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Ruud to the rescue for Man. U The high-scoring Dutchman scored twice in the second half of a Champions League match Wednesday to help the English powers rally back from a two-goal deficit and earn a 2-2 draw with French champions Olympique Lyon at Stade Municipal Gerland. | 1 |
Ajax Amsterdam 0-1 Juventus: FT Report AMSTERDAM, September 15 (Champions League) - A moment of brilliance from Pavel Nedved was enough to give Juventus three points from their Champions League Group C opener against Ajax. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Leverkusen serve up 3-0 thrashing for Real Bayer Leverkusen started their Champions League campaign with a shock 3-0 win over a sluggish Real Madrid in a Group B game on Wednesday. | 1 |
Tennessee has an edge on Florida Lee, what #39;s your take on the Florida-Tennesse game this weekend? Will the quarterbacks for both teams - Chris Leak of Florida, Erik Ainge and Brent Schaeffer of Tennessee -ave the same success that they had in their first games? | 1 |
Infineon to pay \$160M fine for DRAM price-fixing The Department of Justice charged Infineon with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring with unnamed DRAM manufacturers between July 1999 and June 2002 to fix prices on memory sold to computer and server vendors. | 3 |
DHS moves ahead with cybersecurity R D efforts The Department of Homeland Security has launched several new cybersecurity initiatives that it hopes to add to pilot projects and operational systems and that can be deployed throughout the government and the private sector. | 3 |
Ex-Teledata employee pleads guilty in massive ID theft case Prosecutors said the Georgia man, a former help desk employee at Teledata Communications, was involved in a scheme to steal the identities of up to 30,000 people. | 3 |
Patching still a sore spot for some Oracle users Members of the Oracle Applications User Group at this week's Connection Point 2004 said Oracle has made strides by rolling out new support tools and processes, but has more work to do to make their jobs easier. | 3 |
Borland looks to take on Visual Studio with Diamondback The product combines development on the Win32, Delphi and .Net platforms, accommodating legacy Windows and new application development. | 3 |
Mozilla fixes browser bugs Mozilla Foundation releases new versions of two browsers and an e-mail reader, addressing vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to run malicious code on a user's PC. | 3 |
J.P. Morgan cancels \$5B IBM outsourcing deal J.P. Morgan, the No. 2 U.S. bank, said that after its recent merger with Bank One, it could better manage its own technology and infrastructure. | 3 |
Wireless technology aids post-hurricane claims processing Property and casualty insurers such as State Farm and The Hartford have invested in wireless and other technologies to streamline claims processing for policyholders affected by recent hurricanes. | 3 |
IDC: Storage resource management software sales soar EMC led the overall storage software market in the second quarter, with a 32.5 revenue share, up 3.4 percentage points over the same quarter of 2003, according to IDC. Veritas held on to its second-place position in the market. | 3 |
Identity Theft Suspect Pleads Guilty Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history. | 3 |
Microsoft Announces Another Windows Security Flaw SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced Tuesday it has found a new security flaw with its Windows XP operating system and warned that an attacker could infiltrate other computers by persuading their owners to open a specialized graphics file... | 3 |
Moy #39;s moment as Spain celebrate Four years ago in Barcelona, when Spain won the Davis Cup for the first time, Carlos Moy cut a rather sad and slightly dejected figure, an outsider who was forced to watch from the periphery because of an injured back. | 1 |
Nestle Considering Perrier Sale (AP) AP - Nestle SA said Wednesday it is considering selling French mineral water brand Perrier after a trade union blocked a plan to cut almost 800 jobs. | 0 |
Carolina Defensive Line Reeling After Loss (AP) AP - Their pride has clearly been wounded. For a defensive line that makes its mission stopping the run, Ahman Green's 119 rushing yards definitely stung the Carolina Panthers. | 1 |
Take Kerry's Swift Boat for a Nonpolitical Spin Kuma Reality Games, which specializes in recreating military encounters, is making one of Mr. Kerry's Swift boat missions the situation for a game. | 3 |
Heatley's Arraignment Waived ATLANTA (Sports Network) - Atlanta Thrashers right wing Dany Heatley, who is charged with vehicular homicide and five other counts in the 2003 car crash that killed teammate Dan Snyder, had his Wednesday arraignment waived by a judge. | 1 |
