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Insurers spared direct hit by Ivan Insurers breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as Hurricane Ivan skirted New Orleans as well as the heart of the Gulf of Mexico #39;s oil region, saving the companies billions of dollars in claims. | 2 |
AFL-CIO pounds job loss Washington -- The AFL-CIO cranked up its campaign to stop the export of US jobs on Thursday by starting a database designed to track companies that outsource jobs overseas. | 2 |
Dyer out for several weeks Newcastle midfielder Kieron Dyer will be out for several weeks following a hamstring injury sustained in Thursday #39;s UEFA Cup match. | 1 |
Home runs, errors and Cubs, oh my The Cubs third baseman homered, doubled and homered in his first three at-bats against Reds starting pitcher Josh Hancock at Great American Ball Park. | 1 |
49ERS NOTEBOOK McAllister: the star running back that got away It could have been the Candlestick crowds crooning quot;Deuuuce quot; instead of those in New Orleans. The 49ers were enamored with Saints running back Deuce McAllister before the 2001 draft, when McAllister went to the Saints with the 23rd overall pick. | 1 |
Suspects Arrested in Rocket Attack On Afghan President #39;s <b>...</b> Afghan officials say they have arrested three suspects in connection with a rocket attack on a helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai. | 0 |
Suicide car bomb kills five in Baghdad A government source told Reuters he expected quot;huge quot; casualties from Friday #39;s explosion, adding police officers were among the dead. | 0 |
U.S. Stocks Set for Slightly Firmer Open NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set to move slightly higher at the open on Friday with a \$1 billion share buyback at Texas Instruments Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TXN.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TXN.N</A> supporting technology stocks, although rising oil prices could limit gains. | 2 |
European Stocks Hit 10-Week Peak LONDON (Reuters) - European shares hit a fresh 10-week high on Friday as a positive report on Chinese steel demand boosted ore producers such as Anglo-American, while French utility Veolia rose after posting solid first-half earnings. | 2 |
Jaguar to Pull Out of Formula One LONDON (Reuters) - Ford said on Friday its Jaguar Formula One team would pull out of the sport at the end of the 2004 season. | 1 |
More men charging harassment NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Sexual harassment complaints by men are becoming more common, according to a published report. Follow the news that matters to you. | 2 |
US Stocks Set for Slightly Firmer Open US stocks were set to move slightly higher at the open on Friday with a \$1 billion share buyback at Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) supporting | 2 |
Marketing agreement between Delta, Alaska airlines SEATTLE - The Alaska Air Group has a marketing agreement with Delta Air Lines that will give passengers a wider choice of destinations. | 2 |
3Com narrows Q1 loss 3Com (COMS: news, chart, profile) reported a loss of \$35.5 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a loss of \$106 million, or 29 cents a share, in the same period a year ago. | 2 |
British Music Fans Decry ITunes Pricing Instead of quot;Think Different, quot; perhaps Apple Computer #39;s slogan should be quot;Price Different, quot; says a group of disgruntled UK music fans. | 3 |
Symantec acquires At Stake Symantec Corp., the world #39;s largest maker of antivirus software, agreed to acquire closely held consultant At Stake Inc., which identifies programming faults in software, for an undisclosed sum. | 3 |
FTC recommends \$100,000 bounty for spammers #39; heads THE US Federal Trade Commission said that it had released a report which assessed whether offering bounties to turn in spammers would help stem the flood. | 3 |
EasyJet Founder to Start Music Download Service EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou said on Friday he would launch a music download service in the coming weeks, a year after he lost a music copyright infringement lawsuit to the British music industry. | 3 |
SMS and surfing go sky high! Boarding a flight would no longer mean doing away with your communication on your cell phone, with Airbus having developed technology that enables passengers to use their mobiles without interrupting navigational systems. | 3 |
IBM expands radio frequency ID range IBM has extended its range of radio frequency identification (RFID) offerings with a suite of services targeting industrial companies and mid-market businesses. | 3 |
