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Black armbands for Clough, tears for Liverpool fans In the afternoon, Brian Clough, unquestionably one of the greats and unarguably one of the most controversial of football men, died of cancer. | 1 |
Chiefs #39; Holmes questionable for Sunday Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes is questionable for Sunday #39;s game against Houston because of a sprained ankle. | 1 |
U.S. Nuclear Shipment En Route to France (Reuters) Reuters - A controversial U.S. shipment of\bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has\set sail for France, despite protests from environmental\activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident. | 0 |
Lucent to deploy fixed/mobile network in Isle of Man LONDON-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it plans to deploy a converged fixed-mobile network for British-based Mm02 plc subsidiary Manx Telecom covering the Isle of Man. | 3 |
Halladay Activated to Start Against Yanks (AP) AP - Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay was activated from the 15-day disabled list and returned to the Toronto Blue Jays to start Tuesday night against the New York Yankees. | 1 |
Quebec to cut welfare payments for young recipients who are able to work (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - QUEBEC (CP) - Able-bodied young people who live with their parents will see their monthly welfare payments cut next year, the Quebec government announced Tuesday. | 0 |
AdWatch: Kerry Hits Bush on Health Care (AP) AP - Details of a new television ad from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to begin airing this week: | 0 |
Report: Artists Find Internet Useful, But Criticize File-Sharing com. While recording and film industry interests have hammered away at the sharing of music and videos files over the Internet, the creative artists who actually produce the content welcome the Internet | 3 |
PeopleSoft, IBM Strike \$1B Deal for Middleware SAN FRANCISCOPeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced an expanded relationship with IBM that will effectively add a middleware infrastructure layer to PeopleSoft #39;s applications. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Adelphia groups itself into 7 clusters for sale Bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp. (ADELQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) , which is mulling a sale of its assets, on Tuesday said it will accept offers for | 2 |
Sony offers a smaller, book-size PlayStation 2 TOKYO Sony on Tuesday showed a smaller, book-size PlayStation 2 that will go on sale worldwide next month as it fights to keep the lead in the competitive video game market. | 3 |
TruSecure merger with Betrusted spawns CyberTrust The main supplier of secure hosting services to the Australian government is to go through its third merger in less than two years with BeTrusted now joining forces with IT security services consultancy TruSecure. | 3 |
E-Mail-Authentication Problems Spawn New Apps While America Online, Microsoft, and the open-source community agree to disagree about E-mail-authentication standards, some companies are stepping up to bridge the divide. | 3 |
FAA needs to broaden IT management, oversight, GAO says The Federal Aviation Administration needs to improve its software acquisition process and overcome weaknesses that could lead to cost overruns, schedule delays and performance shortfalls, the Government Accountability Office has concluded in two new | 3 |
Victorious Vaughan on the right path to glory Michael Vaughan has endured a lean time in one-day cricket but show him an Australian cricketer and he is a man transformed. Yesterday, at Edgbaston, he excelled as batsman, bowler | 1 |
France: Lyon use bizarre goal to earn victory at Toulouse TOULOUSE, Sep 21 (SW) - A strange goal early in the second half propelled three-time defending French champions Lyon to a 2-0 win away at Toulouse in Ligue 1 action on Tuesday. | 1 |
Bayern survive German Cup scare Bayern Munich survived a scare in the second round of the German Cup, needing a goal in added time from Dutch striker Roy Makaay to beat amateurs VfL Osnabrueck 3-2 on Tuesday. | 1 |
US faces Belarus in semis this weekend Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish and the Bryan Brothers, Bob and Mike, will again represent their country in Charleston, SC, as the United States plays host to Belarus in the semifinals. | 1 |
Histadrut grounds airlines, frustrates passengers The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers. | 0 |
Bush calls on Israel to freeze settlements NEWYORK - President George W. Bush called on Israel yesterday to enforce a freeze in the settlements and to end the quot;daily humiliation quot; of the Palestinians, and told the Palestinians that a quot;commitment to democratic reform is essential to resolving the | 0 |
Microsoft's government head to jump ship Maggie Wilderotter, leader of the software maker's government sales effort, is leaving to be CEO of a rural telecommunications company. | 3 |
