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Walgreen: Prescription for Success Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), a company that has built a business largely on prescription drugs, reported its 30th consecutive year of record sales and earnings today. | 2 |
Comcast in deal to cut Time Warner stake Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. have signed an agreement that gives Comcast the option to cut its stake in Time Warner Cable, paving the way for the two companies to disentangle their partnership. | 2 |
Commercial Joyrides into Space Sept. 27 - British billionaire Sir richard Branson announced today (Monday) his latest venture will be out of this world. Branson is launching quot;Virgin Galactic quot;, which will build 5 space craft capable flying more than 80 miles above the earth. | 3 |
Virgin Group to launch US online music service LOS ANGELES : Richard Branson #39;s Virgin Group said it was jumping into online music, with a quot;Digital Megastore quot; for US customers offering song downloads for 99 cents. | 3 |
A eureka moment at the CRTC There #39;s no better cure for insomnia than slapping on computer headphones and listening to a CRTC hearing via Webcast. The jargon is mind-numbing and a new layer of glaze coats the eyes with each acronym spoken | 3 |
Canas wins on opening day of Shanghai Open Third-seeded Guillermo Canas defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (1), 6-3 Monday on the first day of the Shanghai Open on Monday. | 1 |
Hamm Admits He Will Be Shocked if He Loses Gold Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm admitted he would be stunned if he lost the gold medal he was awarded in Athens following a judging error. | 1 |
Penn State #39;s Robinson doubtful for game Penn State junior quarterback-wide receiver Michael Robinson is listed as doubtful for this week #39;s game against No. 19 Minnesota after suffering a concussion in Saturday #39;s game at Wisconsin. | 1 |
Sources: Palestinian militant killed in Israeli airstrike An Israeli aircraft attacked a car near Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Monday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding four others, Palestinian security sources said. | 0 |
Iranian Diplomat Freed in Iraq, Hopes Raised for Others An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear. | 0 |
Israeli air strike kills two militants in Nablus Two Palestinian militants were killed on Monday as Israeli Apache helicopters hit their car, Palestinian witnesses and medical sources said. | 0 |
Incentives Likely to Boost U.S. Car Sales (Reuters) Reuters - A month-end sales blitz of incentives\by General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. to\clear out older vehicles will spur a slight rise in U.S. car\and truck sales for September, analysts said. | 2 |
Walgreen: Prescription for Success The leading drugstore retailer is leveraging prescription sales to produce record results. | 2 |
Microsoft Gives In -- Almost The company said it will comply with the EU's antitrust decision if it loses an appeal this week. Also: New AT #038;T Wireless Services device works for e-mail and messaging, minus voice service hellip;. Comcast will cut its interest in Time Warner Cable hellip;. and more. | 2 |
Ingram Micro Expands Asia Pacific Presence Ingram Micro Inc. today announced during a conference call that it has entered into an agreement that will increase its reach in the Asia Pacific region. | 2 |
Yukos Unit Evaluated for Sale to Pay Bill MOSCOW Sept. 27, 2004 - Assets of Russia #39;s beleaguered Yukos oil company should be sold for at least \$15 billion, a senior official said Monday, as the company #39;s main production unit is evaluated for sale against a crushing back-tax bill. | 2 |
Richard Branson Plans Space Tourism Company Summary - (Sep 27, 2004) Entrepreneur Richard Branson announced today that his company, Virgin Galactic, will be taking Scaled Composite #39;s SpaceShipOne to the next logical step, and offer flights to the public. | 3 |
HP To Stop Selling Itanium-Based Workstations HP says it is still committed to the Itanium processor, but it has decided to stop equipping workstations with the chip, due to demand for processors that run in both 32- and 64-bit environments. | 3 |
Security firms merge to form Cybertrust A new managed security behemoth has been created by the merger of three security vendors. Betrusted Holdings, TruSecure Corporation and Ubizen (a subsidiary of Betrusted) will amalgamate and form a new company, known as Cybertrust. | 3 |
Intel cans Grantsdale WLAN plan The chip giant will now not ship the promised add-in module which would allow PCs based on its i915 and i925 families of chipsets to operate as WLAN access points, primarily to enable the sharing of broadband internet connections. | 3 |
