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Spreading The Gospel of Firefox Three days after the preview release of Firefox 1.0 and more than 720,000 downloads later, the Mozilla Foundation is moving to a new phase in its online campaign to build more market share. | 3 |
RosettaNet Extends to Singapore E-business standards consortium RosettaNet spread its wings over Singapore with the opening of its Architecture Center of Excellence, the group said Friday. | 3 |
Next Online Music War Set to Play It #39;s just another sign that a major battle for the hearts, minds and dollars of young, tech-minded consumers will be fought over music -- who sells it and who gets to play it on what portable gadgets. | 3 |
German opposition lobbies EU against Turkey bid The head of Germany #39;s opposition conservatives has urged politically like-minded European Union leaders to deny Turkey full membership of the bloc. | 0 |
U.S. Treasury Debt Prices Slip (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped on\Friday after a key consumer sentiment report was not as weak as\some dealers had suspected, triggering some profit-taking after\Thursday's brisk rally. | 2 |
Coke to Pay New CEO Same as Predecessor LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KO.N</A>, which warned earlier this week of lower-than-expected profits this year, said on Friday it will pay Chairman and Chief Executive Neville Isdell \$1.5 million a year. | 2 |
Russia May Pardon Colonel for Chechen Girl's Murder MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian commission has backed a plea for pardon by an army colonel jailed for 10 years for the murder of a Chechen girl, prompting anger in the restive province, Interfax news agency reported Friday. | 0 |
CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-United Airlines seeks \$500 mln more in cost <b>...</b> In CHICAGO story headlined quot;UPDATE 1-United Airlines seeks \$500 mln more in cost cuts quot; please read in paragraph 4 ... The \$500 million figure would be over and above savings realized if United terminates and replaces its pension funds ... instead of . | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Freddie Mac to start payments to former CEO US mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said on Friday it began payments to former Chief Executive Leland Brendsel after a court ruled regulators could not freeze his compensation pending investigation into an accounting | 2 |
IBM embraces grid converts IBM has signed on five corporate customers and the Environmental Protection Agency to its ongoing grid-computing initiative, Big Blue said Friday. | 3 |
Teen accused of making threats about school, possessing weapons A 17-year-old was arraigned Friday after authorities received a tip that he was making threats in an online chat room against his high school, fellow students and an officer assigned to the building. | 3 |
Probably best to install Windows update Q: I am not computer intelligent, so I use a tech support company for help. I have read in the paper about Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Windows XP. | 3 |
UPDATE 1-Villeneuve relishes Renault challenge Canadian Jacques Villeneuve is relishing the chance to help Renault overtake his former BAR team for second place in this year #39;s Formula One constructors #39; championship. | 1 |
Rain cancels Chase qualifying at New Hampshire Loudon, NH (Sports Network) - Jeff Gordon will assume the pole position for Sunday #39;s Sylvania 300 at the New Hampshire International Speedway after a steady rain washed out Friday #39;s qualifying session. | 1 |
Zim cricket team arrives in Pakistan A 15 man-squad from Zimbabwe led by cricket #39;s youngest ever captain Tatenda Taibu arrived in Pakistan yesterday for a tri-series starting later this month. | 1 |
Opinion: Transcript not incriminating DENVER -- Kobe Bryant #39;s defense team spent months trying to keep his comments to investigators sealed. Now that the details are out -- admitted adultery, graphic sexual details and Bryant #39;s hope of paying | 1 |
Cisco Moving To Clarify Linksys Role Cisco Systems #39; \$2 billion push into the SMB space is forcing it to re-evaluate the role it has assigned its upstart Linksys division. | 2 |
As promised, UPA decides to kill Pota The Centre is to promulgate an ordinance to repeal the contentious Prevention of Terrorism Act 2002 (Pota) along with another ordinance making changes in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. | 0 |
Rangers Reliever Suspended for Fan Fight (AP) AP - Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco was suspended for the rest of the season and two teammates and a coach were suspended Friday after he threw a chair that hit a woman and broke her nose during a game against the Oakland Athletics earlier this week. | 1 |
