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The quest for the IT Holy Grail <strong>Opinion</strong> What's its secret? Productivity | 3 |
Harry Potter IP claim pinned down on the beaches Tour company shows Warner Brothers the Churchill spirit | 3 |
News Analysis: can 1 million barrels of oil revive world market? OPEC decided at its ministerial meeting here Wednesday to increase its oil production ceiling by 1 million barrels a day beginning Nov. 1, but the decision will have little real impact on the high oil prices. | 2 |
BA cuts 1,000 flights to beat delays British Airways has cancelled nearly 1,000 flights at Heathrow over the next three months in an effort to halt a slide in the reliability of its timetable. | 2 |
Delta #39;s auditor airs doubts Delta Air Lines late Wednesday revised its annual report to reflect its growing financial difficulties and the possibility of seeking bankruptcy protection quot;in the near term. | 2 |
Infineon admits price fixing, pays fine The announcement was called a breakthrough in the US Justice Department #39;s long investigation into price-fixing allegations in the semiconductor industry. | 2 |
Dollar Holds Firm Before CPI, Philly Fed The dollar kept close to the previous session #39;s one-week highs against the euro and Swiss franc on Thursday, holding steady as investors awaited US data to confirm fresh signs of strength in US manufacturing. | 2 |
Escape Hybrid makes its debut After waiting three long years, Bill Hammons was eager to get the keys to his new hybrid Ford Escape. And it #39;s no exaggeration to say Ford Motor Co. | 2 |
American Medical Security quot;outperform, quot; target price raised NEW YORK, September 16 (New Ratings) - Analysts at Robert W Baird reiterate their quot;outperform quot; rating on American Medical Security Group (AMZ. | 2 |
NCR inkjet refills recalled THE US Consumer Product Safety Commission said that 78,000 NCR quot;universal quot; inkjet refill kits have been recalled. The kits, said the Commission, were sold in Walgreens and Big Lots betwen April and June for around \$12. | 2 |
SES Astra Welcomes NTL to Client List BETZDORF, Luxembourg - (BUSINESS WIRE) -ept. 15, 2004 - UK and Europes foremost direct-to-home (DTH) satellite company, SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext:SESG) (FWB:SESG)is delighted | 3 |
Hughes leaves a void Ian Walsh Mark Hughes #39; decision to take the Blackburn job is bad news for Wales, there #39;s no doubt about that. Mark has brought a lot of dignity back to Welsh football, taking us up from around 100 in the world rankings | 1 |
TOYOTA CONFIRM TRULLI DEAL Trulli, winner of this season #39;s Monaco Grand Prix, has long been expected to join Toyota but news of his signing a two-year contract was prompted by his sacking from Renault. | 1 |
BLOODY REF A CHAMPIONS League match was abandoned last night when one of the world #39;s top referees was hit on the head by a missile from the crowd. | 1 |
Robbins slapped by rowing team-mate Rower Catriona Oliver will face a disciplinary hearing next week after she slapped team-mate Sally Robbins at an Australian Olympic Committee function in Sydney last night. | 1 |
De La Hoya-Hopkins is about more than the championship The holiday season generally arrives a bit earlier for boxing fans than for most, and this year is no exception as the fall fight season will soon be in full swing. | 1 |
Vandal daubs DNA code in street A graffiti artist spray-paints part of a chemical compound found in DNA on the road outside a lab where the double helix was unveiled. | 3 |
Airbus: In 2006, keep your cell phone on Plane maker Airbus reported progress Wednesday in plans to enable passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006. Test equipment aboard an Airbus A320 plane demonstrated that mobile phones can | 3 |
Proteas will have the edge if rain hits Oval South Africa go into Saturday #39;s deciding match against the West Indies with a slight advantage: they have the better run rate. | 1 |
2 Americans, 1 Briton Kidnapped in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. | 0 |
Karzai aborts trip to Afghan city after rocket hits near landing <b>...</b> KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan president Hamid Karzai aborted his trip to a provincial capital today when a rocket hit near his landing site as his helicopter was approaching. | 0 |
Finding Truth on the Internet When it comes to covering politics, journalists often fall into the 'he said, she said' trap without taking the time to delve into the details. The nonpartisan FactCheck.org jumps into the informational breach. By Louise Witt. | 3 |
Instant Messaging Goes Graphical Some say people may be more civil when they see who they're communicating with as IMVU and AOL introduce sophisticated avatars to instant-message services. But will the services make any money? By Daniel Terdiman. | 3 |