Dodgers Leave the Bay with NLW Lead In a game that mirrored the 115-year history of the bitter rivalry, the Dodgers outlasted the Giants 7-4 to win a rare September series in San Francisco. | 1 |
Poor roads, looters keep Haiti victims from aid Getting aid to those who need it remain a big problem in storm-ravaged Haiti, where up to 1,500 were killed in flooding and 300,000 people were left homeless. | 0 |
After six-month grind, three races left to be decided in season #39;s <b>...</b> SAN FRANCISCO -- Peter Magowan knows all of the schedules by heart -- when everybody plays, who they play, where they play. He knows the standings, too, obviously. | 1 |
February check on 2012 bid Inspectors will assess London #39;s bid for the 2012 Olympics during a visit to the capital early in 2005. The International Olympic Committee said its evaluation commission will be in London from 16 to 19 February. | 1 |
France to Punish Police for Bungled Drug Exercise France #39;s police minister vowed on Monday to punish officers who planted explosives in an unwitting plane passenger #39;s luggage to test their sniffer dogs but then lost the quot;bomb, quot; which remains missing after a three-day hunt | 0 |
Pointlessly, Imperfectly Portable (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The Portable Media Center -- a new, Microsoft-conceived handheld device that presents video and photos as well as music -- would be a decent idea if there weren't such a thing as lampposts. Or street signs. Or trees. Or other cars. | 3 |
Airbus' Magic In-flight Cell Phone Technology May Be Make-Believe (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Airbus makes it possible to make in-flight cell phone calls. Is it a real technology advancement, or does it work like my anti-lion powder? | 3 |
IBM Ordered to Pay Some of Compuware Costs (AP) AP - A federal magistrate has ordered IBM Corp. to reimburse software maker Compuware Corp. for costs relating to evidence that IBM produced only three months before Compuware's lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial. | 3 |
Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth Wednesday (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely. | 3 |
No Major Engine Changes for SpaceShipOne, Builder Says (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - The rocket\engine behind the privately built, piloted spacecraft SpaceShipOne will carry\more propellant and burn longer during a Wednesday space shot, but has not\undergone any serious modifications since its historic June flight, according... | 3 |
Tokyo showcases gaming goodies Tokyo has played host to an exhibition showcasing the latest attractions for gamers. | 3 |
2004 Hurricane Season May Be Costliest on Record The arrival of Jeanne, the fourth powerful hurricane to slam into Florida in two months, makes it likely that 2004 will be the costliest hurricane season in U.S. history. | 3 |
Solar Car Racing Competition Heats Up Pick your vehicle #151;stock car, motorcycle, pickup truck, riding lawn mower #151;and competitors in the United States race them. So, too, the solar-powered car. | 3 |
Why Does Earth's Magnetic Field Flip? Earth's magnetic field has flipped many times over the last billion years. But only recently have scientists developed computer models to reveal how these reversals occur. | 3 |
Asteroid Close Encounter Coming Wednesday Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday. | 3 |
Plants Perform "Green Clean" of Toxic Sites Many plants can naturally clean chemically contaminated soil and groundwater. Researchers are now helping them do a quicker, better job of rehabbing polluted sites. | 3 |
Iraqi Judge Drops Case Against Leading Exile Figure A senior Iraqi judge said today that he had closed a case brought against Ahmad Chalabi, the former exile once backed by the Pentagon. | 0 |
Air Canada announces deal to buy at least 30 Bombardier regional <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - Air Canada, due to emerge from bankruptcy-court protection this week, announced a revised deal with aircraft maker Bombardier on Monday that includes fewer firm orders. | 2 |
Virgin to offer commercial space flights; expands into online <b>...</b> LONDON, September 27 (newratings.com) - Virgin Group Limited, owned by the British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, is planning to launch the world #39;s first passenger flight service to space in 2007, with seat prices starti... | 3 |
HP Spurns Intel Add a chapter to the sad tale of Intel #39;s (Nasdaq: INTC) sorry 2004. Today, longtime partner HP (NYSE: HPQ) admitted it would be dropping the beleaguered, 64-bit Itanium chip from its workstation lineup. | 3 |
