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DA Won't Prosecute Bishop Accused of Rape SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A district attorney said Monday that he would not prosecute Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Dupre on child rape charges because the statute of limitations has expired in the case... | 0 |
Cingular Wireless plans to sell interactive unit Fund manager Cerberus Capital Management to buy the Mobitex network, used to support a quarter of the world's BlackBerry users. | 3 |
Toshiba presses Play on 60GB audio player Up to 15,000 audio files can be stored on the company's upcoming hard drive-based player. | 3 |
Q A: Grid Alliance president on winning enterprise converts The Enterprise Grid Alliance, whose mission is to push the adoption of grid computing, is working on standards and specifications to make it easier to deploy vendor products in a grid environment, according to EGA President Donald Deutsch. | 3 |
IDC Forum: Is IT creativity dead? Speaking at the IDC-sponsored European IT Forum in Paris, controversial author Nicholas G. Carr and business consultant Don Tapscott disagreed about whether IT can spark business model changes that help companies gain strategic advantages over competitors. | 3 |
IDC raises '04 PC growth view, trims '05 projection Boosted by the strongest demand from businesses since 1999, PC shipments this year will be higher than previously anticipated, research firm IDC said today. | 3 |
IronPort updates e-mail security appliance IronPort Systems today unveiled new versions of its C-Series line of Email Security Appliances, offering new features to help administrators predict new virus outbreaks and manage corporate e-mail security. | 3 |
Intel drops plans to make Grantsdale chip a Wi-Fi access point Intel has dropped plans to turn its latest batch of chip sets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC vendors and the rising number of stand-alone access points. | 3 |
Northwestern Medical cites performance boost from Concord software Concord management software has helped uncover a range of problems at Northwestern medical group, which is now seeing improved system performance. | 3 |
Microsoft is ready to remove media player for EU Microsoft will be ready to comply with European Commission demands for changes to its Windows operating systems if a European court does not suspend the antitrust remedy, a company spokesman said today. | 3 |
Qwest adds VoIP to 10 markets Qwest Communications International has added its OneFlex VoIP services for small, medium, and enterprise businesses to 10 additional markets. | 3 |
Oil prices charge toward \$50 a barrel; gasoline prices surge Oil prices charged toward \$50 a barrel Monday, and gasoline prices surged to \$1.92 a gallon last week, as petroleum output in the Gulf of Mexico returns at a slower-than-expected rate after Hurricane Ivan and geopolitical unrest keeps traders on edge. | 2 |
IATA says air traffic recovery continues, so do losses The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Monday that the air traffic has seen continued recovery but, with the industry loss for 2004 expected to be 3 to 4 billion US dollars, there is no excuse to relax. | 2 |
Elephant Dung Helps Track Smuggled Ivory - Study Using elephant dung and skin samples, researchers said they were able to make a map of elephant DNA that could help track down ivory poachers. | 3 |
Toshiba presses play on 60GB audio player com September 27, 2004, 2:20 PM PT. Toshiba on Monday announced in Japan that it #39;s upping the song capacity of its Gigabeat line of hard drive-based digital audio players. | 3 |
49 min: El Karkouri scores the winner (Getty Images) 90 mins: And so the curtain comes down on a match of very fine margins. Not an epic by any stretch of the imagination but both teams worked extremely hard but never really showed enough craft to open the opposition defence. | 1 |
WisPolitics: Brewers Reportedly Sold; Admirals Might be Close While no official announcement has been made, Mark Attanasio, a Los Angeles investor, looks to be the new owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. | 1 |
Gannon has broken vertebra in his neck Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon has a broken vertebra in his neck that will sideline him at least six weeks. Gannon had an MRI exam Monday morning and was taken for further tests. | 1 |
Microsoft to Offer Cheaper, Limited Windows in Russia It's part of the company's effort to beat back Linux and piracy efforts in developing technology markets. | 3 |
For 110,000, Branson offers his passengers a voyage into space within 25 seconds - to 2,500mph. For no more than five minutes they will float about, 80 miles above planet Earth. Lavatory and in-flight drinks? | 3 |
