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Linux Could Become A Big Force In The Weather-Forecasting Field (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - The flock of hurricanes that hit Florida this season is putting more pressure on forecasters to provide fast, reliable information. | 3 |
IBM, HP, Sun Micro Sensing Opportunity In RFID Sensor Field (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - The answer -- if you believe Hewlett-Packard , IBM and Sun Microsystems -- is those bar codes printed on the side of just about every product sold today. | 3 |
Small Earthquakes Rattle Mount St. Helens (AP) AP - Small earthquakes rattled Mount St. Helens at the rate of one or two a minute Monday, and seismologists were working to determine the significance of some of the most intense seismic activity in nearly 20 years. | 3 |
Students' Bus Powered by Vegetable Oil (AP) AP - It's not unusual for the students traveling cross-country aboard an old school bus to get a craving for fried chicken. Or popcorn. Or french fries. That's because their vehicle is powered by vegetable oil, and the used oil they put in their tank can carry the telltale od... | 3 |
UK's Branson to Launch Space Tourism in 2007 (Reuters) Reuters - Richard Branson, Britain's best-known\entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the\world's first passenger service to space in 2007, offering\zero-gravity flights for #36;198,600. | 3 |
Intel Shelves Plan to Turn Desktop Into Wi-Fi Hub SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC makers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?tic... | 3 |
Long-Short Funds Have Uneven Record (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - At a time when rapid growth in hedge funds might suggest that their mutual fund counterparts -- long-short funds -- would also prove popular, few investors seem to have much appetite for mutual funds they can sell short. | 2 |
Yen Pressured by Rising Oil Prices TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen remained under strong pressure on Tuesday after oil prices hit record highs, raising concern about the impact on Japan's import-dependent economy. | 2 |
Briefly: Credit union beefs up database security roundup Plus: Computer scientists slam e-voting machines..."The Sims 2" hits 1 million sales...Adobe, Kodak team on photo printing...Cray promotes two execs. | 3 |
Senate weighing work-visa changes U.S. senators are debating a controversial measure to exempt foreign student graduates from the cap on H-1B visas. | 3 |
Start-up banks on Java hardware boost Hardware expected to begin selling next year is designed to make it faster and more efficient to run Java programs. | 3 |
Credit union beefs up database security IPLocks will help Western Corporate Federal Credit Union meet government security requirements. | 3 |
James Hardie CEO and CFO stand aside The chief executive and chief financial officer of embattled building products company James Hardie Industries have stood aside in the wake of the findings of a special inquiry into the company #39;s asbestos liabilities. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Devon to sell oil properties, buyback shares Devon Energy Corp. (DVN.A: Quote, Profile, Research) set a two-for-one stock split and plans to buy back up to 10 percent of its stock, as soaring oil and gas prices pushed up | 2 |
Intel Shelves Plan to Turn Desktop Into Wi-Fi Hub An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC makers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp. | 3 |
Hamm fights to keep Olympic gold medal Yet another chapter in the gold medal mess of US gymnast Paul Hamm was written in a courtroom Monday. Hamm appeared at a hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Laussane, Switzerland. | 1 |
Charlton Defeats Blackburn 1-0, Moves to Seventh in Premiership Talal El Karkouri scored his first goal in English soccer as Charlton defeated Blackburn 1-0 to rise to seventh in the Premiership standings. | 1 |
Show must go on without Grossman LAKE FOREST - In the early stages of the season Rex Grossman proved to be developing into a playmaker, but it also became his downfall. | 1 |
Thai woman #39;s bird flu raises fears virus is passed between humans A THAI woman was yesterday diagnosed with bird flu after her sister and niece died with symptoms of the virus, raising the possibility that the illness had passed from human-to-human for the first time. | 0 |