Cisco Goes For the Small-Business Market New IP switches and routers that can be used to build converged voice, video, and data networks are aimed at business with limited IT resources. | 3 |
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-sized disc has been unveiled by researchers from London #39;s Imperial College. | 3 |
IBM puts faith in smart tags IBM plans to announce that it will invest \$US250 million (\$350million) over five years and employ 1000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks and radio identification tags. | 3 |
Gone in 30 seconds: your money Your credit card information is coming under more frequent attack on the Internet than ever before. A study by Symantec Corp. says electronic commerce has become the favourite target of computer hackers. | 3 |
HP to spend \$210m enhancing its radio sensors Hewlett-Packard said it will invest \$US150 million (\$210million) over five years in radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, to appeal to large corporate customers such as retailers Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy. | 3 |
Perens Hits Out at Sun over OpenOffice Perens said the legal arrangement between Sun and Microsoft was quot;creepy. quot; The agreement, he added, quot;essentially says that Sun will not stand together with the open source developers who contributed | 3 |
Singh takes aim at greatest modern-day season Maybe the long overseas flight will take something out of him. Perhaps the bland food will leave him feeling less than his best. There #39;s always the chance that a leprechaun could emerge from the Irish woods to distract him. | 1 |
Palestinian gunmen kidnap CNN producer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian gunmen abducted a CNN producer in Gaza City on Monday, the network said. The network said Riyadh Ali was taken away at gunpoint from a CNN van. | 1 |
Johansson ousts Lopez in Bangkok Bangkok, Thailand (Sports Network) - Former Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson of Sweden upended sixth-seeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in Monday #39;s opening-round action at the \$550,000 Thailand Open. | 1 |
Koukalova among opening-round winners in China Guangzhou, China (Sports Network) - Eighth-seeded Klara Koukalova was one of three first-round winners Monday at the inaugural Guangzhou International Women #39;s Open tennis tournament. | 1 |
Weingartner, Washington fall in Seoul Seoul, Korea (Sports Network) - Third-seeded German Marlene Weingartner and fourth-seeded American Mashona Washington were a pair of opening-round upset victims Monday at the inaugural Korea Open Tennis Championships. | 1 |
Bucs #39; RB Garner out for rest of year The Tampa Bay Buccaneers confirmed Monday that running back Charlie Garner will miss the rest of the season with a torn patellar tendon in his right knee. | 1 |
Pakistani Militant Farooqi had Links With Top Al-Qaeda Leaders Amjad Farooqi, a Pakistani militant killed by the country #39;s security forces yesterday, had links with top al-Qaeda leaders who instructed him to target westerners and top Pakistani leaders, a Pakistani minister said. | 0 |
Birthday surprise has Indian leader smiling New Delhi - A meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf brought an unexpected birthday present for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. | 0 |
Mass. AG Praises EU On Microsoft (CBS/AP) The attorney general for the only holdout state in the US antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. is praising dramatic sanctions imposed this week by European regulators against the world #39;s largest software company. | 2 |
Harrah #39;s, Caesars to sell four casinos CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- The soon-to-be-merged Harrah #39;s Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment announced their first asset disposals Monday, inking a deal to sell four casinos to Colony Capital for a total of \$1. | 2 |
Congress plans hearings on Fannie Mae accounting, lawmaker says Fannie Mae, the largest US mortgage finance company, will be the subject of an Oct. 6 hearing by the House Financial Services Committee over its accounting and management, said Representative Richard Baker, a Louisiana Republican. | 2 |
Defective Hearing Implants Recalled An unspecified number of cochlear implants to help people with severe hearing loss are being recalled because they may malfunction due to ear moisture, the US Food and Drug Administration announced. | 2 |
Contact stake a bargain at \$1.6b Australian energy company Origin bought its 51 per cent stake in Contact Energy at a discount of nearly \$200 million, says an independent valuation released yesterday. | 2 |