On deck: Padres (79-68) at Giants (82-65) Tonight #39;s game: In their only outing against Lowry this season, coming after the rookie relieved Schmidt, the Padres amassed nine hits and four runs in three innings. | 1 |
ENGLAND CONTRIBUTE TO STRUGGLING START England #39;s kamikaze approach undermined the start of their ICC Champions Trophy showdown with Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl. Both captain Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss brought about their own downfalls with | 1 |
Chechens #39; Basayev Takes Responsibility for Russian School Siege Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for this month #39;s hostage-taking at a Russian school, in which at least 339 died, and for four other terrorist attacks in recent weeks, according to a rebel Web site. | 0 |
Suicide Car Bomber Kills at Least 13 in Baghdad A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad on Friday, after a night of US air strikes around rebel-held Falluja that killed scores. | 0 |
Williams Ends Bid to Sell Power Business Williams Cos. Inc. 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 |
Champions Trophy: Lankans gain ground Sri Lanka gained ground in the opening stages of the Champions Trophy game against England at the Rose Bowl. England made a steady start before losing Vikram Solanki and captain Michael Vaughan as they reached 54-2 off 15. | 1 |
Jackson maid 'acted suspiciously' Michael Jackson's maid acted suspiciously during a raid at his ranch, a sheriff's deputy tells a court. | 0 |
Jaguar to cut 1,100 jobs at plant in central England Luxury carmaker Jaguar said Friday it was stopping production at a factory in central England, resulting in a loss of 1,100 jobs, following poor sales in the key US market. | 2 |
Ottawa dumping petro-can The federal government #39;s sale of its remaining 19 stake in Petro-Canada is imminent, ending Ottawa #39;s 29-year presence in the oilpatch, say sources in the investment community and the oil producer. | 2 |
Williams offers to swap securities to cut debt Williams Cos. Inc. (WMB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is offering to exchange up to 43.9 million of its Feline PACS securities in a bid to reduce its overall debt, the natural gas company said on Friday. | 2 |
MICROSOFT IE LOSING THE EDGE The Mozilla Foundation, which develops both the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and their underlying Gecko browsing engine, has noted that downloads of the Firefox browser have doubled from 3 million for version 0.8 to 6 million for version 0.9. | 3 |
IBM to ship desktops with security chip IBM has offered a security chip on some of its ThinkPad laptops, and the company will now be offering a similar technology on select desktop models. | 3 |
Iomega preps WiFi storage solution Iomega is soon expected to ship its first network-attached storage (NAS) device based on wireless networking technology. Called the NAS 100d, the product will be marketed as an entry-level | 3 |
These robots are positively bestial NAHANT, Mass. - Joseph Ayers was crouched over a laptop computer in a cool cinder-block shed barely big enough to house a riding lawn mower, watching a black lobster through a rectangular acrylic window. | 3 |
HOPKINS SETS THE PACE John Hopkins caused a surprise by claiming provisional pole position this morning for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. The Suzuki rider, who has endured a mediocre season so far, stole the limelight from | 1 |
London 'call girl' gives up blog The writer of an online journal describing her life as a London call girl has signed off. | 3 |
Ford Boosts Profit Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Ford Motor Co. on Friday raised\its third-quarter and 2004 profit forecasts because of strength\in its financial services business and cost improvements in its\car operations. | 2 |
Sony to Launch Smaller PS2 Console Oct. 26-Report TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp is expected to unveil a smaller version of its popular PlayStation 2 game console on October 26, The Hollywood Reporter said on its Web site, citing retailers and industry analysts. | 3 |
Sony to Launch Smaller PS2 Console Oct. 26-Report (Reuters) Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp is expected to unveil a\smaller version of its popular PlayStation 2 game console on\October 26, The Hollywood Reporter said on its Web site, citing\retailers and industry analysts. | 3 |
French director shows film for free to defy critics (Reuters) Reuters - French director Claude Lelouch has decided to show his new film "Les Parisiens" free across France to try to prove\wrong the critics who have panned it. | 0 |