An Anime for Deep Thinkers Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is dense, but better than the original in many ways: fewer clichs, more sophisticated animation, deeper insight into human nature and technology. Jason Silverman reviews the film. | 3 |
High-Tech Hearing Bypasses Ears New consumer devices use bone-conduction technology to produce sound by vibrating the bones around the hearer's ear, so the sound is all in your head. By Laila Weir. | 3 |
Weather Makes Lawmakers Antsy The Senate Commerce Committee hears testimony on the connection between greenhouse gases and climate changes. Many legislators want to take action, but the best course remains unclear. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. | 3 |
Ivan May Just Be a Messenger The recent run of hurricanes hitting the Atlantic Ocean has been helped by warmer waters, which some scientists attribute to global warming. That means get ready for more storms. By Stephen Leahy. | 3 |
Five Fired at Los Alamos Lab As part of the fallout from an incident at Los Alamos National Lab in July, five workers have been fired. They are among 23 suspended when computer disks containing classified information went missing. | 3 |
Another Patch Job From Microsoft The latest vulnerability to plague the world's largest software maker is a doozy, affecting its Windows operating system as well as its Office and developer tools programs. Microsoft says its patch plugs the leak. | 3 |
British retail sales show surprise rise in August (AFP) AFP - Retail sales in Britain rebounded by 0.6 percent in August, buoyed by higher sales in food, department and clothing stores, defying expectations of a second monthly decline. | 2 |
Solar Storms Smack a Comet (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Astronomers \have pieced together what \appears to be the first direct evidence that solar storms can wreak \havoc with comets, destroying the ion tails of icy wanderers nbsp;in a collision \of highly charged particles. nbsp; | 3 |
Sudan and Darfur Rebels Wait for AU Talks Decision (Reuters) Reuters - Sudan's government and Darfur rebels said\on Thursday they were waiting for African Union mediators to\decide if peace talks would continue despite a stalemate on\security in the western Sudanese region. | 0 |
Oil Higher as Ivan Hits U.S. Shores LONDON (Reuters) - World oil prices rose on Thursday as Hurricane Ivan reached the U.S. Gulf Coast, shutting more than 1 million barrels daily of output in the Gulf of Mexico and 13 percent of U.S. refining capacity. | 2 |
Citigroup, 3 Others Face SEC Bonds Probe NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four big banks face a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond operations, a securities filing shows. | 2 |
Frustrated Taiwan May Rethink Strategy for U.N. TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is considering applying to join the United Nations under the island's own name, a move that China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by a renegade province. | 0 |
N Korea stalls nuclear talks North Korea rules out further nuclear talks unless South Korea's own nuclear tests are "fully probed". | 0 |
Bush won, but Democrats question Ohio vote (AFP) AFP - President George W. Bush beat Senator John Kerry in the US state of Ohio in a November 2 vote, according to official results. | 0 |
Networkers' Crowding Achievement By 6:45 p.m. Sept. 8, local tech executives were packed so tightly into the lobby of the Tower Club that late arrivals had to step sideways off the elevators to squeeze into the room. <BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-Ellen McCarthy</B></FONT> | 3 |
DC Tech Council Penny Pickett, president of the Washington, D.C. Tech Council, discusses the organization, technology regulatory policies, the region's tech industry and upcoming programs on homeland security technologies. | 3 |
German Chipmaker Admits Price Fixing German computer chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and will pay a \$160 million fine, the Justice Department announced yesterday. | 3 |
Corus posts first interim profits The steel group Corus today announced pre-tax profits of 163m for the six months to the end of June - its first interim profits since its formation in 1999. | 2 |
Lakewood wins over Del Webb for top rating from JD Power The hometown favorite, Hoffman Estates-based Lakewood Homes, can put its fourth consecutive consumer satisfaction trophy on the shelf, besting national home builders with major presence in the Chicago area market. | 2 |
Yahoo buys MusicMatch SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo just bought the most expensive jukebox ever. But the price was anything but a few quarters. Yahoo bought online jukebox provider Musicmatch. | 3 |
Airbus Sees Mobile Phones On Planes By 2006 European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006. | 3 |
Law: He deserves honour DENIS Law has hailed Ruud van Nistelrooy after the Dutch striker broke his United European goalscoring record last night. Ruud grabbed a second-half double in Lyon to salvage his team a 2-2 Champions League | 1 |
