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Briefly: Rice lab makes nano parts less toxic roundup Plus: TV chip company gets \$19 million...Oracle extends deadline on PeopleSoft bid...MLB sells game clips for 99 cents...TiVo hires marketing chief. | 3 |
Rice lab makes nano parts less toxic Rice University researchers say they have figured out a way to reduce the potential toxicity of Buckyballs. | 3 |
US stockmarket closes on a high US blue-chip stocks ended barely higher on Friday as a spike in oil prices to near record levels pared earlier gains and renewed concerns about the effect of high energy prices on consumer spending and corporate profits. | 2 |
Ask Jeeves Personalizes Web Searching Personalized search is the next big idea in the world of search and Ask Jeeves got there first. With MyJeeves, you sign up to the free service, and you are then able to save any URL you #39;ve come across while searching. | 3 |
Skipper Maldini stands tall as AC Milan look to halt slide ROME: AC Milan captain Paolo Maldini (pic) believes adversity will bring out the best in his faltering team when they visit high-flying Lazio tomorrow. | 1 |
Arraignment continued until Oct. 8 COLFAX, Wash. -- Arraignment of two Seattle brothers facing charges in the slaying of a University of Idaho football player was continued Friday until Oct. 8. Lawyers for Matthew R. Wells II, 27, and James | 1 |
Israeli Missile Hits Gaza Refugee Camp -- Witnesses An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, wounding at least four people, witnesses said. | 0 |
E-business sites hit with attacks, extortion threats A distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted Web-based systems at credit card payment processing firm Authorize.Netearlier this week is indicative of a sharp increase in the number of cyberattacks being targeted at specific companies and driven by profit mot... | 3 |
Ahead Pushes Nero Digital Format for DVDs Deal with ESS Technology will add support for Ahead's variant of the MPEG-4 video format on DVD players. | 3 |
China #39;s Wen meets Putin MOSCOW - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday and told him that China is ready to provide quot;feasible help quot; to Russia in the fight against terrorism, Itar-Tass news agency reported Friday. | 0 |
Putin: Russia #39;s Fight Against Terrorism Will Not Sidetrack Reforms Russian President Vladimir Putin is defending his government #39;s efforts to strengthen and centralize control in the wake of several recent terrorist attacks. | 0 |
News: Feds invite comment on Internet wiretaps U.S. regulators open a public comment period on a plan to wire broadband and VoIP systems for law enforcement surveillance.\ | 3 |
Spotted Owl Seen Declining in Northwest (AP) AP - Fourteen years after coming under federal protection, the northern spotted owl continues on the decline in the Pacific Northwest, a study shows. | 3 |
Sage Grouse Listing May Curb Natural Gas (AP) AP - Some wildlife experts want to make the greater sage grouse an endangered species icon. Its Western habitat, unfortunately, is atop some of the nation's largest untapped natural gas fields. | 3 |
Iraq PM Asks UN States to Put the War Behind Them (Reuters) Reuters - Iraq's new prime minister, in\his debut appearance before the U.N. General Assembly, appealed\to world governments on Friday to put aside their differences\over the war and help Baghdad rebuild. | 0 |
Sudan Security Foils New Sabotage Plot -- Agency (Reuters) Reuters - Sudanese authorities said Friday they\foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap\and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the\capital, a news agency close to the government reported. | 0 |
Muslim envoys off to Baghdad in bid to free British hostage (AFP) AFP - Britain's leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by Muslim extremists eight days ago. | 0 |
Egypt presses case for permanent seat on UN Security Council (AFP) AFP - Egypt pressed Africa's case for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council and said it deserved to be considered for a place itself. | 0 |
Material RCMP passed to U.S. officials was used in Arar's deportation hearing (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Information the RCMP passed to U.S. officials in sloppy fashion was used in a hearing that resulted in Ottawa engineer Maher Arar's deportation to Syria, where he was imprisoned for months as a ... | 0 |
Rise in GOP Numbers May Impact Elections (AP) AP - Voters in recent surveys are more frequently describing themselves as Republicans, a shift that could affect November elections up and down the ticket if it continues. | 0 |
Texas Challenger Links Opponent to Rather (AP) AP - A Texas congressional candidate has launched a television campaign ad linking his opponent to beleaguered CBS news anchor Dan Rather. | 0 |