Ivan Rattles Gulf Coast, Leaves 35 Dead PENSACOLA, Fla. - As Hurricane Ivan's remnants soaked the South on Friday and left a trail of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas, Floridians once again are coping, cleaning up and coming together after being pummeled by a third devastating storm in five weeks... | 0 |
Wall Street gets lift from Ford outlook, shrugs off oil spike A better-than-expected profit outlook from Ford juiced up trading on Wall Street, with gains capped by a lackluster reading on consumer sentiment and a fresh rise in oil prices. | 2 |
Ivan spreads its misery across the South as Florida digs out from <b>...</b> As Hurricane Ivan #39;s remnants soaked the South on Friday and left a trail of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas, Floridians once again are coping, cleaning up and coming together after being pummeled by a third devastating storm in five weeks | 2 |
Cooper Tire Sells Automotive Unit Cypress Group and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners have agreed to pay \$1.17 billion to acquire Cooper-Standard Automotive by the end of the year. | 2 |
Loeb hangs in to maintain early lead Motorsport.com. Current World Rally Championship points leader Sebastien Loeb started out early with a bang to maintain the lead in the Rally of Great Britain on the close of the first day. | 1 |
England need their big guns to dispel doubts England #39;s weather-delayed game against Sri Lanka, the winners of which face tournament favourites Australia in the first semi-final on Tuesday, has created a conflict of interests. | 1 |
Melvyn Bragg: Political misadventures of a peer and polymath It was to plug one of his many books that Melvyn Bragg was in the ITV building this week when he encountered an old chum who asked him to go on air to do a political interview while he was there. | 0 |
PeopleSofts prospects top agenda at show At PeopleSoft Inc.'s Connect 2004 conference in San Francisco next week, the software vendor is expected to face questions from users about its ability to fend off Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid and remain independent. | 3 |
SEMIs book-to-bill falls amid lull for equipment SAN JOSE, Calif. - Amid a lull in the IC market, North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 in August, down from 1.04 in July, according to new figures | 2 |
Kluivert on the double LONDON - Newcastle United midfielder Nicky Butt saw red, Kieron Dyer was injured and Patrick Kluivert scored twice in the 2-0 Uefa Cup win over Israeli champions Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin in a half-empty stadium. | 1 |
Donald finds the taste for battle after shaky start In the wake of the Montgomery-Woods skirmishes already commenced, we half expected to find the bloody detritus of combat as two virgin soldiers prepared for action on this dank, grey opening morning. | 1 |
Pressure on De La Hoya After 12 years as the golden boy of American boxing, Oscar De La Hoya suddenly looks like a man who is haunted by the possibility of a career-ending defeat against Bernard Hopkins tonight. | 1 |
Diplomats visit N. Korean blast site BEIJING - Foreign diplomats who visited the site of a mysterious explosion in North Korea said yesterday it was a hydroelectric project under heavy construction. | 0 |
UN Agency Warns of Africa Locust Crisis ROME Sept. 17, 2004 - Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, UN officials warned Friday. | 0 |
Guantanamo Panel Considers Two Cases (AP) AP - A prisoner accused of transporting supplies for Taliban fighters went before a U.S. military review panel Friday, while another boycotted the proceedings. | 0 |
Japan asks Citi to end pvt banking TOKYO/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17: Japan on Friday ordered Citigroup Inc. to close its Japanese private banking offices after uncovering a series of problems, including failing to prevent suspected money laundering. | 2 |
Wall Street gets lift from Ford outlook, shrugs off rise in oil <b>...</b> NEW YORK : A better-than-expected profit outlook from Ford juiced up trading on Wall Street, with gains capped by a lackluster reading on consumer sentiment and a fresh rise in oil prices. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-S amp;P raises Brazil sovereign rating to quot;BB- quot; Standard amp; Poor #39;s on Friday raised Brazil #39;s much awaited sovereign credit rating to quot;BB-minus quot; from quot;B-plus quot; due to improved fiscal policies. | 2 |
Authorities arrest 17-year-old on charges of making Internet <b>...</b> A 17-year-old boy was arrested and police found weapons, ammunition and bomb-making paraphernalia in his home after a tip that he was making threats online against his high | 3 |
New MyDoom Taunts Arrested Competitor A new MyDoom worm released this week taunts the just-charged author of a rival malware line by including his mug shot. MyDoom.y -- but also called MyDoom. | 3 |
Apple Ships Security Patch For iChat Apple Computer Inc. released this week a security patch for its Mac OS X iChat instant messaging client, which contains a flaw that could a hacker could use to takeover a person #39;s computer. | 3 |