Judge Orders Microsoft to Pay \$112 Million A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay \$112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market. | 3 |
Nortel Warns on 2004 Revenue Growth Nortel Networks Corp. warned Thursday that its full-year growth is expected to trail the industry, rather than lead it as the company had predicted as recently as a month ago. | 3 |
Texas Instruments Plans Buyback <p>\</p><p> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc., the\largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it\plans to buy back \$1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly\dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest\technology company to return extra cash to investors.</p> | 3 |
Labor Web Site Tracks Jobs Sent Overseas Organized labor is starting to track companies that ship U.S. jobs overseas and will make the information available to the public in a database. | 3 |
Genesis Team Hopeful About Samples Jet Propulsion Lab -- Genesis team scientists and engineers continue their work on the mission's sample return canister in a specially constructed clean room at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah... | 3 |
China Building Next-Generation Space Rocket BEIJING (AFP) -- China's space program is expecting government approval this year to build a new and more powerful rocket that will serve as the nation's vehicle to explore the moon, state media said reported. According to Luan Enjie, director-in-chief of China's lunar exploration program, the new-generation carrier rocket will be developed over the next eight years, Xinhua news agency said... | 3 |
Hurricanes May Have Upset NASA's Return-to-Flight Schedule Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a week's worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the space agency's plans to launch Discovery in early spring. | 3 |
What ails Oracle? The fiesty software giant calls its recent slowdown in application sales a one-time fluke. Some say it's symptomatic of bigger problems | 3 |
Catching the nano wave CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says getting funding for the nanotechnology Manhattan Project is the right idea. But is anybody listening? | 3 |
Cisco, Microsoft in security showdown "End-to-end" systems seen as next evolution in network defense, but incompatible products could hurt customers. | 3 |
FBI Seizes Counterfeit Software Eleven charged in 'Digital Marauder' case that could hit \$87 million. | 3 |
PFY proves self abuse cures male-pattern baldness <strong>Episode 31</strong> Breaking news from the proxy server | 3 |
Ford lifts profit forecasts Ford has raised its third-quarter and 2004 profit forecasts because of strength in its financial services business and cost improvements in its car operations. | 2 |
EasyMusic enters UK music download frame EasyJet owners the EasyGroup has entered the digital music business in tandem with UK operator, Wippit. The partners aim to launch the easyMusic. | 3 |
Pulsating red giants hide inside deceptive shells An optical illusion has caused astronomers to overestimate the size of a class of giant stars by a factor of two, according to new observations. | 3 |
They #39;re robots? Those beasts! NAHANT, Mass.--Joseph Ayers was crouched over a laptop in a cool cinder block shed barely big enough to house a ride-on lawn mower, watching a boxy-shelled black lobster through a rectangular acrylic window. | 3 |
Jaguar leave the paddock Jaguar have announced that they will pull out of Formula One at the end of the year. Joe Greenwell, company chairman and chief executive, said that revealed financial reasons were behind the company #39;s decision to end interest in the sport. | 1 |
Sri Lanka peace process remains at standstill A Norwegian peace envoy is wrapping up a visit to Sri Lanka, with no sign of any breakthrough in re-starting the country #39;s stalled peace process. | 0 |
Suspected Muslim insurgents kill judge in Pattani? Gunmen riding a motorcycle fatally shot a judge Friday when his car stopped at a traffic light, the most senior government figure to be killed in a Muslim separatist movement in southern Thailand, officials said. | 0 |
Britain Could Send More Troops to Iraq-Minister (Reuters) Reuters - Britain is prepared to\send more troops to Iraq if necessary to safeguard elections\planned for next year, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said on\Friday. | 0 |
British Music Fans Decry ITunes Pricing (PC World) PC World - Consumer group complains of higher prices in U.K. than elsewhere in Europe. | 3 |