Microsoft to Offer Cheaper, Limited Windows in Russia It #39;s part of the company #39;s effort to beat back Linux and piracy efforts in developing technology markets. Microsoft says it will offer a simplified and lower-priced version of Windows XP in Russia, matching | 3 |
UPDATE 1-Charlton climb to seventh with 1-0 win A 49th-minute header by Moroccan defender Talal El Karkouri gave Charlton Athletic a 1-0 home win over Blackburn Rovers on Monday that lifted the London club to seventh in the Premier League. | 1 |
Gardenhire has winning touch It is 4:30 pm on Tuesday, the day after the Minnesota Twins clinched their third consecutive American League Central Division title. | 1 |
U.S. Senate to Weigh Bill Targeting Web Song Swaps (Reuters) Reuters - After weeks of negotiations, the\U.S. Senate could take action this week on a bill that would\make it easier to sue "peer-to-peer" networks like Kazaa and\LimeWire that allow users to copy music and movies over the\Internet. | 3 |
IDC Raises '04 PC Growth View, Trims '05 (Reuters) Reuters - Shipments of personal computers\this year will be higher than previously anticipated, boosted\by the strongest demand from businesses in five years, research\firm IDC said on Monday. | 3 |
US Trsy quot;glad to see quot; UK idea on poor country debt A US Treasury Department spokesman on Monday gave a positive, though muted, reception to a British proposal to ease the debt of heavily indebted poor countries, which was unveiled over the weekend. | 0 |
Microsoft to Offer Cheaper, Limited Windows in Russia (PC World) PC World - It's part of the company's effort to beat back Linux and piracy efforts in developing technology markets. | 3 |
U.S. Senate to Weigh Bill Targeting Web Song Swaps WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of negotiations, the U.S. Senate could take action this week on a bill that would make it easier to sue "peer-to-peer" networks like Kazaa and LimeWire that allow users to copy music and movies over the Internet. | 3 |
Gasoline Price Up, Diesel Hits Record (Reuters) Reuters - Rising crude oil costs are taking a\toll on U.S. consumers, as the national price for gasoline\jumped 5.1 cents a gallon over the last week and diesel fuel\hit a record high, the government said on Monday. | 2 |
Gasoline Price Up, Diesel Hits Record WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising crude oil costs are taking a toll on U.S. consumers, as the national price for gasoline jumped 5.1 cents a gallon over the last week and diesel fuel hit a record high, the government said on Monday. | 2 |
Tommy Hilfiger Shares Tumble on Probe NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Tommy Hilfiger Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TOM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TOM.N</A> fell as much as 26 percent on Monday after a federal grand jury subpoenaed documents on commissions ... | 2 |
Iraq Clears Debt, Opens Way for Aid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq cleared around \$81 million in debt it owed the International Monetary Fund late last week, fund sources said on Monday, opening the way for the first aid to flow from the global lender to Iraq. | 2 |
Reseller CDW upgrades abilities, ambitions Company offers higher-end equipment and new expertise for selling complicated combinations of products. | 3 |
Homeland Security Still Falling Short With IT Work GAO said the department has to work on seven key practices. It #39;s progress so far is a quot;work in progress, quot; GAO says. By Eric Chabrow. | 3 |
IBM Carves New RFID Unit The Sensor and Actuator Solutions group will create services and software related to RFID systems. By Laurie Sullivan. IBM has created the Sensor and Actuator Solutions group to support devices such as those used in radio-frequency identification setups. | 3 |
Rovers get another headache A FIRST goal for Charlton from Moroccan defender Tala El Karkouri saw them preserve their unbeaten Premiership home record as they beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0. | 1 |
Ruano Pascual upsets Kostanic SPANIARD Virginia Ruano Pascual has fought back from a set down to upset ninth-seeded Croat Jelena Kostanic at the Gaz de France Stars WTA event in Belgium today. | 1 |
LIONS MUST DO WITHOUT JONES Detroit Lions rookie running back Kevin Jones will be sidelined at least two weeks with a high right ankle sprain. Since the Lions have a bye this weekend, coach Steve Mariucci is hoping that Jones will just miss the October 10 game at Atlanta. | 1 |
Palestinian gunmen abduct CNN producer GAZA, SEPTEMBER 27: Armed Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli Arab producer for CNN TV network from a car in Gaza City on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. | 0 |