EarthLink Debuts P2P App Running On SIP EarthLink #39;s R amp;D lab on Thursday released a proof-of-concept application to show how a popular messaging protocol can be used for purposes other than what it was designed, including sharing data. | 3 |
Hats off to new cringe factor record The opening match of the 35th Ryder Cup featured four of the best golfers in the world, one of whom may yet be remembered as the greatest player of all. | 1 |
Upheaval in F1 as Jaguar withdraw The team, owned and run by Ford, have struggled since emerging from the Stewart outfit in 1999 with a high-budget, high-profile entry into F1. | 1 |
Rangers Reliever Francisco Suspended for Season NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Texas Rangers relief pitcher Frank Francisco was suspended for the rest of the 2004 season Friday by Major League Baseball after tossing a chair into the stands and hitting two fans in the head earlier this week. | 1 |
Kenny Perry amp; Stewart Cink lost to Sergio Garcia amp; Luke Donald 2 amp;1 After sharing the Spaniard #39;s apartment in Switzerland during the European Masters a fortnight ago, Sergio Garcia and Luke Donald shared a vital victory over Kenny Perry and Stewart Cink. | 1 |
Prem Preview: Blackburn Portsmouth Mark Hughes takes charge of Blackburn for the first time and will hope that mediocre travellers Portsmouth will provide an instant success for his nineteenth placed side. | 1 |
Dvoracek will not play vs. Oregon NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma suspended starting defensive tackle Dusty Dvoracek indefinitely Friday pending an investigation into an incident that ended with one of Dvoracek #39;s high school teammates in the hospital. | 1 |
Auburn puts South in West Coast offense Auburn #39;s offensive line coach Hugh Nall jokes that the Tigers have a new name for their new offense: the West Coast redneck offense. | 1 |
Iran Nuclear Enrichment Freeze Offer a Ploy - U.S. (Reuters) Reuters - Iran said on Friday it might extend a\partial freeze on uranium enrichment in order to ease Western\fears about its nuclear ambitions, but a senior U.S. official\dismissed this as a ploy to fend off tough U.N. action. | 0 |
43 Die in US Bombing of Fallujah BAGHDAD, 18 September 2004 - US warplanes bombed the central Iraqi city of Fallujah yesterday, killing 44 people, many of them women and children. | 0 |
New Delhi scraps POTA NEW DELHI: The Indian government has repealed a stringent anti-terror law after complaints of misuse and has replaced it by amending the existing Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. | 0 |
Europeans launch military police force NOORDWIJK: Five EU states signed an accord on Friday creating a new European military police force deployable to crisis situations worldwide, the latest tool in Europes developing security arsenal. | 0 |
Mexico City Mayor Delivers Fourth Address (AP) AP - Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a spirited defense of his administration and dismissed looming scandals as political vendettas Friday during what was likely to be his last state-of-the city address. The mayor vowed he was "not going to negotiate my principles." | 0 |
Musharraf Unsure if He'll Stay Army Chief (AP) AP - President Pervez Musharraf is testing public opinion before he makes a final decision about whether he will stay on as army chief, the Pakistani leader said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. | 0 |
Man Arrested in UK in Cisco Code Theft (AP) AP - A 20-year-old man has been arrested in England in the theft of the proprietary software blueprints used by Cisco Systems Inc.'s networking equipment, police and the company confirmed Friday. | 3 |
Fans at Ryder Cup Proving to Be Quiet (AP) AP - Midway through Friday's Ryder Cup matches at Oakland Hills, English golf fan Sean Warden began to wonder: Was it tee time, or tea time? | 1 |
Navy Says Kerry's Service Awards OK'd (AP) AP - The Navy's chief investigator concluded Friday that procedures were followed properly in the approval of Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, according to an internal Navy memo. | 0 |
Rangers Reliever Francisco Suspended for Season NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Texas Rangers relief pitcher Frank Francisco was suspended for the rest of the 2004 season Friday by Major League Baseball after tossing a chair into the stands and hitting two fans in the head earlier this week. | 1 |
Naturalists Struggle to Save Iran Cheetahs (Reuters) Reuters - Only 60 cheetahs are believed to remain\in Iran, their numbers bludgeoned by hunting, road-building and\drought, say environmentalists battling to save them from\extinction. | 3 |
Los Alamos to Remove Weapons-Grade Nukes (AP) AP - Los Alamos National Laboratory plans within a year to remove all weapons-grade nuclear material from a part of the lab that has raised security concerns, according to an internal federal document. | 0 |