Nazi Suspect Speaks on Role in Capture (AP) AP - An 86-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect testified Wednesday that he played only a subordinate role in the 1944 capture in Slovakia of U.S. agents and an American war correspondent who were later executed. | 0 |
Alcatel Ups U.S. Business with Acquisitions PARIS (Reuters) - Alcatel has expanded its foothold in the key North American market with the acquisition of a mobile software provider and a conference technology business for \$277 million. | 2 |
Maldives regrets EU block on aid The Maldives expresses regret over a European parliament resolution to block a \$2m aid package. | 0 |
Live: Ryder Cup The 35th Ryder Cup starts at 1310 BST on Friday, when the opening fourball match between the USA and Europe is set to tee off at Oakland Hills, Detroit. | 1 |
Judge killed in latest southern Thai violence A Buddhist judge was killed by a gunman on motorcycle in Thailand #39;s largely Muslim south on Friday as security officials and militants put bounties on their enemies, police officials said. | 0 |
Sunny Fed leaves no doubt about another rate increase Another Fed meeting looms with another quarter-point interest rate hike virtually assured. It may seem strange that the Fed continues to raise interest rates on the heels of a summer-long economic soft patch. | 2 |
Jaguar puts brakes on at historic plant Production is to cease at a Midlands factory where some of the world #39;s most iconic cars were made. Mark Tran looks at its history. | 2 |
Manager at Edwards AFB harassed male employees, suit says EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A manager for a company that provides security for the space shuttle sexually harassed male employees over a period of two years, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Thursday. | 2 |
Nortel Warns of Weaker Sales Retreating from an upbeat forecast it made just last month, Nortel Networks Corp. on Thursday warned that third-quarter sales will fall below its second quarter and 2004 revenue growth at | 2 |
Price tag mounts for storm damage Even before Ivan #39;s impact on the Panhandle, estimates in Florida top \$30-billion as the result of Charley and Frances. By JEFF HARRINGTON, Times Staff Writer. | 2 |
Japan shuts Citigroup private bank operations Japan has ordered the commercial banking unit of Citigroup to close its Japanese private banking offices, shutting it out of the lucrative business and | 2 |
11 charged over #39;biggest-ever #39; MS piracy bust Eleven people from across the US were indicted on Wednesday over alleged software piracy offences following the largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft software to date. | 2 |
Union sets up database to track job outsourcing The AFL-CIO cranked up its campaign to stop the export of US jobs yesterday by launching a new database designed to track companies that outsource jobs overseas. | 2 |
US takes aim at e-mail spammers FTC says tracking them down won #39;t be cheap; rewards of up to \$250,000 needed, commission says. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of Congress have backed a program encouraging quot;bounty hunters quot; to track down e-mail spammers. | 3 |
HUGHES: I SAID NO TO UNITED MARK HUGHES last night revealed he turned down a cushy number with Manchester United because he wanted to be his own man - and his own manager. | 1 |
Cricket telecast back-up poser Sept 16: Cricket authorities will seek a clarification from the court whether they can prepare a contingency plan if the dispute between Zee Telefilms and ESPN-STAR is not resolved soon. | 1 |
Huge car bomb explodes in central Baghdad, causing casualties A huge car bomb explosion in Rashid Street in central Baghdad resonated throughout the capital on Friday, causing several casualties, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite TV reported. | 0 |
Circuit City Posts Narrower Loss (Reuters) Reuters - Circuit City Stores Inc. , on\Friday reported a smaller quarterly loss as it kept a tight\rein on expenses and demand increased for digital televisions,\notebook computers and other popular products. | 2 |
Blair, Ahern press Northern Ireland rivals in talks grind (AFP) AFP - Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland dug in with Northern Ireland's rival Catholic and Protestant parties for a second day of talks aimed at restoring the province's power-sharing government. | 0 |
Explosions Rock Central Baghdad (AP) AP - A series of explosions rocked central Baghdad on Friday afternoon during a day of violence in the capital. The cause or exact location of the blasts was not immediately clear. The blasts came only hours after a suicide car bomb detonated near a row of parked police cars, killing at least five people and wounding 20. | 0 |