Unrest in Saudi Arabia spotlights terrorism battle RIYADH: The quot;terrorist quot; murder of a French citizen in Jeddah and another shoot-out on Monday between suspected Islamist militants and security forces in the Saudi capital have | 0 |
UN calls bird flu #39;world crisis #39; Two UN agencies have warned that bird flu is set to remain a serious threat to animal and human life worldwide in the near future. | 0 |
For schools, Apple offers special iMac G5, eMac With the release of the new iMac G5, some educational technology departments might want to check Apple's online education store, where they'll find an additional model available only to education institutions. Cheaper eMacs are there, too. | 3 |
IBM delivers Masala IBM later this week will deliver its long-awaited DB2 Information Integrator, code-named Masala, which contains a sophisticated search engine that allows corporate users to dig out and analyze data across a wide range of IBM and non-IBM information data stores, according to sources familiar with the... | 3 |
Is Organized Crime Controlling Your PC? Symantec report says Internet attacks for financial gain on the rise. | 3 |
Oil price hits \$US50 a barrel Crude oil futures hit \$US50 in electronic after-hours trade in New York, setting a new record as supply worries intensified. In regular trading the November benchmark contract for light sweet crude on the | 2 |
Airline Industry Seen Losing Up to \$4 Bln in 2004 The global airline industry stands to incur losses of between \$3 billion and \$4 billion this year as surging oil prices wipe out any hope of profit created by rising passenger traffic, the International Air Transport Association said | 2 |
Palmsource reboots Cobalt, but no phones #39;til 2005 Palm kicks off its European developer conference in Munich this week with details of a new release of its Cobalt OS. Cobalt 6.1 will feature new GSM and 802. | 2 |
IronPort Adds Virus Preemption, Courts Dell Some reseller partners of security appliance vendor IronPort Systems are taking the good with the not so good. IronPort partners like Peter Kolb, director of data sales at Triple A Networks, a technology integrator | 3 |
Intel drops plans for Wi-Fi access point in Grantsdale Intel no longer plans to turn its latest batch of chipsets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC vendors and the proliferation of standalone access points, a company spokesman said Friday. | 3 |
McNair remains hospitalized with bruised sternum Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair remained in a Nashville hospital Monday because of a bruised sternum, but tests revealed no serious injuries. | 1 |
Real v Roma: Clash of the down and outs Two clubs seemingly vying to make theirs the most miserable start to a season - Real Madrid and AS Roma -ill meet on their return to Champions League duty. | 1 |
Pearl murder suspect Farooqi shot dead Pakistan claims its security forces have killed a leading al-Qa #39;ida member who was a main suspect in the kidnap and murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl, and an assassination | 0 |
Yahoo Rolls Out Tests of Redesigned Start Pages (Reuters) Reuters - Online media company Yahoo Inc.\ late on Monday rolled out tests of redesigned start\pages for its popular Yahoo.com and My.Yahoo.com sites. | 3 |
Virgin to Launch Commercial Space Flights (AP) AP - Airline mogul and adventurer Richard Branson announced plans Monday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before #151; into space. | 3 |
Haiti Doctors Operate Without Electricity (AP) AP - Doctors are performing amputations without electricity or running water while waste from this city's shattered sewage system contaminates mud and floodwaters, infecting wounds that threaten to turn gangrenous. | 0 |
Egypt FM to visit Israel, push for full Gaza pullout (AFP) AFP - Visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he plans to travel next week to Israel and underscore the need for Israel's total pullout from Gaza. | 0 |
US asks Laos to probe alleged massacre of Hmong children (AFP) AFP - The United States said it was taking quot;very seriously quot; reports that the Laotian military massacred ethnic Hmong children, urging Vientiane to launch a probe on the issue. | 0 |
High court asked to hear case forcing unfaithful husband to continue support (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - A man who the B.C. Court of Appeal found was "carrying on behind his wife's back" and must continue spousal support payments will contest the ruling in the country's highest court because it c... | 0 |
AdWatch: Kerry Ad Asks About Iraq Solution (AP) AP - Details of a new television ad from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, to begin airing this week: | 0 |
Iraqis wary as school year starts Six million students are expected to begin school Saturday in a key test of security. | 0 |
