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Dealing with higher rates The old adage quot;three steps and a stumble quot; still has fans on Wall Street, but some analysts think it #39;s ready for the glue factory. | 2 |
Shell to spend \$45B US to replace reserves while selling non-core <b>...</b> LONDON (CP) - Royal Dutch/Shell Group said Wednesday it will spend \$45 billion US and sell up to \$12 billion worth of assets to reinvigorate its underperforming oil and natural gas business. | 2 |
Earnings, Oil Prices Drive Stocks Lower Investors saw a major surge in oil prices and disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley as a chance to collect profits Wednesday, sending stocks substantially lower. | 2 |
China to Make Debut at G-7 Finance Talks Next Week, US Says China will attend talks of the Group of Seven industrialized countries for the first time next week, reflecting the emerging importance of the world #39;s biggest developing nation to the global economy, the US Treasury said. | 2 |
Tibco #39;s Revenue, Profit Jump The business-integration-software vendor also revealed plans to buy back as much as \$50 million of its stock over the next two years. | 2 |
Ireland battles internet scam Ireland will block calls to 13 countries, most of them tiny islands in the Pacific, to crack down on a new scam in which internet users #39; log-on connections are secretly diverted through rip-off telephone numbers. | 3 |
Laptop swiped at security show The laptop of a security firm salesman was stolen yesterday at a major IT security conference in London. The portable computer belongs to identity management firm -- and sponsor for the event -- Netegrity, and | 3 |
Microsoft Fixes VPN Flaw in XP SP2 Microsoft has issued a formal fix for a problem in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that appeared almost immediately after the update #39;s release. | 3 |
IETF Shuts MARID Down With Sender ID going nowhere fast, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officials Wednesday shut down the working group charged with finding a standard for e-mail authentication. | 3 |
Cardenas wins 17th stage of Spanish Vuelta; Heras still overall <b>...</b> Felix Cardenas of Colombia won the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race Wednesday, while defending champion Roberto Heras held onto the overall leader #39;s jersey for the sixth day in a row. | 1 |
Bigley Pleads for his Life British hostage Kenneth Bigley was reportedly made to plead for his life tonight in the latest sick video from his ruthless abductors. | 0 |
Analysis: Bombing is a reminder that calm is artificial Exactly four years ago, a few days before Yom Kippur, then deputy chief of general staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Ya #39;alon appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. | 0 |
Court order ends Israeli strike Jerusalem - Israel #39;s main unions ended a paralysing two-day-old general strike on Wednesday after a labour court ordered 400 000 public-sector employees to return to work and told the government to pay months of back wages. | 0 |
Budanov Drops Bid for Pardon GROZNY -- Former colonel Yury Budanov, who was convicted last year of kidnapping and murdering a Chechen woman, on Tuesday withdrew his request for a pardon after it drew outrage and protests in Chechnya and opposition from prosecutors and human rights | 0 |
Syria Open to Cooperating with U.S. on Iraq -Powell (Reuters) Reuters - Syria has shown a new readiness\to work with U.S.-led forces to stop arms, militants and money\from crossing into Iraq and fueling insurgency, Secretary of\State Colin Powell said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Ukraine Candidate Poisoning Investigated (AP) AP - Ukrainian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of a leading candidate in a crucial presidential election scheduled for next month, officials said. | 0 |
Interest Rate Changes Can Affect 401(k)s (AP) AP - With the stock market just sputtering along this year and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, it may be time to review the holdings in your 401(k) retirement account. | 2 |
Bush thanks Musharraf for anti-extremist offensive (AFP) AFP - President George W. Bush thanked Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for pursuing a military offensive in a remote area where Osama bin Laden may be hiding, senior US officials said. | 0 |
Shared Office Code Unlikely to Sway Governments (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Government officials say Microsoft's move to share the source code for Office 2003 won't change anyone's mind about Microsoft or open source. | 3 |
Stocks Fall Sharply on Oil, Fannie Mae NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after oil prices climbed above \$48 a barrel and investment bank Morgan Stanley <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MWD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MWD.N</A> reported a decline in quarterly profit, stirring concern about corporate earnings. | 2 |