N.H.L. to Lock Out Players on Thursday The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. | 1 |
U.S. Rebukes Saudis Over Religious Rights WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of severe violations of religious freedom in a rare official rebuke of a close ally and key oil supplier that potentially could lead to sanctions. | 0 |
Suspended Hokies Tailback Enters Plea 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 |
Jeter Leads Yankees Past Royals 3-0 Javier Vazquez pitched the New York Yankees to their second consecutive shutout, and Derek Jeter homered and doubled twice Wednesday in a 3-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. | 1 |
NFL Fines Broncos' Lynch for Hit on Hall The NFL fined Broncos safety John Lynch \$7,500 on Wednesday for a hit he made against Chiefs receiver Dante Hall in the season opener. | 1 |
Marlins' Burnett to Miss Next Start Florida Marlins right-hander A.J. Burnett will miss his next scheduled start because of elbow inflammation, an ailment that could hurt the team's chances in the NL wild-card race. | 1 |
Stewart Asks to Serve Sentence Soon NEW YORK - Even at a wrenching moment of surrender, Martha Stewart was - as always - under impeccable control. Her announcement Wednesday that she would report to prison as soon as possible came in a light-bathed studio, before a brilliant backdrop of color swatches, perfectly choreographed for television... | 0 |
New Orleans Urges People to Take Shelter NEW ORLEANS - With 135-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings. Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from a storm that made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala... | 0 |
OPEC moves to reassure markets VIENNA In a largely symbolic decision, OPEC agreed on Wednesday to increase its formal production ceiling by 1 million barrels a day, underlining the group #39;s resolve to bring down high oil prices. | 2 |
HBOS opts not to bid for Abbey National LONDON Santander Central Hispano of Spain looked certain to clinch its bid for the British mortgage lender Abbey National, after HBOS, Britain #39;s biggest home-loan company, said Wednesday it would not counterbid, and after the European Commission cleared | 2 |
Martha Stewart says she #39;s heading to prison NEW YORK Saying she wanted to quot;put this nightmare behind me, quot; Martha Stewart said Wednesday that she would enter a US prison to begin serving her five-month sentence without waiting to see whether an appeals court will overturn the guilty verdict a jury | 2 |
At VW, threat of job losses hits nerves FRANKFURT Representatives of Volkswagen and its labor union faced off across a table Wednesday, opening a round of negotiations that will be closely watched here as a test of how long German workers can preserve their privileged place in the global auto | 2 |
XM to Launch Online Radio Service XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it is launching a commercial-free online music service in early October called XM Radio Online. | 2 |
Alitalia nears more union deals MILAN A day after getting its pilots to agree to pay cuts and longer hours, Alitalia took another step on Wednesday toward avoiding bankruptcy as the Italian state-run airline neared an accord with its flight attendants and ground workers. | 2 |
Mondavi to move on Robert Mondavi Corp. said it would sell not only the Napa Valley facility, perhaps America #39;s most famous winery, but all of its high-end wine ventures in California and around the world, to concentrate on | 2 |
UK group accuses Apple of unfair download pricing LONDON A British consumers #39; lobbying group has complained to the Office of Fair Trading about prices on Apple #39;s iTunes online music download service. | 3 |
CNN.com Romancing the phone For men seeking true romance there is now a new mating game with an unusual twist -- it is virtual and mobile. A fantasy world in which lovesick men can wine and dine a virtual girlfriend | 3 |
Sun #39;s OpenSolaris Plans Start to Emerge Sun Microsystems on Friday will unveil more of its plans for OpenSolaris, the open-source project for the Solaris operating system. | 3 |
Where #39;s Phil? US captain says decision to sit out not selfish Phil Mickelson is a changed man. He #39;s altered the long-standing perception he couldn #39;t win a major, and his latest deviation finds him switching equipment just before golf #39;s pre-eminent team event. | 1 |
Blackburn names Hughes new coach London, England (Sports Network) - Blackburn named Welsh national team coach Mark Hughes its new boss Wednesday, effective immediately. | 1 |
Roundup: Road to splitsville? No way, Tiger says Tiger Woods has denied a gossip item that he and his fiance, Elin Nordegren, have broken up. quot;That #39;s completely false, quot; Woods said on Tuesday of a Boston Herald columnist #39;s report. | 1 |