Compuware readies tools for Microsoft apps development Compuware plans to enhance its suite of products for the Microsoft development platform, with tools to improve application performance, code quality, and security. | 3 |
CA ex-CEO Kumar loses perks after indictment SAN FRANCISCO - Computer Associates International Inc. has revoked perks, including office space and home security services, that it handed out to former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sanjay Kumar after he left the company last month. | 3 |
Tokyo Stocks Fall After Oil Spike (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 0.9 percent\by mid-morning on Tuesday and was on course for an eighth day\of losses as a broad range of stocks wilted after oil prices\spiked to #36;50 a barrel and U.S. stocks made more losses. | 0 |
Bush, Kerry Pause to Trade Barbs on Iraq (AP) AP - President Bush and rival Sen. John Kerry paused from private debate practice on Monday to accuse each other of a lack of clarity on Iraq as they campaigned in "must win" states for each #151; the Republican incumbent in Ohio and his Democratic challenger in Wisconsin. | 0 |
US bishop sex abuse case dropped A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged. | 0 |
Straw justifies Mugabe handshake Jack Straw defends his handshake with Zimbabwe's much criticised President Robert Mugabe. | 0 |
Asbestos scandal forces Hardie CEO, CFO to step down SYDNEY: The top two executives of James Hardie Industries NV stepped down today, a week after a government inquiry found the company broke the law and lied to thousands of asbestos victims and financial markets. | 2 |
Update 4: Tokyo Stocks Open Lower on Oil Surge Tokyo stocks opened lower Tuesday due to concerns about rising oil prices, while the dollar rose against the Japanese yen. The Nikkei Stock Average was down 53. | 2 |
Vodafone chief outlines 2.5bn plan to cut costs Arun Sarin, the chief executive of Vodafone, revealed yesterday the company was expecting to deliver annual cash flow improvements of 2. | 2 |
Stingy Falcons Defense Key to 3-0 Start (AP) AP - Maybe the Atlanta Falcons aren't a one-man team after all. While Michael Vick commands most of the attention, the defense should get the bulk of the credit for the Falcons' 3-0 start #151; their best since 1986. | 1 |
Last hurrah for Expos With a three-game set vs. Florida, Montreal bids adieu to its pro baseball team Hurdles exist, but relocation process now appears irreversible, by Richard Griffin. | 1 |
Chargers Name Rivers No. 2 Quarterback (AP) AP - Philip Rivers just got a lot closer to taking his first snap with the woeful San Diego Chargers. | 1 |
Expos Announcement Might Come Thursday (AP) AP - Exactly 33 years after the Washington Senators played their final game, the nation's capital might learn on Thursday that major league baseball plans to return next season. | 1 |
Wisconsin Back Davis Cleared to Play (AP) AP - Running back Anthony Davis, who missed No. 20 Wisconsin's last three games with an eye injury, has been cleared to play this weekend against Illinois. | 1 |
The Expos Will Probably Move South to Washington After two and a half years in limbo as a ward of Major League Baseball, the Montreal Expos appear to be heading to a new home in Washington. | 1 |
The Yankees' Rotation Leaves Heads Spinning The Yankees should soon clinch their seventh consecutive division title, but they have little reason to be confident in their starters. | 1 |
MLB, O's Talk Deal Baseball will continue negotiations with Peter G. Angelos on a financial package that could clear a path for the Expos to begin play at RFK Stadium in time for Opening Day. | 1 |
Key Backups Praised The reserves are the key reason for Baltimore's 2-1 record and its place atop the AFC North standings following Sunday's thumping of Cincinnati, 23-9. | 1 |
Gannon Out 6 Weeks Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon has a broken vertebrae in his neck that will sideline him at least six weeks. | 1 |
Mexican firm buys RMC for 2.3bn RMC, the world #39;s biggest supplier of ready-mixed concrete, has agreed a 2.3bn takeover deal from Cemex of Mexico, raising fears of job cuts and quarry closures. | 2 |
Tax inquiry hits Hilfiger shares Clothing maker Tommy Hilfiger suffered a mauling on Wall Street yesterday after disclosing it was the subject of a federal investigation that analysts said appeared to focus on tax avoidance. | 2 |
Fastow Helped Craft Merrill Barge Deal-Former Aide Enron Corp. former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow helped cook up a bogus deal with Merrill Lynch to sell and buy back Nigerian power barges to inflate Enron #39;s earnings | 2 |