House Democrats Set Goals, Seek Return to Power (Reuters) Reuters - In a scene reminiscent of the 1994\"Republican Revolution" that turned the U.S. Congress upside\down, Democrats on Wednesday set ambitious goals for the nation\and urged voters to finally put them back in charge. | 0 |
Syria Open to Cooperating with U.S. on Iraq -Powell UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has shown a new readiness to work with U.S.-led forces to stop arms, militants and money from crossing into Iraq and fueling insurgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday. | 0 |
U.S. Agrees to Send Terror Detainee to Saudi Arabia The agreement clears the way for Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in the U.S. and raised in Saudi Arabia, to return there. | 0 |
India need not worry over oil price rise for now: ADB ALTHOUGH the Asian Development Bank projected a slow-down of India #39;s economic growth to 6.5 per cent in fiscal 2004 and six per cent in 2005, due to current high oil prices among other factors, an ADB official told Business Line that the issues relating | 2 |
Toyota: Some security firms promise too much The head of information security at Toyota spoke candidly this week to an audience of press, analysts and IT bosses about his concerns over claims made by some security vendors and resellers. | 3 |
Video shows UK hostage #39;s plea for life CAIRO, Egypt -- A videotape posted on Islamic Web site purportedly showed a man who identified himself as himself as British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life. | 0 |
Update 4: Oil Tops \$48 a Barrel on Supply Worries Crude futures prices surged above \$48 per barrel Wednesday as oil production and shipping disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan caused domestic supplies to shrink more than expected. | 2 |
Company to escape charges as feds target key execs The US Justice Department will defer prosecution of Computer Associates for accounting fraud in hopes of getting the software maker to reform, but two former executives | 2 |
Digital Driving Kodak, Shares Up Eastman Kodak Co. (EK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday raised its growth forecast on digital products and services, the areas the photography company is depending | 2 |
Soccer: Frei winner plunges Marseille into more gloom PARIS : Swiss striker Alexander Frei returned to haunt Marseille on when he scored the winner in Rennes #39; 1-0 win which sent the French giants tumbling into midtable and their fans calling for the resignation of president Christophe Bouchet. | 1 |
LPGA on new terrain for California tourney quot;I think it #39;s kind of fun to play new courses, quot; she said. quot;During the year we don #39;t get to see very many courses other than the ones we play on the tour. | 1 |
IBM, AMD Work to Shrink Chips (PC World) PC World - Extended collaboration could result in chips built on 32-nanometer technology. | 3 |
Tobacco firms deny public misled Cigarette companies have been honest in highlighting the "dangerous" risks of smoking, a lawyer for the tobacco industry has told a US court. | 2 |
CBS Fined \$550,000 for Janet Jackson Incident Federal regulators fined CBS today a record \$550,000 for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during this year's Super Bowl halftime show. | 2 |
U.S. Stocks Fall Sharply NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after oil prices jumped more than a dollar to over \$48 a barrel and investment bank Morgan Stanley <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MWD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MWD.N</A> and brokerage Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BSC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BSC.N</A> reported declines in quarterly profits. | 2 |
Former CA CEO Charged with Fraud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Computer Associates International Inc. on chief executive Sanjay Kumar was charged on Wednesday with securities fraud and obstruction of justice stemming from a two-year investigation of improper accounting at the software maker. | 2 |
Former software executive charged The former chairman of US software firm Computer Associates is charged with securities fraud in connection with a \$2.2bn accounting scandal. | 2 |
Foreign investors eye poorer nations Foreign investment declined in 2003 for the third year in a row, a United Nations report has revealed. Last year, total inward flows of foreign direct investment were worth \$560bn (312bn | 2 |