AMD, IBM extend chip-development deal Chipmaker will pay Big Blue nearly \$300 million, but move should help in competition with Intel. | 3 |
First game arrives for AMD 64-bit chip Graphics could be more realistic in new version of Atari's "Shadow Ops." But OS to run it won't appear till 2005. | 3 |
Sun faces stiff competition in networking Company has officially entered content switching market with Nauticus gear--but critics say success is far from guaranteed. | 3 |
AT T forms Net phone alliance The carrier recruits Intel, Cisco Systems and other major players to create VoIP phone gear and applications. | 3 |
Analysts Question Sun's Open-Source Solaris Plans (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Sun's plans to offer Solaris code to the open-source community leaves some analysts scratching their heads. | 3 |
World's pop stars band together for Myanmar's Suu Kyi (AFP) AFP - Some of the world's top artistes and musicians have banded together to push for the freedom of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, activists said as US legislators considered seeking UN Security Council action against the military regime in Yangon. | 0 |
PeopleSoft tightens IBM ties as it fights off Oracle Business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. strengthened its ties with technology giant IBM Corp. on Tuesday, hoping to boost its recently sagging sales as it continues to fight Oracle Corp. | 2 |
Jabil Posts Profit on Stronger Demand Contract electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit Inc. (JBL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit that more than doubled on stronger demand for computers, cellphones and other electronic products. | 2 |
ESA Findings: Mars Could Harbor Microbial Life Data obtained by the ESA probe Mars Express and the US spacecraft Mars Odyssey show that in some equatorial locations, low-atmosphere levels of water vapor and methane quot;significantly overlap, quot; says the ESA. | 3 |
Microsoft to step up SP2 downloads com September 21, 2004, 4:05 PM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
Bonds, Clemens aging gracefully It #39;s time the celebrate the geriatric set once again, a couple of baseball #39;s 40-plus guys who are raising the bar for players over the age of 35 in a way that hasn #39;t been done before. | 1 |
Megson rues missed chances West Brom manager Gary Megson was left to rue his side #39;s missed chances after the Baggies crashed out of the Carling Cup in extra time at Colchester. | 1 |
Rockets #39; Sura undergoes back surgery Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Houston Rockets guard Bob Sura underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a herniated disk in his lower back. | 1 |
Forsberg scores in Swedish league return Ten years later, Peter Forsberg was back in the Swedish Elite League as his hometown team Modo tied Brynas 3-3 on the road in their opener Tuesday. | 1 |
Kidnappers Kill Second American BAGHDAD, 22 September 2004 - A second American hostage was killed yesterday by a group linked to Al-Qaeda as a 24-hour deadline set by it for the United States to free Iraqi women in US-run prisons ran out. | 0 |
IAEA Ultimatum to Iran Suits All Parties to the Row A Persian proverb says: From this signpost on the road to the next, there is hope! And it was in that spirit that the International Atomic Energy Agency decided last Saturday to give Iran until Nov. | 0 |
Haiti faces major emergency as floods kill more than 700 PORT-AU-PRINCE : Disaster relief crews battled to get emergency aid to 170,000 people affected by floods that killed more than 700 in Haiti, a Caribbean nation that ranks among the world #39;s poorest. | 0 |
Musharraf, Singh to discuss Kashmir: spokesman ISLAMABAD : Pakistan has expressed the confidence that during their meeting in New York, President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would focus on Kashmir, review status of the composite dialogue and discuss how to add substance to the | 0 |
Woods Drops Out of 84 Lumber Classic After much fanfare last week over Tiger Woods's decision to play at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Pennsylvania, his agent said he was worn out from the Ryder Cup. | 1 |
Lycos Screensaver down for indefinite period Lycos Europe attempted to get back at the leading spammers of the world through an initiative called MakeLoveNotSpam. The move was applauded by the ordinary user of the web considering more than a lakh | 3 |
Bush Accuses Kerry of New Contradictions on Iraq (Reuters) Reuters - President Bush accused Democrat\John Kerry on Monday of "new contradictions of his old\positions on Iraq" and defended the U.S.-led invasion a day\before addressing skeptical world leaders at the United | 0 |
Cisco, NetApp and EMC focus in on storage software <strong>Storage Decisions</strong> Lords of the code | 3 |
EU: Alitalia plan good for future A rescue plan aimed at saving Italian airline Alitalia is a good sign for the future of the loss-making flag carrier, the EU #39;s top transport official has said. | 2 |