Sudan Accuses U.S. Over Darfur Talks Breakdown ABUJA (Reuters) - Sudan blamed the United States for the failure of three weeks of peace talks between Khartoum and Darfur rebels Friday, but African Union mediators said negotiations would resume in October. | 0 |
Singapore warns of deadly illness The authorities in Singapore voice concern about a tropical disease that has killed 23 people this year. | 0 |
Japan baseball players to strike \Japan's professional baseball players are set to strike for the first time since the game was introduced 70 years ago. | 0 |
Ivan Slams Appalachian Region, Kills 12 CASHIERS, N.C. - The violent remains of Hurricane Ivan pounded a large swath of eastern United States on Friday as the storm's rampage moved north, drenching an area from Ohio to Georgia, washing out dozens of homes, sweeping cars down roadways and trapping more than 100 students at an elementary school... | 0 |
Earthlink Releases SIPshare (Article Central) Officials at EarthLink #39;s R amp;D facility have quietly released a proof-of-concept file-sharing application based on the Session Initiated Protocol. | 3 |
Nightmare for US dream team A RAMPAGING Europe led by Colin Montgomerie put the United States on the rack when they rushed into a opening day lead of five points at the Ryder Cup today. | 1 |
Northern parties continue talks in UK Talks involving the British and Irish governments and the northern parties continue at Leeds Castle in Kent today. The first day of discussions aimed at restoring power sharing in the North adjourned late last night. | 0 |
Yukos still close to bankruptcy, managers warn Russia #39;s Yukos oil company has paid \$2.2-\$2.4 billion (euro1.8-1.97 billion) of its \$3.4 billion (euro2.79 billion) tax bill for 2000, Yukos #39; top finance official said Friday, and he renewed warnings that the embattled company was close to | 2 |
Museum to Get \$60 Million Exhibit The Smithsonian #39;s National Museum of Natural History plans to announce today the largest renovation in its nearly 95-year history, creating Ocean Hall, an unusual hybrid of public display and research. | 3 |
Rangers pitcher suspended for rest of season Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco, who was arrested Monday on a battery charge for throwing a chair at Oakland Athletics fans, was suspended for the rest of the season by Major League Baseball. | 1 |
Basketball: Moscow fumes as Utah Jazz pulls out of NBA date MOSCOW : Russian basketball champions CSKA Moscow said they were disappointed that NBA giants Utah Jazz had pulled out off a planned exhibition match here because of security fears. | 1 |
US fails to bring UN into Iran nuclear case VIENNA The United States once again failed Friday to persuade the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran #39;s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council, accepting instead a repetition of calls for the country to stop uranium enrichment | 0 |
Powell rejects UN secretary #39;s claim that Iraq war was quot;illegal quot; STATE DEPARTMENT Secretary of State Powell is rejecting comments made by the UN secretary-general about the war in Iraq. In an interview with the BBC, Kofi Annan (KOH #39;-fee AN #39;-nan) called the US-led military | 0 |
Via gives away disc-scrubbing software Taiwanese chipmaker dangles open-source software lure to attract programmer interest. | 3 |
Oracle readies content management 'Tsunami' Oracle later this year plans a major entrance to the content management space with a new product tied to its Collaboration Suite offering. | 3 |
United Assessing Further Cost Cuts United Airlines on Friday said it will need about USD\$500 million in annual cost cuts above the USD\$655 million now in the works and also received court approval for more time to develop a reorganization plan without interference from creditors. | 2 |
IMF Board Tells Argentina to Tackle Debt, Reforms The International Monetary Fund #39;s shareholder governments told Argentina in a meeting on Friday to live up to its promises in a \$13 billion loan program to tackle | 2 |
Yukos revises unit #39;s oil reserves The Russian oil giant Yukos on Friday issued sharply higher revised estimates of reserves for its biggest subsidiary, one currently being appraised for sale by the government, and reiterated that Yukos was operating financially on a quot;day-to-day quot; basis and | 2 |
Alitalia nears another critical labor accord, this time with cabin <b>...</b> MILAN Alitalia #39;s management and unions representing its cabin crews edged toward an accord Friday night on job cuts and working conditions in an effort to save the national carrier from collapse. | 2 |
Suspected Cisco code thief arrested in UK British authorities have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed Friday. | 3 |
Catching Spammers May Cost Big Bucks Putting a bounty on spammer #39;s heads, as proposed in the CAN-SPAM Act, could be an expensive undertaking, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission. | 3 |