Former CA chief indicted, company reaches accord Computer Associates International #39;s former chief executive was indicted on criminal charges related to fraudulent accounting practices, and the company on Wednesday agreed to pay \$225 million to settle with federal prosecutors. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-US says G7 to discuss forex flexibility with China A meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the world #39;s wealthy nations with Chinese counterparts on Oct. 1 will be a key opportunity to discuss | 2 |
Fannie Mae Says Regulator Finds Accounting Missteps (Update10) Fannie Mae #39;s federal regulator found the largest US mortgage finance company violated accounting rules, raising doubts #39; #39; about the validity of earnings. | 2 |
Verizon Wireless debuts new Internet service The service, called BroadbandAccess, allows Verizon Wireless customers to download data to mobile devices at the same speed provided by a broadband connection at a work or home computer. | 2 |
IBM, AMD Work to Shrink Chips IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have tacked a three-year extension onto their December 2002 collaboration agreement that could see the two companies work on chip-making technologies based on a 32-nanometer process. | 3 |
NASA Announces Space Station News Media Update Bill Gerstenmaier, manager of NASA #39;s International Space Station Program, will update media on the status of Station activities in a teleconference at 4 pm EDT Friday. | 3 |
IETF Shuts Down Anti-Spam Working Group Citing a lack of agreement on basic issues in the discussions of the working group, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has disbanded the MARID (MTA Authorization Records In DNS) working group. | 3 |
Microsoft eyes larger acquisitions Microsoft #39;s financial chief said this week that the software giant is more likely to make big acquisitions than it has been in the past. | 3 |
Doping allegations shock kiwi cyclist Surprise and shock from a top kiwi cyclist at the doping allegations against American Tyler Hamilton. Heath Blackgrove raced against Hamilton in the Olympic time trial in Athens. | 1 |
Serena moves into China Open quarterfinals Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States rallied in the final set Wednesday to beat Dinara Safina and reach the quarterfinals of the China Open. | 1 |
Hawks bring back Kevin Willis Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - The Atlanta Hawks signed free agent Kevin Willis on Wednesday, nearly a decade after the veteran big man ended an 11- year stint with the team. | 1 |
Frei piles the agony on Marseille PARIS, France -- Swiss striker Alexander Frei left Marseille fans calling for the resignation of president Christophe Bouchet with the only goal as Stade Rennes won 1-0. | 1 |
British hostage pleads for life Facing a death threat from his Iraqi captors, British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared in a video on an Islamist Web site Wednesday and tearfully pleaded to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help spare his life, saying, quot;Please | 0 |
AutoZone Needs an Oil Change The auto parts retailer remains strong despite slower than expected growth. | 2 |
Republicans Push Ahead to Extend Tax Cuts A House-Senate conference is expected to agree today to extend a package of tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year. | 0 |
U.S. Agrees to Release Terror Suspect WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has agreed to release a U.S. citizen held as an enemy combatant for more than two years, clearing the way for him to return to Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday... | 0 |
Pentagon Expands Outposts in Middle East WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is quietly expanding its network of small outposts worldwide to help fight terrorism in Middle Eastern and African hotspots, even as it prepares to send home tens of thousands of troops from Cold War bases in Germany and South Korea... | 0 |
U.S. Won't Release Iraqi Women Prisoners BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior Iraqi official said Wednesday that a decision had been made to release a top female germ-warfare scientist for Saddam Hussein, but Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly to squelch the idea that she would be freed soon... | 0 |
Stocks Dive on Morgan Stanley, Oil Reports NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Wednesday as investors saw a surge in oil prices and disappointing earnings from Morgan Stanley as a reason to collect profits from gains of the last month. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 130 points, and all three major indexes saw their biggest losses since early August... | 0 |
FDI: India Among Top 4 In Asia NEW DELHI, SEPT 22 : India is among the top four destinations attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia. This was highlighted in the World Investment Report, 2004 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). | 2 |