Hurricane Jeanne Targets Storm-Weary Florida MIAMI (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people on Florida's east coast were told to leave their homes once again on Friday as deadly Hurricane Jeanne approached for what could be a record fourth hurricane hit in a year on the storm-weary state. | 0 |
Sudan Security Foils New Sabotage Plot -- Agency KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities said Friday they foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the capital, a news agency close to the government reported. | 0 |
Israeli Missile Kills One in Gaza Camp -- Medics GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, killing an elderly civilian man and wounding at least three people, witnesses and medics said. | 0 |
Stocks Close Mixed to Cap Losing Week NEW YORK - Bargain hunters kept Wall Street mixed Friday, allowing blue chips to rise despite a new record high for oil prices. But fresh warnings from semiconductor firms sent the tech sector falling, and the three major indexes ended the week substantially lower... | 0 |
Teen Sniper to Admit Guilt in 2nd Slaying McLEAN, Va. - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo plans to drop all appeals of his conviction and life sentence for one of 10 killings in October 2002, and will admit guilt in a second slaying, his lawyer said Friday... | 0 |
Elliott Smith CD Released Year After Death PORTLAND, Ore. - It's been almost a year since singer-songwriter Elliott Smith committed suicide, and fans and friends will be looking for answers as the posthumous "From a Basement on the Hill" is released... | 0 |
Hurricane Jeanne Prompts Fla. Evacuations FORT PIERCE, Fla. - More than half a million residents of Florida's east coast were urged to evacuate - again - as Hurricane Jeanne churned westward Friday and threatened to become the fourth hurricane to pound the state in the last six weeks... | 0 |
Via brings PCI Express to AMD-based computers Via Technologies announces new product that brings PCI Express input-output to computers running AMD chips. | 3 |
Sony Embraces MP3 in Ploy To Please Public Microsoft #39;s WMA, Apple #39;s ACC, Sony #39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player. | 3 |
Microsoft Files More Lawsuits over Spam Going after spammers rather than focusing merely on developing antispam technology is an important step, John Movina, spokesperson for the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, said. | 3 |
Red Hat exec takes Sun to task on open source update A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems. In a Web log posting Thursday, Michael Tiemann, Red Hat #39;s vice president of open-source | 3 |
Microsoft Issues Tool To Head Off JPEG Exploits Microsoft has issued a software tool that scans users #39; computers to help them find software that may be affected by a recently discovered vulnerability in the way many Windows programs process JPEG files. | 3 |
Microsoft Won #39;t Give SP2 Security Fixes to Older Browsers quot;The most secure version of Windows today is Windows XP with SP2, quot; Microsoft explained in a statement it issued. quot;We recommend that customers upgrade to XP and SP2 as quickly as possible. | 3 |
Space station needs supplies by Christmas CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Oxygen and food will be worrisomely low on the international space station by Christmas, and it #39;s crucial that a Russian supply ship get there by then, a top NASA official said today. | 3 |
Rice, No. 5 Texas will run right at each other With his Texas team on a roll and a pivotal matchup with Oklahoma just three weekends away, Longhorns coach Mack Brown found himself looking for ways to keep his team focused on the present. | 1 |
Yanks' Brown Long Shot to Pitch Sunday (AP) AP - Kevin Brown had "no problem" throwing in the bullpen Friday and is a "long shot" to pitch Sunday after breaking his non-pitching hand three weeks ago, New York Yankees manager Joe Torre said before the game against the Boston Red Sox. | 1 |
No. 14 Utah Begins Defense of MWC Title (AP) AP - Utah hopes to rely on a more conventional approach against Air Force this year. | 1 |
Stadler Leads SAS Championship by Two (AP) AP - Craig Stadler had the answers ready, as if he expected the questions. | 1 |
Ichiro Makes Run at Historic Record SEATTLE (Reuters) - Ichiro Suzuki, baseball's sang-froid player, is racing to shatter an elusive record for hits in a single season, aiming to bring glory to himself, the Seattle Mariners and his country Japan. | 1 |
U.S., France on Top in Davis Cup Semis LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Roddick cracked a 155 mph delivery, two mph quicker than his own fastest serve record, to help push the U.S. into a 2-0 lead over Belarus in their Davis Cup semi-final on Friday. | 1 |