Sports: Giants will keep Bonds in the dugout 2 more years SAN FRANCISCO A baseball source says the San Francisco Giants are dropping their right to void the final year of their contract with Barry Bonds. | 1 |
Rockets #39; Sura has back surgery HOUSTON (Ticker) - Houston Rockets guard Bob Sura had surgery Tuesday to repair a herniated disk in his lower back and will be out at least two months, the team announced. | 1 |
Annan Repeats Misgivings About Legality of Iraq War Secretary General Kofi Annan opened the annual United Nations debate of world leaders today with a plea for greater observance of international law and a reminder | 0 |
Haiti rescuers face tough time RELIEF workers faced washed-out roads and rising crime as they delivered emergency aid in Haiti, where more than 700 people died in weekend landslides and floods triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne. | 0 |
JP Morgan Chase CFO Dina Dublon resigns NEW YORK -- Dina Dublon, one of the highest ranking woman executives at JPMorgan Chase amp; Co., is resigning from her position as chief financial officer and will be replaced by Michael Cavanagh, who currently heads middle market banking. | 2 |
Microsoft to step up SP2 downloads Microsoft said it would speed up SP2 distribution to meet its self-imposed goals, having distributed just one-fifth of its planned installations a month after launch. | 3 |
Cisco, NetApp and EMC focus in on storage software Storage Decisions Being the competent vendors that they are, Cisco, Network Appliance and EMC all made good use of the Storage Decisions conference being held here this week and rolled out new gear. | 3 |
Lyon escapes Toulouse with win Toulouse, France (Sports Network) - There is a reason that Lyon has captured the Ligue 1 title three years in a row, and they put all those positive attributes on display at the Municipal Stadium on Tuesday night during a 2-0 win over Toulouse. | 1 |
Disney Board Aims to Find New CEO by June (Reuters) Reuters - Walt Disney Co's board of\directors said on Tuesday it planned to find a replacement for\Chief Executive Michael Eisner by next June and then search for\a new chairman, setting out a timetable for a change of\leadership at the company after more than a year of shareholder\protests. | 2 |
U.S. Said to Sell Smart Bombs to Israel (AP) AP - The United States will sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years, Israeli military officials said Tuesday. | 0 |
EMusic to Launch Revamped Service (Reuters) Reuters - Online music company eMusic on\Tuesday said it was revamping its service to provide commentary\and reviews to complement its catalog of more than 500,000\tracks from independent labels. | 3 |
Rockets' guard Sura will start NBA season on bench (AFP) AFP - Houston Rockets guard Bob Sura underwent successful surgery to repair a herniated lower back disk but will miss the start of the National Basketball Association season, the club revealed. | 1 |
Jabil Posts Profit on Stronger Demand (Reuters) Reuters - Contract electronics manufacturer\Jabil Circuit Inc. on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit\that more than doubled on stronger demand for computers,\cellphones and other electronic products. | 3 |
Tiger's Pullout Quiets 84 Lumber Classic (AP) AP - The traffic on the two-lane roads leading to the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort figures to be much lighter now, the galleries smaller. There's no more hype about No. 1 vs. No. 2, or the 84 Lumber Classic becoming the PGA's fall classic. | 1 |
US Airways Reaches Deal with Dispatchers WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bankrupt US Airways <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=UAIRQ.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">UAIRQ.O</A> on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement on concessions with the union representing dispatchers, the company said. | 2 |
Jabil Posts Profit on Stronger Demand SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Contract electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=JBL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">JBL.N</A> on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit that more than doubled on stronger demand for computers, cellphones and other electronic products. | 2 |
French minister expresses concern over US dollar weakness French Finance Minister Herve Gaymard said Monday that quot;the American and Asian authorities quot; should work together with Europe to deal with the weakness of the US dollar. | 2 |
First UK Islamic Bank opens doors The UK's first stand-alone Islamic High Street bank, aimed at the UK's 1.8 million Muslims opens in London on Wednesday. | 2 |
Haiti Death Toll Hits 691 After Storm GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless. Waterlines up to 10 feet high on Gonaives' buildings marked the worst of the storm that sent water gushing down denuded hills, destroying homes and crops in the Artibonite region that is Haiti's breadbasket... | 0 |