VNU sells Yellow Pages VNU, the Dutch market research and information group, yesterday sold its directories business for 2.1bn (1.4bn) to venture capital groups Apax Partners and Cinven. | 2 |
FSA rejects call to rescue savers MPs and the main City watchdog are at odds over the plight of millions of policyholders quot;trapped quot; in closed with-profits funds. | 2 |
CA revokes some of Kumar #39;s benefits Computer Associates International Inc. said Monday it has revoked home security and office support benefits to former Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Kumar, who was indicted last week on | 2 |
British tycoon plans for commercial space flights British airline magnate Richard Branson announces a hugely ambitious plan for the world #39;s first commercial space flights, saying he will send quot;thousands quot; of fee-paying astronauts into orbit in the next five years. | 3 |
AOL wants developers to get the message America Online is putting out a call to developers to bring its instant-messaging software to more cell phones. The AOL Mobile Developer program, announced Monday, is meant to reduce the time manufacturers | 3 |
Manning outguns Favre Peyton Manning threw for 393 yards and five first-half touchdowns and the Indianapolis Colts beat the Green Bay Packers 45-31 in a wild, high-scoring game on Sunday. | 1 |
Pakistani forces kill leading al-Qaida militant in shootout Pakistani security forces arrested more terrorist suspects yesterday, a day after killing the country #39;s leading al-Qaida figure and most wanted terrorist. | 0 |
Simon Tisdall Since throwing his weight behind the Bush administration after September 11 2001, Pakistan #39;s president, Pervez Musharraf, has successfully portrayed himself as an indispensable ally in the US-led quot;war on terror quot;. | 0 |
Fannie Mae to Keep More Cash on Hand (Reuters) Reuters - Embattled mortgage finance company\Fannie Mae agreed to keep billions of dollars more cash\on hand while it corrects accounting problems, its government\regulator said on Monday. | 2 |
CORRECTED: Oil Strikes New Record on Supply Fears SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures hit a new record on Tuesday at \$50.01 a barrel as worries about the stability of supplies from Iraq, Nigeria and Russia compounded concerns over low fuel stocks ahead of peak winter demand. | 2 |
Tokyo Stocks Fall After Oil Spike TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 0.9 percent by mid-morning on Tuesday and was on course for an eighth day of losses as a broad range of stocks wilted after oil prices spiked to \$50 a barrel and U.S. stocks made more losses. | 2 |
Fannie Mae to boost reserves, rework transactions to fix <b>...</b> Under pressure from federal regulators, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has agreed to boost its reserve cushion against risk by several billion dollars. | 2 |
David Jones flags 5 profit growth in FY05 David Jones Limited (DJS) said today that it expected a 5 increase in profit after tax in the 2005 financial year after a strong rally in FY04 net profit. | 2 |
Players #39; union files grievance to overturn Guillen #39;s suspension The players #39; association filed a grievance Monday seeking to overturn the Anaheim Angels #39; suspension of left fielder Jose Guillen. | 1 |
8m gem robbery near Louvre DIAMONDS worth nearly 8m were stolen from an antique dealers #39; show near the Louvre museum in Paris yesterday. The two diamonds were taken in a daylight robbery while a member of staff manning a stand at | 0 |
James Hardie #39;s Macdonald Stands Aside for Regulator #39;s Inquiry James Hardie Industries NV said Chief Executive Officer Peter Macdonald will stand aside during a probe by Australia #39;s securities regulator into allegations he misled investors about | 2 |
Man United defends agents #39; fees Manchester United yesterday revealed that it agreed payments to players #39; agents of 5.5m last year, equivalent to more than 9 of the club #39;s operating profit and almost 20 of its pre-tax profit. | 2 |
Hearing to be held Friday in Oakland The Major League Baseball Players Association on Monday filed a grievance to reverse the Angels #39; decision to suspend outfielder Jose Guillen for the remainder of the season and the postseason. | 1 |
France seeking to put pullout on agenda WASHINGTON France said Monday that it would take part in a proposed international conference on Iraq only if the agenda included a possible US troop withdrawal, thus complicating the planning for a meeting that has drawn mixed reactions. | 0 |