Attempt on Afghan President #39;s Life Fails KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 16, 2004 - An apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed Thurdsday when a rocket that was fired at his helicopter missed by 300 yards, the US military said. | 0 |
Crunch talks for Northern Ireland get under way (AFP) AFP - All-party talks to revive Northern Ireland's peace process began after two years of stalemate, as Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams predicted a deal despite an alleged spying incident. | 0 |
Workers' Group Says EPA Censors Comments (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\censored warnings that a Bush administration plan to build\roads in national forests could harm drinking water, a group\representing government workers said on Monday. | 3 |
Foreign diplomats in North Korea en route to site of mysterious blast (AFP) AFP - Diplomats from eight countries left the North Korean capital for the remote site of a mysterious explosion to check Pyongyang's claim that it was not a nuclear blast. | 0 |
Lawmakers Back Compromise on Intel Bill (AP) AP - Two powerful congressional chairmen, one who had opposed legislation to revamp the nation's intelligence agencies, endorsed a compromise Monday and moved a bill endorsed by President Bush closer to approval. | 0 |
Battle near southern Somali port Several Somalis are killed in fighting between rival militias near the port city of Kismayo. | 0 |
Russia 'impeded media' in Beslan The OSCE condemns Russia's handling of the media during the bloody Beslan school siege. | 0 |
Wall Street Journal to launch weekend edition in 2005 NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is to begin publishing a Weekend Edition in the US, starting Saturday, September 10 2005. The Journal #39;s Weekend Edition will include the latest business and financial news | 2 |
Airbus Tests GSM TOULOUSE, France -- Airbus has successfully completed the first in-flight trial of GSM personal mobile- telephones aboard an airliner, paving the way for their future widespread use. | 3 |
Home-course advantage? Not US has rank, Europeans have track <b>...</b> Township, Mich. -- For all of Hal Sutton #39;s Bear Bryant-meets-George S. Patton act -- all into-the-breach and damn-the-torpedoes -- and for all of Europe #39;s woe-is-me act -- all faux kneeling at the superpower #39;s | 1 |
Rookie Gallery lt; -0 will start Sunday That seat on the bench that Robert Gallery was keeping warm? It now belongs to Langston Walker. Oakland Raiders coach Norv Turner announced Wednesday quot;if things go | 1 |
Doghouse Boxing #39;s Hopkins-v-De La Hoya fight predictions Well kids, it #39;s only two more sleeps until the much anticipated middleweight showdown between undisputed champion Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. | 1 |
Could No. 700 give Bonds an image lift? While baseball immortality awaits Barry Bonds, it remains to be seen whether he will be a more popular figure once he becomes the third player in history to hit 700 homers. | 1 |
3 Westerners Abducted in Baghdad Iraqi authorities say unidentified gunmen abducted two Americans and one Briton from a house in Baghdad, Thursday. Earlier, officials identified all three as British nationals. | 0 |
Mainland mistresses mar elections in Hong Kong The pro-Beijing camp came out of the elections for the Legislative Council (Legco) in Hong Kong last Sunday much better than did the pro-democracy camp. | 0 |
Citigroup, 3 Others Face SEC Bonds Probe (Reuters) Reuters - Four big banks face a U.S. Securities\and Exchange Commission probe of their auction-rate bond\operations, a securities filing shows. | 2 |
Earliest Signs of Winemaking Found in China (Reuters) Reuters - Neolithic people in China may have\been the first in the world to make wine, according to\scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking\from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China. | 3 |
Richemont Keeps European Shares Higher PARIS (Reuters) - Solid sales at Richemont helped European shares stay in positive territory at midday on Thursday but higher oil prices capped buying, amid worries that Hurricane Ivan could damage oil facilities in the crude-rich Gulf of Mexico. | 2 |
EDS: U.S. Air Bankruptcy to Cut Its Profits WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Electronic Data Systems Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=EDS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">EDS.N</A> said on Thursday the US Airways bankruptcy could reduce its third-quarter earnings by up to 3 cents per share because of a long-term information technology contract between the companies. | 2 |
NASA Seeks Methods to Repair Shuttles in Flight (Reuters) Reuters - NASA is hoping techniques that would\enable a crew to repair damages to a space shuttle in flight\will be ready for the shuttle's planned May 2005 return to\space, officials with the agency said on Monday. | 3 |