Checkpoint Hebrew Finds Way Into Palestinian Lexicon As Palestinians trudge across a barbed-wire passage leading to Jerusalem from the West Bank city of Ramallah, hawkers and taxi drivers greet them with a din of multilingual chants. | 0 |
China #39;s Hu calls democracy #39;blind alley #39; BEIJING China #39;s Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, said Wednesday that Western-style democracy was a quot;blind alley quot; for China and that the one-party state would fight power abuse and corruption by policing itself better. | 0 |
Bribes Helped Bombers to Russian Planes -Prosecutor (Reuters) Reuters - Bribery and negligence by officials\helped Chechen suicide bombers get on board two passenger\planes last month and blow them up, Russia's chief prosecutor\said in an interview published on Wednesday. | 0 |
Brady Not Satisfied Despite Strong Start (AP) AP - Going 17-1 in games decided by fewer than seven points isn't enough for Tom Brady. Neither is throwing for 335 yards and three touchdowns in his season opener. | 1 |
Bush Reaches Out to Hispanics at Event (AP) AP - Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, President Bush on Wednesday reached out to an important election-year constituency by talking up the benefits to minorities of his education and homeownership agenda. | 0 |
Bribes Helped Bombers to Russian Planes -Prosecutor MOSCOW (Reuters) - Bribery and negligence by officials helped Chechen suicide bombers get on board two passenger planes last month and blow them up, Russia's chief prosecutor said in an interview published on Wednesday. | 0 |
Protesters Breach British Parliament in New Scare LONDON (Reuters) - Pro-hunting demonstrators burst onto the floor of Britain's parliament on Wednesday in the week's second audacious breach of security at a landmark site. | 0 |
Expert: India Leads World in HIV Cases NEW DELHI - India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures. "I don't believe in the official statistics... | 0 |
New Orleans Urges People to Take Shelter NEW ORLEANS - With 135-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings. Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from the storm... | 0 |
Risk group sees up to \$10 billion US Ivan damage Insured losses in the United States from Hurricane Ivan, which was roaring toward the US Gulf coast on Wednesday, could run between \$4 billion and \$10 billion, a risk assessment company said. | 2 |
Group Takes Issue with iTunes #39; Pricing A London-based consumer group says Apple #39;s iTunes music download-service is overcharging customers in the United Kingdom by 17 percent compared to those in France and Germany. | 3 |
FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE Considering Microsoft #39;s ITunes Store n Sept. 2, Microsoft unveiled its iTunes Music Store. That sentence may sound a little strange, but that is, in fact, what happened. | 3 |
Software Tutors Offer Help and Customized Hints OURTEEN-year-old Rochelle Brown was close to solving an algebra problem. Yet she stumbled repeatedly on one calculation: -2.3 .5. | 3 |
First snapshot of a distant planet? In what could be a breakthrough in the search for worlds, an international team of astronomers claims to have made an image of a planetlike object beyond our solar system. | 3 |
Sun, Microsoft Ready Single Sign-On It #39;s the first deliverable in a joint-development agreement reached last spring, with more interoperability planned. By Stephanie Stahl. | 3 |
Owners Lock Out Players Over Contract Dispute National Hockey League owners carried out their threat to lock out players on Wednesday, shutting down the league after the two sides were unable to reach a new labor deal. | 1 |
DA still determining charges, if any OAKLAND, Calif. -- Prosecutors are expected to ask for a continuance in the case of Rangers relief pitcher Frank Francisco at a preliminary court hearing scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. | 1 |
Blackburn Appoints Wales Soccer Coach Mark Hughes as Manager Blackburn Rovers, which has yet to win a game in English soccer #39;s Premiership this season, said it appointed Wales coach Mark Hughes to replace Graeme Souness as team manager. | 1 |
Champions: Liverpool defeats Monaco 2-0 Liverpool defeated last year #39;s finalist Monaco 2-0 Wednesday, with goals from Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros giving new Reds #39; coach Rafa Benitez a perfect start in his Champions League campaign. | 1 |
What #39;s next in Iranian nuclear saga? US and European officials couldn #39;t agree on how to deal with Iran Wednesday at an IAEA meeting in Vienna. By Scott Peterson. MOSCOW - Divided US and European officials stalled a meeting of the UN #39;s atomic | 0 |