Bush Urges World to Unite With Iraq UNITED NATIONS - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country's struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence "is not to retreat, it is to prevail." The country's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, offered an upbeat assessment after Bush's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying, "We are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists," even as insurgents claimed they had killed a second American hostage in two days. Of the brutal slayings, Bush said, "We will not allow these thugs and terrorists to decide your fate and to decide our fate." Yet in a sign of continuing world unease with the situation, U.N... | 0 |
Rover Missions Renewed as Mars Emerges from Behind Sun Jet Propulsion Lab -- As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working. Both rovers successfully completed their primary three-month missions on the surface of Mars in April and have already added about five months of bonus exploration during the first extension of their missions... | 3 |
Genetic Testing Challenges Medical Ethics By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) -- Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family. In an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and legal experts argued against imposing a mandatory "duty to warn" nonpatients... | 3 |
Walking May Ward Off Alzheimer's Disease By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO (AP) -- Walking regularly at age 70 and beyond can help keep the mind sharp and ward off Alzheimer's disease, according to research suggesting that what is good for the heart is also good for the brain. Some previous studies found that physical activity might stave off mental decline... | 3 |
Biotech Grass Breeding Raises Concerns PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Pollen from genetically engineered grass floated more than 12 miles from experimental plots and bred with conventional plants, raising concerns that the biotechnology industry can't control the "gene flow" of its creations... | 3 |
Microsoft to step up SP2 downloads Microsoft will accelerate SP2 distribution to meet goal of 100 million downloads in two months. | 3 |
AMD, IBM extend chip development deal Chipmaker will pay Big Blue nearly \$300 million, but move should help in competition with Intel. | 3 |
Sun readies tool support for 64-bit AMD systems Sun Microsystems plans to release its Sun Studio 10 development tool in the fourth quarter of this year, featuring support for 64-bit applications running on AMD Opteron and Nocona processors, Sun officials said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Exploit posted for Microsoft JPEG flaw Computer code that takes advantage of a flaw in the way many Microsoft Corp. applications process JPEG images has been published on the Internet and could be a precursor to actual attacks on vulnerable PCs, experts said. | 3 |
IBM, PeopleSoft form alliance SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM and PeopleSoft on Tuesday announced that PeopleSoft will standardize its applications on core IBM middleware products and that both companies will market the joint solutions. | 3 |
Online Consumers Spend More This Holiday Season Online consumers in the United States spent \$8.8 billion, excluding travel purchases, in November, a 19 percent jump over the \$7.4 billion spent online a year earlier, a report released on Monday said. | 2 |
Nintendo and Sony Make Pushes Before Holidays Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. (SNE) made separate product announcements Tuesday that the video game giants hope will attract more customers ahead of the highly competitive holiday shopping season. | 3 |
Revamped eMusic.com Targets Indie Market By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nearly a year since it was sold by Vivendi Universal (V) to private investors, online retailer eMusic has undergone a facelift that includes a panel of music critics to help users comb its trove of independent music. The revamped service, scheduled to debut Wednesday, is the latest evolution for the pioneering retailer, the first to sell digital music files online in the late 1990s... | 3 |
Congress Backs Crack Down on Video Voyeurs By JIM ABRAMS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calling video voyeurism the new frontier of stalking, the House on Tuesday approved legislation to make it a crime to secretly photograph or videotape people, often for lascivious purposes. Under the legislation passed by voice vote, video voyeurism on federal lands would be punishable by a fine of not more than \$100,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both... | 3 |
Near-bankrupt Alitalia approves relaunch plan ROME: After winning union backing for job cuts, Alitalia has given formal approval to a four-year business plan aimed at saving the near-bankrupt Italian carrier from collapse. | 2 |
EMusic to Launch Revamped Service Online music company eMusic on Tuesday said it was revamping its service to provide commentary and reviews to complement its catalog of more than 500,000 tracks from independent labels. | 3 |
Great year for Mickelson ending on a sour note Phil Mickelson has a green jacket in his closet to remind him this has been a great year. It just might not seem that way right now. | 1 |