51 more billionaires on Forbes #39; rich list New York: It seems the US billionaires #39; club is not as exclusive as it once was. There are now 313 billionaires in the United States, a huge jump over the 262 counted last year, according to Forbes magazine | 2 |
Philips warns that sales of its chips are stalling AMSTERDAM Philips Electronics, Europe #39;s third-largest maker of semiconductors, on Friday reduced its third-quarter chip sales forecast, saying demand is waning. | 2 |
The Dot-Com Era #39;s Last Gasp: Commerce One Commerce One says it must lay off 56 employees, leaving it with 36 to operate its supplier relationship management business unit. Years of economic devastation have left Commerce One -- once | 2 |
Collins Stewart raises 55m to help funding of Prebon buy The London-based brokerage Collins Stewart Tullett placed 55m of new shares yesterday to help fund the 69.5m purchase of the money and futures broker Prebon. | 2 |
Astronomers Observe Collision of Galaxies, Formation of Larger <b>...</b> An international team of astronomers has obtained the clearest images yet of the merger of two distant clusters of galaxies, calling it one of the most powerful cosmic events ever witnessed. | 3 |
The fish with a 100/kg price on its head set to win protector The humphead wrasse provides some of Hong Kong #39;s most expensive fish dishes, which, in a city with a strong tradition of luxury dining, is saying something. | 3 |
Sage grouse listing may curb natural gas Some wildlife experts want to make the greater sage grouse an endangered species icon. Its Western habitat, unfortunately, is atop some of the nation #39;s largest untapped natural gas fields. | 3 |
NFL Matchups: Two great coaches but two mediocre teams clash Someday Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs will both be in the football Hall of Fame. For now, both are locked in the quest to resurrect two of the most storied franchises in history. | 1 |
With focus on Iran, Brazil gets no favors RIO DE JANEIRO With Brazil hoping to begin operating a uranium enrichment plant by as early as year #39;s end, the International Atomic Energy Agency is intensifying efforts to reach an agreement that would guarantee its inspectors unimpeded access to the | 0 |
Liberty Beat by Nat Hentoff The Most Evil Crime On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses. | 0 |
Sudan Security Foils New Sabotage Plot -- Agency Sudanese authorities said Friday they foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the capital | 0 |
Billionaires still playing catch-up with Gates Bill Gates remained atop the list of richest people in the United States, but investor Warren Buffett edged closer and Google #39;s founders are rising fast, according to Forbes magazine. | 2 |
Jail-bound Martha nets \$2m Martha Stewart has had some good news just before she heads off to jail - a new contract from her company worth more than \$2ma year. | 2 |
Collins Stewart buys rival broker in 133m deal Collins Stewart Tullett yesterday clinched a deal to buy rival money broker Prebon that will take the company #39;s market share close to leader Icap. | 2 |
Summer puts dampener on Cadbury Schweppes Cadbury Schweppes, the soft drinks and confectionery giant, said yesterday that the wet summer had dampened sales of its soft drinks in Europe. | 2 |
PSP to support MP3s The day after Sony said it would embrace the world #39;s top digital music format, it appears on the PSP #39;s official spec sheet. | 3 |
Dinosaur long-necked for a reason: experts Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago? | 3 |
No SP2 for Users of Old Windows Retrofitting SP2 to Windows 98 or Windows NT simply would not make much sense, argues Yankee Group #39;s Laura DiDio. Both operating systems are eight years old, and the PC and Internet worlds were much different places then. | 3 |
Davis Cup Tennis: Darkness halts French bid for early 2-0 lead France was clinging to hopes of a 2-0 lead in its Davis Cup semifinal against Spain when darkness forced Juan Carlos Ferrero and Fabrice Santoro off the court in the fourth set of the second match Friday in Alicante, Spain. | 1 |
Prem Preview: Manchester City-Arsenal What a difference a week makes! Seven days ago the popular wisdom was that if Manchester City failed to win their Saturday game manager Kevin Keegans job would be at risk. | 1 |
Australia in for Davis Cup kill Australia is expected to clinch its Davis Cup relegation tie against Morocco in Perth today when doubles partners Wayne Arthurs and Todd Woodbridge take to the court. | 1 |
Wengers Arsenal Mission Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has dismissed all talk of moving to Real Madrid and says he expects to sign a new deal with the Gunners soon. | 1 |