Milosevic puts war court on trial Wednesday, judges adjourned the trial for one month to give Milosevic #39;s lawyers more time to call reluctant witnesses. By Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. | 0 |
Top official backs Putin on changes for Russia MOSCOW Russia #39;s foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced earlier this week by President Vladimir Putin, telling the United States and other critics that the plans were an internal matter. | 0 |
Quake, gale kill two in Bali, N. Sumatra An earthquake killed one person and injured two others on Wednesday on the resort island of Bali, while a gale that swept through several parts of the country claimed one life and damaged hundreds of houses in North Sumatra. | 0 |
Earnings alert: Lawson expects quarterly loss Plus: SCO to cap legal costs...Novell sees weakness in IT spending...Salesforce reports rise in profit...Nortel to lay off 3,500. | 3 |
Delta says revising annual report Delta Air Lines (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it was revising its last annual report to reflect its worsening financial condition and to include the possibility of filing for bankruptcy protection. | 2 |
Apple criticised for download costs Apple computer is facing an inquiry by the Office of Fair Trading after it was criticised for selling music downloads to UK customers at higher prices than in other European countries. | 3 |
Gnome Debuts 2.8 Desktop Sep. 15, 2004. Less than a month after its rival KDE rolled out its newest open-source desktop, the Gnome Project Wednesday debuted out Gnome 2.8, the latest iteration of its graphical interfaces for Linux. | 3 |
Launch delay for new ISS crew MOSCOW: The launch of a Soyuz rocket due to carry the next Russian-US crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 9 is set to be delayed for technical reasons, Russian space officials said on Wednesday. | 3 |
MOM farms out all IT-related functions THE Ministry of Manpower has taken the unprecedented step of outsourcing its entire IT applications, hardware, software and services. | 3 |
Game off, NHL votes to lock out players saying economics have to <b>...</b> (CP) - The NHL pulled the plug on hockey Wednesday, with an emotional Gary Bettman painting a bleak picture of a Grand Canyon-sized divide between owners and the Players #39; Association. | 1 |
Villeneuve gets back on track with Sauber Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve will drive for Switzerlands Sauber motor racing team in next season #39;s Formula One championship. | 1 |
Soccer: Big teams off to winning start in Champions League Coach Jose Mourinho began his quest for a second successive title in the best way possible when his Chelsea side beat Paris St Germain 3-0 in their opening group H match yesterday. | 1 |
Police reveal prime suspects POLICE last night released the names and mugshots of the bombers and terror masterminds believed responsible for the Australian Embassy attack in Jakarta. | 0 |
Hu warns against aping Western politics BEIJING - China would come to a #39;dead end #39; if it copied blindly from Western political systems, President Hu Jintao said yesterday on the eve of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting focused on shoring up its own waning image and legitimacy. | 0 |
Latest Mozilla releases fix 10 security flaws At least three critical vulnerabilities are among those fixed by the most recent versions of Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird. | 3 |
New Satellite Photos May Show New Iran Nuclear Site WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New satellite images show Iran's Parchin military complex, southeast of Tehran, may be a site for research, testing and production of nuclear weapons, a nuclear expert said on Wednesday. | 0 |
U.S. Joins New Drive for Northern Ireland Deal LEEDS CASTLE, England (Reuters) - U.S. special envoy Mitchell Reiss will join British and Irish leaders at a 1,000-year-old castle on Thursday for talks billed as a final chance to save Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace accord. | 0 |
Iraq war illegal, says Annan The UN's Kofi Annan tells the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was illegal and contravened the UN charter. | 0 |
OPEC aims for four percent increase in oil quotas VIENNA: OPECs core Gulf producers on Wednesday recommended the cartel raise supply quotas by one million barrels a day, four percent, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd al-Sabah said. | 2 |
JPMorgan Chase Cancels \$5-Billion Outsourcing Deal With IBM The inexorable march of outsourcing took an abrupt about face Wednesday, when JPMorgan Chase bank canceled its \$5-billion outsourcing deal with IBM and said it would take back the 4,000 employees working at IBM on the bank #39;s IT programs. | 2 |