Giggs now enrolled in United 600 club Ryan Giggs joined elite company when he made his 600th appearance for Manchester United in their Premiership victory over Liverpool. | 1 |
US media snub may hit bid The absence of a United States broadcaster at the Paralympic Games has led senior figures within the International Paralympic Committee to raise doubts over New York #39;s bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. | 1 |
Scorpion queen breaks world record KUANTAN: Malaysias scorpion queen Nur Malena Hassan has broken the world record after staying in a glass enclosure at the Kuantan Parade here with 6,060 scorpions for 32 days. | 0 |
US pushing Japan to be base for force extending reach to Middle East: report (AFP) AFP - The United States is pushing Japan to become a base for a force that can deploy to the Middle East, a move that exceeds the bounds of their current security alliance, a report said. | 0 |
Hong Kong Scientists Advance the Fight Against SARS (Reuters) Reuters - Scientists in Hong Kong said on\Tuesday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that\can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these\chemicals may be developed into drugs. | 3 |
University to Build Zebra Fish Center (AP) AP - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are hoping that the thousands of zebra fish living in their Biomedical Science Tower South will one day help identify genes involved in human disease and development. | 3 |
Circuit City Q3 same-store sales fall CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Circuit City Stores shares plummeted 10 percent Monday after the nation #39;s No. 2 electronics retailer said that its third-quarter same-store sales fell 4.3 percent. | 2 |
Haiti Flood Death Toll Rising, Hundreds Missing GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) - Survivors of devastating flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of food on Tuesday as officials said 662 people had been killed and more than 1,000 were missing. | 0 |
Software promises to read want-ads for you Tired of combing the Net for the right tech job? A start-up says its program can do it--and better than online job boards. | 3 |
Jets' Abraham Out With Sprained Ligament (AP) AP - Jets defensive end John Abraham will miss Sunday's game at Pittsburgh with a sprained ligament in his right knee. | 1 |
Fed raises key overnight lending rate by 25bps to 1.75 NEW YORK, September 21 (newratings.com) - The US Federal Reserve raised the interest rates by a quarter percentage point today, in-line with the broad expectations. | 2 |
Nintendo aims high with low-cost console The console will cost only USD150, which is less than half the price that Sony is expected to charge for its PSP. Nintendo also intends releasing the DS in November, to take advantage of the US Christmas market. | 3 |
AOL: Serious about security - for a price AOL is getting serious about security - if you pay them an extra \$1.95 to \$4.95 a month. Grandma #39;s favorite ISP has teamed with RSA Security to offer an optional login service that provides a second layer of authentication to prevent identity theft. | 3 |
Microsoft ready to make more big acquisitions, says CFO Microsoft may make more large acquisitions than it has done before and become a more distributed company rather than moving key employees to its headquarters, said chief financial officer John Connors. | 3 |
Hamilton Positive? By James Startt, European Correspondent; Joe Lindsey, Contributing Writer. Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton has tested positive for blood doping, according to reports first issued by the Spanish news agency EFE and later confirmed by his team. | 1 |
Bonds to remain with Giants through 2006 San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - The San Francisco Giants have scheduled a news conference prior to Tuesday night #39;s game against Houston at which time the club is expected to announce that Barry Bonds will remain under contract through the 2006 season | 1 |
Many hurdles ahead for Bonds to pass Aaron Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants are apparently talking contract. Apparently this new contract will guarantee Bonds status as the uber Giant and one of baseballs top wage earners through the 2006 season. | 1 |
Iranians defy world on nuclear issue VIENNA: Iran defied the UN yesterday by announcing it has begun converting a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic bombs. | 0 |
Kalashnikov targets vodka market THE creator of the worlds most popular rifle has launched a vodka under the same name - the kalashnikov. At 82 per cent proof, the drink may prove as powerful as its famous AK-47 assault rifle. | 0 |
Tesco turns up the heat as profits soar 24 Tesco has pledged to turn up the heat on rivals with the quot;Wal-Martisation quot; of its non-food and non-clothing lines as the supermarket group yesterday delivered a set of half-year results that beat most expectations. | 2 |
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