Lehmann: I don #39;t know how to take being axed Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has admitted that he was shocked to find out that he had been dropped from the Arsenal side on Saturday. | 1 |
Austrians back on top Everyone kept wondering when Austria #39;s alpine powerhouse would show up for the new World Cup season and the answer was emphatically provided on Sunday. | 1 |
SpaceShipOne to Try for #36;10 Million Ansari X-Prize (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. team that took the first\privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture\a #36;10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial\space travel has nearly arrived. | 3 |
Ecuador's Galapagos Park Rangers End Strike (Reuters) Reuters - Galapagos park rangers on Monday\ended a strike that had blocked tourist sites in the exotic\islands for more than two weeks after the Ecuadorean government\accepted their demands for a change in park leadership. | 3 |
7 Palestinians Killed; CNN Producer Held (AP) AP - Israelis killed seven Palestinians in attacks Monday, including a Gaza airstrike that killed one militant and wounded a militia commander, who vowed revenge from his hospital bed. | 0 |
Reporters Put Under Scrutiny in C.I.A. Leak The investigation of the disclosure of C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame's identity seems to have been both exhaustive and inconclusive. | 0 |
Fannie Mae Agrees to Sweeping Changes Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage buyer, agreed to major changes in its accounting and management practices. | 0 |
UPDATE 1-Ecclestone sets Silverstone deadline Silverstone #39;s owners have been given 48 hours to agree a contract for next year #39;s British Grand Prix, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Monday. | 1 |
Going to Bush Rally, Finding Strings Attached The Bush campaign has pressed rally audiences to work as foot soldiers, before, during and immediately after Bush events. | 0 |
Audit Finds Large FBI Translation Backlog WASHINGTON - The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terror and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, a Justice Department audit released Mon... | 0 |
FBI Said to Lag on Translations of Terror Tapes Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the | 2 |
BoSox Clinch Second Straight Playoff Berth (AP) AP - The Boston Red Sox clinched their second straight trip to the playoffs, rallying past the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 7-3 Monday night behind Manny Ramirez's AL-leading 43rd home run. | 1 |
Sun Beat Mystics 80-70 to Even Series (AP) AP - Lindsay Whalen matched her career-high with 21 points and the Connecticut Sun beat the Washington Mystics 80-70 Monday night to even the best-of-three WNBA Eastern Conference semifinal. | 1 |
Spanish bonus for Auckland Spain #39;s Davis Cup win over the United States has gifted New Zealand #39;s top men #39;s tournament its headline act. The eyes of the tennis world will now undoubtedly be on the Spanish trio of Rafael | 1 |
Angels Taking High Road in Pennant Race On the day the Anaheim Angels played for first place, several players crammed onto an L-shaped couch in the visiting clubhouse, turned toward a flat-screen television and pressed their internal mute buttons. | 1 |
Cowboys lead Washington 7-0 after first quarter Eddie George scored on a 1-yard run with 4:01 left in the first quarter to give the Dallas Cowboys a 7-0 lead over the Washington Redskins on Monday night. | 1 |
McCown Still Starting QB for Cardinals (AP) AP - Despite being benched after three fumbles against Atlanta, Josh McCown is still the Arizona Cardinals' quarterback. | 1 |
11 named to Japanese Cabinet TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday for the third time since taking power in 2001, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms. | 0 |
Iranian, Egyptian hostages freed; 12 killed in Iraq BAGHDAD (AFP) - An Iranian diplomat and an Egyptian telecom worker held for days by Islamic militants in Iraq were freed as 12 people died in fresh violence across the country. | 0 |
Have Trophy, Will Travel It took Navy 25 years to bring the Commander-In-Chief trophy back to Annapolis and considering what it took to get it again, the Midshipmen aren't set to let it go any time soon. | 1 |
Crude Breaks \$50 on Nigerian Supply Fears SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures broke through \$50 to a new record on Tuesday, on worries over supply disruptions from Nigeria and other major producers. | 2 |