Israeli Copter Strike Kills Palestinian An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles toward a crowd of Palestinians on the outskirts of a refugee camp early Saturday, killing a 55-year-old man and wounding five people, all civilians, hospital officials said. | 0 |
New India-Pakistan ties hailed NEW YORK: The leaders of India and Pakistan yesterday hailed a new era in often fraught relations between the two south Asian nuclear rivals and agreed to study a joint pipeline project as part of closer economic ties. | 0 |
Allawi safety claims #39;out of touch with reality #39; say Iraqis Iraqis reacted with astonishment and derision yesterday to a claim made by the interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, before the US Congress that 14 or 15 out of Iraq #39;s 18 provinces quot;are completely safe. | 0 |
Darfur #39;s refugees face years in camps IT WILL take as long as two years to disarm the Arab Janjaweed militias that have carried out a campaign of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur, the top United States envoy to Sudan said yesterday. | 0 |
Aid slow to reach desperate Haitians GONAIVES, HAITI - The lines grew longer and the people more desperate as flood victims in this city begged for food and clean water in order to survive another day. | 0 |
Israeli Missile Kills One in Gaza Camp -- Medics (Reuters) Reuters - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into\a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, killing\an elderly man and wounding at least three people, Palestinian\witnesses and medics said. | 0 |
Israeli Missiles Kill 1 and Wound 5 (AP) AP - An Israeli missile strike killed one Palestinian and wounded five early Saturday, hours after militants killed an Israeli-American woman in the first deadly shelling of a Jewish settlement in Gaza in four years of fighting. | 0 |
Video Game Let Players Command Kerry Swift Boat (Reuters) Reuters - A video game company hopes to\cash in on the publicity surrounding Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam\service by sending players on a simulation of the Swift Boat\mission that won the Democratic presidential candidate the\Silver Star. | 0 |
Israeli Missile Kills One in Gaza Camp -- Medics GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza early on Saturday, killing an elderly man and wounding at least three people, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. | 0 |
Roddick Powers U.S. to Lead in Davis Semis CHARLESTON, S.C. - Andy Roddick hit a record 155 mph serve in his 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 win over Vladimir Voltchkov on Friday to help the United States to a 2-0 lead over Belarus in the Davis Cup semifinals... | 0 |
Calif. OKs World's Toughest Smog Rules (AP) AP - California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming #151; a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast. | 3 |
Chile Groups Say Tainted Salmon Could Be Sold (Reuters) Reuters - A cargo of farmed Chilean\salmon tainted with a potentially harmful toxin and rejected\for import in Europe has returned to Chile and could be\re-exported to a country with less stringent laws, consumer and\environmental groups warned. | 3 |
Alitalia Says Unions Agree to Plan to Split Company (Update6) Alitalia SpA said eight of its nine biggest unions agreed to a plan to split Italy #39;s biggest airline in two, enabling the carrier to get a loan to stay in business. | 2 |
Interest hikes to fight inflation, the Fed says WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve policymakers suggested that quot;significant quot; increases in short-term interest rates probably would be needed to keep inflation from becoming a problem, according to minutes released Thursday of their August meeting. | 2 |
Judge Strikes United Airlines Pensions Brief From Record CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--A federal judge on Friday ruled that a massive informational brief filed by UAL Corp. #39;s (UALAQ) United Airlines regarding the status of the company #39;s pension plans was improper and should | 2 |
IBC seeks to rise again through bankruptcy As CEO and chairman, James Elsesser kept looking for a way to make Interstate Bakeries Corp. as solid as its brand names. Inheriting a company with aging factories and slow reflexes that for decades | 2 |
New UN Talks Bid to Save Fish, Plants and Timber Long a forum for protecting endangered species like whales or tigers, a UN meeting in Bangkok next month will seek a wider role in regulating the | 3 |
Montgomerie misses cut at The Heritage Colin Montgomerie shot a 5-over-par 77 and missed the cut at The Heritage on Friday, five days after making the winning putt for Europe at the Ryder Cup. | 1 |