Morgan Stanley cracks in 3Q Investment bank misses estimates as trading income plunges, other units fail to pick up the slack. By Rob Cox, Breakingviews. LONDON (Breakingviews) - Morgan Stanley is the first to slip. | 2 |
Mideast Quartet Backs Bush on Settlement Freeze (Reuters) Reuters - The quartet of Middle East\advisers, backing up a plea from President Bush, called on\Israel on Wednesday to impose a freeze on Jewish settlements in\the West Bank and Gaza. | 0 |
Verizon Wireless launches CDMA EV-DO services in the US Based on a CDMA EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) 3G network, Verizon #39;s BroadbandAccess promisses speeds of 300-500kbps. The company announced BroadbandAccess will be available in 13 major metropolitan markets | 2 |
Markets sink amid warnings, rising oil prices Stock markets traded lower this afternoon as the price of crude oil shot up on the latest US supply report while investors were frustrated at a series of corporate earnings disappointments, warnings and downgrades. | 2 |
Bears Secondary Suffers Another Blow (AP) AP - Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman will miss seven to 10 weeks with a right knee injury, a blow to a secondary already stretched thin by injuries to Mike Brown and Jerry Azumah. | 1 |
Cell Phone Provides Breath Alert German telecommunications company Siemens Mobile says it is developing the first cell phone that will alert users when their breath is bad. | 3 |
Shockey Struggling With New Giants Offense (AP) AP - Playing tight end for Tom Coughlin has taken the fun and the big play out of football for two-time Pro Bowl tight end Jeremy Shockey of the New York Giants. | 1 |
Keane charged with assault Controversial Ireland and Manchester United star Roy Keane has been charged with assault and criminal damage, English police said on Tuesday. | 1 |
Former Raptor Kevin Willis, 42, returns to Atlanta Hawks Former Toronto Raptor Kevin Willis joined his original NBA team Wednesday after a 10-year absence, looking to give the Atlanta Hawks inside depth at age 42. | 1 |
Todd MacCulloch Retires Philadelphia 76ers President and General Manager Billy King announced today that center Todd MacCulloch will retire from the game of basketball. | 1 |
Perez wins Vuelta stage Santiago Perez won his second consecutive stage in the Spanish Vuelta cycling tour Sunday, taking the mountain time trial. Spanish compatriot Roberto Heras #39; overall | 1 |
Frei gives Rennes win over Marseille Alexander Frei #39;s header just before the hour mark gave Stade Rennes a 1-0 win at home to Olympique Marseille after Steve Marlet had missed a first-half penalty for the visitors in Ligue 1 action on Wednesday. | 1 |
Anti-Spyware Legislation Could Pass This Year (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Measures to curb the use of "spyware" -- the computer programs that surreptitiously track people's online movements -- are steamrolling their way through Congress and a combined proposal could reach the President's desk before lawmakers break for the November election. | 3 |
Pakistan, Britain push for uprooting cause of terror (AFP) AFP - The leaders of Britain and Pakistan agreed that the world could not defeat terrorism by force alone, and that it must move quickly to remove its "root causes" such as poverty and political grievances. | 0 |
Pak for strategic stability with India: Pervez Gen Musharraf regretted that while the Islamic world was moving towards reforms, the West was not trying to resolve disputes affecting the Muslim world. | 0 |
Campaign Finance Legislation Introduced (AP) AP - The sponsors of the nation's campaign finance law introduced legislation Wednesday that they said would end the millions spent by outside groups in the presidential race. | 0 |
Former coach Goethals dies aged 83 BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Raymond Goethals, the Belgian coach who steered Marseille to the European Cup in 1993, has died aged 83. Goethals was taken to hospital at the weekend, but media reports did not give the cause of death. | 1 |
Sixers center hasn #39;t played since #39;03 Philadelphia 76ers: Philadelphia 76ers center Todd MacCulloch retired Wednesday, ending an attempted comeback from foot problems that sidelined him the last 1 seasons. | 1 |
Former CA CEO Charged with Fraud Former Computer Associates International Inc. on chief executive Sanjay Kumar was charged on Wednesday with securities fraud and obstruction of justice stemming from a | 2 |
Mickelson, Els, Goosen, Hamilton all very close By now, you know the story. Vijay Singh grew up poor in Fiji. Took up golf because of his father. Quit school to turn pro as a teenager but was kicked off the Asian Tour. | 1 |
Pound says Jones case pivotal in doping fight If the drug allegations surrounding US track star Marion Jones are true, not only could she be stripped of her Olympic medals but American sprinters may also face tougher restrictions in the future, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Monday. | 1 |