Rumor Control: The GTA/PStwo bundle speculation frenzy Also this week: Xbox 2 backwards compatibility and Halo 2 four-way co-op (or lack thereof). RUMOR #1: Sony will release the PStwo, a scaled-down version of the PlayStation 2, on October 26th. | 3 |
No game in Moscow for the Utah Jazz The Russian basketball champions, CSKA Moscow, said Friday that they were disappointed that the Utah Jazz of the NBA had pulled out off a planned exhibition match Oct. 8 in Moscow because of security fears. | 1 |
Chechen lists details of attack on school MOSCOW Shamil Basayev, the elusive Chechen guerrilla commander who has become Russia #39;s most wanted man, has claimed responsibility for planning terror attacks that have killed more than 440 people here in recent weeks and is threatening to strike anew, a | 0 |
World-Class DVD Authoring Chip Eberhart writes in Post magazine, #147;DVD Studio Pro Version 3.0 is truly a world-class DVD authoring application. This outstanding version of DVD Studio Pro adds enough bells, whistles and real-world functionality to make even a seasoned DVD author take notice and say, #145;Wow! #146; #148; Sep 16 | 3 |
Search Firm Cashes in on Google Warrants (AP) AP - Executive search firm Heidrick amp; Struggles International Inc. on Friday said it earned nearly #36;130 million by selling Google Inc. stock it got as payment for finding the Internet company a new CEO in 2001. | 3 |
Navy Rejects Probe of Kerry's War Medals (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Navy on Friday rejected a\legal watchdog group's request to open an investigation into\military awards given to Democratic presidential nominee John\Kerry during the Vietnam War, saying his medals were properly\approved. | 0 |
Treatment of lockout shows NHL #39;s problems The announcement of the National Hockey League player lockout was treated as headline news in Canada, running as the top story throughout the Canadian media. | 1 |
Car bombing caps bloody week in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber bearing down on police in a Baghdad neighborhood killed eight people Friday, capping a bloody day across Iraq that left at least 52 dead. | 0 |
U.S. Dream Team Spanked in Ryder Cup Play (AP) AP - Hal Sutton wanted his best two players to set the tone for the Ryder Cup. Did they ever. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson got hammered in the morning and blew it in the afternoon, and the rest of the Americans followed suit Friday as Europe matched the largest first-day lead in Ryder Cup history. | 1 |
Putin Threatens Preventive Terror Actions (AP) AP - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is "seriously preparing" for pre-emptive strikes against terrorists, as Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for a school hostage-taking and other attacks that have claimed more than 430 lives. | 0 |
Fla. Supreme Court Puts Nader on Ballot (AP) AP - Ralph Nader is back on Florida's ballot #151; probably for good this time. | 0 |
Iran makes nuclear offer A top Iranian official tells the BBC Tehran is prepared to give more assurances over its nuclear enrichment plans. | 0 |
Carnival on song as quarterly profits break \$1bn barrier CARNIVAL, the worlds largest cruise line, yesterday posted record quarterly profits and said the performance underlined the success of its merger with P amp;O Princess last year. | 2 |
Guilty plea expected from ex-Qwest executive Tom Hall, the last of the four executives at Qwest Communications International awaiting trial, has agreed to plead guilty. His attorney told the court that Hall would be willing to enter a plea. | 2 |
Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS Spam Plans Most of the open-source community is finding that it can #39;t deal with Microsoft #39;s stance on spam-protection intellectual property. | 3 |
Teen accused of making threats about school, possessing weapons A 17-year-old charged with making terrorist threats against his high school, fellow students and a police officer said at his arraignment that he would do anything quot;to help the community quot; in the wake of his arrest. | 3 |
Genesis Recovery is Going Well Summary - (Sep 17, 2004) After its crash landing, NASA scientists weren #39;t too hopeful that they #39;d turn up much science in the wreckage of Genesis #39; sample capsule, but the results so far have been a pleasant surprise. | 3 |
Hopkins/De La Hoya showdown for all the marbles Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - The middleweight megafight billed as the quot;Quest for History quot; between undisputed champion Bernard Hopkins and the Golden Boy of boxing, Oscar De La Hoya, is just a day away. | 1 |
US jets strike insurgent meetings in Fallujah US troops took dead aim at an al Qaeda members in Iraq, launching attacks on the city of Fallujah -- while the capital coped with two more car bomb attacks. | 0 |
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