James Hardie shares rally Shares in James Hardie Industries NV rallied on news that two key executives will stand aside, rather than resign, over the company #39;s underfunding of asbestos compensation. | 2 |
Cabrera homers and Beckett shuts down Expos bats in 4-1 Marlins <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - Josh Beckett scattered four hits over seven solid innings and Miguel Cabrera homered Monday as the Florida Marlins snapped a six-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Montreal Expos. | 1 |
Braves eye sweep for skipper com. If the Braves sweep their doubleheader against the Mets at Turner Field on Tuesday, Braves manager Bobby Cox will become the ninth manager in history to record 2,000 career wins. | 1 |
Blue Jays 4, Orioles 1 Gregg Zaun homered and Orlando Hudson had three hits and an RBI, leading the Toronto Blue Jays past the Baltimore Orioles 4-1 Monday night. | 1 |
Microsoft Crafts Backup Plan Microsoft Corp. officials said yesterday that the company has spent millions of dollars preparing a version of its Windows operating system without a program for playing digital music and | 2 |
Japan-Europe flight fares to rise 5 as oil prices continue to <b>...</b> TOKYO : International carriers are to raise fares on flights from Japan to Europe by five percent in mid-January to cope with soaring oil prices, Japanese airlines said. | 2 |
Virginia, Fairfax Commit Funds To Help Lure New IBM Jobs The state of Virginia and Fairfax County each pledged \$600,000 to entice International Business Machines Corp. to bring 1,250 high-paying new government contracting jobs to Fairfax. | 2 |
Mirant to Cut Emissions, Pay Civil Fine The owner of four power plants in the Washington region agreed to reduce air-polluting emissions substantially in the next six years and to pay a \$500,000 fine, according to a settlement | 2 |
WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Leaders of three campaign finance groups urged the Federal Election Commission yesterday to disqualify the agency #39;s chairman, Bradley A. Smith, from helping to decide whether a veterans group critical of Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry #39;s war | 2 |
Jeremy Warner #39;s Outlook: The pensions blot on Chancellor #39;s <b>...</b> Gordon Brown was at it again at the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday, boasting of the fiscal and monetary stability he and his policies have introduced into the UK economy. | 2 |
Audit Finds Large FBI Translation Backlog The FBI (website) has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks | 2 |
Virgin Group licenses MS co-founder #39;s spaceship concept If you #39;ve always wanted to send someone to the moon, you might just get your chance. Free! Sign up here to receive our Before the Bell e-Newsletter! | 3 |
Enter your e-mail: Thus read the opening line of the letter accompanying a cheerful, multicolored, striped package the size of a shoe box for a small child #39;s shoe. | 3 |
Enter your e-mail: Windows may be (almost) everywhere in the US, but for many folks in much of the world, spending \$100 or more on an operating system is simply impossible--which means that Windows either gets pirated or it doesn #39;t get used at all. | 3 |
Rainout for Rivalry That Has Gone Dry The rain blew sideways across the landscape of Turner Field as the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne drenched the city. The deluge still could not obscure the chest-thumping on the | 1 |
Career-threatening injury ejects Mashburn NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - Jamal Mashburn, a former All-Star forward whose National Basketball Association career has been dimmed by injuries, will miss all of the upcoming season with a right knee injury. | 1 |
Pirates end Phillies #39; postseason hopes Ty Wigginton hit a two-run homer and Oliver Perez pitched 6 2-3 strong innings, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates stop a seven-game road losing streak with a 6-1 victory over | 1 |
Gibbs, Parcells renew #39;80s rivalry WASHINGTON When Joe Gibbs announced his return to the Washington Redskins, Bill Parcells sent a congratulatory fax. Gibbs says it said something like quot;Does this mean we can #39;t talk for the next five years? | 1 |
A #39;s stagger home up by one It was the most difficult pitching change Ken Macha has ever made in his life. Giving a quick hook to Mark Mulder, whose baffling slump is showing no signs of ending | 1 |
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