Al Qaeda's Uzbek bodyguards As Pakistan rounds up more Al Qaeda operatives in its cities, hundreds of Uzbek fighters remain in the tribal hills. | 0 |
Basque group warns of new attacks The Basque separatist group, Eta, says it will continue its violent campaign for self-determination. | 0 |
Tommy Hilfiger Shares Tumble on Probe Shares of Tommy Hilfiger Corp. (TOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 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 |
Milton says small Bombardier airliners put Air Canada in shape to <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - Air Canada #39;s new regional jets, including 50-seat Bombardier planes that start arriving next month, will put the company in better shape to compete than its rivals, CEO Robert Milton boasted Monday. | 2 |
Harrah #39;s, Caesars to sell four casinos to satisfy regulators Harrah #39;s Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment Inc. have agreed to sell four hotel-casinos to an affiliate of Colony Capital LLC for about 1.2 billion dollars. | 2 |
Virgin launches subscription-based music service On Monday, Virgin Group subsidiary Virgin Digital launched an online store designed to leverage the name recognition of its brick-and-mortar Virgin Megastore while competing with a subscription-based model. | 3 |
Adobe Sets the Agenda NEW YORK - As the photography trade show Photokina kicks off this week in Cologne, Germany, graphics software giant Adobe continues to set the agenda in both the professional and consumer markets. | 3 |
Microsoft Charges For Hotmail-Outlook Connection Microsoft on Monday announced it would start charging users to access their Hotmail accounts from the Outlook or Outlook Express e-mail clients. | 3 |
Big push for radio tags that tell you what #39;s in the box IBM announced yesterday that it will invest US\$250 million (S\$425 million) over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks. | 3 |
Hughes Pleased Despite Defeat Mark Hughes maintained Blackburns hard effort would soon earn their just rewards - after his side went down 1-0 to Charlton in tonights Barclays Premiership clash at The Valley. | 1 |
Problem-hit Real and Roma in face-off LONDON - Nobody has more problems at the start of the Champions League season than Real Madrid - unless it #39;s Italian side AS Roma. | 1 |
Korea Opposes Enlarging UN Security Council: Foreign Minister Ban Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon expressed his viewpoint that he supported the augmentation of the seats of non-permanent Security Council members, and opposed increasing the numbers of permanent members, at the foreign minister talks held Friday between | 0 |
SAS launches automated forecasting tool SAS unveiled on Monday a forecasting tool, SAS High-Performance Forecasting, targeted at industries that do large volumes of forecasts. | 3 |
IDC sees mixed future in worldwide PC market SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers are easing off on PC purchases as corporations ramp up their purchases, according to the latest data from market researcher IDC. Slackening consumer demand will help lower expectations for the market in the second half of 2004 and into 2005, IDC sai... | 3 |
Cash-rich, commodity-starved mainland goes shopping overseas SINGAPORE: The mainland #39;s plan to buy Canadian mining giant Noranda for some US\$5 billion is just the beginning of an overseas acquisition march fuelled by swollen foreign exchange reserves and a need to secure natural resources. | 2 |
AT amp;T Wireless Unveils Ogo Messenger Device Targeted for the teen and young-adult consumer markets, the Ogo will retail for \$99 following a \$30 mail-in rebate. Its clamshell design includes a 4K color screen and full Qwerty keypad with | 3 |
Cisco shakes up switch management Cisco Systems is shaking up its network management with the release of two new switches. Aimed at mid-sized enterprises, the switches acknowledge that there are large numbers of people who are not confident | 3 |
Ironport Release New Version Of C-Series Appliance Ironport Systems today announced the latest version of the e-mail security company #39;s C-Series E-Mail Security Appliance. The new version formalizes the release of Ironport #39;s Virus Outbreak | 3 |
El Karkouri goal secures lucky win for Charlton Talal El Karkouri #39;s first goal for Charlton ensured the club #39;s best start to the Premiership to date, though the statistic may reflect favourably on | 1 |
Bates wise to spare Britain #39;s young hopefuls in Austria At least the innocent were spared possible humiliation. Even though Britain lost to Austria 3-2 last weekend and remain in the second division of the Davis Cup, Jeremy Bates was | 1 |