Airbus #39;s launch aid #39; has to be grounded This week, trade officials from the US and the European Union are due to discuss subsidies in the commercial aircraft market. The talks must focus on the subsidy that distorts the market the most - launch | 2 |
Firearms police get stun guns Police firearms officers will be allowed to use electronic stun guns as a safer alternative, the government said yesterday. The hand-held Taser device fires twin needle-tipped darts up to 21ft; they deliver | 2 |
NCR Recalls Inkjet Refill Kits NCR Corp. on Wednesday recalled 78,000 printer cartridge refill kits because they do not have child-proof packaging, posing a health risk to young children who may ingest the ink sold in the product. | 2 |
Candidates battle for hearts and minds in the science journals The battle for the US presidency enters new territory today with both candidates turning to scientific journals to set out their election promises. | 3 |
MS Releases Fix For Graphics Flaw Microsoft (Quote, Chart) officials have announced two patches as part of its monthly releases for September -- one rated critical, one important. | 3 |
Will the iPod Become the Next Pet Rock? Lately, I #39;ve written extensively about Apple Computer #39;s moves in the connected home, and certainly some of the company #39;s well-designed productsespecially its best-selling iPodare hits with users. | 3 |
Petulance, style, Drogba has both LONDON - Arsenal bored their way to a 1-0 Champions League win over PSV Eindhoven thanks to a piece of Thierry Henry brilliance, and Henrik Larsson returned to Celtic as a Barcelona player to hand his former team their first European defeat in three years | 1 |
More than just a game As Newcastle United #39;s new boss Graeme Souness sets out to bring harmony to a troubled St James Park, where factionalism and conflict have been the order of the day in recent times, he could do worse than look to tomorrow night #39;s Uefa Cup opponents for a | 1 |
British National Shot Dead in Riyadh RIYADH, 16 September 2004 - Suspected terrorists gunned down a Briton near a major supermarket in the eastern part of Riyadh yesterday. | 0 |
Jordanian employer of hostage agrees to pull out of Iraq AMMAN, Sept. 15. - The owner of a Jordanian truck company announced today that he had ordered its Iraq operations stopped in a bid to save the life of a driver held hostage by a militant group. | 0 |
More Violence Across Iraq Kills 12 Insurgent attacks against US and Iraqi troops continued Wednesday west of Baghdad in the rebel stronghold known as the Sunni Triangle. | 0 |
New Orleans Urges People to Take Shelter NEW ORLEANS - With 135-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings. Ivan made a slight turn north on a path that could bring it ashore early Thursday at the Alabama-Mississippi line, near Mobile, Ala., but forecasters said everyone from New Orleans to the Panhandle should be worried... | 0 |
Beer in Moderation Could Be Good for You TORONTO - Beer, a health food? That's what some Canadian researchers report. A study from the University of Western Ontario finds a brew could be good for you... | 0 |
SEC Probes WorldCom Creditor Actions WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal regulators have launched an investigation into creditor actions in the WorldCom bankruptcy, demanding thousands of documents from bondholders related to the largest U.S. bankruptcy, according to court documents. | 2 |
Endangered tiger earns its stripes as the world #39;s most popular <b>...</b> The dog might be man #39;s best friend, but the world #39;s favourite animal is the tiger, according to an international survey published today. | 3 |
Sun's OpenSolaris Plans Start to Emerge (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - The company will launch an OpenSolaris site on Friday, but an open-source version of Sun's operating system is still a long way off. | 3 |
Japan Volcano Erupts for Second Straight Day (Reuters) Reuters - A volcano in central Japan spewed smoke\into the sky as it erupted for a second straight day on\Wednesday, but there were no immediate signs to suggest a major\eruption was coming. | 3 |
OPEC to hike crude oil output quota by 1 mil barrels VIENNA - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Wednesday to boost its current daily crude oil production quota by 1 million barrels to 27 million barrels from Nov 1 to try to stabilize recently high-flying crude oil prices. | 2 |
Labor dispute puts hockey on ice The message board in Canada #39;s dressing room spoke volumes: Practice canceled tomorrow. No one else to beat. The next fight for these stars is with NHL owners, who are set to lock them out Wednesday night. | 1 |
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