately so she can get back to quot;life and living quot; as soon as possible. | 2 |
Bridgeway, Founder Settle SEC #39;s Claims Mutual-fund adviser Bridgeway Capital Management Inc. and its president, James Montgomery, have agreed to pay almost \$5.2 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of illegally overcharging | 2 |
Industrial Output Growth Nearly Stalls US industrial output growth nearly stalled last month as production cuts at mines and utilities nearly swamped a strong performance at factories, a report from the Federal Reserve showed on Wednesday. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Taser says some UK police approved for stun guns Shares of stun gun maker Taser International Inc. (TASR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) soared on Wednesday after the United Kingdom, which does | 2 |
German chipmaker Infineon to pay 160 million dollar antitrust fine WASHINGTON : German microchip giant Infineon Technologies agreed to plead guilty and to pay a 160 million dollar fine for participating in quot;an international conspiracy to fix prices quot; US officials said. | 3 |
Scientists map Chromosome 5 GENETICS experts reported today that they had mapped Chromosome 5 of the human genome, a coil of DNA linked to several rare but crippling disorders including spinal muscular atrophy. | 3 |
Notebooks Store More: Hitachi Releases 100-Gigabyte Notebook Hard <b>...</b> Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 as a result of the strategic combination of Hitachis and IBMs storage technology businesses. | 3 |
Sony CLIE PEG-VZ90 Preview Infosyncworld has a preview of Sony #39;s new CLIE PEG-VZ90 PDA which features an OLED display. quot; Its first new handheld is the CLIE PEG-VZ90, which also manages to take the crown as the first mainstream handheld | 3 |
Beware India, Pakistan are on fire BIRMINGHAM, Sep 15: Pakistan sent a stern signal to the Indian camp as they thrashed Kenya by seven wickets in their first league match here on Wednesday. | 1 |
Marlins #39; Burnett to miss next start Florida Marlins right-hander AJ Burnett will miss his next scheduled start because of elbow inflammation, an ailment that could hurt the team #39;s chances in the NL wild-card race. | 1 |
US Says Israel Still Following Peace #39;Road Map #39; The White House insisted on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is committed to the US-backed road map Middle East peace plan, despite his comments in a newspaper interview that suggested otherwise. | 0 |
Briton shot dead in Saudi capital Three suspected Muslim militants have gunned down a British man in the Saudi capital Riyadh, security sources and diplomats say. They said the gunmen, driving past in a car, shot the man | 0 |
Putin #39;s power grab We have long maintained ambivalence toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the one hand, he is trying to pull his backward nation out of decades of communism-spawned doldrums to a take a leading place in the democratic world. | 0 |
Americans Sentenced in Afghan Torture KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans - led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support - were found guilty Wednesday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison. After a 7 1/2-hour session in a stuffy Kabul courtroom, the three-judge panel was unanimous in convicting the former soldier, Jonathan Idema, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, on charges of entering Afghanistan illegally, making illegal arrests, establishing a private jail and torturing their captives... | 0 |
Britain Lawmakers Seek Security Review LONDON - In the second major security breach in London this week, five fox hunting enthusiasts stormed onto the floor of the House of Commons Wednesday to disrupt a debate on banning the centuries-old sport. Guards hustled the men away, but the incident showed - as did the man dressed as Batman who scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace on Monday - the vulnerability of Britain's seats of power... | 0 |
Abbas visits Damascus today to end tension, meets with Palestinian <b>...</b> A Palestinian delegation headed by the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO Mahmoud Abbas is to start a visit to Syria today. | 0 |
Suspended Hokies Tailback Enters Plea (AP) AP - Suspended Virginia Tech tailback Mike Imoh on Wednesday accepted the same agreement as quarterback Marcus Vick and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge stemming from a night of drinking with underage girls. | 1 |
Diplomatic storm after South Africa recognizes Western Sahara republic (AFP) AFP - South Africa formally recognized the pro-independence government in the annexed Moroccan territory of Western Sahara, prompting Rabat to recall its ambassador from Pretoria in protest. | 0 |
Kerry Courts Blacks, Hispanics With Ads (AP) AP - John Kerry and his allies are intensifying their efforts to reach out to blacks and Hispanics with waves of new advertisements meant to energize two groups that historically side with the Democratic Party. | 0 |
Martha Stewart Asks to Get Jail Over With NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homemaking icon Martha Stewart on Wednesday said she wants to start serving her jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible, so she can put her "nightmare" behind her and be home in time to plant her garden for spring. | 2 |
Kerry Film Not Meant to Combat Attack Ads-Director (Reuters) Reuters - Director George Butler says he hasn't\seen the ads that attack U.S. presidential hopeful John Kerry's\record in Vietnam, noting that his documentary "Going Upriver:\The Long War of John Kerry," was well under way before the\commercials were first aired. | 0 |
Stocks End Lower After Coca-Cola Warning NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks declined on Wednesday after a profit warning from Coca-Cola Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KO.N</A> renewed worry about corporate profits and a downgrade of the technology sector by Goldman Sachs weighed on markets. | 2 |
Treasuries Slip as NY Factories Rebound NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices sagged on Wednesday as a rebound in regional manufacturing stoked speculation the sector as a whole could be doing better. | 2 |
U.N. Hopeful Iraqi Elections on Schedule (AP) AP - The United Nations is hopeful elections in Iraq can be held on schedule in January 2005 despite escalating violence #151; but the level of U.N. electoral assistance will depend on security, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq says. | 0 |
FDA Widens Heart Failure Therapy Pool CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cardiovascular device maker Guidant Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GDT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GDT.N</A> said on Wednesday U.S. regulators cleared the use of its implantable heart failure therapies for a wider group of patients. | 2 |
UK OKs Taser Stun Guns for Some Police NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The shares of stun gun maker Taser International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TASR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TASR.O</A> soared on Wednesday after the United Kingdom, which does not allow most police to carry guns, said it approved use of its stun guns for some officers. | 2 |
World in Brief The world must do far more to reduce greenhouse gases than merely meet the targets set in 1998 at the Kyoto environmental conference in Japan, Australias environment minister says. | 0 |
Update 2: EU Is Willing to Cut Airbus Subsidies The European Union said Tuesday it will accept cuts in subsidies for Airbus Industries only if Washington reduces aid for its main trans-Atlantic competitor, Boeing Co. | 2 |
Kerr-McGee to trim 100 jobs at Savannah facility OKLAHOMA CITY - Kerr-McGee Corp. plans to shut down its Savannah, Ga., pigment sulfate production, resulting in charges of \$75 million to \$85 million in the third quarter. | 2 |
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