Nortel Expects Lower 3rd-Quarter Revenue TORONTO (Reuters) - Nortel Networks Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NT.TO target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NT.TO</A> said it expects to report lower third-quarter revenues compared to the second quarter, North America's largest maker of telecom equipment said in a regulator required market update on Thursday. | 2 |
N Europeans take more sickies Workers in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland take the most time off for sickness in Europe, a survey suggests. | 2 |
Stewart asks to begin jail term LIFESTYLE guru Martha Stewart has asked United States authorities to jail her as soon as possible. Stewart, found guilty earlier this year of giving false information about insider dealing trades, said she | 2 |
British Airways cancels about 1,000 Heathrow flights LONDON, September 16 (New Ratings) - British Airways (BAI1.FSE) has cancelled about 1,000 inbound and outbound flights from London #39;s Heathrow Airport over the next three months. | 2 |
EU, US hold crunch talks on Boeing-Airbus US and European trade officials began a politically charged meeting Thursday to discuss the future of government support for aviation titans Boeing and Airbus Industrie. | 2 |
Amex, Nasdaq in talks to move QQQ NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Nasdaq 100 index trust, the popular fund known as QQQ, is moving to the Nasdaq sooner than expected from its longtime home on the American Stock Exchange, according to a published report. | 2 |
DIY giant looking to build Russian empire RETAIL heavyweight Kingfisher, owner of B amp;Q, today said it expected to be up and running in Russia within two years as it posted a sharp rise in first-half profits. | 2 |
Microsoft #39;s anti-spam proposal rejected NEW YORK - Engineers in charge of setting technical standards for the Internet have rejected a preliminary spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Egyptians mummified their dead cats as lovingly as their kin! A recent chemical analysis of preserved mummies has revealed that when it came to mummification, ancient Egyptians treated animals every bit as well as humans. | 3 |
Latest Norton battles phish-ermen KUALA LUMPUR: Symantec Malaysia recently announced the availability of the latest version of its system repair, antivirus and security products - Norton SystemWorks 2005, AntiVirus 2005, Personal Firewall 2005 and AntiSpam 2005. | 3 |
UPDATE 1-Blackburn chance too good to miss, says Hughes New Blackburn Rovers manager Mark Hughes says the chance to take over at the Premier League club was simply too good to pass up. Appointed late on Wednesday, the Wales | 1 |
Couple linked to embassy blast A HUSBAND and wife who may be linked to last week #39;s Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta have been arrested following raids by Indonesian police. | 0 |
China #39;s Annual Communist Party Policy Meeting Begins Amid Rumors <b>...</b> Leaders of China #39;s Communist Party have opened a four-day plenum amid reports of internal jockeying between supporters of President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. | 0 |
Amazon seeks share of searches Online retailer Amazon revamps its A9 search site as its tries to grab a slice of the search business. | 0 |
Stocks Set to Open Higher NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are seen chalking up small gains at the open Thursday following Wednesday's pullback but the release of August's CPI data and weekly jobless claims could ultimately decide direction... | 0 |
U.S. Alarmed Over Suspected Iran Nuke Site VIENNA, Austria - A U.S. official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons-related test site in Iran and accused the U.N... | 0 |
U.K. Docs Suggest Tax Breaks for Exercise LONDON - Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics. Ahead of a daylong conference Thursday on tackling obesity in primary care clinics, the Royal College of General Practitioners called on the government to consider tax breaks to make exercise more accessible and affordable to everybody... | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Slams Alabama, Killing 8 GULF SHORES, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore early Thursday with winds of 130 mph, packing deadly tornadoes and a powerful punch of waves and rain that threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle... | 0 |
Corus in black for first time in history CORUS, the Anglo-Dutch steel-maker, today hit a landmark point in its recovery as it revealed it had achieved its first profitable six months since its creation from the merger of British Steel and Dutch firm Royal Hoogovens in 1999. | 2 |
Golf calendar Outlook: Tommy Armour III broke the PGA #39;s 72-hole scoring record last year with a 26-under par 254. Justin Leonard had back-to-back wins here in 2000-01, and Loren Roberts has finished first and second here in 2002-03. | 1 |