Wizards Guard Blake Out 10-12 Week (AP) AP - Washington Wizards point guard Steve Blake will miss the first month of the season after injuring his ankle in a pickup game. | 1 |
Canada Offers Darfur Aid, Eschews 'Genocide' Label (Reuters) Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin\promised on Wednesday to help fund an African Union mission in\Sudan's troubled Darfur region but he skirted the issue of whether\what was happening there was genocide. | 0 |
Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Scams (PC World) PC World - Calls to 13 other countries will be blocked to thwart auto-dialer software. | 3 |
Bed Bath Beyond Profit Up, Shares Fall (Reuters) Reuters - Bed Bath Beyond Inc. on\Wednesday posted a 24 percent rise in its quarterly earnings as\demand for its household goods remained strong. | 2 |
Bed Bath Beyond Profit Up, Shares Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bed Bath Beyond Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BBBY.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BBBY.O</A> on Wednesday posted a 24 percent rise in its quarterly earnings as demand for its household goods remained strong. | 2 |
S. Asia struts on UN catwalk Blue turbans. Dark suits. Cropped beards. Each is designed to send important signals. | 0 |
Russia cracks down on beer ads Beer consumption has doubled over the past five years, prompting legislators to implement new rules. | 0 |
PeopleSoft CEO: #39;Have you ever had a bad dream? #39; PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway wasted no time during his keynote address at the companys annual user conference reassuring customers that an Oracle takeover is not in its future. | 2 |
Former CA Chief Kumar indicted as firm coughs up \$225m Former Computer Associates Chief Sanjay Kumar has been hit with charges of securities fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy by the US DoJ (Department of Justice) - a result of the company #39;s long-running accounting scandal. | 2 |
Cognos 2Q Profit Rises Sharply Software developer Cognos Inc. on Wednesday posted a 52 percent rise in second-quarter profit, topping Wall Street expectations on a surge in license revenue across all of its regions, the company said. | 2 |
Pilots at US Airways agree to resume giveback talks Executives of the pilots #39; union at US Airways (UAIRQ.O: Quote, Profile, Research) ordered their negotiating team on Wednesday to resume talks with the company with the goal of reaching an agreement on concessions. | 2 |
Intellectual property rights still a problem US companies in China said yesterday that Beijing had made dramatic progress in ratifying the commitments it made when it joined the World Trade Organisation three years ago. | 2 |
Ireland Cracks Down on Net Scams Ireland is taking quot;extraordinary quot; measures to protect Internet users from rogue auto-dialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges, the country #39;s telecom regulator says. | 3 |
Anti-Spyware Legislation Could Pass This Year the computer programs that surreptitiously track people #39;s online movements -- are steamrolling their way through Congress and a combined proposal could | 3 |
Hire a hacker? com September 22, 2004, 12:17 PM PT. Most IT Managers won #39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies. | 3 |
Electronic-Vote Critics Urge Changes to System WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting activists on Wednesday enlisted computer experts, a trained monkey and a man on a hunger strike in a last-minute pitch to convince officials to improve the security of electronic vote-counting systems. | 3 |
Anti-Spyware Legislation Could Pass This Year Measures to curb the surreptitious tracking of people's online movements through "spyware" could reach the president's desk before lawmakers break for the November election.\<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Iran denies reported handover of wanted Islamist to Egypt (AFP) AFP - Iran fiercely denied a report that the Islamic republic has secretly handed over a wanted Egyptian Islamist to Cairo, saying the man in question had never even been in the country. | 0 |
Briefly: Spyware bill moves to Senate roundup Plus: Supercomputer center gets new No. 2...MIT, Caltech offer low-tech voting advice...Siemens builds phone to detect bad breath. | 3 |
Microsoft eyes larger acquisitions The software giant's CFO says a target as big as SAP is less likely, but some big buys could be in Microsoft's future. | 3 |
Supercomputer center gets new No. 2 Vijay Samalam has taken over as second-in-command at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, replacing Alan Blatecky. | 3 |
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