Brown on pins and needles Kevin Brown, who has another doctor #39;s appointment today, said he is scheduled to have the pins removed from his broken left hand, which the righthander said is a precursor to him returning to the mound. | 1 |
Montreal Expos await final word on move from MLB before making <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - The Montreal Expos have circled on the road out of town so often, you can understand why players and team officials are taking word of their imminent move with a grain of salt. | 1 |
Muslim envoys off to Baghdad in bid to free British hostage LIVERPOOL, England : Britain #39;s leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by extremists eight days ago. | 0 |
Allawi appeals for world help IRAQI Prime Minister Iyad Allawi today asked world leaders at the United Nations to help quot;defeat the forces of terrorism quot; and build the future of Iraq. | 0 |
US reserves judgment on India #39;s bid for UNSC seat UNITED NATIONS: The United States has supported Japan #39;s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council but is reserving judgement on other potential candidates, including friends Germany, Brazil and India, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said | 0 |
Transport firm terrorist base IT WAS midnight when Indonesian anti-terror police turned up to an innocuous-looking freight transportation business in East Jakarta and searched the small building and its accounting and freight records. | 0 |
New intruder scare for royals A JOURNALIST posing as a workman has managed to breach security at the Queen #39;s official residence in Scotland, less than two weeks after an intruder climbed onto Buckingham Palace in London. | 0 |
Ricky Williams ordered to repay Dolphins Former Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams was ordered Friday to repay the team more than \$8.6 million. The money was for incentives and a signing bonus, an arbitrator said. | 1 |
Bowden Bowl Key for Clemson, Florida St. (AP) AP - A 9-foot bronze statue of Florida State coach Bobby Bowden was unveiled Friday outside of Doak Campbell Stadium. | 1 |
Singh Stays on Track for Fifth Win in Six Starts FARMINGTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - World number one Vijay Singh remained on course for his fifth win in six starts when he shot a four-under-par 68 in the second round of the \$4.2 million Pennsylvania Classic Friday. | 1 |
Torre: Brown a Long Shot to Go for Yanks on Sunday Kevin Brown had "no problem" throwing in the bullpen Friday and is a "long shot" to pitch Sunday, Yankees Manager Joe Torre said Friday. | 1 |
Brazil Announces Record Budget Surplus (AP) AP - Brazilian government released federal budget figures Friday showing an unprecedented primary budget surplus of 10.9 billion reals ( #36;3.8 billion) in August, putting Brazil well ahead of performance targets set in a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. | 2 |
Briefly: Via brings PCI Express to AMD PCs roundup Plus: Rice lab makes nano parts less toxic...TV chip company gets \$19 million...Oracle extends deadline on PeopleSoft bid...MLB sells game clips for 99 cents. | 3 |
The whining class Nearly a generation ago, in 1981, the debut of the IBM PC ushered in the personal computing era of business, a wondrous event in the history of computing that led to the immediate birth of one of the most thankless tasks in IT: desktop support. | 2 |
Nationwide drinks the ITIL Kool-Aid As one of the early U.S. adopters of the ITIL best practices framework, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company learned some key lessons on how to get the most out of ITIL. We talked with two Nationwide executives to get their perspective on how to approach deploying the ITIL framework a... | 2 |
Sun seeks data persistence model for Java Sun Microsystems is looking to make life easier for Java developers by seeking a common ground on a data persistence model. | 3 |
Flintoff aims to sign off in style LONDON: All-rounder Andrew Flintoff will seek to cap his perfect year today with a match-winning performance in the Champions Trophy final against West Indies. | 1 |
Brown could pitch Sunday finale com. Kevin Brown may return to the mound sooner than expected, as Joe Torre said Friday that the right-hander is in the mix to start on Sunday afternoon against Curt Schilling and the Red Sox at Fenway Park. | 1 |
Tigers hope to reverse losing trend in Tallahassee A 9-foot bronze statue of Florida State coach Bobby Bowden was unveiled Friday outside of Doak Campbell Stadium. quot;I thought you were supposed to be gone or dead before they do stuff like this, quot; he said. | 1 |
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