UK confirms Briton killed in Saudi capital The British Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday that a British man had been shot dead in the Saudi capital Riyadh. His relatives had not yet been informed as further information was being sought, the Foreign Office said. | 0 |
SEC Probes WorldCom Creditor Actions <p>\</p><p> By Dane Hamilton and Justin Hyde</p><p> 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.</p> | 3 |
XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast on Web XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will soon begin broadcasting some of its stations to subscribers over the Internet, fresh on the heels of the company's discontinuation of a receiver for PCs that some users used to circumvent the music industry's crackdown on illegal file sharing. | 3 |
Earth's Best View of the Stars is in Antarctica University of New South Wales -- A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to research published today in Nature. Australian researchers have shown than a ground-based telescope in Antarctica can take images almost as good as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, at a fraction of the cost... | 3 |
Weather Satellite Serves Scientists and Forecasters The first Meteosat Second Generation meteorological satellite is today in operational service as Meteosat-8. The data it streams down from 36,000 km over Africa's Gulf of Guinea assist not just European weather forecasters but also numerous scientific teams. | 3 |
Networkers' Crowding Achievement (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - It was something of a back-to-school night for the crowd of entrepreneurs, marketing officers and venture funders who showed up in droves at the high-end networking club at Tysons Corner. | 3 |
Oracle deploys Xserve RAID internally (MacCentral) MacCentral - In a presentation to be given later this week at OracleWorld in San Francisco, Calif., Oracle Corp. will outline its Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative. After including Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve RAID in the product testing, Oracle has chosen to deploy Apple's solution internally to run the Oracle Collaboration Suite application for e-mail, voicemail and calendar, Oracle officials will reveal. | 3 |
Nepal ministry upholds claim of fastest climb up Everest (AFP) AFP - Nepal's tourism ministry has upheld a claim by mountaineer Pemba Dorji Sherpa that he had scaled Everest in a record time of eight hours and 10 minutes on May 21. | 0 |
Nortel Sees Lower 3rd-Quarter Revenue TORONTO (Reuters) - Nortel Networks Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NT.TO target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NT.TO</A> expects to report lower 2004 third-quarter revenues compared to the second quarter, North America's largest maker of telecom equipment said in a market update required by regulators on Thursday. | 2 |
Williams Ends Bid to Sell Power Business NEW YORK (Reuters) - Williams Cos. Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMB.N</A> has scrapped efforts to sell its power business as the depressed wholesale market has damaged prospects for selling the unit, the natural gas company said on Thursday. | 2 |
Oracle readies major app server upgrade (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle on Wednesday will introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, which is being characterized as a significant upgrade to the product with improvements in Java, Web services, and identity management and the addition of RFID backing. | 3 |
Man Sentenced to Life for N.Irish Finucane Murder BELFAST (Reuters) - A Belfast court sentenced a former Protestant guerrilla to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial killings in 30 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. | 0 |
Circuit City Same-Store Sales Fall in 3Q (AP) AP - Circuit City Stores Inc., the nation's No. 2 electronics retailer, reported Monday that same-store sales declined 4.3 percent in the third quarter, largely because of weak sales of music and movie software. | 3 |
German IT agency sets record straight on IE In response to the growing number of viruses infecting computers, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has suggested that users consider alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. But the agency did not recommend that users steer clear of Microsoft products, the spokesman said, refuting a press release issued Tuesday by browser developer Opera Software ASA. | 3 |
Microsoft provides Project Server 2003-SAP link Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday plans to make available a connector kit that allows users to easily link Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003 with SAP AG's ERP (enterprise resource planning) products. | 3 |
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