Focal point: Bill Parcells vs. Joe Gibbs Nobody respects coach Joe Gibbs more than me, but this week I see the Cowboys and coach Bill Parcells having the upper hand. I #39;m sure Gibbs is going to get the Redskins back to an elite level, but this is just his first season. | 1 |
All eyes turn to Old Trafford as Rooney returns Wayne Rooney, the hero of England #39;s European Championship campaign in Portugal in June, makes his long-awaited return to action, probably as a substitute in Manchester United #39;s tricky Champions | 1 |
Source: Brewers accept offer from buyer The Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to accept an offer from Los Angeles investor Mark L. Attanasio to buy the team from the family of baseball commissioner Bud Selig. | 1 |
US pounds militant positions in Iraq BAGHDAD - US jets pounded suspected militant positions in a Baghdad slum Monday as two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy. | 0 |
Unions firm on deadline for Iraq troop withdrawal Tony Blair was facing a damaging defeat last night over demands for the early withdrawal of British troops from Iraq after failing to buy off the votes of the four big unions at Labour #39;s annual conference. | 0 |
Interview: Minister says Sudan open to idea of autonomy in Darfur Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said here on Monday that his government is open to the idea of granting some sort of autonomy to the western Darfur region where | 0 |
Israel Threatens Syria With Pre-Emptive Strike JERUSALEM, 28 September 2004 - Israel accused Syria yesterday of directing terrorism and said it could face pre-emptive strikes against militants on its territory, but stopped short of saying it killed a Hamas leader in Damascus. | 0 |
Indonesia says it wants permanent Security Council seat Indonesia announced on Monday its aspiration for a permanent seat on an expanded United Nations Security Council, saying it should be given a voice on thecouncil. | 0 |
Diamonds stolen at Paris show Two diamonds jointly worth together worth over 7.8 million have disappeared from an antique dealers #39; show in Paris. During the event at the famous Louvre museum, a glass case holding the jewels was forced open. | 0 |
Iraq Clears Debt, Opens Way for Aid (Reuters) Reuters - Iraq cleared around #36;81 million in\debt it owed the International Monetary Fund late last week,\fund sources said on Monday, opening the way for the first aid\to flow from the global lender to Iraq. | 2 |
Citigroup Elevates Krawcheck to CFO Post NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=C.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">C.N</A> named Sallie Krawcheck chief financial officer on Monday, extending her reach across the world's largest financial se... | 2 |
Cingular Wireless plans to sell interactive unit Cingular Wireless said Monday that it plans to sell a wireless data network that supports about a quarter of the world #39;s Blackberry users to a New York-based fund manager. | 2 |
Cisco Enhances SMB Offerings Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart) has modified its Catalyst switching products to help small and medium-sized businesses deploy converged data, voice and video networks. | 3 |
S #39;pore tuning in to track inventory SINGAPORE has been one of the earliest countries to make use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries use RFID to detect the cars that pass through them. | 3 |
Cingular Sells Interactive Unit, Keeps Key Customers Cingular Wireless said Monday it has agreed to sell its Cingular Interactive unit to investment banking firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, but will retain the operation #39;s e-mail customers and several key accounts. | 2 |
Virgin tunes in to online music RICHARD Branson #39;s Virgin Group said today it was jumping into the market for online music, with a quot;Digital Megastore quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 US cents (\$1. | 3 |
IBM Invests \$250M in RFID IBM announced Monday a \$250 million investment in RFID (radio frequency identification), an emerging technology that is being mandated by the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | 3 |
Hurricane hits NASA spaceport The third hurricane to hit NASA #39;s spaceport in just over a month, blew out more panels and left more gaping holes in the massive shuttle assembly building. | 3 |
World Oil Prices Hit \$50 Barrel Crude oil prices have jumped to \$50.00 a barrel in after hours trading in New York. The psychologically significant level was reached in electronic trading after the close of the markets Monday. | 2 |
Fudo is mad, Farrell is bad This looks like the *real* beginning of the end for Itanium. The workstation market is two-fold. There are those that use workstations for computing tasks (scientific, visualization, whatever) and those that | 3 |
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