Adobe proposes new file standard for digital cameras It could turn out to be a revolutionary step in the field of digital photography - if everyone adopts it, anyway. Adobe Systems plans to introduce a new format for digital photos. | 3 |
Mashburn out for the entire 2004-05 NBA season Former All-Star forward Jamal Mashburn will miss the entire 2004-05 NBA season because of a knee injury that could end his career. | 1 |
Angels ponder life without Guillen ANAHEIM ---- Angels management was so disturbed by Jose Guillen #39;s backlash at manager Mike Scioscia after Guillen was removed for a pinch runner Saturday that the team is willing to chase a playoff berth without its slugging left fielder. | 1 |
CDs to Dominate for Years Over Net Downloads-Study (Reuters) Reuters - The compact disc has at least another\five years as the most popular music format before online\downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on\Tuesday. | 3 |
Slovak Telecom to gain control of Eurotel (FT.com) FT.com - Slovak Telecom, the fixed-line operator controlled by Deutsche Telekom of Germany, has agreed to buy out AT amp;T Wireless and Verizon from its mobile arm Eurotel for an undisclosed price. | 3 |
CDs to Dominate for Years Over Net Downloads-Study LONDON (Reuters) - The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday. | 3 |
IMF Cuts World '05 Growth Forecast-Source (Reuters) Reuters - The International Monetary Fund has cut\its forecast for global growth next year slightly amid\expectations that the U.S. and Chinese economies will not\expand as strongly as previously thought. | 2 |
Fast Forward Live Fast Forward columnist Rob Pegoraro will be online to discuss recent reviews, including Portable Media Centers and Apple's iMac G5. He'll also answer your personal tech questions. | 3 |
Tommy Hilfiger Down 26 Pct on U.S. Probe (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of Tommy Hilfiger Corp. \fell as much as 26 percent on Monday after a federal grand jury\subpoenaed documents on commissions paid to a foreign\subsidiary of the clothing maker. | 2 |
Soon \$200,000 Will Get You a Trip to Space British entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson, owner of the Virgin Group, announced Monday he has signed a deal with US company Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) to put paying travelers into space. | 3 |
Mashburn reportedly to miss next season The New Orleans Hornets #39; Jamal Mashburn will sit out all of next season on the injured list to ready himself for a final comeback attempt in 2005-06, NBA sources told ESPN. | 1 |
Clijsters set to return Kim Clijsters returns from injury in front of her home fans this week at the Gaz de France Stars event in Belgium. The former world number one has been out of action for five months with a wrist injury. | 1 |
Conan O'Brien to Replace Jay Leno in 2009 NBC will announce today that Conan O'Brien will succeed Jay Leno as host of the Tonight'' show at the end of Mr. Leno's current five-year contract, in 2009. | 2 |
Sun offers help in academic networking The new program includes grants and classes to help research and academic institutions manage their network systems. | 3 |
Briefly: Avici extends AT T contract roundup Plus: IronPort spam shield gets steelier...Via brings PCI Express to AMD PCs...Rice lab makes nano parts less toxic. | 3 |
IDC raises estimate for PC sales Growth in commercial PC shipments in the second quarter was the highest in that segment since 1999, the researcher says. | 3 |
E-mail firm baits hackers with security challenge Avecho offers \$18,000 prize to anyone who can sneak a virus past its GlassWall product. | 3 |
Can Skype remain more than free phone hype? The first-year growth rate for the Net phone start-up was "sky high." Now it has to avoid a sophomore jinx. | 3 |
AOL wants developers to get the message The push is on to get Instant Messenger software on more and more mobile phones. | 3 |
Who Will Be The First Virgin Bride on Virgin Galactic #39;s First <b>...</b> Today, adventurous British entrepreneur Richard Branson formally announced that his Virgin transport, entertainment and communications company plans to launch commercial sub-orbital space flights by 2007. | 3 |
Avici extends AT T contract The extension of the partnership comes as Avici continues to struggle to win new customers. | 3 |
Singh Wins 84 Classic, Breaks Woods #39; Record FARMINGTON, Pa. -- Vijay Singh held off Stewart Cink #39;s fast finish to win the 84 Lumber Classic by one shot Sunday and break Tiger Woods #39; one-year PGA Tour money record. | 1 |