Italy to stop applying EU sanctions against Libya: Interior Minister (AFP) AFP - Italy will stop applying EU sanctions against Libya next week even if the measures are not lifted by the European Union, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed. | 0 |
Civil Aviation Minister fights foreign stakes in Indian airlines (Reuters) Reuters - India's aviation ministry is fighting a push to allow foreign airlines to buy into domestic carriers, pressing instead for local companies to expand overseas. | 0 |
FBI Seizes Counterfeit Software (PC World) PC World - Eleven charged in 'Digital Marauder' case that could hit #36;87 million. | 3 |
Ford Boosts Profit Outlook NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. on Friday raised its third-quarter and 2004 profit forecasts because of strength in its financial services business and cost improvements in its car operations. | 2 |
Circuit City Posts Narrower Loss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CC.N</A>, on Friday reported a smaller quarterly loss as it kept a tight rein on expenses and demand increased for digital televisions, notebook computers and other popular products. | 2 |
Mexico's Olive Ridley Sea Turtles Make a Comeback (Reuters) Reuters - Sea turtles are spawning in record\numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely\to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's\environmental watchdog said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Jaguar and Ford Pull Out of Formula One LONDON (Reuters) - Jaguar will pull out of Formula One at the end of 2004, with parent company Ford's engine maker Cosworth also up for sale. | 1 |
#36;1.3M Plan Aims to Save Calif. State Fish (AP) AP - Federal and state officials plan to announce Friday an agreement to spend #36;1.3 million over the next five years to save California's state fish. | 3 |
Study Eyes Salmonella, Typhoid, Monkeypox (AP) AP - Oregon researchers have started work on a new five-year, #36;10.3 million biodefense contract to find the proteins associated with bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the virus that causes monkeypox. | 3 |
In a Battered Pensacola, 'It Was Bad Everywhere' People in the Gulf Coast city of Pensacola, Fla., emerged to find backyards flooded and light posts bent at right angles. Still, many said it could have been worse. | 0 |
Fla. Bears Brunt of Ivan; 24 Dead in U.S. PENSACOLA, Fla. - Hurricane Ivan was the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Floyd in 1999, but it could have been worse... | 0 |
Putin Threatens Preventive Terror Actions MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, the Interfax news agency reported. Putin said that "now in Russia, we are seriously preparing to act preventively against terrorists," Interfax reported... | 0 |
Mobiles in aircraft edge closer The European plane maker Airbus says it foresees the use of mobile phones on aircraft by 2006. | 3 |
Sony to Launch Smaller PS2 Console Oct. 26-Report Japan #39;s Sony Corp is expected to unveil a smaller version of its popular PlayStation 2 game console on October 26, The Hollywood Reporter said on its Web site, citing retailers and industry analysts. | 2 |
IBM fits PCs with new hardware-based security chip SEPTEMBER 17, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IBM Corp. has begun using new security hardware from National Semiconductor Corp. in its desktop PCs in an effort to fend off viruses and hackers. | 3 |
MyDoom Variant Describes Itself A new variant of the Internet worm MyDoom - Mydoom.Y - has anti-virus vendors puzzled. Not because they can #39;t do anything about it but because it comes along with a description of itself. | 3 |
Problema Violencia A Roma Continua (Pardo Duo) The abandoned Roma v Dynamo Kiev game cannot be awarded to the Ukranians, as the two teams are involved in a group, rather than a knock-out between the two of them. | 1 |
Huygens Probe Test Successful European Space Agency -- ESAs Huygens probe, now orbiting Saturn on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, is in good health and successfully passed its fifteenth In-Flight Checkout on 14 September 2004. This in-flight checkout procedure was the last but one planned before separation of the Huygens probe from Cassini in December this year, and it included some specific activities that were intended to prepare for the separation... | 3 |
Strings of Shadowy Rings Drape Saturn Jet Propulsion Lab -- Saturn's ring shadows appear wrapped in a harmonious symphony with the planet in this color view from the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn and its rings would nearly fill the space between Earth and the Moon... | 3 |
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