Mississippi State #39;s Conner out with knee injury Starkville, MS (Sports Network) - Mississippi State quarterback Omarr Conner is expected to miss at least three weeks after spraining a ligament in his right knee during Saturday #39;s 51-0 drubbing to LSU. | 1 |
Thailand confirms woman has bird flu, second case in latest <b>...</b> A woman was confirmed Monday to be suffering from avian flu, the second known human victim of the disease in Thailand since July, but officials said there is no evidence it was the result of human-to-human transmission. | 0 |
Ivory keys in mainframe apps to Web services GT Software next week will formally unveil its platform for outfitting mainframe applications with Web services functionality and linking legacy data into SOAs (service-oriented architectures). | 3 |
Rebirth for the x86 Your basic everyday x86 server doesn't look so average anymore. In fact, with 64-bit extensions on the table and multi-core processors in the works, this venerable PC server is looking downright jazzy. | 3 |
IDC Forum: Is IT creativity dead? Pouring fuel on the debate over whether IT provides a competitive advantage to corporations, a pair of prominent industry observers Monday offered starkly different views of the role computer technology can play in transforming business strategy. | 3 |
New Palm System Targets Smart Phones (AP) AP - PalmSource Inc. has finally answered the smart-phone call. | 3 |
Virgin Group to launch US online music service (AFP) AFP - Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into the increasingly crowded market for online music, with a quot;Digital Megastore quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents. | 3 |
Russia Introduces Terror Resolution (AP) AP - Russia introduced a draft resolution Monday calling for a new list of suspects who would be subject to extradition in a stepped-up global campaign against terrorism. China welcomed it but Pakistan and other Security Council members eyed the proposal with caution. | 0 |
Palestinian Gunmen Kidnap CNN Producer (AP) AP - Palestinian gunmen abducted a CNN producer in Gaza City on Monday, the network said. | 0 |
Trial Ordered in Fla. E-Ballot Lawsuit (AP) AP - A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit seeking a paper trail for Florida's new touchscreen voting machines with only five weeks left before the presidential election. | 0 |
Campaigns Leave Red State Arizona Behind (AP) AP - The presidential campaign has left Arizona behind. Democratic Sen. John Kerry made four visits and spent nearly #36;4 million on television commercials in an attempt to make the state competitive. But polls this fall show President Bush with a comfortable lead, and Ke... | 0 |
Congress Probing U.N. Oil-For Food Program (AP) AP - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than #36;60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the fo... | 0 |
China, Singapore Say World Must Help Calm Taiwan Row UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and Singapore on Monday urged the international community to help calm Beijing's dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence. | 0 |
N. Korea Sees 'Snowballing' War Danger, Slams U.S. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea said Monday the danger of war on the Korean peninsula is "snowballing" and accused the United States of destroying the basis for negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear program. | 0 |
ElBaradei Confirmed Seeking Third Term at IAEA VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is seeking a third term at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a note circulated to the agency's governing board on Monday confirmed. | 0 |
The Fight of His Life Kofi Annan built a reputation as the world #39;s most trusted diplomat, but the oil-for-food scandal has riled US critics. Is his job in jeopardy? | 0 |
Pakistanis Arrest More Militant Suspects KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani forces following up on a raid that killed a top al-Qaida fugitive arrested four more suspected extremists Monday, while the U.S. Embassy warned that security constraints could keep its staff from helping citizens who get into trouble outside big cit... | 0 |
Palestinian Gunmen Kidnap CNN Producer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian gunmen abducted a CNN producer in Gaza City on Monday, the network said. The network said Riyadh Ali was taken away at gunpoint from a CNN van... | 0 |
NY Crude Oil Rises to Record \$49.74 on Nigerian Supply Threat Crude oil rose to a record \$49.74 a barrel in New York amid concern rebel attacks in Nigeria will reduce production and US refiners will struggle to replenish supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
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